The Australian Electoral Commission is investigating a series of doctored posters that have appeared overnight incorrectly showing the names and faces of "teal" independent candidates with the Greens logo.

Welcome to the end of Week Four, traditionally the juncture at which a political campaign takes on hallucinogenic properties. Not surprising, then, that the key seat of Wentworth chose this week to drop its acid, writes Annabel Crabb.

Members of the Shanks family are en route to Mexico after two-year-old Adelynn was found alone in Cancun. Meanwhile, her uncle Daniel is waiting at home in North Queensland, sick with worry as the search for his sister, Tahnee, continues....

Australian Electoral Commission records show Vivian Lobo is enrolled to vote at a Brisbane address inside the electorate of Lilley, but the home looks vacant and neighbours say no-one has lived there for months.

Three executives from Star Entertainment resign following an inquiry into the company's suitability to run its Sydney casino.

A woman struck by a police car that also killed her husband says she believes she has "forgiven" the driver — but a court hears the crash has eroded the family's faith in police in general.

The Reserve Bank's latest economic forecasts differ wildly from Treasury's latest budget numbers, which are barely a month old. And there is bad news for workers hoping they will get a pay rise bigger than the increasing cost of living. ...

A cotton grower who fronted an industry campaign to discredit the environmental water buyback scheme is guilty of illegally pumping water equal to almost 300 Olympic-sized swimming pools during drought.

A psychiatric nurse hits out at the doctor who medically examined Veronica Nelson before her death in custody, calling him "dismissive".

Not-for-profit organisations say the rising cost of living is driving more people to seek help as they struggle to survive despite having a source of income.

The grandmother of Nevaeh Austin, who was left on a bus outside a Queensland childcare centre for six hours, says the three-year-old has made a remarkable turnaround but the family wants "more answers".

United States intelligence is being credited with sharing intelligence that helped Ukraine sink the Moskva and led to the killing of Russian generals by Ukraine forces.

The art world is in deep mourning following the death of East Arnhem Land's Mr Wanambi, whose body of work and artistic vision, especially with digital works, had no peer in contemporary Australian art.

Queensland police announce a half-million dollar reward to anyone who can help solve the cold-case murder of Deborah Anne Smykalla, who was found strangled to death with a dog leash in 1981.

Australian voters are split on many issues but there's strong agreement on who should own Australian farms — and it's not foreigners.

The pandemic and working from home normalised employee surveillance software. Now, as workers return to the office, employers say the monitoring tools are here to stay.

The United States' foreign aid agency flags it will pump more resources into civil society and free media throughout Asia and the Pacific as it intensifies efforts to push back against China's influence across the globe.

Two Cessnock prison guards have been given good behaviour bonds and spared convictions for assaulting a First Nations colleague.

With already a shaky start to the campaign, the NDIS moment was unfortunate for Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese, who has just come out of COVID, writes Michelle Grattan.

Aspects of Labor's newly unveiled affordable housing scheme have been likened to a "death tax", but tax specialists have shot down those suggestions.

Two days after a Fijian High Court judge accepts a United States warrant to seize Russian superyacht the Amadea, the FBI board the vessel.   

Thousands of Shanghai residents are catching COVID in compounds that had been free of the coronavirus and sealed off for weeks.

Residents say its presence is a constant reminder of the gruesome, meth-fuelled attack that shocked their town in WA's Great Southern in 2019.

A social worker in Tasmania's child safety system tells an abuse inquiry of good people doing their best — and battling a government department which was more concerned with protecting its own reputation.

Actor Amber Heard says her ex-husband Johnny Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle and threatened her life shortly after the pair were married.