Treasurer Jim Chalmers has put his weight behind Prime Minister Anthony Albanese amid mounting criticism over ending pandemic leave payments.

For four months, I've been investigating Australia's vast collection of South-East Asian antiquities, and what I've found is alarming: a story of dodgy dealers, looted temples, and some of the world's most exclusive collections, writes Mario...

A new plan to reserve more than 800 places at selective schools for disadvantaged students will improve equity of access and level the playing field, NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell says.

The ex-wife of the former US president died from blunt injuries to her torso after an accident, New York's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner says. 

Australia's golden boy Kim Hughes used to be the life of the party, until his alcohol abuse caught up with him. The former Test cricket captain says it took losing almost everything before he accepted it was time to pull up stumps.

As a discharge nurse who spends her days finding hospital patients a safe place to go home to in a pocket of Australia with one of the highest rates of homelessness, Wonnarua woman Rachel Wilson never thought she'd be facing the streets her...

This is what the global rules-based order looks like: US President Joe Biden sitting down with a Saudi leader with blood on his hands, writes Stan Grant.

Before the men believed to be responsible for killing Annie's father in a brazen diamond heist could be tried and sentenced for their crimes, they escaped prison and vanished. Three decades later, Annie is hoping to bring them to justice. ...

Young, single Indians make up the second-biggest market of dating app users globally – and it's revolutionising how people think of love and marriage.

A heatwave gripping Europe that has already caused deaths and serious wildfires appears set to get even worse. Here's what you need to know.

The woman was flown from Mount Gambier to Adelaide for urgent treatment after having a heart attack. But she waited on a stretcher in the Royal Flying Doctor Service hangar for 11 hours for an ambulance to transfer her to hospital, her fr...

People procrastinate for a variety of environmental, social and psychological reasons — not just because they're inherently "lazy". Here are some tips to avoid the pitfalls.

Motorists behind the wheel of electric vehicles will soon have more options to recharge their cars beyond Queensland's coastal EV highway.

We're getting closer to full employment, but this isn't what it was supposed to mean, writes Gareth Hutchens

In remote Australia, justice is often delivered by fly-in-fly-out courts. But now some people are being left with no legal representation.

Australian-born Jones — who coaches England — takes issue with a spectator's comments during his side's series-clinching victory over the Wallabies at the SCG.

Essendon and Gold Coast close the round after Melbourne took care of Port Adelaide and Hawthorn beat West Coast. Follow our live AFL ScoreCentre for all the scores, stats and results.

The Bulldogs and Rabbitohs wrap up round 18, while the Raiders survive a frantic finish to post an upset 20-16 win over the Storm, and the Panthers enjoy an 18-16 triumph against the Tigers. Follow our live ScoreCentre.

Victoria's peak business lobby group say the federal government must make sure pandemic payments don't cripple the economy more than outbreaks would.

Managers at the Giesinger Brewery are offering beer lovers a litre of their favourite brew for the same quantity of sunflower oil.

An Antonov cargo plane operated by a Ukraine-based airline has crashed near the city of Kavala in northern Greece, authorities say.

Analysis of photos taken yesterday of a whale carcass at Mallacoota, in Victoria's east, show that the animal is female, while the famous albino whale Migaloo is male.

Ahead of a potential change in law to ban conversion practice in Tasmania, a petition being pushed by the Christian lobby says the community has been "taken by surprise" by the push to outlaw conversion practices and urges it be reconsidere...

In a dark storage room beneath Canberra's Norwood Park Crematorium sits row after row of plastic boxes — each with a silent story to tell.

The Hockeyroos will face Germany in a playoff for the bronze medal after a tough loss to defending champions The Netherlands in the Hockey World Cup semi-final.