A NSW coastal council is pleading with thousands of holiday-home owners from Sydney, Canberra and Victoria to make their properties available to renters, as temperatures plummet and the housing crisis escalates.

Defence is not doing enough to address suicides, according to the Australian Defence Force Chief, who has told the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide the ADF has inconsistent data on such deaths among its members.

In the days before John Barilaro announced his plans to leave politics, emails show bureaucrats discussing changing the rules for the recruitment of new trade commissioners, then deciding the plum US role would be handled "as an internal ma...

Australia's peak body for medical research warns the growing use of e-cigarettes could lead to an increase in smoking rates.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is set to lose decades of experience from his frontbench, with the mass resignation of four of his most senior government ministers just months from the November election.

Young families are heading for regional areas in droves and many say they couldn't be happier with their lives away from the big smoke.

Rescuers are digging through rubble with their hands, and the ripple effects of the disaster are being felt in the community in Australia.

The Federal Court rules against Samsung Australia over a series of ads showing Galaxy phones being submerged in pool or sea water, with the manufacturer admitting that charging ports could become corroded. 

A photo posted online shows the person covered in a white hospital blanket laying on the waiting room floor of an Adelaide emergency department. The government says it will investigate, but has defended healthcare workers.

A landmark court ruling finds Xiaojun Chen was an employee of Hungry Panda when he died after being hit by a bus in Sydney, entitling his widow and children to compensation.

A man wounds four people in a stabbing attack before being stopped by bystanders, who brought him to the ground in a New Zealand neighbourhood, police say. 

Ukraine is set to become an official candidate for European Union membership. Here's what that means.

Team USA swimmer Anita Alvarez lost consciousness during her routine at the 2022 FINA World Aquatics Championships in Budapest. A photographer captured what followed.

ACTU Secretary Sally McManus warns that the Reserve Bank is out of touch and living in "boomer fantasy land" if it thinks workers can afford real cuts to their wages.

A Zeehan man who attacked his two housemates with a hatchet after they told him they wanted to move out has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail.

"Shocking" stories of sex assaults, harassment and targeted violence are detailed in a scathing parliamentary report into WA's fly-in, fly-out industry, with women subjected to an "appalling range of behaviours".

Lawyers for a teenager insist his driving was not dangerous, despite "zoning out" before a crash causing the deaths of three people in South Australia's South East.

An electrician who illegally diverted electricity from the grid to grow cannabis at his southern Adelaide home will keep his operating licence after a tribunal overturns a decision to cancel it.

Inspired by Australia, the United Kingdom is trying to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda for offshore processing. Prince Charles is reportedly opposed to the idea, and it could make this week's Commonwealth leaders meeting in Rwanda uncomforta...

More than 1,000 people have been killed after a powerful 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Afghanistan yesterday. Here's what we know about the disaster, the region's vulnerability and the Taliban's response.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping says the conflict in Ukraine has "sounded an alarm for humanity", and at the same time condemned US-led sanctions against Russia, accusing the West of provoking Moscow.

Abuse survivors have lashed out at the Catholic Church, claiming they were not told about the death of a paedophile priest and only found out weeks after he died.

The report found bullying and discrimination is prevalent within the organisation, with a fifth of CFA workers intending to leave due to workplace culture concerns.

The chief executive of the Canberra Institute of Technology agrees to take leave until an investigation into the latest in a series of controversial consultancy contracts is completed.

A western Victorian mayor hopes the same compassion shown by the federal government to a Biloela family will continue with a Ballarat refugee family.