Australia's trans-Tasman travel bubble with New Zealand will remain shut until Sunday at least, with concerns around a number of Auckland's Pullman Hotel guests who have made their way to Australia. Here's the state of p...

People who have applied for a parent visa will now be allowed to stay in Australia while their applications are processed, under a temporary change announced by the Federal Government to deal with coronavirus travel rest...

An autopsy is being undertaken today on Katherine Leadbetter to help police determine if a teenager will face more charges over the death of her unborn child following a hit-and-run at Alexandra Hills, near Brisbane on A...

The Federal Government is fuming after New Zealand's Trade Minister suggests Australia can mend ties with China by showing its government more "respect."

For the third time in a week, the first conversations between high-level US and Japanese ministers turn to five uninhabited islets and three rocks in the East China Sea. Here's why.

An anti-Semitism expert calls for the white supremacist group that reportedly burnt a cross in The Grampians in Western Victoria to be labelled as a terrorist organisation.

A Liberal candidate for the up-coming WA election withdraws after an opinion piece she wrote linking 5G technology to the global coronavirus pandemic is revealed.

The surge in demand for stocks in GameStop, a US video retailer, has been driven by a giddy mob of Reddit users. Here's what you need to know.

More than 900 people who travelled to Victoria for the Australian Open will be released from hotel quarantine over the coming days, COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria confirms.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announces that the state's border with NSW will open on February 1, in a decision that the NSW Premier says comes as a relief.

The consumer watchdog raises fresh concerns about tech giant Google's digital advertising dominance, vowing to pursue its potential misuse of market power.

Antony Charles Hardy, 70, used a metal painter's pole to fatally strike his ex-wife's husband, 75-year-old David Graves, after an argument about where he parked his car, the Supreme Court hears. ...

Joe Biden has already made a "surprise" move as US President as well as signed a series of orders that will put pressure on allies like Australia, according to one insider.

Furious small business owners are vowing to "fight to the end" against Australian insurance companies, in an increasingly heated battle over pandemic payouts that is likely to drag on for years. ...

An Adelaide council resolves a "philosophical dilemma", approving a memorial for one of the country's most renowned fighter pilots, Squadron Leader Robert Bungey.

Australian shares post heavy losses following a sharp pullback across foreign markets, as investors fret about overvalued stocks and the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Representatives from Pfizer say they do not believe the European Union is planning on blocking exports of its vaccine, including to places like Australia, but that they are trying to get more information. ...

Ghislaine Maxwell testified she never saw Jeffrey Epstein receive massages from anyone other than herself at his home in New York, where prosecutors are pursuing criminal charges that she helped him procure underage girl...

Labor's long-serving climate spokesperson Mark Butler has been shifted from the portfolio as part of an Opposition reshuffle on the eve of Federal Parliament's return.

After this week's move by Socceroo Mat Ryan to Arsenal, Daniel Garb and the Grandstand Football podcast rank the top 10 transfers involving Aussie male footballers — do you agree?

A World Health Organization team emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start field work in a fact finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

A 24-year-old man faces court charged with the murder of Adelaide man Nathan Russell, whose body was found inside a unit in the CBD on Tuesday evening.

Vietnam's health ministry confirms its first two locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in nearly two months, just weeks before the country's Lunar New Year holiday period.

The US Department of Homeland Security issues a "terror advisory" warning of the high risk of further violence from domestic extremists in the wake of the attack on the Capitol and Joe Biden's inauguration. ...

American actress Cloris Leachman, who won eight Emmys for her work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and an Academy Award for The Last Picture Show, dies at the age of 94.

Gold Coast police are disciplined for failing to take out a domestic violence order for Tara Brown despite her desperate plea for help days before her ex-partner ran her off the road and bashed her to death with a metal ...