People who test positive for COVID-19 will only be required to isolate for five days except in vulnerable settings following a meeting of national cabinet.

People with COVID-19 will only have to isolate for five days from next week, but there are a few caveats to the new regulations.

The financial regulator tested 69 MySuper products against investment performance and fees and costs. Here's what they found.

Governments may need to pay postgraduate students to study teaching to address the current staffing shortage, according to the chair of an expert panel looking into education training.

The assertion is made in a court filing that lays out the most detailed chronology to date of interactions between Justice Department officials and Donald Trump's representatives.

Mikhail Gorbachev was swept up in the forces that drove the collapse of the Soviet Union, while Deng Xiaoping made sure the Chinese Communist Party would survive, writes Stan Grant. 

An inquest into the death of seven-year-old Aishwarya Aswath at Perth Children's Hospital hears her infection was so advanced that her odds of survival would have been low even if staff had acted sooner.

The Bureau of Meteorology is on alert for yet another La Niña season. Let's get up to speed on what it means.

The Commonwealth Employment Service grew out of a realisation that unemployment had been a policy choice, but it fell out of government favour in the late 1980s and was privatised in 1998, leaving many former staff mourning what was once pos...

The Japanese owners of a major West Australian coal-fired power station take court action over a loss-making mine that has failed to deliver promised coal supplies.

Cameron Smith, a young tradie, was killed by Jack Ledlin after a fight broke out at Seaford in Melbourne's south-east in November 2020.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says he won't see Sydney "grind to halt" because of industrial action by train drivers, threatening to terminate the current enterprise agreement.

Across most of Australia it's a criminal offence to identify someone under the Public Guardian or Trustee, but the Queensland government is under pressure to change that.

There are more than 100 isolated communities around the earth that choose not to interact with modern world. 

As a team from the UN nuclear watchdog set off from Kyiv towards the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Ukrainian troops continue attacks on Russian positions along the entire front line.

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says politicians need to be mindful about their relationship with "problematic" organisations as he apologies for ties to the controversial South Korean church.

NSW's Police Minister says tough new powers announced in June are yet to be finalised as concerns over how groups like banks and political parties could be impacted by the laws.

Ending the Cold War without bloodshed and failing to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union are some of the key historical moments attributed to Mikhail Gorbachev. Let's look at other pivotal moments that shaped his role in Russia.  ...

The sale takes the families' landholdings to more than 9.2 million hectares across three states.

A Victorian council faces backlash over its plan to remove homeless people from a public park, with lawyers labelling it a potential human rights breach.

The world number two and reigning Open champion marks the breakaway LIV Golf League's biggest scalp to date, as golf's conservative operations are challenged again.  

The actor, comedian, singer, and star of The Trip series gets ready to return to Australia for another virtuoso display of his vocal talents, from music to mimicry.

The galaxy, a favourite for studying how spirals form, is captured in never-before-seen detail thanks to the new space telescope's infrared technology.

The energy market operator warns supply will fall short of demand from 2025 unless new renewable energy capacity is urgently brought online.

The Riverland's population is lower than it was 20 years ago, but developers, the council and community advocates are doing their best to reverse the trend.