The rental crisis is forcing some Queenslanders to get creative by renting caravans to keep a roof over their heads.

Queenslanders are dicing with death as railway trespassing incidents in the state continue to rise.

A fresh analysis of this year’s NAPLAN results reveals there has been a serious long-term decline in the literacy and numeracy levels of Victoria’s most disadvantaged students.

An investigation into Colmont School’s financial records has found its directors may have been trading while insolvent.

The royal commission into the failed robodebt scheme has heard the program was never operating within the law.

A new super fund has entered the Australian market and claims to be the cheapest in the country.

Festival cheer is set to return to Adelaide when the annual Christmas pageant gets underway.

A 23-year-old Nokia phone washed up on a beach on the Gold Coast.

Police have pounced on an alleged arcade machine thief in Adelaide.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese begins a diplomatic tour in which he will attend three summits in nine days.

NSW teachers have been awarded a six per cent pay rise over two years by the state government.

A woman who killed a young couple and their newborn baby when she set their home on fire could be freed on parole in less than a decade.

The week in photos from the award-winning SMH and AFR photographers.

The 80-metre-long concourse will help to ease crowding at the station during peak periods by removing a rabbit warren of passages.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Opposition Leader Matthew Guy have come face-to-face on the state election campaign trail on Remembrance Day.

An Uber driver who was assaulted after trying to help a woman escape a violent man says he has no regrets.

The AFP says its intelligence points to Russian cybercriminals being behind the Medibank cyberattack which exposed millions of customers' details.

Michael waged a one-man protest outside NAB on Thursday to win back his missing $4000. The bank contacted him on Friday with news.

Firefighters haved rescued a puppy in Lake Macquarie.

Benjamin Suttie was assisted by his son after his carotid artery was cut in half in a late-night altercation between two groups at a park south of Brisbane.