Scott Morrison seeks advice about whether a decision by former attorney-general Christian Porter to accept mystery funds to pay part of his personal legal fees breached ministerial standards.

Trains, trams and buses will be barred from Melbourne's CBD between 8:00am and 2:00pm on Saturday, in a bid to prevent anti-lockdown protesters from gathering. It comes as Ballarat prepares to re-enter lockdown and virus fragments are detect...

NSW hits the 80 per cent first-dose vaccination target and the curfew imposed on 12 Sydney LGAs is lifted as the state records 1,259 new COVID-19 cases and 12 deaths.

The national medical regulator is demanding that crossbencher Craig Kelly stop spreading "seriously misleading" information about COVID vaccines in mass text messages. Mr Kelly says the TGA's letter is defamatory. Follow live.

SA Premier Steven Marshall's decision to reopen borders to the eastern states once vaccination targets are reached could see the state's western border slammed shut, WA Premier Mark McGowan warns.

As Kevin Mason dived in the ocean, a Fisheries NSW officer was watching on the cliffs above. Elders in the region say the water is now a battleground. 

It's looking like a cool, wet summer — again — for much of the country with a good chance of the return of La Niña, amid other key indicators, say forecasters.

Darko Desic, who broke out of Grafton jail 30 years ago, decides life will be "much easier" if he is behind bars again after the pandemic stripped him of work and left him homeless.

An Australian university implicated in unethical research using facial recognition technology to identify Uyghur and Tibetan minorities unsuccessfully lobbies for it to be retracted by publishers on multiple attempts. 

A family who escaped from Afghanistan with the help of a former British soldier share their harrowing experience of crossing over to Pakistan and their confrontation with Taliban.

Ballarat residents are waiting hours to be tested for COVID-19 as the regional city of more than 100,000 people prepares to enter its eighth lockdown at midnight.

Four students from Runcorn State High School and their families are isolating in the wake of the students allegedly mixing with locked-down teenagers from Sunnybank's St Thomas More College during a house party.

An obstetrician working in one Sydney's COVID-19 hotspots calls on pregnant women to get vaccinated, saying it's "heartbreaking" delivering babies pre-term and separating newborns from mothers because of the virus.

The change will take effect at November's ceremony and embraces some of the country’s biggest artists who don't identify as male or female.

Two ballistic missiles have flown across the east coast of the Korean peninsula in Pyongyang's second major weapons test in under a week. 

A leading industry analyst says the sale of Stone & Wood to beer giant Lion has damaged the independent brewing sector.

The family of a man with a disability who was assaulted by his carer said it took him six months to smile again after the incident, which was captured on home security footage.

A luminous, long-legged soldier fly called Opaluma RuPaul is one of 150 new species named by the CSIRO in the past year.

Kah may be banned for up to five months after being found guilty of "wilfully" omitting details about a much-publicised gathering in Mornington, which was a breach of Victoria's lockdown protocols.

Buying a house in Hobart right now is hard. For Habib ur Rehman, it's even worse. That's because migrants face an 8 per cent surcharge on the cost of a home.

They may have been sporting some unfamiliar gear, but some of the world's top athletes were rubbing shoulders with the sartorial elite at one of the most extravagant events on the celebrity calendar.

A tweet by US rapper Nicki Minaj has revealed yet another vaccine conspiracy. But it's also brought an important issue to the fore: young men and vaccine hesitancy.

The Black Dog Institute is running a Mullets for Mental Health campaign to raise money for crucial research.

There have been nine people killed in Queensland mining incidents since July 2018. Mine safety expert professor David Cliff says managing risks in the industry is complex.

The McGowan Government endorses new rules which critics say will diminish the voice of the regions in State Parliament.