China talks a lot about consensus, but has done very little to seek it in the Pacific, writes foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic. 

Australia is on the "precipice" of a UK-style energy crisis that could send many of its power retailers broke and fuel a surge of households unable to pay their bills, a leading expert has warned.

Workers across Australia will now have a better chance of recovering unpaid wages from dishonest employers and experts expect a rise in legal action by those who have been underpaid.

Australia's economic growth beat analyst forecasts over the first few months of the year, but there is evidence the benefits are being felt more by business owners than workers.

Australian home prices have fallen nationally for the first time in at least 20 months, according to two leading monthly indices, although many parts of the country are still in a property boom.

It has certainly felt wet over the last few months, and the latest numbers from the BOM confirm it. New South Wales and the Murray-Darling basin have both recorded their wettest autumn since 1990. 

The combined floods are now considered the "fourth most expensive disaster" in Australia's history, with the cost expected to rise.

Police and SafeWork SA investigate after a man is found dead in an electrical pit in Adelaide's north-east.

A kind passerby has had his car stolen by a man he helped to rescue from a crashed luxury SUV on the Sunshine Coast on Wednesday morning. 

Despite record numbers of women going into cabinet, how is it that the Labor Party has gone backwards and now has fewer women in its leadership roles than the Nationals, Liberals or Greens, asks Brett Worthington.

With a record number of women and Australia's first Muslim ministers, the new ministry sees a collection of new and old faces sworn in to sit on the government's frontbench. 

Genetic tests have revealed that a seagrass meadow in WA's Shark Bay is actually a giant clone of itself, and is estimated to be at least 4,500 years old.

There are 850 sets of unidentified human remains across Australia. Until now, there has been no national approach to compare missing persons cases against unidentified remains held in storage.

The People's Liberation Army Eastern Theatre Command says the combat "readiness patrol" had happened around Taiwan in recent days and was "a necessary action".

Bollywood fans are in mourning after popular singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, aka KK, collapsed and died a short while after performing on stage in the Indian metro city of Kolkata.

Obi-Wan Kenobi actor Ewan McGregor comes to the defence of his co-star Moses Ingram, after she reveals she has received "hundreds" of abusive and racist messages on social media.

Hasty judgements about food and eating are not always accurate. Deeper meanings have always been behind mealtime offerings, writes Timothy Heffernan. 

After yet another tragic mass school shooting in the US, gun control is once again the subject of debate. Studies show that white evangelical Protestants have higher rates of gun ownership and stronger opposition to gun control, but not all ...

In the dusty, northern-most sheikhdom of the United Arab Emirates, one of the world's largest yachts sits in a quiet port — so far avoiding the fate of other luxury vessels linked to sanctioned Russian oligarchs.

SA's top cop says he sympathises with a mum whose car was stolen with her baby inside while she ducked into a deli.

NT Police believe a human leg found near the Stuart Highway in Darwin's rural area was likely left there after a hit-and-run on Monday evening.

After 55 years and 99 State of Origin matches, rugby league icon Ray Warren announces his immediate retirement from sports commentary. 

Wild weather continues to cause power outages, school closures and damage across the state, as one snow field prepares to open early.

A "meteor shower" which lit up the skies over northern Western Australia earlier this week was the wreckage of a rocket falling back to Earth.

GDP figures tell us the value of most things produced in Australia in a three-month period. But what if we’re counting the wrong things?