A fisherman has captured the moment a curious shark circles his boat, in just seven metres of water at Taperoo.

The Enchanted Garden, which will be extended this year, always sells out as part of Brisbane’s Christmas calendar.

The lawyer for a sex worker who lit a blaze that killed a couple and their baby daughter says his client should receive a low non-parole period due to her traumatic background and early offers to plead guilty.

In its final report on Tuesday, the education committee found university education faculties had “actively encouraged the deterioration in teacher quality”.

The company behind soft plastic collection points at Coles and Woolworths supermarkets has admitted it has not been recycling the items.

Two fishermen are alive after they were spotted clinging to debris 20 kilometres out to sea when their boat sank off the Sunshine Coast.

A 95-year-old Gympie man has been rescued by a friend after he became stuck in mud by a dam for nearly two days.

As scientists struggle to understand long COVID and how to treat it, people are trying unproven and crazy ideas.

Severe storms have lashed parts of Melbourne, bringing flash flooding to several suburbs.

Police have set up a crime scene at the motel, and two dogs have been seized by the local council.

A man has been rushed to hospital with head injuries which came as a result of bee stings in Adelaide.

A fire has ripped through an Adelaide home causing half a million dollars in damage.

An Adelaide community is fed up with the reckless behaviour of hoons.

Former lawn bowls club land handed back to Indigenous owners The Waverton Bowling Club will be handed back to Indigenous owners after a NSW court upheld an Aboriginal land claim.

A Rockdale teenager has pleaded guilty to trying to blackmail victims of the Optus data breach in September.

Independent Senator David Pocock holds the final vote in a bill to boost wages to ease the cost of living crisis.

A Sydney man jailed for threatening to kill police, military staff and a magistrate has been arrested again after breaching his release conditions, police say.

The cost of a packet of chips is the latest victim of skyrocketing gas prices after a Sydney factory saw its power bill triple.

Up to 100,000 workers have been brought into Australia using suspected visa scams, Labor has given another concession ahead of a vote on its signature workplace reforms and the COP27 climate summit continues.

A fire broke out on a regional Qantas flight from Orange.