New data on causes of death reveals more than 17,500 people died of dementia in 2024 nationwide, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The move will affect Australia and New Zealand's multiple police and defence personnel working in Vanuatu, and could set back the signing of the Nakamal Agreement.

The Minns government has been unable to break an impasse after six months of trying to pass the legislation.

A man has been sentenced to a one year intensive corrections order, to be served in the community, after attempting to drive through floodwater in the NSW central west, resulting in the death of a five-year-old. 

A jury trial of former Innisfail nurse Rajwinder Singh, who is charged with the Far North Queensland woman's 2018 murder, has heard details about Ms Cordingley's phone data from the afternoon she disappeared.

Recent CSIRO research definitively places Tasmania's Lake St Clair at 163 metres deep, nearly twice the depth of Bass Strait.

England star Joe Root is yet to score a Test century in Australia and was out for one run despite the team's strong platform in the warm-up match.

NRL star Eliesa Katoa faces more time in hospital when he returns to Melbourne as he recovers from a brain bleed after playing for Tonga.

A major Australian sunscreen brand, Bondi Sands is the latest to announce recalls over potential SPF concerns, and the first to remove products from shelves that have not been identified as using the same problematic base formulation.

Video shared across social media shows a man jumping over a crowd-control barrier, running towards Grande and putting his arms around the singer. 

A recall of children's coloured sand after the discovery of asbestos traces leads to the closure of multiple ACT public schools, leaving parents scrambling for care options and answers.

A Queensland man charged with sharing violent extremist material online after a raid by multiple law enforcement agencies has been granted bail.

Five Chinese tourists have been killed and eight others lightly injured in Bali after their rental minibus plunged into a shallow ravine, an official has said.

Peak severe weather season is arriving, and an influx of tropical moisture will fuel thunderstorms in all Australian states and territories between Friday and Sunday.

Court documents reveal shocking details about the murder of childcare worker Molly Ticehurst at the hands of her former partner in the NSW last year.

Giovanni Laulu, a 21-year-old man accused of carrying out an attack that caused more than $20 million in damage to the Adass Israel Synagogue, is granted bail by a Melbourne magistrate.

A wildlife photographer has captured the dramatic moment a seal eluded a pod of killer whales by scrambling onto the stern of her boat.

Blue Origin has successfully launched the 98-metre New Glenn rocket with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars.

A prosecutor requests jail sentences of more than 200 years for the men accused of murdering Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson in Mexico last year.

The former prince has repeatedly denied ever meeting Ms Giuffre, including during an infamous interview with the BBC in 2019.

Australia got their Billie Jean King Cup play-off campaign to a successful start, with two straight sets singles victories over Portugal.

Canberra's only water park will remain closed for the summer despite promises by the site's owners it would reopen by mid-November.

A feed mill in the Northern Territory is getting back on track after a major fire destroyed more than $3 million of hay.

Lanlan Yang allegedly refused to take a breath test or give a version of events to police after a collision that left a person badly injured.

While many Liberals who wanted to keep net zero say they are happy with the position the party has landed on, some despondent moderates fear electoral oblivion in metropolitan seats.