With WA's policy of quarantining 15 per cent of gas for its local market bearing fruit, former rivals and premiers Alan Carpenter and Colin Barnett say the east coast gas crisis was avoidable.

For decades, a group of crooked Queensland cops known as the Rat Pack ran a murky system of bribes and extortion. But they never dreamed that the sex workers they exploited would bring about their downfall.

A standing ovation greets the Nadesalingams at a multicultural festival in Biloela as Anthony Albanese says the processes to allow them to stay in Australia "will take place".

Two Australian women diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome share their experience of the rare condition that has been thrust into the spotlight by singer Justin Bieber.

Global fertiliser prices have been on the rise. Why doesn't Australia make more of it? 

The Australian government will pay French shipbuilder Naval Group $835 million in compensation, after last year's decision to tear up a $90-billion contract to build 12 submarines.

Former US president Donald Trump hits back at his daughter Ivanka, saying she had "checked out" on election issues, after she testifies that she did not believe his claims about voting fraud. 

Bailey Smith apologises after images emerged showing the Western Bulldogs star with an "illicit substance".

Ramsay Hunt syndrome is a rare but serious condition that can cause permanent facial paralysis and hearing loss.

Vladimir Putin has been steadily winding back the clock on Russia's democracy. Independent media outlets have been shuttered, Western businesses have left and free speech has effectively been stamped out.

After three decades, McDonald's restaurants are closing their doors in Russia, marking the end of an era that saw closer ties between Moscow and the West.

Breaking the disposable coffee cup habits of Australians has proven difficult through the pandemic. But a group of Melbourne engineers may have found a new way to tackle the waste generated by our fast coffee culture.

A 24-year-old New South Wales man is charged with murder over the death of 42-year-old Glenn Walewicz, joining three others already charged over the incident. 

Fifty years ago a young photojournalist covering the war in his native Vietnam, took a photograph and saved the life of a young girl badly burned by a napalm attack.

After almost a decade in the political wilderness, the tasks before Labor are mounting by the day. It's little wonder so many in the Coalition weren't too worried about losing last month's federal election, writes Brett Worthington.

The collapse of a business that employed about 300 workers in Sydney and Melbourne has again exposed an "unfair" government scheme that excludes most migrant workers.

The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol lays out a road map for the hearings this month as it examines then-president Donald Trump's responsibility for the melee and the damage that resulted for law enfor...

If foot-and-mouth disease reaches Australia, it will send a wrecking ball through the economy, as it did in the UK 20 years ago. So what is the plan to keep it out? And how would an outbreak be contained?

A crisis accommodation program for the pets of families escaping domestic violence is set to get an extra $200,000 in funding from the Queensland government. 

Australian Federal Police charge a 76-year-old man after he allegedly brought more than $22 million worth of the drug ice into the country hidden in shoeboxes. 

Canberra has recorded its second house fire fatality this week, with a woman dying in in the city's north.

Police negotiators engaged with a man for about three hours before he surrendered to officers, who recovered a gun from the Berrimah property on Friday.

Queensland Police are investigating a fatal boat crash that happened in the Canaipa Passage. near North Stradbroke Island.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is looking to accelerate his nation's nuclear weapons development in a show of strength against Washington and regional neighbours.

The birth of nine new Tasmanian devil joeys in regional New South Wales has spread excitement among conservation groups, who have been working to build the endangered species population on mainland Australia.