Australia

Roger Federer winds back the years to progress to the Australian Open quarter-finals after a hard-fought but imperious five-set win over Kei Nishikori.

Australia clinches the five-match ODI series against Pakistan with an 86-run win at the SCG thanks to a brutal first-innings total.

The Western Sydney Wanderers seal their first home A-League win of the season with a 2-0 victory over the Newcastle Jets.

The Australian Open sees another sensational shock result with world number one Andy Murray dumped out of the year's first major in the fourth round by Germany's Mischa Zverev.

The Department of Immigration and Border Protection is seeking tenders for a self-processing system to be introduced at airports later this year.

Caleb Ewan wins the final stage of the Tour Down Under as Richie Porte confirms overall honours in a dominant showing by the cycling pair.

Companies are increasingly seeking out former military personnel for employment opportunities.

Tennis legend Andre Agassi says Nick Kyrgios's next coach must accept the mercurial young star warts and all and delve deep into his tortured soul.

Two of Australia's national galleries welcome hundreds of dogs to their grounds.

Australia clinches the five-match ODI series against Pakistan with an 86-run win at the SCG thanks to a brutal first-innings total.

The Western Sydney Wanderers seal their first home A-League win of the season with a 2-0 victory over the Newcastle Jets.

Several Liberal Party members are rumoured to be vying for pre-selection to run in the Manly by-election, as Premier Mike Baird steps down.

Michael Grant says there is no link between a spike in property crime and fewer young offenders being locked up.

At any given moment in a clattering Darwin workshop, locksmith Ben Simmons can be found cracking open an old rusting safe.

A teenage boy who escaped from a cell at Darwin's Don Dale centre says he told guards he was giving up, but then shot a fire extinguisher at them, before they deployed teargas on him and five other children.

Queensland sailor Lisa Blair sets off from Western Australia's south coast town of Albany to attempt a world record circumnavigating Antarctica.

Bus drivers want assaults on them to be treated as seriously as those on health and emergency workers.

Queensland and national mountain biking champion Eva Plessing says there are so few female competitors in Australia she has to race against men.

Caleb Ewan wins the final stage of the Tour Down Under as Richie Porte confirms overall honours in a dominant showing by the cycling pair.

Adelaide's main arterial route, South Road, is reopened to traffic, five days after a damaged tram overpass forced its closure.

Heavy rainfall on Friday has cause a sewage overflow into Georges Bay on the state's east coast.

A beekeeper is using a helicopter to deliver 216 of his hives to leatherwood trees.

The family of Tasmanian mother Sarah Paino says today will be "full of emotion" as family deal with the first anniversary of her death.

Roger Federer winds back the years to progress to the Australian Open quarter-finals after a hard-fought but imperious five-set win over Kei Nishikori.

The names of two more of the five people killed in the car attack in Melbourne's CBD on Friday are released.

The Australian Open sees another sensational shock result with world number one Andy Murray dumped out of the year's first major in the fourth round by Germany's Mischa Zverev.

Growing calls for a bush-based detention facility in northern WA, with children returning from detention in Perth hardened and more criminally inclined.

Queensland sailor Lisa Blair sets off from Western Australia's south coast town of Albany to attempt a world record circumnavigating Antarctica.

WA Labor is trying to draw federal issues such as GST and NBN into the State election campaign in the lead up to the March election.