• 2 mins ago

Veterinary nurse Tayla Ballard is extremely lucky after her close call with an eastern brown snake, with experts reminding Canberrans how to stay safe from the slitering predators this summer.

• 4 mins ago

Two victims of Friday's Bourke Street attack remain fighting for their lives as a funeral for baby Zachary has been held at a Melbourne Mosque.

• 6 mins ago

The recently announced closure of the Ringling circus in the US, which has been running more than a century, has been heralded as bringing to an end an era when it was seen as entertaining for humans, especially children, to view animals performing tricks: dogs riding bicycles, elephants dancing, and lions jumping through hoops.

• 11 mins ago

The government is being urged to revisit bilateral trade deals with Australia's big Asian trade partners, after Donald Trump's move to pull the plug on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

• EXCLUSIVE
• 14 mins ago

The Andrews government was warned in an explosive secret report months before the latest riots in Victoria's youth prisons that the system was spiralling out of control.

• EXCLUSIVE
• 16 mins ago

A whistleblower at Origin Energy has filed an explosive legal action.

• ANALYSIS
• 20 mins ago

If the Trans-Pacific Partnership was really as good for jobs and growth as Malcolm Turnbull says it was, he would be able to point to a study saying so.

• 20 mins ago

Controversial Queensland policeman Chris Hurley has been fined for assaulting a former female colleague while she was on patrol at a Gold Coast shopping centre.

• 27 mins ago

Jakarta: It's hard to comprehend it happened in this century: human slaves trapped on fishing boats being whipped with poisonous stingray tails, having ice blocks thrown at them and being shot.

• 28 mins ago

A five-year-old girl spent more than 30 terrifying minutes in the back seat of a car driven at high speeds by a drug-fuelled thief, a court has heard.

• 32 mins ago

A Canberra prisoner who fled and assaulted a corrective services officer was desperate to avoid more time behind bars.

• 33 mins ago

As far as charge sheets go, this was a thesis.

• 33 mins ago

South Perth council is investigating after this mature foreshore gum was poisoned through holes drilled into the trunk.

• 34 mins ago

Fund manager Geoff Wilson's call for Hunter Hall Global Value to allow all investors to sell-out of fund  at the asset value of the shares has been rebuffed, with

• 38 mins ago

What suggestions does Sydney's Gen Y population have for NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her challenge to tackle housing affordability?

• 39 mins ago

The Owners Corporation Network says the move would be an easy way to help improve housing affordability

• 39 mins ago

Photos of young children placing flowers and soft toys at the Bourke Street memorial are among the few heart-warming images associated with Friday's tragedy. But is it wise to expose your children to memorials?

• 50 mins ago

Queensland's premier might "hope" that the next state election will be called in early 2018 but the Electorate 

• 53 mins ago

An unusually quiet period for cyclones in the Australian region may come to an end within days.

• 1 hr ago

The teenage girl hurled the phone against the wall and it smashed into pieces. So the residential home worker called the police.

• 1 hr ago

His reaction to the carnage has become one of the most inspirational acts to emerge from the aftermath.

• 1 hr ago

Malcolm Turnbull has unleashed a ferocious attack on Bill Shorten, branding him "the greatest example of opposition gutlessness in generations".

• 1 hr ago

A search will continue on Tuesday for a man "with a significant medical condition" who disappeared in the Blue Mountains on Sunday.

• ANALYSIS
• 1 hr ago

The most widely cited figure in the robo-debt debate is wrong. The true number of mistakes is perhaps as high as 90 per cent.

• 1 hr ago

Brumbies hooker Robbie Abel says Super Rugby club not "afraid to try things".

• 1 hr ago

'When we reduce the quality of education that anyone receives we reduce the expectations we have of them.'

• 1 hr ago

Perth's beloved Tricia the Asian elephant is celebrating her 60th birthday today, making her one of the oldest elephants to be cared for by a zoo.

• 1 hr ago

'Appeals in our office are at record numbers and no-one is doing them.'

• 1 hr ago

BlueScope shares surged Tuesday thanks to a surprise profit upgrade as steel prices remained stronger than anticipated

• 1 hr ago

The New York Times is setting up a small team in Sydney to create local stories that it hopes will encourage Australians to subscribe and engage with the Times' global network. 

• 1 hr ago

The Australian sharemarket is forecast to rise this year at its fastest pace since 2013, fuelled by a recovery in Australian company earnings.

• 1 hr ago

Victoria's child protection department has accidentally released information about dozens of children in foster care while under investigation by the state's privacy commissioner.

• 1 hr ago

A boat has burst into flames at Mindarie Marina, north of Perth.

• 1 hr ago

A service to help trans teens receive free legal help has been launched, but some say they shouldn't need court transition permission in the first place.

• 1 hr ago

The sharemarket took news of the US quitting TPP in its stride, rising strongly on the back of rallying iron ore futures.

• 1 hr ago

Brumbies hooker Robbie Abel backs inexperienced players to step up and fill experience void.

• 1 hr ago

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has acknowledged foreign agents may be trying to gather compromising material on individual Australian politicians through cyber attacks, while a Labor MP has said parliamentarians themselves are the "weakest link".

The conduct of alleged fraudster Ian Lazar's former insolvency go-to-man Andrew Wily has been called into question by the corporate watchdog.

Ecstasy is the substance of choice for Canberra's drug users, who told a national survey it was easy to find in the city.

Photographer Tamara Merino's series on Coober Pedy happened by accident. The photographer soon discovered, however, that the unintended stop was a unique place to take images.

Doctors are urging moderation ahead of Australia Day.

After back-firing in the immediate aftermath of Friday's inauguration, it seems Team Trump must have had a bit of a think overnight Sunday, and figured they had lost it through the weekend.

• Live

Gains in local shares pick up some speed in late trade, led up by the big miners following rises in commodity prices.

Patrick Stobbs recently sat in a conference room playing songs from his smartphone, attempting to show how his startup, Jukedeck, is at the cutting edge of music. The tune sounded like the soundtrack to a 1980s video game. "This is where we were two years ago," he said, looking slightly embarrassed.

Two of the more interesting signings of the AFL trade period are set to step right up in the responsibility stakes at their new AFL clubs ... without having yet played a game for them.

• COMMENT

The new premier claims to be "open minded" on the best ways to improve housing affordability, but here are 11 economist-endorsed ideas that might test her mettle.

Showers and possible storms will sweep across Sydney on Tuesday afternoon

The greenback continues to weaken on worries that the Trump administration's protectionist stance will include seeking a weaker currency.

Canberra businesses can now opt to upgrade their light bulbs to LED for free in a territory-wide push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.