A shocking discovery in inner-city Brisbane confirmed a family's worst fears yet four years later, Constance Watcho's death is simply listed as "suspicious" and her family is no closer to getting answers.

The watchdog responsible for policing Medicare investigates just 0.07 per cent of health professionals each year, is chronically understaffed and underfunded, and is led by bureaucrats with strong links to the powerful Australian Medical Ass...

Greens senator Lidia Thorpe will seek to refer herself to parliament's powerful privileges committee, over her undisclosed relationship with a former member of the Rebels outlaw motorcycle gang.

Body-worn camera footage of Constable Zachary Rolfe allegedly using force against another man in Alice Springs has been shown to the Northern Territory coroner. 

The Coroners Court of Victoria hears Nish Cash, a proud Jingili woman and respected artist, called triple-0 an hour and 40 minutes before emergency services arrived.

Lara Keller tells an inquiry into forensic DNA testing in Queensland that although she is a scientist by background, she had no experience in DNA profiling.

First Nations women are being murdered at up to 12 times the national average. But a Four Corners investigation reveals we will likely never know the true scale of how many First Nations women have been lost.

A judge dismisses the jury in the trial of former Sydney swimming coach Kyle Daniels after acquitting him of 10 child sexual abuse charges, but remained divided on others.

Super tax concessions have encouraged Australians to save for their own retirement. But have they become too generous?

Netball Australia has been making headlines for its sponsorship saga with Gina Rinehart's mining company, Hancock Prospecting. How did we get here?

Chief executive Simone Hansen is concerned the fallout from Gina Rinehart's decision to withdraw funding from Australian netball may dissuade future sponsors, and says women's sport will suffer as a result.

A gardener clearing long grass on a vacant property in Adelaide's northern suburbs finds human remains. 

The recent pushback over a planned scripture reading at a girls school is just like the forcing out of Essendon's Andrew Thorburn — both examples of "society becoming increasingly hostile to Christian beliefs", Tasmania's Catholic leader ...

The jury deliberating in the trial of Bruce Lehrmann has yet to reach an agreement beyond reasonable doubt.

The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture said it had no option but to suspend its visit, saying lack of access to detention facilities in NSW was "a clear breach by Australia of its obligations". 

The fourth-worst flood in Moree since records began has wiped out more than 120,000 hectares of wheat that was nearly harvest-ready.

Camel trains once played a key role in transporting wool across outback Australia, and that history is being recognised in Broken Hill. 

The body of a woman has been located on the banks of a flooded river in NSW's Central West, after a car was last night swept off a causeway nearby.

Budgets are typically handed down once a year in May but the last few years have seen the budget timetable thrown out the window and the financial plans delivered at all different times of the year. Here's why.

The UK and US dismiss Russian claims that Ukraine is planning "provocations" involving detonating a "dirty bomb" amid fierce fighting in the east of the country.

The storm touches down as a powerful hurricane before moving further inland, leaving two people dead.

Federal Health Minister Mark Butler acknowledges a "very challenging" situation as diabetes patients are prioritised amid a global shortage of two popular drugs.

Lawyers for two South Australian girls who were removed from their parents over a gluten intolerance tell the District Court that one of them was sexually assaulted while in state care.

The flights' 162 passengers and 11 crew members all escaped uninjured.

Officers have a new lead in the death of Queanbeyan man Jyle Molloy, who was found dead on a Canberra road eight months ago.