Here's a quick wrap of developments from the jobs and skills summit that's underway in the nation's capital.

Australia's housing market decline spreads across all capital cities and most regional areas, with national prices falling by the most in any month since 1983.

Are you one of the hundreds of thousands of people stuck in an underperforming super fund? Here's what to do.

Spring has arrived and the BOM's winter data is in. The results suggest some of us might be getting a bit soft, though yearly rainfall records still look likely to tumble in some areas.

It's now or never for Brisbane and Richmond, who meet at the Gabba in a sudden death elimination final to kick off the AFL's finals series. Follow our live blog for all the action.

Legal experts say China's alleged abuses of Uyghurs in Xinjiang detailed in a new UN report are among the most serious human rights violations that exist, as the community in Australia calls for "tangible action".

Helping Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines could be too big a burden for America's shipyards, a senior US Navy official warns.

Donald Trump was in a "give-and-take" with National Archives over the return of classified documents, his lawyers say

The defence command for Kinmen says the drone entered restricted air space over Lion Islet, with Taiwan's government earlier vowing to take tough new measures to deal with an increase in such intrusions into its air defence identification...

Timor Leste President José Ramos-Horta has used a series of media interviews to warn that his country may turn to a Chinese company to fund a contentious gas project if the Australian government doesn't "intervene" and lean on Woodside. ...

For China's one-child-policy generation, social pressure to care for their ageing parents is creating extreme anxiety and forcing some to forgo having children of their own.

Jermaine Schmidt will spend at least three years behind bars for the 2020 assault. The judge said he "would not take no for answer" despite the victim making it clear she was not interested.

Serena Williams thrills the New York crowds with a three-set win over number two seed Anett Kontaveit at the US Open, setting up a third-round clash with Australia's Ajla Tomljanović.

The Prime Minister wants shared ownership of change — particularly when that change goes beyond what Labor took to the election, or indeed goes against it altogether, writes David Speers. 

Boys from an elite school have been counselled, suspended or asked to leave after the discovery of an "offensive" group chat, the headmaster says.

AHPRA has accepted 16 recommendations to clean up the rogue operators in the cosmetic surgery industry, but qualified plastic surgeons say they haven't gone far enough.

The Jobs and Skills Summit comes after years of workers losing out. Will it see a swing of power back?

A Pentecostal church group in Gippsland is accused of branch-stacking to 'infiltrate' local Liberal Party branches and gain influence over the party's internal direction. 

Like many Australian workers, teacher Katie Magriplis is actively looking to completely change careers. Helping workers like her upskill is going to be a key ask at today's job summit.

An Adelaide Hills woman paid someone else to have a COVID vaccine on her behalf so she could provide proof to her employer, a court hears.

Tasmania's capital is growing and is predicted to have an extra 60,000 people by 2050. But a new 30-year-plan to deal with them makes a few key assumptions — about Hobart's traffic and public transport and where these people will live. ...

The Suez Canal Authority says two tug boats were able to refloat the oil tanker, with a rudder malfunction causing the 252-metre vessel to become wedged in the lane.  

Meet the gold-pated NASA box that replaces a small tree: Mars Oxygen In Situ Resource Utilization Experiment — or MOXIE.

The long-awaited report from the UN's human rights office calls for an urgent international response over allegations of torture and other rights violations in Beijing's campaign to root out terrorism.

A Victorian woman calls for stronger tactics to stop drink spiking, and more communication between police and hospitals, after her 23-year-old daughter became seriously ill.