It's the stuff of nightmares. You open your letterbox and a large spider rears up as hundreds upon hundreds of its babies swarm in a seething mass of fangs, bulging black eyes and long, hairy limbs. But for one Bendigo woman and her two nephews it was a cause for celebration.
Pauline Hanson and Rod Culleton finally met to discuss their differences over a potentially criminal letter.
The concept of "two Australias" isn't new, but those of us in VicNSW are less aware of it than we were back at the peak of the mining boom when it was QldWA versus the rest.
Victoria's highest court has called for judges to impose tougher sentences for home invasions, in adding more than a year to a jail term for a high-profile bikie who stood at the end of a couple's bed and demanded money.
Fast-moving thunderstorms create airport havoc but the peak has passed, the bureau says.
The white powder allegedly found on Australian teenager Jamie Murphy tested negative, according to a lawyer for the teen.
The third victim of the deadly thunderstorm asthma that swept across Melbourne on Melbourne has been identified as 35-year-old Apollo Papadopoulos.
A man has been stabbed to death after he was allegedly involved in an argument with another man at Campsie in Sydney's south-west.
Facebook has built an tool for the Chinese market that would censor posts before they appear in people's news feeds.
Two leading pathologists are at odds over whether a hairdresser's comb was used in an attack on two women who were fatally stabbed in a Portland hair salon, at a fresh inquest into their deaths.
Well this is a bit delightful.
Australia faces a "social time bomb" over the failure to process and integrate more than 30,000 asylum seekers who are in the community on bridging visas after arriving by boat during the term of the former Labor government.
ACT political parties received their biggest ever payout of public funding after October election, more than four times the $400,000 paid out after 2012 election
Buy an extra gift at the Old Bus Depot Market for a child in need.
New Labor MP Emma Husar has opened up about her personal experience of domestic violence in a speech to Parliament that left her colleagues in tears.
Trying to get women to stay in the IT industry has been difficult.
Miners powered the ASX higher on Wednesday as investors took a record Wall St lead to build the rally's strength through the day.
Jarrod Berry was at home, playing on the PlayStation, on the day everything changed.
Process hasn't been fair, bosses concede, but public servants urged to stop striking and accept a deal.
After four rejections of proposed workplace deal, department secretary says it's all the union's fault.
Mining stocks hit another gear, powering an ASX rally after iron ore futures extend strong gains and the Dow topped 19,000.
RSPCA WA has released a list of Perth suburbs that have received the most cruelty reports since January.
A bitter year long dispute has been brought to a close thanks to a new pay offer.
The 18-year-old was only a few days away from graduating high school, when the storm rolled in.
Emma Watts put a call out for bad dating stories a year ago - and people came forward in droves.
It has been an eight-month-long protest, but the last three remaining squatters have been evicted from homes acquired for the defunct East West Link project.
Limos, corsages, dresses, suits, tickets- as the costs to attend school balls climb, Butler College has made sure all its students will be able to attend regardless of cost.
A Labor senator has been blasted for using the appearance of Michaelia Cash as the butt of a joke about animals.
Children have been kept in lock down for 20 hours and denied access to education and welfare services at Barwon maximum security prison, it has been alleged.
If your child has asked for a Hatchimal this Christmas, there will be tears.
A Queensland criminologist has been found guilty of playing sex games and touching a young girl at his home in the 1970s.
Many women hide drug and alcohol addictions because they're terrified their children will be taken away. At this new unit they can bring their kids with them.
The old fashioned unicycle has made it back to the stage, with Cirque Du Soleil's show Kooza featuring a fast paced, acrobatic duo.
A man has been charged for travelling 120kmph over the marked speed limit near Gundagai this morning.
The organiser of a Victorian punters' club charged with defrauding syndicate members of $128 million also allegedly attempted to destroy evidence when the accusations came to light.
A former Catholic brother who worked at two prominent Sydney private schools repeatedly sexually abused a young student under the guise of helping him treat a rash, a court has heard.
Underworld figure Horty Mokbel was involved in the savage gang bashing in Lygon Street of a nightclub identity linked to a man who turned informer against his brother Tony on cocaine trafficking charges in 2003.
The remarkable outperformance of small caps seems to have dissipated so investors are having another look at the growth potential of blue chips.
A man who donned camouflage gear and shot a kangaroo with a crossbow outside a family's home has been jailed for animal cruelty, after the animal endured having a bolt in its head for two weeks before it died.
Three people died and more than 2000 became sick during the freak thunderstorm asthma epidemic which struck Melbourne on Monday. So what is asthma, how do you know if you've got it and what should you do in the case of an attack? Your questions are answered here.
The man accused of murdering missing schoolgirl Quanne Diec is leading detectives through bushland south of Sydney in the search for her remains.
One of the three housemates accused of killing Bendigo mother-of-four Samantha Kelly has pleaded guilty to her murder.
Is Sydney property suddenly totally out of synch? One major agent thinks so.
The combination of evidence against Robert Xie inevitably leads to the conclusion that he murdered five family members, a jury has been told.
Pharmacist to the stars Shadi Kazeme✓ has been convicted of stealing a large quantity of prescription drugs – but her chain of IV clinics at tropical resorts is going from strength to strength.
If you're going to go ahead and jeopardise the lives of other Perth drivers, at least don't do it in your branded work car.
The Raiders will wait to hear from Dave Taylor and the NRL integrity unit before making a decision on the forward's NRL future.
In the space of just 24 hours this week, the president-elect set off cyclones near and far that preview the drama he seems likely to bring to the White House.
Award winning Canberra builder, Today's Homes, goes into voluntary liquidation with 16 homes under construction.
Other secondary school graduates headed off on schoolies, but as soon as Katherine Smith finished her last exam she threw herself into life as an AFL footballer.
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