As parliament suspended business to offer messages of support for attack victim MP Helen Haines, an orange cockatoo was ...

A 13-year-old boy accused of a drive-by shooting in Perth will spend the next six weeks behind bars, as his mother tries to ...

A convicted killer fails to overturn a ban on Vegemite in Victoria's prisons after court hears it can be used to make alcohol ...

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A convicted child rapist who sparked a national manhunt over alleged child sex offences has been extradited to South ...

The $31.3 billion savings package, which has been costed by the independent Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), comfortably offsets the $9.7 billion cost of the Coalition's income tax policy to index ...

Storms are forecast across Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast this morning with another round possible in the afternoon ...

A man has been found dead in floodwaters in southern Queensland. Emergency services were called to Smothering Creek at Boompa Road in Boompa, west of Maryborough, just after 11am. Officers declared ...

MOTOGP WASHOUT This wasn't the way anyone wanted three decades of MotoGP racing to end at Phillip Island. While race officials held out for a miracle, the weather meant the medical helicopter couldn't ...

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With an increasing number of extreme weather events occurring across Australia, and many parts of the country again facing an ...