In a letter to the Prime Minister's chief of staff, the former Liberal staffer says she was "made aware by numerous journalists about the backgrounding that was happening against my partner".

A former senior flight attendant says he thought a colleague was "coming on" to him before he touched her breast and exposed himself while they were on a break during a Qantas flight from Perth to Melbourne.

Solar panel owners say a proposal to charge them for exporting energy to the grid is a penalty for trying to do the right thing. But the regulator says it could be cheaper for them in the long run.

A housemate of an international student who died in floodwaters in Sydney's northwest says he's been too upset to return to their home, while another will remember his friend "like a brother".

More than 22,000 insurance claims have been lodged so far, but many homeowners are facing big out-of-pocket bills because they didn't take out flood cover. 

Property prices are booming and household wealth hits record levels, while hundreds of thousands of Australians remain unemployed.

As the government announces spending of millions of dollars on the arts, the Prime Minister dances around speculation about an imminent Cabinet reshuffle.

Queensland Health says a new strain of COVID-19 detected in travellers from Papua New Guinea isn't a "lineage of concern".

Australian medical teams have landed in Papua New Guinea to help manage its coronavirus crisis — but health workers warn the hard work has only just begun.

Three people were rescued by bystanders and a fire crew that was in the area by chance after a sinkhole opened beneath their feet in north-west New South Wales last night.

When Tasmanian Speaker Sue Hickey spoke about senator Eric Abetz in State Parliament yesterday, she said things that — ordinarily — could get her sued.

You can't miss those massive letters written on the side of the vessel, but that's not a boat name you're reading. 

Advocates are devastated after police reveal today that a man died a week ago when officers went to his Broken Hill house, the fourth Aboriginal death in custody this month.

With the MCG crowd capacity increased, first-round losers Carlton and Collingwood face off to start round two of the AFL. Follow our live ScoreCentre for all the scores, stats and results.

She might wake to an inbox filled with hundreds of emails every day, but Grace Tame has one constant as she adjusts to life as a champion of survivors of sexual assault, male and female.

The Panthers are without Nathan Cleary and the Storm are missing Clive Churchill medallist Ryan Papenhuyzen for the rematch between last year's NRL grand final opponents. Follow our ScoreCentre for all the live scores and stats.

Students fed up with racist taunts at a far north Queensland school say they are willing to risk disciplinary action from administrators to stop hateful slurs.

Victims of sexual assault in Parliament House will now be able to access case files handed to an internal inquiry, after the government agreed to amend a new law.

The Victorian government is facing a class action from residents of Melbourne public housing towers who were locked down at the peak of the pandemic. Follow live updates.

The third incarnation of Victoria's hotel quarantine scheme will include about a dozen hotels and testing of residents four times during their stay.

The principal says asking male students to stand "as a symbolic gesture of apology for the behaviours of their gender" was inappropriate.

This is the first time a warning has been given for COVID-19 vaccines in Australia, and the recommendation applies to both Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.

Firefighters are told to self-isolate after battling a blaze aboard a cargo ship off Port Hedland — the ship's crew had not been given clearance to disembark.

Taiwan says it has begun mass production of a long-range missile and is developing three other models, in a rare admission of efforts to develop strike capacity amid growing Chinese pressure.

The rain around NSW is going to hit some farmers hard, but food supplies will rebound quickly and most of us won't feel it in the hip pocket.