The first meeting between the Prime Minister and his Solomon Islands counterpart shows positive signs despite tensions over the China security pact, as Anthony Albanese kicks off his "positive energy" visit to Suva for the Pacific Islands Fo...

Central banks in New Zealand and Korea have pushed ahead with further super-sized interest rate rises as they attempt to tame rampant inflation.

Over his unique career as a novelist, essayist and tender custodian of this nation's unmentionables drawer, Frank Moorhouse was drawn ineluctably to things that others avoided, writes Annabel Crabb.

The free RAT scheme is coming to an end, most jurisdictions have tweaked their rules around reinfection, and more people can get vaccine boosters. But it doesn't look like mask rules are changing.

A Mansfield mother of two is facing homeless because she has to leave her rental home, has been priced out of the area, and has not been able to find another — all topics of the damning Queensland Audit Office report released yesterday....

A report from consumer advocacy group CHOICE prompts the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to investigate whether retail giants Kmart and Bunnings are breaching privacy laws with their use of facial recognition technology. ...

TikTok is adamant it would never hand over Australian user data to the Chinese government but, after admissions that data can be accessed in China, federal politicians warn the app could be compromised.

The Maroons are heavy underdogs and the Blues are coming off a big second-game win. Is another classic Lang Park decider on the cards? Follow live.

The January 6 committee reveals how "the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency" and a late-night tweet from the former president encouraged extremists and conspiracy theorists to storm the Capitol and mount an insurrection.

Afterpay's co-CEOs and founders Anthony Eisen and Nick Molnar are Australia's highest-paid executives, collecting a combined $264.2 million – together they earn more than 2,800 times the full-time average wage.

With the sun setting early, July is giving us a reason to look up – there's a supermoon coming, and it's the biggest one of the year. Tomorrow evening is one of the best chances to catch a glimpse of July's 'Buck' supermoon.

The President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, flees the country days after protesters stormed his home and office amid a three-month economic crisis.

For more than 100 days, Sri Lankan protesters have come to the centre of the capital city to demand the President stand down. Now Gotabaya Rajapaksa has reportedly fled the country. So could this deliver either meaningful change or more ch...

Annie Cannon-Brookes, wife of tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, strikes a deal to buy the beleaguered Dunk Island, off the coast of Far North Queensland.

Former health secretary Sajid Javid is an early casualty in the race to replace British PM Boris Johnson, among three candidates unable to attract enough support to get on the official ballot.

The new images captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show a much more detailed look at the universe compared to those taken by its predecessor.

WA police officer Ben Falconer and a radio operator are challenging the validity of the direction that they couldn't go to work if they weren't vaccinated against COVID. 

The fungal disease, which growers say represents a major threat to Australia's $500m banana industry, has now been found at 16 Top End properties plus a government research facility.

A rock memorabilia dealer and two other men are charged over a scheme to sell allegedly stolen, handwritten lyrics to the classic rock juggernaut Hotel California and other songs by the Eagles.

Family members of people harmed by gambling may soon be able to stop their loved one from attending clubs under a proposal by a peak industry body in New South Wales.

One of the last people to see Krystal Fraser alive has told a court he saw her get into a red station wagon on the night she disappeared. The heavily pregnant woman disappeared in 2009.

Annabel and Greg Digance, who are accused of blackmailing the South Australian Premier, are granted permission to travel interstate on the condition they notify the Director of Public Prosecutions and report to police upon return.

The bikie boss had been living in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus after being granted a residency permit last year, but Turkish officials say a decision was made to deport him because he was "inconvenient" to public p...

A new University of Sydney has bad news for anyone who thinks vigorous exercise can compensate for a diet that favours junk food over fruit and veg.

Newly released footage shows heavily armed police officers milling in hallways and waiting more than an hour before going inside and stopping the massacre.