As the first week of election campaigning wraps up before Easter, both leaders faced tough questions on topics they probably hoped to avoid, writes Patricia Karvelas.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison cancels his campaign events for the rest of the day after a car accident involving his security detail.

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has been forced to clarify his position on offshore detention centres. It follows the Coalition seizing on comments he made on the campaign trail. Here's how it all went down in case you missed it. ...

The unemployment rate stays at a near 50-year low of 4 per cent, as nearly 18,000 extra jobs are added to the economy.

We asked Australians how much of a problem corruption is in Australia today. Here's how they responded.

Russia is warning NATO it will bolster its military defence if Sweden and Finland join the bloc. Follow live.

Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, has been badly damaged and its crew evacuated amid the country's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Voices sympathetic to Russia are posing as fact-checkers in a bid to sow doubt and confusion, and to drain sympathy from a world watching the invasion of Ukraine.

Scott Morrison has effectively ditched his commitment to establish a national anti-corruption watchdog even if re-elected, refusing to budge on any changes to his preferred model and trying to blame Labor for the delays.

Missing toddler William Tyrrell's foster-mother has been charged with giving false or misleading information to the NSW Crime Commission. 

Lines have been snaking out of the terminals at Sydney Airport as travellers and staff face the busiest day since the start of the pandemic and the transport union calls for an independent review into the aviation industry.

Mauricio Bascunan Cabrera indecently assaulted 18 female patients at the clinic he ran with his brother in Perth's northern suburbs, with his youngest victim aged just 16.

Two community groups that share a council-owned site with Kenmore Men's Shed say the federal grant, redirected to Brisbane City Council, was meant for them too.

Northern Rivers residents whose homes were destroyed by record-breaking floods say a lack of funding for long-term housing options has left many in limbo without a way to move forward, as MPs push for a co-ordinating body to oversee flood ...

Fijian police are questioning the captain of a Russian oligarch's superyacht which has docked in the country, with local media reporting the vessel has also been seized.

Meet Comet C/2014 UN271. Astronomers who applied a new computer model to images from the Hubble Space Telescope say it's the largest comet nucleus they've ever seen.

An Australian intelligence officer ordered interrogators to extract a videotaped confession from a Timorese man after he was allegedly tortured in a secret interrogation centre in East Timor in 1999.

Several NSW police officers who recently committed serious domestic violence offences have kept their jobs, shocking victim advocates and raising questions about the force's commitment to addressing the scourge of abuse in police ranks and ...

The Greens will push for a $500 million investment in helping steelmaking regions transition away from coal — if the party holds the balance of power following the federal election.

Did Australians use the PM's Facebook page to advocate for less government support for flood victims? We looked through thousands of comments — and found hardly any.

The bodybuilding champion, who Schwarzenegger labelled "beautiful", dies after a long battle with COVID-19 complications.

Shanghai authorities may be loosening one of the world's strictest lockdowns, but after weeks of uncertainty and food shortages, many foreign workers are considering leaving.

Australia's aviation industry is grappling with a shortfall of women. It's a systemic problem that cuts across cultures and generations, but far from an inevitability.

Two days before going into caretaker mode ahead of the election, the Commonwealth and Northern Territory governments signed a joint agreement to further speed up gas production in the remote Northern Territory. 

Victoria's state-owned logging company has referred itself to the corruption watchdog after allegations it hired a private investigator to spy on an activist.