The new Liberal leader has announced his new shadow ministry, elevating prominent right-faction supporters including West Australian MP Andrew Hastie.

Private health insurance premiums will rise at their fastest rate in almost a decade, after the federal government approved a 4.41 per cent average increase from April.

A man arrested after a fatal stabbing in Merrylands escaped from mental health care while being transferred between hospitals more than a week ago, health authorities say.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese insists the federal government will not repatriate the Australian families with links to Islamic State fighters who remain in Syria.

The mother of Manly player Keith Titmuss, who died of exertional heat stroke following a 2020 Sea Eagles training session, breaks her silence on her family's multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the NRL club.

Australia's men's and women's aerials are up in qualification on day 11 at the Winter Olympics and later on, 16-year-old Ally Hickman will chase a medal in the women's slopestyle final. Follow live.

High-pitched noise devices installed under a bridge to deter rough sleepers are labelled "unnecessary" and "humiliating" by housing campaigners and condemned by the WA government.

The man accused of throwing a bomb at Invasion Day protesters in an alleged terrorism act attack in Perth can be named as Liam Alexander Hall.

Victims of Syria's brutal Assad regime were tortured to death in completely horrible and inhumane ways. The relatives of "The Missing" are still searching for them as their numbers continue to explode.

SA police said they have inspected an outhouse where cement has recently been laid and a water tank as part of the latest search for Gus Lamont in South Australia's Mid North, with no evidence so far.

Matchbox Pictures, the local production house behind Dog Park, The Survivors and Secret City, will be closed by its international parent company, Universal International Studios.

Coles downplays what shoppers understood when they saw its "Down Down" price tags, saying "not much", on the second day of a bombshell federal court case.

Representatives from the two nations are set to meet in Geneva on Tuesday, local time, as US President Donald Trump tries to curb Tehran's nuclear program. 

The family of Sydney man Chris Baghsarian, who was abducted in a case of mistaken identity four days ago, are awaiting "some form of closure or resolution".

The fire at Trawool, south of Seymour, broke out near the Goulburn Valley Highway in central Victoria on a day when half the state was facing extreme fire danger.

The Tasmania Fire Service has downgraded an emergency bushfire warning for an area south of Launceston, with helicopters and ground crews in attendance.

The question of whether there is water in Python Pool is often asked around the pubs and message boards of WA's Pilbara. For the moment, the answer is very much yes.

French authorities seized a 2.4-tonne drug shipment near French Polynesia during a joint operation with the United States.

Foreign tour guides and staff who were paid to remain silent orchestrated a counterfeit ticketing ring that robbed the Louvre of millions over more than a decade, Parisian prosecutors say.

Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts says she stepped down as the ACT's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner to prioritise her safety after being subjected to sexual harassment and sexual assault by a public...

The ABC has announced a new location for its Adelaide operations, moving to a new arts and media hub alongside other government arts organisation in the CBD.

The ACCC said Mobil advertised its Mobil Synergy fuel but did not actually supply the product at the time.

A Queensland woman whose adolescence was marred by sexual abuse and exploitation has described her experiences in residential care to Queensland's Child Safety Commission of Inquiry.

The number of carpentry apprentices impacted by a Charles Darwin University blunder that will force them back to school has grown to more than 130 people.

Brandan Koschel was arrested after he appeared on a stage for an open mic session during the anti-immigration March for Australia event in Sydney's Moore Park.