The spread of fake news online leads scientists to develop a "vaccine" to inoculate the public against what they describe as the damaging effects of misleading myths about climate change.
The three-month-old victim of Melbourne's Bourke Street rampage is identified as Zachary Bryant, a "beautiful, loving, happy and perfect little baby" who his family say was the light of their lives.
Two women from NSW are charged with trafficking a commercial quantity of heroin after allegedly being caught with more than 700 grams of the drug on a freeway south of Adelaide.
A foreign policy expert says a top secret CIA document from the end of the Cold War shows just how likely it is that the Northern Territory's Pine Gap joint spy base could be a target.
Thousands of people gather in Melbourne's Federation Square to mourn victims of the Bourke Street car rampage, with a witness asking the crowd to now focus on how the community has come together in the wake of the attack.
Australia's big-hitting Test opener David Warner wins his second straight Allan Border Medal, while Southern Stars captain Meg Lanning wins the Belinda Clark award for the third time.
North Melbourne Football Club player Trent Dumont faces trial after being accused of pushing over a taxi driver in Adelaide, holding him to the ground and stealing $70.
Relations between staff and inmates at Greenough Regional Prison in Western Australia's Mid-West fall to such a low level they emerge as a new security risk, a report finds.
Speaking to a vigil for the five who died in the Bourke Street attack, Henry Dow describes how he rushed to help administer CPR, seeing around him the love and sense of community that makes Melbourne such a great city.
Sunday night's PJ Harvey show in Melbourne left the crowd in awe, on their feet, charged with the power of a truly transformative show, writes Will Huxley.
The Trump presidency is only days old and already there are serious moves to have him forced from office, and the man leading the charge is from the President's own political party.
It would be possible to renegotiate the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal if US President Donald Trump maintains his opposition to the 12-nation agreement, an international law expert says.
The head of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau says the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight is likely north of the area where the search is now suspended, but the Australian Transport Minister says no one knows for sure.
