• 5 mins ago

Clive Palmer's absent nephew risks arrest if he does not return to Australia next month to give evidence to a court examining the collapse of Queensland Nickel.

• 5 mins ago

'They could endanger anyone. We will do anything we can to put them before the courts.'

• 6 mins ago

Perth carpenter needs stitches in face after being trampled by police horse when he joined mass protest against Roe 8.

• 7 mins ago

Vice presidents, directors and managing directors at the German bank will get no 2016 bonus. Neither will management.

• 12 mins ago

When VCE results were released, Jakob Cobby became the first person in his family to finish high school.

• 14 mins ago

Belinda Wall knows how to turn around a struggling school. When she became principal of Woonona High School in 2011, just 15 per cent of the HSC students went on to study at university.

• 19 mins ago

"I have taken out insurance just to not encourage anymore fights. I have amended my signature!"

• 20 mins ago

This sequel repeats just about every mistake the original made, but in spite of that I fell in love with its sprawling world, goofy characters and thrilling aerial acrobatics all over again.

• 23 mins ago

'What we are doing is wrong,' says insider.

• 26 mins ago

More than 13,000 people lost their jobs in Queensland in one month, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics latest labour force data.

• 29 mins ago

With a cabinet reshuffle already in the wings, the new Premier will likely consider his or her options.

• 32 mins ago

China is cancelling plans to build more than 100 coal-fired power plants, seeking to rein in runaway, wasteful investment in the sector while moving the country away from one of the dirtiest forms of electricity generation, the government announced in a directive made public this week.

• 34 mins ago

Mike Baird will quit as NSW Premier next week, he announced this morning.

• 36 mins ago

Pauline Hanson has a stark warning for the major political parties in the lead up to the March state election: One Nation's assault in WA will be bigger than anyone predicted.

• 39 mins ago

An Albury business man and his associates have lost a last-ditch attempt in an epic 18-year legal battle to have a $70 million judgement against them be set aside.

• 40 mins ago

Detectives are hunting a man who has been acting suspiciously at fast food outlets across Perth while seated near young children.

• 45 mins ago

A senior planner at the National Australia Bank who cheated on his third attempt to pass a basic compliance exam has found guilty of breaching an industry code.

• Live
• 46 mins ago

NSW Premier Mike Baird has announced his retirement from politics.

• 52 mins ago

Auscap Asset Management says the assumption favourable conditions will continue in Australia's property market carries considerable risk.

• 1 hr ago

Securing a spot at university has become more difficult, with students needing a higher ATAR to get into most courses.

• 1 hr ago

Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts asked whether DeVos or her children had attended public schools, borrowed student loans or received federal financial help.

• 1 hr ago

Pub-goers hid under furniture when a man who got booted out by security pulled a gun in a terrifying incident in North Fitzroy.

• 1 hr ago

The leader of WA's Edith Cowan University is defending his institution's completion rate after new figures showed nearly half its students dropped out in previous years.

• 1 hr ago

The Ben & Jerry's Openair Cinemas are back for 2017 - and we have four double passes to get you there.

• 1 hr ago

The United Nations has expressed "grave concern" over the treatment of two asylum seekers who say they were savagely beaten by Papua New Guinea police and immigration officials on Manus Island before being arrested on New Year's Eve.

• 1 hr ago

A rubbish truck driver struck by a ute in the early hours of Monday morning has died in hospital.

• COMMENT
• 1 hr ago

Until we know more about senior bureaucrats' conflicts of interest, we are inviting corruption.

• ANALYSIS
• 1 hr ago

NSW is the fastest growing economy in the country with the lowest jobless rate. But can Baird take the credit?

• 1 hr ago

The Queensland Police Service has lodged an appeal after the Federal Court found officers had been racist in the aftermath of a death in custody on Palm Island in 2004.

• 1 hr ago

Billboards in the ACT might be banned but the image of two Muslim girls celebrating Australia Day that became so mired in controversy could find its way onto banners around the territory.

• 1 hr ago

Biotechnology giant CSL said its full-year net profit would likely rise 18 to 20 per cent, up from 11 per cent growth previously forecast.

• 1 hr ago

A South Korean court has refused to allow the arrest of Samsung's de facto chairman Lee Jae-yoing for his alleged role in an explosive corruption scandal that has riveted South Korea.

Newcastle Knights prop Pauli Pauli remains in Gosford Hospital with a dislocated hip after he was involved in a serious seven-car pile-up on the M1 Pacific Motorway north of Sydney overnight.

Creative minds behind the layout of Canberra and of its town centres, transport and prominent features were honoured in the naming of 21 streets in the new Gungahlin suburb Taylor.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has refused to guarantee Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe will keep his portfolio if the latest Queensland Rail timetable does not succeed.

The Australian unemployment rate rose slightly above expectations in December, rising to 5.8 per cent on November's 5.7 per cent figure.

The man accused of sexually assaulting two children he enticed away from a North Perth child care centre has changed his plea to guilty - moments before the two young children were due to give evidence.

Bega Cheese has bought back the farm by broadening its reach in the food industry, snapping up Vegemite and other Kraft brands in a $460 million deal which takes it far from its roots as a cheese producer.

After a string of online security breaches, Australians are wary of storing their credit card details online and mistrust local retailers more than tech giants Apple and Google.

An inquest into the death of Ben Catanzariti, who died at the age of 21 when a boom fell on him at a Kingston Foreshore work site, has been pushed back to April.

Combining music of Janacek and John Adams, this concert explores themes of sex, adultery and betrayal.

When a Japanese whaling boat sails into the vast expanse of ocean between Australia and Antarctica it usually means the hunt is on.

It's been a busy year already for marine stings.

When Ruben Wiki broached the subject of pulling the boots back on for the Auckland Nines, he got a decidedly mixed response from his family.

An alleged middle-aged "catfish" who, police say, posed online as a woman so as to lure other men to a Port Melbourne property, will face court charged with several sexual offences.

Netflix signed up a record 7.05 million new customers in the fourth quarter, topping analysts' estimates for domestic and international growth.

Another West Australian has been coined a Lotto millionaire, after scooping a Division 1 prize of $1 million in the Wednesday Lotto Draw.

An alleged bikie who was nabbed by police on the roof of a Gold Coast home clad only in his designer jocks has faced court.

Iraq's government forces said Wednesday that they had gained control of the eastern half of Mosul, three months after they began an assault to retake the northern city from Islamic State militants.