Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog uncovers "egregious" and "extensive misconduct" by Victorian Labor MPs, but recommends no criminal charges be laid.

While the Reserve Bank of Australia is obviously the main focus of the upcoming review, it could end up delivering more important lessons for the federal government and Treasury.

Viral fragments of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and African swine fever have been detected in imported meat, as Australia's government introduces new measures to wash shoes at international airports.

In a sign of the times, authorities are again forced to intervene in Australia's energy market, this time to keep the gas flowing to Victoria in a reversal of the state's recent history as a gas provider.

Almost 2,000 hives have been destroyed following detection of the destructive varroa mite, which weakens and kills European honey bee colonies — and the New South Wales government's elimination strategy is still playing out.

Ben Roberts-Smith and four of his witnesses gave "wholly implausible" evidence about one alleged war crime and "seriously damaged" his credibility, a judge hears.

London is not equipped to deal with the rising temperatures associated with global warming, making the monolithic and grey city a heat island of the future in summer. 

The former prime minister, who is unpopular among many Sri Lankans, becomes the next president of Sri Lanka after weeks of protests against soaring inflation and shortages of fuel and other goods.

A police officer has told an inquest into the death of Gomeroi man Gordon Copeland that even a stronger swimmer would have struggled in the river he drowned in while being chased by police. Mr Copeland's image has been used with his fami...

Melbourne author Jennifer Down has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, one of the most prestigious prizes in Australian literature, for her third book, Bodies of Light.

A woman who convinced her lover to assassinate her boyfriend, before repeating the act years later, has failed to convince Victoria's highest court that she should be allowed to launch an appeal.

Telcos have been told they need to make it easier for customers to talk to a "real person" instead of online bots and make their sale pitches more honest.

An Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio takes the first step towards suing Indiana's Attorney-General for defamation.

After briefly quitting athletics four years ago, Patterson's inspiring return to the sport is capped off with her history-making victory at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene.

Australia claims gold at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, with Eleanor Patterson topping the podium in the women's high jump.

A Victorian man has pleaded guilty to a vicious attack on two police officers triggered by the victims asking a teenager to wear a mask during a COVID lockdown.

Census data has revealed a million houses are sitting empty in towns where, just metres away, working families live in tents. These off-season ghost towns simply struggle to retain some fabric of community life.

Experts say thousands of Australians with side hustles and hobby businesses may have unknowingly signed up for home insurance that doesn't cover them properly.

Here's a quick wrap-up of today's COVID-19 statistics from each Australian jurisdiction.

Australian children aged six months to five years could soon be rolling up their sleeves for a COVID-19 jab. Here's what parents need to know.

COVID infections are spiking again and the peak isn't expected for another month or so. It's prompted Australia's health chief to say we "need to do things differently".

Maria Carmela Pau is fined $25,000 for issuing more than 1,000 fake certificates claiming they would prevent people from needing a vaccine, wearing a mask or taking a PCR test.

FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura says discussions are ongoing about potentially further boosting the prize pot from the previously-stated $85 million to $100 million

The United Nations' aviation agency has blamed senior Belarusian officials for a hoax that grounded a Ryanair flight and led to the arrest of a dissident journalist last year. Here's what you need to know.

Lockdowns triggered by the pursuit of migrants on the Mexico border created a "diminished sense of vigilance" at the Uvalde school where 19 children and two teachers were killed in May, a report has found.