The Solomon Islands Prime Minister delivers a withering verbal assault on Australia, mocking the federal government's complaints about the secrecy surrounding the Pacific Island country's security pact with China.

The ACT Supreme Court dismisses an application to halt the trial of the man accused of sexually assaulting former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins.

When interest rates are low, prime ministers and treasurers are often struck by the extent to which this outcome is driven by their own expert handling of the economy. When they're high — it's a different story, writes Annabel Crabb. ...

Beijing signing a security pact with the Solomon Islands appears to have caught Australia off guard. Now a contributing factor to the diplomatic blindsiding has been revealed — and it's more mundane than you would think.

Concern over Solomon Islands' security pact with China is mounting in the US Congress, with politicians on both sides expressing alarm over the deal.

An animated cartoon posted by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is removed from multiple social media platforms after it was flagged for spreading false claims about election fraud in Australia.

A 69-year-old man died in hospital two days after the early morning crash between two garbage trucks in a small town 85 kilometres west of Melbourne's CBD.

An ex-soldier testifying for Ben Roberts-Smith in his defamation case denies colluding with the war veteran and three other witnesses to give false evidence intended to defeat an allegation of murder.

One in six Australians are experiencing food insecurity, and community services are facing increasing demand to step in.

The high-flying Panthers go to Queensland to put their perfect record on the line against the Titans, then later it's seventh vs eighth when Manly faces South Sydney in Gosford. Follow our ScoreCentre for all the live scores and stats. ...

There has been a large spike in the number of NDIS participants reporting their plans have been slashed, with many seeking legal help and causing congestion in the appeals system.

A woman in her 60s has been attacked by a female kangaroo while playing a round of golf at a Gold Coast course.

Australia is among 56 nations signing a political commitment to push for the future of the internet to be underpinned by democratic values, in the face of hostile internet policies from countries such as China and Russia.

A trip of a lifetime to Uluru soured after Ed McKinney was bitten by one of Australia's deadliest snakes just five steps from his hotel door.

There are hopes of an imminent evacuation for hundreds of Ukrainian civilians who have been holed up for weeks in a vast steelworks, with the last fighters defending the southern city of Mariupol.

The head of the United Nations says Ukraine has become "an epicentre of unbearable heartache and pain", touring Kyiv on the same day Russian missiles hit the city for the first time in weeks.

After nearly a decade on death row, Melissa Lucio's life was spared at the 11th hour. Now, she faces another gruelling fight to overturn her conviction.

Police did not interview a potential eye-witness in the case against former William Tyrrell suspect Bill Spedding before he was charged with historical child sex offences, a court hears.

Taking a brief detour from its route to a crater scientists hope is teeming with evidence of ancient life, the Mars helicopter snaps unprecedented pictures of its landing gear after its fiery descent. 

Households battling rocketing living costs are facing energy bill hikes of 40 per cent across the coming two years, with the electricity market operator saying prices already surged 141 per cent, year on year.

Regional house prices are still going stronger than in some capital cities, despite a slowing that charities say will do nothing to help renters in crisis.

In New South Wales, tens of millions of dollars are being spent on fly-in fly-out doctors — and dozens of towns are at risk of being without a full-time GP in the next decade. 

Despite what AFL legend Matthew Lloyd has claimed, there is no evidence to suggest heart issues "have gone through the roof" as a result of COVID-19 vaccines.

In what could herald a changing of the guard, a 13-month-old Wagyu heifer becomes the most expensive beef animal ever sold in Australia, earning $75,000 more than its expensive bull.

Fossils from some of the largest creatures ever to swim Earth's oceans — whale-sized marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs — are found in a counterintuitive place: atop three mountains in the Swiss Alps up to 2,740 metres above sea level....