Tennis player Dylan Alcott is named 2022 Australian of the Year for his work as a disability advocate.

Not since 1978 has an Australian lifted the women's singles trophy at the Australian Open. Now Ash Barty is just two wins away from achieving the feat.

The Melbourne heat isn't for everyone. Rafael Nadal showed that earlier today. But for Ash Barty, it has felt like being home in Brisbane. Follow live.

WA Premier Mark McGowan and his Attorney-General will be required to leave the closed-off state and appear in a Sydney court for a defamation trial brought against him by Clive Palmer.

Any good narrative has an ending, and we may be seeing the beginning of the end of one of the greatest financial stories ever told, with today's $63 billion sell-off on the ASX the latest chapter in the saga, writes David Taylor.

On her final day as Australian of the Year, Grace Tame draws both criticism and praise over an icy exchange with Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a morning tea at The Lodge.

With the crowd once again whipped into a frenzy, Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis edge closer to an appearance in the men's doubles decider with a three-set win in the last eight.

Police launch an urgent appeal to help locate a 24-year-old former Winter Olympics hopeful who has been reported missing.

NSW Police release specific details of Charlise Mutten's death in the hope it will help them fill "significant" gaps in the time line of her alleged murder.

Prabhal Sharma, 40, has been charged with murdering his wife, Poonam, and their six-year-old daughter, Vanessa, at their Mill Park home in Melbourne's north.

Harold Thomas has agreed to transfer copyright of the Aboriginal flag to the Commonwealth in a deal that finally democratises the most recognisable emblem of Aboriginal Australia. So who is the man that created the symbol?

Tennis Australia overturns a ban on Australian Open spectators wearing T-shirts referencing the controversy around Chinese player Peng Shuai.

Johann Ofner, a stuntman who was fatally shot during the filming of a music clip in a Brisbane bar, died after the armourer supplied an illegal weapon and ammunition.

The official measure of consumer price increases surges, with steep rises in the cost of fuel and new homes driving the increase.

Rafael Nadal battles through stomach issues to outlast Canadian Denis Shapovalov in five sets to secure his spot in a seventh Australian Open semi-final.

For five days, Islamic State fighters have been battling Kurdish soldiers to free thousands of men from a Syrian prison. Amid the chaos, an Australian boy tells his Sydney-based family in voice recordings that he's wounded and terrified.  ...

Uncertainty surrounds Australia's latest aid mission to Tonga, as almost two dozen personnel on a navy ship carrying humanitarian supplies to the country test positive to COVID-19. 

Alan MacSporran advises the Attorney-General he will resign from the position as chairperson effective from this Friday.

Mr Thomson represented himself in court on the NSW Central Coast after being arrested on the weekend.

A short-lived requirement for people attending Perth's Australia Day Skyworks to be vaccinated against COVID-19 ends in a dispute between the city council and WA government.

With so much focus on the past leading into the Matildas' second group match against the Philippines, what we got instead was a glimpse into the national team's future.

Police and emergency services are at a popular swimming spot in northern Tasmania after a woman in her 20s became separated from her swimming companions.

A man has been killed in a daylight stabbing attack at a Burke Street property with local police calling on the community to provide any information they may have.

The restrictions imposed in response to the Omicron outbreak will be in place for another month as the government prepares for the return of school and non-urgent elective surgeries.

The British government announces it will no longer require fully vaccinated travellers to be tested for COVID-19 from February 11, a decision the travel industry says is a major step back to normality.