Australia

Australia's biggest lender, Commonwealth Bank, unveils a record first-half profit of $4.9 billion, up 6 per cent on the previous record.

Australia's political leaders have swapped insults as they continue to debate how to fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Follow live.

Adam Voges officially calls time on his Test career, leaving the game with the second best average in the game's history, behind only Don Bradman.

Financial distress is affecting a huge number of Australians and the slightest wind could spell catastrophe for households, David Taylor writes.

Dementia is set to cost Australia an estimated $18 billion a year by 2025, as Alzheimer's Australia calls for a national strategy to combat the disease.

Bushfires, floods and heatwaves are the new standard, leading climate scientists say, but they are growing fatigued trying to convince people.

Dementia is set to cost Australia an estimated $18 billion a year by 2025, as Alzheimer's Australia calls for a national strategy to combat the disease.

Ongoing job cuts have left Australia's air-traffic control network at "breaking point", an ABC investigation reveals.

A RSL club is criticised over toilet wall tiles which depict Indigenous men — criticism the club says is "ridiculous" and "out of order".

Glam rock legends Guns N' Roses got off to a rough start at last night's MCG concert after the Melbourne crowd was greeted as "Sydney".

Firefighters rescue a cat and her five kittens from a fire in a unit at Kingswood, in Sydney's west.

Although Mark and Jane Rice's Uarbry home was spared from the fire, with most of their village now destroyed, they feel as though they are homeless.

A new book looks set to rewrite Australian history about the number of raids on Darwin by the Japanese in WWII.

Northern Territory Police find a woman's body at Trephina Gorge, east of Alice Springs, believed to be missing German woman Gisela Thor.

Victoria emerges victorious from a tense National Indigenous Cricket Championship final, narrowly beating New South Wales by 18 runs.

Sexist, obscene and other offensive slogans on vans and vehicles are being made illegal in Queensland.

Endangered green turtle hatchlings have more than doubled on Queensland's Raine Island, but the battle against rising sea levels and overcrowding is still not over.

Bushfires, floods and heatwaves are the new standard, leading climate scientists say, but they are growing fatigued trying to convince people.

The man who first documented Ediacara fossils, the late Dr Reg Sprigg, is again being recognised.

The Women's and Children's Hospital failed to report the deaths of eight infants over a nine-year period, the SA coroner says.

A major crackdown on massage parlours and brothels across Adelaide is forcing sex workers into risky private work, the Sex Industry Network says.

Bushfires, floods and heatwaves are the new standard, leading climate scientists say, but they are growing fatigued trying to convince people.

Tasmanian survivors of sexual abuse linked to the Anglican Church seek legal redress after damming findings by the royal commission.

A man who allegedly shot his wife dead on a busy Hobart street was not in a "murderous rage", his lawyer tells a court.

Glam rock legends Guns N' Roses got off to a rough start at last night's MCG concert after the Melbourne crowd was greeted as "Sydney".

A 65 per cent hike in the price of ice-cream might not sound like a great idea, but what if it could add years to your life?

Ongoing job cuts have left Australia's air-traffic control network at "breaking point", an ABC investigation reveals.

Researchers discover the structure of a protein responsible for multi-drug resistant bacteria, in a major step forward in the battle against antibiotic resistance.

The March state election will be the first fought under redrawn electoral boundaries — so what does it mean for the parties, their candidates and for you?

Adam Voges officially calls time on his Test career, leaving the game with the second best average in the game's history, behind only Don Bradman.