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The friend of 13-year-old Brisbane schoolboy Tyrone Unsworth, who took his own life last month, says a day before his death he broke down and told her "the kids at school keep telling me to go kill myself".
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A carbon emissions trading scheme in the electricity sector could lead to an average saving of $216 per year on household power bills, a major report concludes.
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A detainee inside Perth's Banksia Hill Detention Centre tells the ABC boredom and drugs are behind recent violence inside the juvenile facility.
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Senior border security officials warn that illegal tobacco smuggling may be fuelling drug trafficking and terrorism fundraising.
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Australian teenagers see mental health as one of the top three issues facing the nation, shortly behind drugs and alcohol and equity and discrimination, according to a new survey.
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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce calls for more relaxed restrictions on the controversial Adler shotgun than most states and territories are willing to consider.
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President-elect Donald Trump chooses former campaign rival Ben Carson to become secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Stressed and angry Christmas shoppers are told to 'check their language and their temper' as an online survey finds 44 per cent of retail workers had been subjected to verbal or physical abuse.
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One in five Australians think it is acceptable to use torture to obtain military information during war, a Red Cross survey says.
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Mark Forbes, who resigned as editor-in-chief of The Age while reportedly being investigated over sexual harassment claims, tells colleagues any "lapse in judgement" should have serious consequences.
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Evie Nicolaou has a permanent colostomy bag after being diagnosed with bowel cancer at the age of 49. Despite the proven survival rate when the disease is detected early, it is still the second biggest cancer killer in Victoria.
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Measures are being taken to secure the trial of Jakarta's Governor Ahok, the Indonesian police chief says, while a hardline Muslim group calls for followers to attend the trial once per week.
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A massive fire in a Pakistani hotel kills at least 11 people and leaves more than 50 people, including a Pakistani cricket player, injured.
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A man who says he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place fires an assault rifle inside the US restaurant injuring no-one, police and news reports say.
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A new sexual health campaign is encouraging Territorians to get regular health checks, as the number of HIV cases in the NT double in the past year.
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Hepatitis C medications approved in March this year have already topped the list of Australia's most expensive drugs, costing the taxpayer $1 billion.
