Australians are facing a bleak couple of years, with Treasury forecasting dual woes of sustained high living costs and declining real wages. The budget bottom line has improved but Treasurer Jim Chalmers is warning of tough decisions in co...

It's the second federal budget of the year, but this time Treasurer Jim Chalmers is delivering Labor's first in close to a decade. Here's where it plans to spend its money and where it wants to rein things in.

Labor is delivering its first federal budget since 2013 as Australians face increasing cost of living pressures.

Australians are facing an incredibly difficult rental market, and this year's budget has an "aspirational" target of 1 million new homes — but there's a lot to unpack. Here's your quick guide to the plan.

The budget paints a grim picture of the economy in the 12 months ahead as it will be experienced by most households, with less certainty about job prospects, big increases in energy costs, and inflation eating into incomes, writes Laura Ting...

Addressing skills shortages is the government's key budget focus to assist business, with tax stings in store for some multinationals, cash-in-hand businesses and investors.

The negative IOD in the west and La Niña in the east have been fuelling the relentless rain and respite in the short-term looks unlikely, with the BOM also warning of damaging winds and large hail from a lingering low.

Jurors in the trial of accused rapist Bruce Lehrmann are told to reconsider the evidence after they told the ACT Supreme Court they had failed to reach a verdict.

Private Tom Halloran was bullied because "that's what happens" in the army. He hid his injury because of a "punitive culture". Six months after his suicide, his parents want to see change.

Victorian Greens senator Lidia Thorpe has addressed the Senate chamber over her failure to disclose a past relationship with a former bikie while she was sitting on a law enforcement committee. 

The inquiry hears Lara Keller met with the health minister about problems with DNA testing in June but did mention police had been briefing her about the issues for almost six months.

The mother of Cassius Turvey, who died after allegedly being beaten with a metal pole in Perth's east, remembers her son as a "young leader". WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains an image ...

More Medibank customers could be at risk of having had their information stolen after the company reveals the cyber breach extends to their flagship brand.

Karni Liddell's specially fitted car — which contained her wheelchair — was stolen from an apartment complex, leaving the disability advocate to wait six months for a replacement.

The Supreme Court in Cairns heard the deceased threatened the accused man's girlfriend with a hammer before he "ran off into the darkness".

In just seven years, Rishi Sunak has gone from a little-known Conservative MP, to COVID-19 chancellor, to backbencher, and now, Britain's first Hindu prime minister. Inside the meteoric rise is a tale of immense wealth, political scandal an...

The former US citizen was arrested by Australian Federal Police in Orange after a sealed US arrest warrant was issued, with sources saying it relates to the years he spent working in China's aviation sector.

A Victorian County Court judge today increases Lydia Abdelmalek's original jail term, ordering her to spend four years behind bars for hounding her victims with a cast of characters, including Home and Away star Lincoln Lewis.

Researchers say testing on the suspected strap-toothed beaked whale carcass could provide a wealth of information about the mysterious mammal.

Lawyers for a man who unexpectedly pleaded guilty to the cold case murder of American mathematician Scott Johnson say he did so without "good reasons", and are calling for him to face trial.

Police say they have reviewed CCTV of an incident in which an Aboriginal man was allegedly bashed and left in a pool of his own blood — and that "no immediate action" is required against the officers involved.

As the stand-off between Hancock Prospecting and netball players rolled on, Tracey Holmes put several questions to the mining giants 

First Nations women in the Northern Territory are murdered at up to 12 times the national average. Yet, ABC's Four Corners can reveal the territory receives just 1.8 per cent of the funding designed to prevent it.

Up to four million current Medibank customers may have had their data stolen, along with countless past customers. Distressingly, the data of children linked to their parents' accounts may have also been impacted.

Harvey Weinstein is serving a prison sentence for sex crimes in New York and is now on trial in Los Angeles on rape and sexual assault charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty.