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One Nation is barely being held together, with two of the party's four senators in open warfare, bringing their relationship to the brink.
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Police are appealing for information from the public, following the death of man who fell two floors from the balcony of his hotel room in Canberra.
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US President-elect Donald Trump has divided his supporters after backing away from a campaign promising to pursue charges against Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton.
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Labor MP Emma Husar breaks down in Parliament while talking about her own experiences with domestic violence. Follow live.
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A petition to lower the retirement age for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders due to their decreased life expectancy has been tabled in the Senate, with the organiser saying many of his friends are dying while still working.
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A Victorian woman who pleaded guilty to defensive homicide was regularly abused by a boyfriend she met online and he convinced her to kill a man with an axe, a court is told.
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One of the men accused of locking two people in a toolbox and dumping them in a Logan dam confessed to hearing loud kicks and screams, even over the top of the loud music, a court hears.
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A woman is convicted of animal cruelty after leaving 14 cats in her Adelaide home without food or water for so long they apparently ate each other, with just one pet surviving.
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The Federal Government has passed its changes to the superannuation system claiming it will save nearly $3 billion and future proof it for decades to come.
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A Canberra public servant accused of sex attacks against two women walks free, after charges related to one assault were dropped, and a jury acquitted him of a second set of charges.
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Just when the market had anticipated Australian construction had hit "peak weakness", activity posts its biggest fall in 16 years.
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Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) commissioner Megan Latham, who would have been forced to re-apply for her job as part of structural changes, has resigned.
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A lawyer for the Perth teenager being held in Bali says a police forensic test has come back negative for drugs.
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Cricket South Africa chief executive Haroon Lorgat and Faf du Plessis call for more clarity and consistency around the rules that saw the captain convicted of ball tampering.
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Friends and family remember two people who died during a "thunderstorm asthma" emergency in Melbourne, including an 18-year-old man who was just days away from graduating high school.
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A couple of Tasmanians are planning to sell gorse to China in what they describe as a win for farmers and a win for the environment.
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A Jetstar plane coming in to land at Adelaide Airport came within 30 seconds of colliding with another plane on the tarmac after that flight crew misheard instructions, a report reveals.
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US President Barack Obama awards the nation's highest civilian honour to 21 ground-breaking actors, musicians, athletes and innovators during a ceremony at the White House.
