There are fears homes may have been lost in an erratic and fast-moving bushfire burning out of control on South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula.

The right-wing party has unveiled former Liberal senator Cory Bernardi as its star candidate.

The government is trying to boost housing supply but a 400-home development in Brisbane’s north has drawn criticism from residents and housing advocates alike.

Today's interest rate hike is expected to trigger a wave of home loan refinancing as borrowers chase mortgage relief.

A police officer has been taken to hospital after he was hit by a car while responding to reports of an armed person.

A specialist threat assessment centre has been contacting the group of law and justice figures about their personal security ahead of the man’s release from jail this week.

Sydney Catholic Schools introduce new ways of measuring student success beyond measures such as NAPLAN.

A Super Progressive Movie clearly wants to sit in the tradition of Australian satire. It just badly overestimates how long one joke can survive on screen.

Our relationship with our biggest neighbour is going backwards. It’s a failure of policy and imagination.

Injured Australian captain Pat Cummins explains why an SOS hasn't been sent to Steve Smith.

“We’re talking about normal kids who are … ending up in rehabilitation, and they’ll never be normal,” a senior Brisbane surgeon said.

The government is under pressure to rein in spending and rev up the economy, or, as one expert warns, the nation may have “bigger problems than an interest rate rise”.

Jewellery and accessories that sit in plain sight are the best bet for a gift.

Investigators believe the 84-year-old, who disappeared from her home near Tucson, Arizona, was abducted.

A new paper to be published this month uses Australia’s 2001 “heroin drought” as a natural experiment to answer that question. The answer has important things to tell us about our current drug crisis: illegal tobacco.

“A huge amount of men between the age of 15 and 50 will not pass on their genes. They will effectively die out of the gene pool ... Should society intervene?” Steven Bartlett asked last year.

The May budget now shapes as an enormous test for Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Pat Cummins’ gamble on his back injury helped Australia retain the Ashes, but cost him a place in the T20 showpiece in Sri Lanka. He’s happy with the call.

Labor’s controversial political donation regime is being tested in the High Court of Australia as former independent candidates take their case to Canberra.

Stephen Crichton reveals how he has taken young teammate Lachlan Galvin under his wing at the Bulldogs.