Veteran gay rights campaigner Rodney Croome has quit as the head of the marriage equality lobby group he founded, saying it is at odds with his position on the proposed same-sex marriage plebiscite.
NSW health minister Jillian Skinner has copped a fierce barrage of criticism as a cluster of major hospital scandals were laid bare in a single day.
A Tasmanian woman has become a mother at the age of 63, making her the oldest woman to give birth in Australia.
Malcolm Turnbull's most contentious investment, a failed sports media company that lost almost $100 million and sparked a conflicts of interest row, has come back to life.
Injecting millions of dollars into the country's education system has failed to lift NAPLAN scores.
Frustrated travellers stranded in Bali have lashed out at Jetstar for its poor customer service after volcanic ash cloud disrupted flights out of Denpasar International Airport.
The action is in protest over the continuing enterprise bargaining deadlock which has dragged on for nearly three years.
Health Minister Jillian Skinner fronted the media on Tuesday to deliver the interim report into the tragic errors.
Failures by senior management and a rising number of patients caught up in St Vincent's hospital's chemotherapy dosing scandal has been revealed in a damning report.
Privacy fears, calls for a boycott and phone lines unable to cope. Welcome to census 2016.
The Census of Population and Housing is the largest statistical collection of information about Australians, carried out by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Holidaymakers en route to Bali have been left stranded in Darwin after their flights were cancelled because of a volcanic ash cloud over the island.
Veteran health official Beth Wilson was floored by the response she received when she raised her concerns with a Victorian hospital executive about a doctor accused of sexual assault.
Holidaymakers en route to Bali have been left stranded in Darwin after their flights were cancelled because of a volcanic ash cloud over the island.
If the court has no stomach for policing an order, it should drop it.
Former chief justice Brian Martin has resigned as the head of the royal commission into the Northern Territory juvenile detention just days after being appointed.
They may be the most common drug in medicine cabinets across the country, but statins have been bumped from the top spot in the latest ranking of Australia's most costly drugs.
Winter's not yet done with another storm brewing for coastal NSW.
Australia is likely to have military assets in the South China Sea to gather vital intelligence on a joint drill between Chinese and Russian forces next month, Fairfax Media understands.
About half an hour before she was left for dead in the middle of a Melbourne road by a speeding hit run driver, Tanami Nayler sent her mother a text.
A chance discovery led Lee Mcdonald on a decades-long search to find her missing dad.
An expert report has provided a blueprint for radical reforms to Medicare.
The Prime Minister's Administrative Arrangements Order is perfectly workable, as is the crossbench.
This Defence Department team won one of the inaugural public sector innovation awards.
'Disrupting' public sector teams and creating true flexibility is incredibly challenging.
When your instincts tell you something is wrong this is how to respond.
Almost everything at this "Japanese variety wonderland" is $2.80. But how does it compare to Australia's other discount chains?
Sick of being ignored by governments, young people are increasingly finding their political voice.
Screening for a serious congenital condition may fail to identify babies at risk of developing poor skills in primary school, a world-first study suggests.
A Melbourne lawyer has been found guilty of several charges of misconduct after he used small print on a form to force a woman to sue her son-in-law without her knowledge.