The Australian-born youngest daughter of a Tamil asylum seeker family in immigration detention on Christmas Island is being medically evacuated to a Perth hospital with a suspected blood infection.

Commodore Eric Young says Australia's vaccine rollout has accelerated from 1 million doses in 47 days to 1 million just 9 days. Follow live.

Hollie Hughes has joined a growing number of critics of her own government's controversial plan to introduce independent assessments for the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

One of the biggest overhauls of the Medicare rebate system in decades is set to kick in next month, but doctors say more time is needed to figure out whether some patients will have to pay out-of-pocket costs.

The 27-year-old Gympie woman, whose death has been unsolved for almost seven years, lost her life at the hands of her de facto partner, a coroner says, describing him as a "habitual perpetrator" of domestic abuse.

People who have had COVID-19 while in hotel quarantine in Perth will now be tested the day before leaving, despite having already returned a negative result, under changes requested by the WA Premier.

The first big cold blast of winter is about to hit, and millions are expected to shiver through rain, hail, snow and blizzards.

The body that oversees the Australian War Memorial gives a controversial $500 million plan to redevelop the museum approval for early works, despite an influx of public submissions against the project.

Authorities say it is "good news" that most of the new cases are effectively already in quarantine, and have previously been identified as close contacts.

Brisbane lawyer Tom doesn't look like your typical gym junkie, but he's been trapped in a cycle of using performance and image-enhancing drugs for eight years.

David Dushman, the last surviving Soviet soldier involved in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz dies aged 98.

In 1789, a disease tore through communities around Sydney Cove leaving dead bodies scattered along the shorelines. Some think this outbreak was a fire deliberately lit.

A court has heard a man accused of murdering Jay Brogden near Airlie Beach in 2007 was seen "covered in blood".

Margot and Joseph Loh tell an inquest into the death of their seven-month-old son Jack at a Sydney daycare centre that during a tour of the centre before their son's first day they were not shown the bedroom where children slept.

Scope Australia says it hopes the opening of a COVID-19 vaccination hub in Melbourne's north will speed up the vaccine rollout for staff and residents in the disability sector.

Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau kills himself during a fight against rival jihadist fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province, according to new audio.

A 29-year-old man has pleaded guilty to importing parts of childlike sex dolls, but a court has heard he obtained the items to sell online and not to use personally.

Victorian border residents will once again be able to travel into NSW without needing to comply with stay-at-home restrictions following a late-night change to the NSW Public Health Order.

Both Prince William and Prince Harry honoured their late mother and grandmother when naming their daughters.

Drinking beer from the prosthetic leg of an Afghan man allegedly shot dead by decorated veteran Ben Roberts-Smith does not rate high "in the scheme of human wickedness", a defamation trial has been told.

Former world number one Andy Murray throws his support behind the Swiss great, saying it would have been "risky" to continue playing in Paris given his time out of tennis following two knee operations.

David Anderson tells a tells Senate Estimates hearing that the total cost of defending and settling the case brought by the former attorney-general has so far cost the ABC about $780,000.

The man convicted of the 1974 killings of Brisbane mother Barbara McCulkin and her two young daughters is found dead in his cell at a Queensland jail. He was on the witness list for a reopened inquest into Brisbane's Whiskey Au Go Go nightcl...

YouTube star Logan Paul has gone the distance with boxing legend Floyd Mayweather in their eight-round exhibition fight in Miami. 

The Australian firms as one of the favourites to top the podium in Tokyo after triumphing at the final qualification event in El Salvador.