Treasurer Jim Chalmers hands down the Albanese government’s first budget.

The public submissions to Australia’s long COVID parliamentary inquiry make for tough but important reading.

One of the team leaders stood down from Queensland's troubled forensic unit over the DNA testing bungle has faced an inquiry.

A young man is fighting for his life after a fiery explosion at a Queensland truck dealership.

Queenslanders are bracing for severe storms, large hail and damaging winds.

There have been flood emergency warnings across NSW as the scale of damage is slowly being realised.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has confirmed he's leaving politics, which will be a fresh blow for the Perrottet government.

Speaking for the first time since revelations of patients being tragically injured, the neurosurgeon said: “I’ve got to face that every day.”

Forensic investigators are working to identify a badly decomposed body found in the South Australian suburb of Salisbury South.

SA Water has released its top five weirdest objects flushed down toilets in the state.

A battle is raging in Echuca over who was responsible for building the flood levy that has divided the town.

A man has been charged after a baby and a toddler were left inside a car in a Melbourne shopping centre car park.

Residents still fighting to save properties on the ‘wet side’ of Echuca say authorities abandoned them after building a makeshift levee that protected most of the town but left them bearing the full brunt of the Murray.

Ten days on from Maribyrnong's flood devastation, residents are meeting to find out what's next.

The mother of a boy with special needs has made a tearful plea to the cruel thief who stole his modified tricycle.

Head of the Greater Cities Commission Geoff Roberts says Sydney needs to end its reliance on pretty imagery and take itself seriously as a clever, connected society.

Two boys who high-fived after 15-year-old Angus Beaumont was fatally stabbed through the heart north of Brisbane have been jailed for murder.

Premier Dominic Perrottet made his way to Moree in the north of the state where about 4000 people had been affected by evacuations and floodwaters.

The extent of the cyber hack on Medibank is worse than was first reported.

A Melbourne psychology student has been handed more jail time for posing as a TV soap star and 'catfishing' several women.