A Department of Home Affairs report confirms the office of former prime minister Scott Morrison instructed the public service to reveal the interception of a suspected asylum seeker boat on election day.

A 13-year-old boy suffering an asthma attack stopped breathing in a taxi on the way to hospital after the child's mother was told no ambulances were available, with a number out of action due to ramping and other jobs.

Over seven hearings, the January 6 committee has weaved its shocking findings with surprise witness testimony, building towards the series finale, dubbed the "187 Minutes Hearing". Here's what we learned. 

The federal government will make foot mats mandatory for all travellers from Indonesia and create new biosecurity zones at airports in response to the foot-and-mouth disease threat.

A record number of flights were cancelled or ran late last month as Australian airlines continue being pummelled by the COVID-19 pandemic and poor weather conditions.

More than 20 per cent of houses in the Shoalhaven are empty while the victims of the housing crisis spend winter in tents, but the success of an appeal to investment property owners in a neighbouring shire could help to get roofs over heads....

Some liquor stores are being forced to intermittently shut their doors to manage high demand in Alice Springs after long-term alcohol bans ended for hundreds of remote Northern Territory communities.

Festival-goers and artists backstage at Splendour In The Grass this morning have reacted with anger and disappointment to the last-minute cancellation of all main stage performances today.

Splendour in the Grass organisers cancel performances on day one as "significant weather event" looms off northern NSW's coast.

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

Hospitalisation figures for COVID-19 and the flu might be vastly different, but making an assessment on which virus is worse is complicated, experts say.

Around one in seven Australian adults take antidepressants daily, but a review finds no evidence they are treating an underlying cause of depression.

Witnesses against Ben Roberts-Smith in his long-running defamation case are "liars, perjurers and gossips", a barrister tells the Federal Court in his closing address.

Closing submissions in the trial of Alexander Campbell over a 2019 crash that killed 15-year-old Sophia Naismith in Adelaide focus on whether the accused's driving was dangerous or just careless.

An investigation is launched after a boy is left unattended on a school bus for nearly five hours, with parents at the school expressing their distress at learning of the incident.

A coroner finds the failure to identify and treat an Indigenous inmate's ear disease precipitated the man's death in custody and recommends a trial of Medicare for Aboriginal people in custody.

A New South Wales bookkeeper has been sentenced to more than five years in jail for embezzling $1.5 million from surfing siblings, Owen and Tyler Wright. 

Steven John Cleary, 50, will spend time behind bars for the vicious attack, which was caught on body camera. The "eruption of violence" occurred after police asked a teenager to put a mask on.

An unvaccinated young adult from New York state — who has developed paralysis after contracting polio — marks the first recorded case of the disease in the US since 2013. Health officials are investigating how the person became inf...

New Zealanders are required to wear masks in supermarkets and shopping malls as the country battles its second wave of Omicron infections, but experts want the government to go even further.

When Amy Mageropoulos was pregnant with her first son Bobby, she dreamt about the time they'd spend together when he was born. But the reality of new motherhood is far from what she had imagined.

Australian journalist Lynne O’Donnell describes three days of "cat-and-mouse" with the Taliban that eventually saw her detained for four hours.

Shonka Dukureh, who played Big Mama Thornton in this year's movie about Elvis Presley, is found dead in a bedroom at her home in Nashville.

The ASX ends its trading week with a flat session, as investors digested the European Central Bank's first rate rise in more than a decade amid growing political uncertainty in Italy.

Amid the climate of political distrust he has inherited, the new President has named Dinesh Gunewardena — an ally of his predecessor — Prime Minister.