The federal government announces an extra $2.3 billion will be put towards mental health treatment and suicide prevention in tonight's budget, with some of the funds going towards creating online counselling and support services.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will unveil the federal budget soon, with billions of dollars expected to be spent on getting people back to work more than a year into the pandemic. Follow live.

Victorian health authorities have revealed six potential COVID-19 exposure sites, after a man who completed his hotel quarantine in South Australia returned to the state and tested positive.

The potential exposure sites span three days and include a restaurant, supermarket and 7-11 store.

The gruesome discovery on the banks of the Ganges is the latest in the humanitarian crisis unfolding in India — the point of origin of a strain of coronavirus the WHO has labelled a global concern.

A declining birth rate and a rapidly ageing population loom as China's most pressing crises for the years to come.  

At least nine people, including students and teachers, have reportedly been killed in a shooting at a school in the central Russian city of Kazan.

Controversial Liberal backbencher Andrew Laming tells Parliament he has been misrepresented as a "stalker" and a "taxpayer-funded troll".

Two boys have been left too "traumatised" to speak to police following the death of a 13-year-old boy, who was killed after the bin he was sleeping in was emptied by a garbage truck in Port Lincoln.

Police say the people who detained a man with a knife showed "great courage" in stopping the attacker from hurting anyone else. 

SA health authorities are investigating whether a man who was released from hotel quarantine — then tested positive for COVID-19 in Melbourne — acquired the virus while in isolation. The Victorian man was in a room alongside another t...

A WA hotel quarantine security guard is stood down and another is under investigation for working a second job in breach of protocols brought in by the state government to reduce the risk of coronavirus spread.

Images intended to help open up the outback to mining following World War II instead deliver a lesson from the last generation of Indigenous people to live in the Great Sandy Desert on how to protect life and the land.

A 39-year-old Perth woman who posted on social media she hated her grandmother faces a possible life jail term she is found guilty of her murder.

Australia will seek to "capitalise" on its management of COVID-19 with a $550 million plan to lure global businesses and talent from other countries.

The Golden Globes cops a double blow as long-time broadcast partner NBC refuses to broadcast the event in 2022 and Tom Cruise returns his awards.

Long-standing Tasmanian senator Eric Abetz lashes out, claiming ageism is one of the reasons he has been demoted on his party's Senate ticket. He says like Winston Churchill and Joe Biden, he is still capable of being an effective politici...

The former partner of Tasmanian man Jack Sadler, who is accused of murder, has told a jury she was scared of him and initially lied to police about his alleged victim's whereabouts partly because he had told her to.

One or more detainees attempt to dig a tunnel under WA's Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre in a bid for freedom.

Rick Thorburn has never answered questions about how the schoolgirl died but he will be compelled to speak at next month's inquest into her death.

Palestinian militants launch dozens of rockets from Gaza and Israel unleash new air strikes in retaliation, in an escalation triggered by soaring tensions in Jerusalem and days of clashes at an iconic mosque in the holy city.

Severe weather warnings are in place for parts of Victoria and south-east New South Wales as rain continues to drench those regions. Meanwhile, storms are set to kick off again in south-east Queensland and northern NSW.

A number of migrant workers are being told they should never have received the payments and the tax office wants the money back.

ACT police make their largest restraint of criminal assets in the territory's history and shut down an alleged illegal brothel ring operating in three states, after a business failed a COVID-19 compliance check.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx is sealed up and heading home, having grabbed such a big scoopful of samples that the capsule jammed open for a time.