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The family of champion swimmer Grant Hackett are pleading with him to make contact after revealing he has not been seen since checking out of a Gold Coast hotel this morning, a day after he was arrested over a disturbance at his parents' house.
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The Indigenous Aurukun primary school run in partnership with Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools organisation routinely overstated enrolments because there was a misunderstanding of policy, netting up to $815,000 in extra payments, a report finds.
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New 'no body, no parole' legislation means prisoners convicted of murder or manslaughter will need to identify the location of their victim's body before being eligible for early release under sweeping changes announced to the Queensland parole system.
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About 140 passengers on the Sun Princess cruise ship come down with gastro, a fortnight after staff tried to rid the vessel of a norovirus upon returning from another trip.
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Clive Palmer tells the Federal Court in Brisbane it is unfair to blame him for the collapse of Queensland Nickel, as he defends speaking to his nephew Clive Mensink despite the company's director being the subject of a court summons.
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Donald Trump uses a series of explosive tweets to blame the media and "illegally leaked" intelligence information for bringing down his national security adviser Michael Flynn.
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Let's just say the latest national snapshot of the state of renting a home in Australia does not paint a pretty picture. That's putting it lightly. It's dire.
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Hollywood actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher tells a US Senate committee about the children his anti-trafficking organisation has rescued, saying "I've seen things no person should ever see".
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull accuses Opposition Leader Bill Shorten of having the "biggest glass jaw in Australian politics" during a Question Time stand-off. Follow live.
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Malaysian police arrest second woman in connection with the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, state media reports.
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Close to 4,500 people made claims for alleged incidents of child sexual abuse between January 1980 and February 2015 but the earliest incidents reported to a claim were in the 1920s, the child abuse royal commission hears.
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The "patchwork" of different renewable energy targets from the states and territories will "create widespread power system security problems", according to Danny Price, a respected expert who helped design Australia's national energy market rules.
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Officials are racing to drain more water from a lake behind the battered Oroville Dam, as new storms begin rolling into Northern California.
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Donald Trump drops US insistence on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a longstanding bedrock of Middle East policy, even as he urges Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to curb settlement construction.
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A man who said he pulled his pants down in front of police in anticipation of a strip-search is banned from driving and fined.
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Eleven homes burn down and a state of emergency is declared as a raging New Zealand bushfire heads into its fourth day.
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Ricky Ciano, who survived an attempt on his life and subsequently relocated to Queensland, is found dead in a car in the NSW Central Tablelands, the ABC understands, with a friend saying he "ran out of places to hide".
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Telstra has seen its first-half profit tumble to $1.8 billion, hit by the effects of tougher competition, adverse regulatory rulings and ongoing restructuring.
