The major banks are deeply divided about the outlook for interest rates, and the difference is worth about $284 a month to a typical recent home buyer. So who will be right?

A report says Australian motorists could have saved $5.9 billion on fuel costs if efficiency standards were introduced in 2015. Let's have a look at what the paper says.

The Federal Government promises to pick up the bill for any potential pay rise for aged care workers in a submission to the Fair Work Commission.

Former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro has made multiple revelations under serious questioning over his appointment to a New York trade role. Here are the key moments from the hours-long hearing.

Madonna Paul's husband took his own life after a career in the Air Force. In dealing with the "cruel and "inhumane" Department of Veterans' Affairs, she was forced to retell the story, again and again, the royal commission into defence suici...

Police establish a crime scene after two people are found dead at a home in the Brisbane suburb of Stretton.

The Fair Work Ombudsman has announced that a record $532 million in unpaid wages and entitlements was recovered in 2021-22.

There are hints that wages are going up — helping workers meet the cost of soaring inflation for food, fuel and essentials. But you might have to quit your job to get a raise.

There has been a significant increase in the number of non-COVID deaths since the Omicron wave took off, and that has doctors worried.

Dentists fear a perfect storm of cost of living pressures and the COVID-19 pandemic could mean an increase in oral disease over the years to come.  

The family of a disabled man who died after spending more than four months in hospital waiting for accommodation describe the NDIS and aged care system in Australia as "broken".

A Queensland Cup cult hero known as "The Kangaroo Catcher" has passed away at just 28 years of age after a car crash. WARNING: Readers are advised that this story contains the name and images of an Indigenous sportsman who has died. ...

Wests won't appeal a controversial loss to North Queensland, despite saying the NRL admitted the Tigers "should have won that match".

Australia's women's cricketers continue their world dominance with historic gold, despite a COVID-19 infection creating some awkward moments.

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan infuriated China, which has responded with test launches of ballistic missiles and by ditching some lines of communication with the United States. 

Dog lovers gather to watch canines compete in a wave-riding contest held near San Francisco since 2006.

Police divers recover a fourth body from Lake Mead as speculation continues over possible links to historic organised crime.

Archaeologists say the latest finds in Pompeii – including a trunk with its lid left open, and a wooden cupboard – show a vulnerable class ambitious to climb the social ladder. 

Another 259 new COVID-19 cases are reported in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan, where some 80,000 tourists have been stranded by pandemic restrictions.

It's been 10 years since NASA's rover landed on the Red Planet to search for evidence that billions of years ago, Mars had the conditions to support life. Along the way, its cameras have captured some striking images.

As rents and prices get hiked, record numbers of young people are having to find side hustles to make ends meet. Here's what some are doing.

Here's a quick wrap of today's COVID-19 statistics from each state and territory.

It was messy, muddy and slow, but "it needed to be", authorities say. The operation to lift the first of two Devonport tugboats has exposed the damage that sank them in January.

Both Russia and Ukraine are accusing each other of damaging Europe's largest nuclear power plant in attacks which the Atomic Energy Agency says present a "very real risk of nuclear disaster".

Amnesty International apologises for "distress and anger" caused by its report criticising Ukrainian troops for their presence in residential areas — a report the human rights group's local chief resigned over.