Former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins says she had a "robust" discussion with the Prime Minister about the way she was treated in the wake of coming forward with her rape allegation.

A plane lands in Perth from Auckland carrying a Cook Islands traveller who did not quarantine for two weeks before entering New Zealand. 

A mother and daughter tell the ABC they were left shaken after a heated exchange with federal government MP Andrew Laming at a netball event in Brisbane.

Battling to find hospital beds, distraught people in India are flooding social media with pleas for oxygen, medicines and room in intensive care units, as cases spiral.

The man charged with the Gold Coast woman's murder remains under police guard in a Brisbane hospital after sustaining serious burns to his hands and airway.

At a time when rhino-sized wombats, giant echidnas and carnivorous kangaroos roamed the country, Aboriginal Australians were just starting to migrate across vast 'super-highways', new research has revealed.

For five years Alex has begged ACT Housing to repair her derelict home. They didn't, and now it has been condemned — but the mother of four has not been offered an alternative place to live.

The driver who rammed a hatchback and shunted through several vehicles in a now-viral series of videos has been sentenced to a 28-month jail term for her "erratic" and "predatory" behaviour.

A netball injury left Emma feeling anxious and hopeless. New research confirms a third of kids like her develop mental health issues after concussion.

A man allegedly threatened to kill West Australian Premier Mark McGowan at his home, while his wife and children were also present.

A NSW coroner recommends changes to police procedures on domestic violence, after a woman was stabbed to death by her child's father, who was later shot dead by police.

Court documents detail how Jayscen Anthony Newby stabbed a man almost 40 times after finding him in bed with a woman he once dated, as the victim's father mourns that his son "will never have a family of his own, he has lost 50 to 60 year...

A traveller who unwittingly entered a common area of the Brisbane International Airport yesterday after arriving on a flight from Papua New Guinea tests positive to coronavirus. The airport has been declared a "venue of concern".

Ancient Arabic calligraphy was known for centuries for its beauty and sophistication, but it has been tainted by association with ISIS and terrorism, and a Syrian refugee aims to correct that.

The Defence Minister pours cold water over Victoria's proposed facility at Mickleham, suggesting the federal government is unlikely to provide up to $700 million to build it.

The Storm look to make it five on the trot when they meet the Sharks, before the struggling Broncos clash with the Titans in Brisbane. Follow our ScoreCentre for all the live scores and stats.

The crush happened as tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews flocked to the tomb of a 2nd-century sage in northern Israel.

It was the first fatal accident in the history of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. During a flight to save a baby boy, the plane crashed in a horrific storm in outback WA, killing four of the five people on board.

The father of a baby boy killed by his own mother tells a South Australian court he feels he may never have another partner or child due to the trauma of his son's death.

Researchers are concerned about the impact on the food chain after finding at least 27,000 DDT barrels, some of them leaking, on the ocean floor off the coast of Los Angeles.

Patients have been made to wait hours for blood transfusions, while a daughter had to watch her father die on a bathroom floor, inquiry into rural and remote health told. 

The workers employed to clean carriages for the company that manages the TransLink rail network could be seen sitting on their phones.

Zoe Roth, the now 21-year-old whose childhood photo went viral, becoming a bedrock meme for expressing gain from the misfortune of others, makes a small fortune off her internet success.

An application to trademark the phrase "Always Was Always Will Be" reignites concern over the appropriation of Aboriginal cultural and political materials for commercial purposes.

From the battle at the front of the grid to the struggle for points by the back markers, this what to look out for this weekend at the Portuguese grand prix.