The Governor-General is standing firm on his actions around Scott Morrison's appointment to five additional portfolios, declining to comment on whether or not he expected it to be made public.

The former prime minister took on the health portfolio in secret in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, before appointing himself to four more ministries over the next year. Why did he do it and who knew? 

Doctors and pharmacists are warning there could be serious consequences for patients if the shortage of hundreds of medications isn't addressed soon.

Australian bureaucrats have scuttled the construction of a new Russian embassy building in Canberra, ordering a "premium" block of land near parliament house be vacated within 20 days.

A Sydney hairdresser killed in a brazen shooting at the weekend was planning her engagement at the time of her death, her distraught mother says. 

A report into the catastrophic 2022 NSW floods uncovers leadership failures, a lack of preparedness and unreliable rain gauges. Here's what you need to know.

One million households in Australia already face "extreme" levels of insurance stress, new research warns. Exclusive new data reveals how every council area ranks.

A senior doctor has told the inquest into Newmarch House care and infection control were "severely compromised" due to critical staff shortages, and he had been looking for help before the outbreak escalated.

Scott Morrison secretly gave himself several powers, and admits he used them in at least one instance. What were the jobs the former prime minister appointed himself to?

The man who gave the speech that ended the Whitlam government, Sir David Smith, dies aged 89, a devoted monarchist to the end.

Australia's Anglican Church splits, with a conservative group of bishops opposed to same-sex marriage forming a breakaway group.

Partners in a new science venture say a living baby Tasmanian tiger might be as little as 10 years away. But before we start seeing them in fenced-off areas of the wilderness, let's take a look at what led to its extinction in the first ...

A mother charged over the alleged stabbing of her two young sons in Adelaide's north-west has "severe" and deteriorating mental illness, according to her sister. 

Health professionals from Doomadge have described the communication breakdowns and lack of resources in the remote Queensland Gulf town that lead to the death of three young women from a disease that was eradicated in non-Indigenous Australi...

Australia will play India in two five-test series in the coming years, while England will be its opponent more regularly across the game's formats.

Tainted by garbage and raw sewage that is dumped directly into the waterway, Nepal's holiest river has deteriorated so greatly that today it is also the country's most polluted.

Scott Morrison resists calls to resign from his own party over secretly appointing himself additional powers, saying he did everything necessary to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Queensland Energy Minister Mick de Brenni raises questions about who approved a delay in releasing national energy prices until after the May election.

Yoon Suk-yeol says his government has no plans to pursue nuclear weapons, despite growing North Korean nuclear threats.

As counting continues, early results suggest the daughter of former vice-president Dick Cheney has been defeated by the Trump-endorsed candidate Harriet Hageman by a margin of around 30 per cent. 

Western Australia's fishing authority has urged water users to report shark incidents after it took nearly 24 hours for warning of a south coast attack to be issued.

Australian workers suffer another large, real pay cut, as the latest data show wages growth fell further behind the surging cost of living in the year to June. 

The Yuan Wang 5 docks at Sri Lanka's Chinese-built port of Hambantota after a delay of several days because of opposition to the visit from India.

The head of Russia's proxy forces in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region sends a message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un calling for cooperation in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine.

The mother who campaigned for the introduction of Victoria's historic coward punch legislation is calling for urgent changes to the law to ensure perpetrators cannot avoid jail time.