Teenagers were "really flogging it' on their mini-motorbikes in the moments before one of them fatally crashed into a woman on a zebra crossing, a court has been told.
A former Rio Tinto executive pays his former employer $1 for Queensland's Blair Athol coal mine, shuttered four years ago.
NSW will likely cop its third buffeting from an east coast low in five weeks but there is some good news.
Even if banks avoid a royal commission, political pressure is unlikely to let up.
The Canberra Times and Studio Canal are giving our reader the chance to win a double-pass to see 'Our Kind of Traitor'. In Cinema's from July 14.
For the second election in a row, western Sydney has performed much better for Labor than expected.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has warned of "terrorism on our streets" and says some Sydneysiders still fear their suburbs have been "swamped by Asians" as she claimed her party could snare up to six Senate spots.
Australian politics is a mess but it won't be enough to force the RBA's hand at its meeting on Tuesday, say economists.
Homicide detectives on Monday continued to scour the Swan River for clues after a body in a suitcase was found floating in East Fremantle on Saturday morning.
The Japanese company behind mega-retail brand Uniqlo has suspended travel to Bangladesh after the terrorist attack that claimed 20 lives.
St Kilda forward Paddy McCartin will miss this week's clash against Essendon because of concussion, with tests to determine whether he will play again this year.
Bankwest customers have been left stranded after a major outage hit the bank's ATM's, EFTPOS transactions and website on Monday morning.
As the Swans launched their second Reconciliation Action Plan, CEO Andrew Ireland said the AFL - and Australia as a whole - was still grappling with the problem of racism.
Glen Douglas Cobb loved his wife and despite hitting her over the head with a baseball bat, didn't want her to die, a trial has heard.
Police have seized more than $700,000 worth of drugs and cash from a car after it was pulled over for speeding on the Hume Highway.
Unions warn of widespread exploitation as audit reveals as many as one in four Canberra businesses do not pay their workers correctly.
Seven militants who killed 20 people at a Dhaka restaurant were Bangladeshis and authorities had earlier tried to arrest five of them, officials said on Sunday.
A 19-year-old tourist suffered a severe injury to his left foot in an explosion in Central Park.
There is hope on the horizon surfers and divers spooked by a recent spate of fatal shark attacks may be able to return to the ocean feeling somewhat, with a shark deterrent device proven effective by Perth's top university.
Snowy Mountains paramedics say when they asked for winter clothing, they were asked for proof that they needed it.
More than a quarter of a tonne of ice – enough, police say for '2½ million hits' – has been seized in Victoria's biggest drug haul of the year.
If someone says to me I have a "freestyle lifestyle", a range of images springs to mind.
Police have caught a sex offender who escaped an Ararat correctional facility early on Monday morning.
With six teams now in equal second place on 10 wins, it is beyond dispute that we're in for one of the most even Septembers we've seen.
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The first police call to storm the Lindt cafe after hostage Tori Johnson was shot in the head failed to go through because of a radio malfunction, an inquest has heard.
Andrew the green turtle is one of the youngest victims of the plastic that ends up in our oceans.
A suicide bomber has carried out an attack outside a US Consulate in Saudi Arabia.
Two more Asian antiquities in the National Gallery of Australia's collection may have to be returned to India.
A United Airlines passenger plane was forced to return to Sydney Airport on Monday morning after apparently striking a number of birds during take-off.
Credit ratings agency Moody's says Australia's triple-A rating is not under immediate threat from the election outcome, but could be if the deficit isn't wound back.
Parramatta fullback Michael Gordon has jumped to the defence of embattled teammate Semi Radradra, saying criticism of the star winger has been unfair.
Most people in the great nation of Australia respect their right to vote, or if not, at least their obligation to.
Harriet Wran, the youngest daughter of the late NSW premier Neville Wran, has won the right to fight a murder charge before a judge only.
Unions vow to bring Eden-Monaro fight to ACT election in October.
First, they came for Istanbul. Next, they came for Dhaka. Then, in the early hours of Sunday, they attacked Baghdad.
A doctor headed for morning prayers at a Houston mosque was ambushed, a day after a Muslim man was beaten outside a Florida mosque.
Canberra Raiders forward Luke Bateman is facing a week on the sidelines.
An out-of-control ute slid on its side for an estimated 85 metres before smashing into a power pole near Newcastle, killing two men inside the vehicle, police say.
A toddler found dead in a home north of Brisbane had "horrific" injuries from head to toe and may have been dead for hours before emergency services were called, police say.
Like ripples across the night water, each melodic idea slowly moved outward as the next motif took its place until the listeners were enmeshed in a net of sounds and the memory of sounds.
James Tedesco has finally earned a call up to the NSW State of Origin team, but there was no room for Panthers sensation Bryce Cartwright.
The red-head from Queensland could find herself friendless on the red benches of Parliament.
Geelong are on the verge of unleashing Mitch Clark against Sydney, with the key tall doing everything coach Chris Scott has asked of him in his return from a debilitating calf injury.
Job advertisements up again in an encouraging sign the economy is growing fast enough to generate demand for labour.
Freezing temperatures return to Granite Belt and Bunya Mountains.
Year after the watchdog stepped in, vocational education scheme rorters have learned some new tricks, allegedly falsifying English language tests and skirting bans on free laptops.