New Zealand has announced it will not withdraw its funding of Nauru's judicial system, despite the island government sacking its only magistrate and cancelling the visa of the chief justice.
Tony Abbott delivers his first report card on progress being made to reduce Indigenous disadvantage.
China and Taiwan are holding their highest-level talks for the first time since a civil war ended 65 years ago.
Deaths from dengue fever have nearly tripled in Malaysia this year compared to the same period in 2013.
PNG's foreign affairs minister investigating reports that five Indonesians may be dead after navy deliberately sank their boat.
Hundreds of firefighters are taking advantage of calmer conditions as they try to extinguish 18 blazes still burning across Victoria.
A note from a volunteer firefighter provides a poignant glimpse into the struggle to save homes.
Reporter Cameron Best details the long road from inception to demise of Victoria's car industry.
A suburban home has become a temporary zoo for animals being evacuated from a farm in Victoria.
An NGO offers a reward for anyone who slaps a Malaysian MP over a controversial Chinese New Year video.
Australian PM Tony Abbott's government is preparing big spending cuts, but restoring damaged ties with Indonesia will be a high priority.
Health officials are warning about the rise in mosquito-borne diseases across the Pacific region this year.
Japanese car maker Toyota has confirmed it will end car production in Australia in 2017. But was the decision inevitable?
A report has found a project to repair Cambodia's rail system has left hundreds of impoverished families worse off.
Dramatic pictures show a family forced to shelter in a dam during the Victorian bushfires.
South Asia correspondent Michael Edwards, wires
New research has suggested that air pollution in India's capital, New Delhi, is worse than in Beijing.
A Top End surfer has described his close-encounter with a crocodile in the waves off a Darwin beach.
Liam Cochrane, the ABC's new correspondent in PNG, gets a taste of the vibrant colour and - at times - chaos of life on the road.
See the Winter Olympics through the eyes of Australian athletes chasing gold in Russia.