• 6 mins ago

A 35-day delay to ship capping technology to Australia in the event of a major oil spill has prompted warnings the Great Australian Bight could suffer an environmental disaster to rival the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.

• 7 mins ago

Nine Entertainment has sold its entire near 10 per cent stake in Southern Cross Austereo after the metropolitan and regional broadcasters struck a five-year affiliation deal earlier this year.

• 7 mins ago

Hundreds of music fans have gathered around a cassette player in a Fitzroy laneway to hear the highly anticipated new album from indie darling Bon Iver.

• 10 mins ago

What's happening and where to watch it. This is your comprehensive guide to the AFL grand final 2016.

• 11 mins ago

While Trump pleads for black votes, he also flirts with white supremacists.

• 11 mins ago

The Bulldogs and Sydney have arrived at grand final day from very different parts of the ladder. But they have a quite similar look.

• 15 mins ago

Saturday's grand final will be a clash of the AFL's most manic midfields.

• 15 mins ago

Drone footage has captured stunning pictures of a pod of six whales swimming near by Rottnest Island.

• 17 mins ago

So what if you were attending the birth of your first child, Mick Malthouse's deeply reproving look said to West Coast's Michael Brennan one day in January, 1990. You've missed half of training.

• 20 mins ago

Ricky Leutele and Gerard Beale were classmates before they were title-chasing Cronulla teammates. And the men who have essentially been competing against each other for one starting berth all year are now united in a common goal to take down their junior club's most famous export.

• ANALYSIS
• 24 mins ago

New revelations of the hypocrisy of Donald Trump have been seized upon in one of the tightest swing-state contests in the 2016 presidential race, Florida.

• 25 mins ago

A workplace accident, in which both his hands were mangled in a roller, changed Dean Reid's life forever.

• 28 mins ago

Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-ying has threatened to sue a popular local newspaper over "vicious and malicious" accusations of corruption.

• 35 mins ago

A Florida woman is suing a sheriff's deputy after he allegedly shot her with a stun gun then apologised with a cake that said "Sorry I tased you" in blue icing.

• 39 mins ago

This latest $US14 billion fine is the latest in the German bank's tumultuous history of bad behaviour.

• 42 mins ago

More than 100 jobs could be lost at the Sunday Times with the Kerry Stokes-owned Seven West Media takeover of the Sunday Times.

• 45 mins ago

Queensland hospitals could "grind to a halt" as a result of industrial action unless support staff get a better deal, a public servants' union says.

• 48 mins ago

A couple have been arrested after they were found passed out in their car with their one-year-old girl in the back seat of the car in Penrith. 

• 1 hr ago

His hamstring is good to go, and now Callum Mills hopes to top his debut season with an AFL premiership.

• 1 hr ago

A wider investigation has been launched into the activities of the Land Development Agency after the release of a damning report.

• 1 hr ago

Accountant Curtis Cheng took pride in working at Police Headquarters at Parramatta as he felt he his job was making a contribution to society.

• 1 hr ago

Queensland's Resources Council questions the findings of a left-leaning think-tank's research showing mining investment did not produce jobs in regional Queensland.

• 1 hr ago

Woolworths has confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in retailing, that it is likely to sell its petrol retailing arm, with a number of offers on the table.

• 1 hr ago

Floriade and Nightfest have cancelled for the second day as wet weather further dampens Australia's biggest flower festival.

• 1 hr ago

Critics say the government's new NAPLAN prerequisite puts pressure on kids before they are mature enough to handle it.

• 1 hr ago

All Melbourne appears to have turned out ... and all Melbourne, it seemed, was there for the Western Bulldogs.

• 1 hr ago

Police found two dead cats in his home - after he allegedly assaulted two people with a metal pole.

• 1 hr ago

Several people trapped on a roller coaster at Sea World at the Gold Coast.

• 1 hr ago

The Canberra Raiders hope what they believe is a world-first membership drive helps them break the 20,000 barrier next year.

• 1 hr ago

The Commonwealth Bank numbed the sting of its decision to partially hold back the RBA's cash rate cut by increasing term deposit rates. Now it has unwound them.

• 1 hr ago

Philip Kitching was carrying out maintenance work on a bulldozer at the Woodie Woodie manganese mine when he was crushed by the machine's belly plate on January 20 last year.

• 1 hr ago

Dozens of Melbourne's parking inspectors have walked off the job and will not be issuing fines over the grand final weekend, according the Australian Services Union.

• 1 hr ago

Fluoride, fireworks and flashes shocked and awed Queenslanders this week and Quizlander is back to finish it off with a bang.

• 1 hr ago

Tim Glasby's last grand final was with Windsor Wolves. On Sunday the Storm forward will be just down the road playing in the NRL grand final.

• 1 hr ago

In the lead-up to her violent death, Sydney hairdresser Nasrin Abek, 35 was allegedly stalked by her husband.

• 1 hr ago

A woman who gave police a video allegedly showing her being sexually assaulted told a friend she'd made up the rape claim to try to blackmail the man.

• 1 hr ago

Let's face it, working on a public holiday is not great. While everyone else is out there having a great time you're stuck in the office or working the cash register.

• 1 hr ago

Golf could be the next sport on Jarryd Hayne's list of dreams, with the Gold Coast fullback set to play in a pro-am event in Fiji in October.

• 1 hr ago

If you are planning on starting your long weekend a little early and heading south, you may want to delay your travel.

Franklin, who on Saturday will be spearheading the Swans' tilt at the flag, said there would be "no chance" he would be following Mundine's advice.

Parents fear a surge in international student enrolments has shut local students out of popular Melbourne state schools.

Queensland police have welcomed a massive increase in domestic violence offences as a "good news story" saying it shows people are more confident in coming forward.

Integrity. Honesty. Empathy. Talk to anyone about what makes John Longmire such a good coach and these are the qualities that come to the fore time and time again.

Councils must be given more authority over poker machines in their communities, a survey has found.

If you plan on taking advantage of the long weekend in the sun, you may want to centre your activities around the weekend.

• Live

Shares tumble, led down by the big banks as Deutsche Bank's growing woes sour the global mood,

Council Labor opposition has demanded finance chairman resign over systemic failures that saw ratepayers defrauded of more than $450,000.

"Young LGBTIQ people, some of whom may still be coming to terms with their sexuality, do not need to see hurtful slogans when entering or exiting the Perth Royal show."

Swans skipper Jarrad McVeigh has declared he is over a calf injury and will "definitely" line up in Saturday's grand final against the Western Bulldogs.