The Treasurer gives a strong indication that new limits on large home loans will soon be introduced. But what will they look like and what will it mean for property prices?

A judge hearing legal challenges to mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for frontline workers tells a Sydney court he has been bombarded with messages from people trying to interfere in the administration of justice.

The Prime Minister blamed advice from his expert panel on immunisation for the delay in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. That came as a shock to the body's scientists.

Victoria's Acting Chief Health Officer declares that the City of Latrobe will enter a seven-day lockdown from 11:59pm on Tuesday.

Phone-based scams are costing Australians more money each year and Indigenous people have seen a sharp increase in losses in 2021.

Australians will be able to test themselves at home with COVID-19 rapid antigen kits from November.

Australians will be able to buy rapid antigen tests from November 1 that will allow them to test at home whether they have COVID-19. Here's what you need to know.

A world-first aerial survey of Queensland's main coal seam gas region has found methane emissions considerably higher than some previous reports.

SA's infamous statewide blackout triggered recriminations, as well as sweeping and ongoing reforms to the state's — and the nation's — approach to energy security. Here's a look at what has changed.

Authorities do not rule out a lockdown in the Gippsland region, as contact tracers race to get in front of an outbreak fuelled by an illegal weekend household gathering. The state is on the cusp of hitting its 80 per cent single-dose vaccina...

NSW records 863 COVID-19 infections and seven deaths after Premier Gladys Berejiklian defended the government stance on denying freedoms to the unvaccinated before December.

One of the cases was a truck driver who was staying in shared accommodation and was infectious in the community for a week.

New Zealand moves to cool its red-hot housing market by introducing rules designed to make property speculation less appealing and to improve record-low housing affordability.

A former Home and Away star clashes with the lawyer of a woman who stole his identity to hoodwink her stalking victims, with a court being told that he feared the catfishing scandal could affect his career.

A fugitive who handed himself into police after almost three decades on the run will appeal to the NSW Attorney General not to send him back to prison. 

Scientists say an ambitious expedition starting this season will help them look a million years into the past and may provide answers to one of Antarctica's ancient mysteries.

This is how two university mates struck a deal to use classified information in Australia’s biggest insider trading scam.

The ACT records 13 new cases of COVID-19, as Chief Minister Andrew Barr indicates a delay in interstate travel as the territory continues to manage an outbreak.

The UK is in the midst of a run on petrol stations that has left bowsers running dry and thousands of motorists frustrated.

After a decade and a half playing the legendary British spy James Bond, Daniel Craig is making way for a new generation of actors after his fifth 007 film, No Time To Die, which has its world premiere in London this week.

Environmentalists slam a decision to allow a 1,700-home development in a prime koala habitat.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission calls for new rules to rein in Google, which dominates the country's online advertising market.

After a mixed record in do-or-die grand finals, Adelaide Crows AFLW star Ebony Marinoff says it is a shame that one "really bad day" should cost a team a title.

China is in the grips of a power crunch to meet energy use targets, which is forcing factories to shut down and leaving some households in the dark.

Whale watchers capture the moment a two-tonne humpback calf leaps out of the water while playing with its mother off the Queensland coast.