• 6 mins ago

The Vatican has failed sex abuse victims, the second day of a hearing into widespread pedophilia in the Catholic church has heard.

• 7 mins ago

Drew Mitchell has confirmed he is seeking a return to Super Rugby and admits he could be tempted to join the Brumbies.

• 8 mins ago

Darcy Vescio's starring debut in an unforgettable AFL Women's league opener was soured by a awkward cyber hacking attack that plastered saw graphic pornography plastered on her Twitter account.

• 8 mins ago

The toll road giant is increasingly confident its proposed Western Distributor project will become a reality, despite the potential a crucial pillar of the project could be blocked in Parliament.

• 10 mins ago

Shares reverse sharp early losses to end the session slightly higher, led by a recovery in miners, as the RBA holds.

• 12 mins ago

A Crown casino employee has been charged with trafficking a drug of dependence after she and her boyfriend were allegedly found with six kilograms of ice in their car.

• 13 mins ago

The Dockers will finally vacate their spiritual home at Fremantle Oval but not before the City of Fremantle reportedly pay them millions to back their bags despite the council never wanting them to leave.

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• 18 mins ago

NSW Police have charged a 51-year-old man with public nuisance in relation to the listening device found in an All Blacks team hotel in the lead up to the first Bledisloe Cup match in Sydney.

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• 20 mins ago

A miniature needs to function as a convincing work in its own right and these pieces at Bilk show ways it can be done.

• 20 mins ago

Taxi industry says the move will hit driver incomes.

• 26 mins ago

Australians living in the US have called on the Turnbull government to demand tolerance and evidence-based policy making from Donald Trump, amid concerns foreign workers could be targeted in visa crackdown.

• 27 mins ago

A former Marist College Canberra teacher and convicted paedophile who sexually abused two boys at the school in the 1980s has avoided more time behind bars.

• 32 mins ago

Wayne Gatt has spent half his 42 years as a Victoria Police officer, is a trained police negotiator, and has studied at Harvard University.

• 35 mins ago

"Much higher" rates of developmental and behavioural delays have been found in moderate-to-late premature babies rising "significant" implications for Australian healthcare and education providers. 

• 35 mins ago

Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls has named who he would like to be the transport minister - but the government probably won't appreciate the advice.

• 39 mins ago

A retired Anglican priest convicted of molesting five boys over three decades in WA has drawn the ire of a judge for admitting at least two of the offences after subjecting the victims to a trial.

• 40 mins ago

The Australian dollar hit a 21-month high against the Euro overnight after Marine Le Pen said she would pull France out of the Eurozone if she wins the presidential election.

• 41 mins ago

A pay battle that has forced the indefinite shutdown of a Parmalat dairy processing plant is "a long way" from over, the company says

• 42 mins ago

The parliamentary perk that gives retired politicians free business-class travel on the taxpayer will be scrapped.

• COMMENT
• 50 mins ago

How the regulators respond to the latest investor loan boom is shaping up as the more interesting questions in domestic banking this year – which could have a big impact on the broader real estate market.

• 51 mins ago

Rich or poor, young or old, one thing that unites Australians seems to be our mutual disillusionment with politicians.

• 1 hr ago

Adelaide midfielder Ebony Marinoff and Western Bulldogs defender Bailey Hunt have received the first AFL Women's Rising Star nominations.

• 1 hr ago

Desperate taxi licence holders have threatened to blockade the Bolte Bridge in both directions on Monday morning, creating peak-hour gridlock. 

• 1 hr ago

The Reserve Bank of Australia has left its cash rate steady for the fifth consecutive board meeting as it prepares to release forecasts showing economic growth picking up and inflation climbing from 1.5 per cent to more than 2 per cent.

• 1 hr ago

A NSW court has found a woman is entitled to money from her ex-husband's estate despite her "relentless persecution" of him over more than two decades.

• BREAKING
• 1 hr ago

Australian man Antonio Bagnato has been found guilty and sentenced to death by a Thai court for his role in the 2015 abduction and murder of Hells Angels gang member Wayne Schneider.

• 1 hr ago

With bodies, rifles and backpacks strewn in the bush land around him, trainee soldier Alexander Gall was allegedly heard to say: "This is all my fault. These people are going to die. I'm done. I was going too fast.

• 1 hr ago

Besieged leaders will use members' funds to finance a costly legal fightback against allegations they allowed financial abuse to occur under their watch.

• 1 hr ago

David Dick was brutally attacked without warning when he stepped out of a lift in the Doncaster shopping centre.

• 1 hr ago

Developer Central Equity has been granted approval for a 57-level skyscraper near the corner of Lonsdale and King streets, despite opposition from residents in neighbouring apartments.

• 1 hr ago

Amber Harrison has started tweeting pictures of love letters she received from Seven's chief executive Tim Worner, to publicly argue her side of an ongoing dispute with the media company. 

• 1 hr ago

Melbourne's beaches are likely to be off-limits and unsafe for swimming until at least Wednesday, when temperatures are set to soar into the mid 30s.

• 1 hr ago

'Granddad' was just a sprightly juvenile lungfish when he undertook a three-week trip aboard a ship from Australia to the United States in 1933.

• 1 hr ago

Within 12 hours of having his prostate removed, Jim Alexander showered himself and walked down stairs to the National Capital Hospital cafe. Tje speedy recovery was thanks to a new robotic surgical system at Canberra's private hospital.

• 1 hr ago

Some feel religion and medicine should not mix, but the Canberra Christians in Medicine group are united in the belief their faith has a place in their work.

• 1 hr ago

Some of Manchester United former greats are heading to Perth next month to take on all-star former Australian side next month.

• 1 hr ago

Opponents of a new greyhound racing track at Logan have had a major victory, with the state government handing the Slacks Creek property back to the council for community use.

• 1 hr ago

A Belconnen man faced court on Tuesday accused of setting fire to his partner's house while he assumed she was asleep inside.

• 1 hr ago

The Turnbull government has been forced to back down from plans to compel Queensland landholders to sell their properties to make way for expansions to Defence force training bases, following a community backlash in its most marginal electorate.

• 1 hr ago

​The NRL's controversial bunker system will no longer be used to determine knock-ons in general play or be called upon for 40-20 calls in 2017.

• 1 hr ago

The frustration of years of living with uncertainty in Indonesia spilled onto the streets on Monday with about 30 refugees rallying outside the United Nations Refugee Agency in Jakarta demanding answers.

• 1 hr ago

Young gun Jai Field is shaping as the unlikely kid that could re-ignite St George Illawarra's attack and save Paul McGregor's NRL coaching career.

The deadlock over a new AFL pay deal may have cost former Sydney forward Xavier Richards his career, Swans coach John Longmire says.

Renegade senator Cory Bernardi has broken his silence and explained why he quit the Liberal Party, railing against the "out of touch political class" and promising his new Australian Conservatives party would restore faith in politics.

Daniel Wells is set to play a half of football in Collingwood's intraclub practice match at the Holden Centre on Wednesday night.

This topic proved more contentious than attitudes to asylum seekers, climate change, free trade and speed cameras.

Photographer Michael Kenna spoke to Clique about his professional process, and gave rare insight into the philosophy he has developed over many years taking stunning landscape images.

Embattled Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi has fronted a hearing to determine whether she faces disciplinary action.

• UPDATED

Macquarie Group's growth in the Australian home loan market slowed to a near standstill over the first three quarters of this financial year, partly because it did not want to match aggressive discounting by rivals.