Australia’s education ministers have met morning to discuss teacher shortages, John Barilaro will once again front a parliamentary hearing over his controversial appointment to a New York trade role and the top US prosecutor has broken his silence ...

Administrators of public Facebook pages and other social media accounts would have a new defence against being held liable for the defamatory comments of third parties, under proposed changes to the law.

A mother whale has been seen with a rare mostly white calf off the NSW coast, prompting a warning for sightseers to stay clear of the family.

The senior students who attended a Victorian school that suddenly went into administration have all secured spots at new schools.

Rare insects, frogs and other critters will be on public display for the first time in two years as Melbourne Museum and Scienceworks mark National Science Week.

Emergency services were called by witnesses to the collision where they found the 15-year-old boy with pelvic and leg injuries.

An Adelaide father who tried to gas his daughter to death has been jailed for at least nine years.

Education ministers from around Australia have agreed to create a national plan by December to address teacher shortages.

Missions are blasting off again for the moon as the new space industry hits its stride. Why are we going back? And will it be “finders keepers” for what’s there?

John Barilaro has pulled out of the second hearing into the US trade job, citing ill health.

Students would complete paid school internships as part of their degrees and career changers would be offered teaching apprenticeships under a plan being weighed by education ministers nationwide.

Four missing children have been found safe and well after an amber alert was issued near Mackay in Queensland.

A woman in her 60s and a toddler have been left seriously injured after a two-dog attack in Queensland.

A nine-year-old child on the Gold Coast is being treated for serious injuries after she was struck by a vehicle on the way to school.

The former Victoria Police boss will step down from his public ambulance and mental health board positions, but continue to work on identifying a site for a second supervised injecting room in Melbourne.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says the findings of a report into the toxic culture in NSW parliament is "confronting and completely unacceptable".

Lismore residents want their homes relocated to parts of the NSW Northern Rivers that don't flood.

After five years as a member of the NSW Legislative Council, the revelations from the Broderick report only reinforce what I, personally, witnessed and experienced in Macquarie Street.

As attorneys general from around Australia prepare to discuss a national approach to coercive control, states and the women’s safety sector still hold a variety of views on how to fight “intimate terrorism”.

For years Travis Christopher Scot Wood “recklessly” groomed girls online, even sending an underage teen an indecent picture after being told she was in a car with her father.