A pre-emptive strike by One Nation to register dozens of website addresses to be used in the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum campaign backfires, after several of the party's new acquisitions were suspended.

The COVIDSafe app cost $21 million, ran for more than two years, and only identified two cases. Here's what went wrong.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton rejects an invitation to next month's national jobs summit, which the government is spruiking as a key moment in designing its economic and workplace policy.

The Chinese ambassador to Australia uses a National Press Club address to stand firm on Taiwan, saying there's no room for compromise, but was hopeful about mending ties with Canberra.

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At least seven dogs are suspected to have been poisoned at a Sunshine Coast beach. Police, the RSPCA and the council are trying to confirm the cause of the tragic deaths.

After months of hearings around Australia, the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide will hand down its interim report tomorrow. Here's what we know so far.

After nearly a week of deliberations, the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the trial of Brendan Pallant, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend's two-year-old son Jaidyn Gomes-Sebastiao.

In less than 24 hours, the FBI's actions have galvanised Donald Trump's political opponents and supporters alike, fuelling rumours he could soon announce a run for president in 2024, writes Joanna Robin. 

An intruder who broke into a snow monkey enclosure to scoop coins from a pond could have unwittingly exposed themselves to "potentially fatal" herpes, with authorities urging them to seek immediate medical attention.

Childcare centres around Australia say they're rapidly losing staff, and there is broad agreement about the root cause of the problem — wages in the sector are just too low.

Despite millions of dollars being spent to clear the backlog on elective surgery waitlists, tens of thousands of Australians still face long waits and are living with debilitating pain.

The Commonwealth Bank announces a 9 per cent increase in profits, despite a fall in its home loan interest margins.

New documents released publicly through a parliamentary order reveal that the fee set for an internal review into John Barilaro's appointment to a US trade role was $73,500.

The NSW Premier reveals the resignation letter of the former building commissioner has been referred to ICAC after speculation about why he abruptly quit last month.

Willie Rioli Senior, who died last month, has been remembered as a man who "brightened" the lives of those around him at a memorial service in Darwin. 

The dwindling population of the Ukrainian city of Sloviansk relies on public water pumps as the sole water supply. 

The death of a woman in her 70s who was ramped and waiting to be admitted to an emergency department for more than nine hours is "totally unacceptable" and shows Tasmania's health system is crumbling, a union says.

Police continue to work to uncover the identity of a man more than a month after he was struck by a train in Melbourne's inner-northern suburbs.

Bolivia's "death road" was once a key route between its capital and the Amazon rainforest. Now it's a wildlife haven.

The release of the collectors' item, which features the Chinese god of wealth and money tree, is causing confusion in Fiji, with many questioning its timing and significance.

Two COVID-19 oral antiviral treatments have been approved for use in Australia, and some say they should be more readily available. 

Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has suffered another staffing setback with the resignation of his director of communications, just months out from the November election.

Hedley Marston was, in many respects, an establishment man — but when he began studying nuclear fallout from British bomb tests at Maralinga, he became incensed.

The lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 propelled the civil rights movement in the US forward — the woman whose allegations prompted the killing is still alive today.