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Australians should brace for official interest rate rises by the end of next year to cool the hot real estate market, according to the OECD.
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Part of $5 billion in royalty deductions claimed by the giant North West Shelf oil and gas project off the north coast of WA are not legitimate, a federal audit finds.
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Greens senator Nick McKim repeats his pledge to call for a Senate inquiry into Attorney-General George Brandis's conduct regarding the Bell Group litigation. Follow live.
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From leaving school at age 15 to the High Court Chief Justice, Susan Kiefel will become the first female appointed to the highest judicial office in the land.
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A $50 million government program to eradicate foxes in Tasmania is quite likely based on faked evidence, according to a leaked report, with sceptics suggesting evidence could have been planted.
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The Syrian Army and its allies drive rebels from eastern Aleppo, in a wider advance that marks the biggest setback for the opposition in Aleppo since 2012, the army and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights say.
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Former fly-in-fly-out workers tell the ABC they are suffering serious consequences after breathing in toxic smoke from burning rock on one of the world's biggest zinc and lead mines, and that owner Glencore has not offered compensation or assistance.
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The competition watchdog denies permission for three of the big four banks to collectively bargain with Apple over use of its electronic payment system.
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In what an officer describes as a "very high-risk" incident, SA Police forcibly stop a car containing a man and a pregnant woman and two young children he allegedly abducted, smash a window and shoot him.
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A disease better known for killing millions of sailors centuries ago is discovered among a group of diabetes patients at a major western Sydney hospital.
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A West Australian council makes a pre-election plea for more jobs and infrastructure to service its rapidly expanding suburbs on Perth's northern fringes, but an academic warns the WA capital is sprawling too far.
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Changes to the Government's industrial relations legislation proposed by Senator Nick Xenophon are in keeping with "core Liberal values" and should be adopted, former employment minister Eric Abetz says.
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A six-year study into the effects of the Black Saturday bushfires finds more than a quarter of those in high impact areas still suffered serious mental health issues years after the deadly event.
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The third pygmy marmoset monkey stolen from a wildlife park south of Sydney on Saturday has been found alive and well, New South Wales Police confirm.
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A man ploughs his car into a group of pedestrians at Ohio State University and then gets out and begins stabbing people with a butcher knife before he is shot to death by a police officer, authorities say.
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Australia coach Darren Lehmann is not fussed about his players having to switch attention to limited overs cricket, despite the possibility they could lose any momentum created by the Test win against South Africa.
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The Brexit vote, Syria's refugee crisis and the US presidential race are among the events that inspired Dictionary.com's 2016 word of the year, lexicographers say.
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Reindeer are no more suited to taking part in Brisbane's annual Christmas parade than they are pulling a sleigh through the sky, says animal protection group PETA.
