Deputy Nationals leader David Littleproud confirms he will try to topple Barnaby Joyce as leader when the party meets in Canberra on Monday.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expresses his condolences to the family of 48-year-old Michael O'Neill, who has been killed in Ukraine while believed to be helping the country with humanitarian aid. 

A week on from last Saturday's federal election and Labor is still one seat shy of forming majority government, with three seats remaining in doubt. 

China will consider building a police training centre in Solomon Islands, as Foreign Minister Wang Yi tours the Pacific in a bid to increase its influence in the region.

A Ukrainian official says forces may have to retreat from their last pocket in the Luhansk region to avoid being captured, as Russian troops press an advance in the east that has shifted the momentum of the three-month-old war.

The Greens' Stephen Bates wins the seat of Brisbane, with Labor conceding defeat on Saturday afternoon. The result leaves Prime Minister Anthony Albanese still one seat short from forming a majority government.

The key to understanding the catastrophic election result for the Coalition is sitting in plain sight: Voters haven't changed, the Liberal Party has.

A man is in hospital with significant burns to his face after being doused in methylated spirits and set alight when three offenders broke into his High Wycombe home to steal firearms.

Countries should take quick steps to contain the spread of monkeypox and share data about their vaccine stockpiles, a senior World Health Organization official said on Friday.

A five-week coronial inquest has heard about multiple missed opportunities that may have saved the life of the kind and loving Aboriginal woman before she died in a Melbourne prison cell in January 2020.

Texan Governor Greg Abbott has maintained his grip on America's Lone Star state for seven years, and is likely to clinch a third term later this year. For now, he must grapple with yet another mass shooting.

It took police more than 45 minutes to intervene in the school shooting that claimed 21 lives. Now the community is demanding answers. 

A dozen patients remain in Royal Perth Hospital after a boating accident at Horizontal Falls in Western Australia's Kimberley region, as authorities begin their investigations into what went wrong. 

After years of whispers that she's Vladimir Putin's secret girlfriend, Alina Kabaeva has been named in the recent list of sanctions against those supporting his war in Ukraine. But mystery still surrounds her.  

As the new government this week set about establishing a fresh tone for Australia, the old one seemed to continue on with its day-to-day politics as if nothing notable had happened last Saturday, writes Laura Tingle. 

Tanya thought she'd live in her home for the rest of her life, but with the National Rental Affordability Scheme winding up amidst a tight and expensive rental market, she is preparing for the worst — living in a tent.

Astronauts on Apollo 17 landed on the moon in 1972, the same year Robyn Williams made his broadcasting debut. Half a century later, he's still on air, hosting The Science Show, and as enthusiastic about science as ever. 

Controversy over racial representation at an international science conference planned for Cairns has put the spotlight on how Australia deals with cultural diversity in science.

The critically endangered helmeted honeyeater and the Leadbeater's possum have a fighting chance of survival after a farmer sells land to conservationists in a last effort to save the species.

The Tamil asylum seeker family removed from Biloela in 2018 will return to the central Queensland town within weeks, allowing their five-year-old daughter to celebrate her first birthday outside of detention.  But their fight to remain in...

A 30-year-old Narangba man whose car was intercepted by police yesterday afternoon is remanded in custody for the alleged murder of Feebie McIntosh. 

There are warnings that this week's inflation-busting rises in the benchmark electricity price are merely the tip of an iceberg that will hit millions more customers much harder.

Jean-Luc Martinez receives preliminary charges for alleged antiquities trafficking, "complicity in organised fraud" and money laundering during his tenure as head of the famous Paris museum.

After a six-week trial in which Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have torn into each other over nasty details of their short marriage, both sides told a jury the exact same thing on Friday: They want their lives back.

The Northern Territory has the highest rate of kidney disease in Australia and after years of fighting, a group of Elcho Island elders now have nurse-assisted dialysis at home.