The Labor government will include the first Muslim ministers in Australian history in Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's new ministry. 

The new federal government is taking shape, as the last lower house seat in doubt is called for Labor and Anthony Albanese announces his new ministry. 

Labor is set to gain a 77th seat, enough for Anthony Albanese to form a majority government and evade making deals with the crossbench to find a speaker.

Two of Australia's biggest banks are moving to curb high-risk home lending, as the regulator reveals it has been warning some institutions to cut back on risky loans.

We've been told Australia's economic outlook looks just fine, but If you dig into the numbers it's easy to see the economy isn't in great shape — and that has implications for every Australian, writes David Taylor. 

Former submariners with the Royal Australian Navy are warning a newer version of the Collins-class boat is needed as a stopgap measure before the AUKUS nuclear-powered boats start hitting the water in the 2040s.

At the first meeting of his new parliamentary team, the Prime Minister pledges to change the way politics is done in Australia by engaging on key issues and being less divisive.

Lawyers for Bruce Lehrmann tell the ACT Supreme Court he is unable to find a barrister to represent him by the trial's start date, due to circumstances beyond anyone's control.

Temperatures are plummeting across eastern Australia. Here's why it can often feel colder than what has been forecast.

An inquest into the death of teenager Madeleine Moroney, who was thrown from a ute in western Queensland after attending a rodeo, hears her boyfriend gave different versions of events after the fatal crash.

Police say a 25-year-old man was shot by officers after confronting them during a break-in at a Grafton property in northern NSW.

Some of the key voting trends in 2022 were already brewing in 2019.

As the small Texan town of Uvalde grieves the 19 children and two teachers slain in the Robb Elementary school shooting, visitors have flooded in to pay their respects. Columbine survivors Michele Williams and Lauren Bohn are among those wh...

Australia's blood stocks are expected to drop to their lowest point since the start of the pandemic as donations take a nosedive during the country's surge in flu cases.

Deposed Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has revealed the full cost of getting his party to back the former Coalition government's net zero policy was close to $30 billion. He has also confirmed he planned to step down as leader if he was re-...

Netherlands becomes the latest target of Russia's wrath as Gazprom fully cuts off gas supplies to Dutch trader GasTerra.

The ABC projects that Labor has won the seat of Gilmore in New South Wales, taking the government to 77 seats in the House of Representatives.

China's government says it remains confident it can strike a sweeping trade and security agreement with 10 Pacific Island states despite being forced to shelve its proposed agreement, but a new position paper walks back previous references ...

A Japanese development giant is selling a prime Sunshine Coast beachfront site after residents convinced a court to throw out a council-approved application to develop a resort and homes.

First responders to a boat crash say they were not prepared for the scale or severity of injuries they encountered when they touched down at a remote tourist attraction.

A magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck near Kilcoy, north-west of Brisbane, Geoscience Australia reports.

Ukrainian forces are continuing to resist a steet-by-street Russian advance deep into a key eastern Ukrainian city as Russia warns it would retaliate against countries supplying long-range weapons to Kyiv.

As Australians begin to make way for a new "teal wave" of independent female politicians, many First Nations communities across Australia are waiting to see what a new "black wave" of Indigenous MPs and senators will mean for the nation. ...

As the US Supreme Court appears poised to overturn Roe v Wade, there are calls for women's sexual and reproductive health to be prioritised closer to home.

The Family Court bombings of 1980s Sydney hit at the heart of our judicial system and left three dead and dozens wounded. It was not a story I could ignore, writes Debi Marshall.