Children in Alice Springs will not be allowed outside at night after the state government mandated an emergency curfew to curb escalating violence in the red centre.
Decades in jail await a New South Wales man who murdered a rough sleeper with a rock and slashed a fellow inmate's throat, after a jury rejected his defence of mental health.
A 66-year-old diagnosed with motor neurone disease has ridden a lawnmower to Canberra to raise awareness about the not-so-commonly discussed condition.
As vaping continues to take hold among young Australians, the government is introducing jail time and fines for those who breach bans under proposed laws.
The search for the remains of slain jogger Samantha Murphy has been narrowed to an area 11km from her home town of Ballarat as police act on new information.
A British activist has accused Victoria's opposition leader of "reckless indifference to the truth" in legal documents filed as part of a defamation case.
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Luxon says Australia is his country's closest friend in the world, and doesn't mind if Australia nominates another nation as theirs.
A fundraiser for the family of an Otago University graduate killed in a suspected hit-and-run in Australia has raised almost $80,000 since it was set up yesterday.
Queensland's Chief Health Officer says 'long Covid' wrongly implies something unique, sinister and exceptional, when all viruses have long-term effects.
Australian researchers have found coral bleaching around six islands in the far northern parts of the Great Barrier Reef, the world's most extensive reef ecosystem.
Heartless thieves in Australia have stolen memorial plaques erected by families in memory of their dead children, in an attempt to sell them for scrap metal.