Australia

The Federal Government is facing pressure to ban lucrative mortgage broker commissions, which consumer groups say encourage bad behaviour.

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The executive director of the International Energy Agency calls on Australia to become a world leader in carbon capture and storage technology.

The Federal Government has moved to loosen importation laws on medicinal cannabis, and people who use it say they are cautiously optimistic.

A report suppressed by the Catholic Church for over a year will be tabled at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse this week.

Even as the Commonwealth Bank last week unveiled another record half-year profit of $5 billion, not everything was rosy — its life insurance arm continues to be a headache, and with ASIC campaigning insurers to publicly report claim figures, premiums could rise as a consequence.

Australia's Ross River virus has the potential to become a global epidemic, similar to the Zika virus, researchers say.

As the ANU opens its new $53-million student accommodation block, other students say they are being locked out of the rental market.

It's always distressing and tragic when we hear a report of shark attack. But what is the actual likelihood of dying due to a shark encounter in Australia and how concerned should you be?

A young woman was thrown 80 metres when she was hit and killed by a speeding drunk driver in West Melbourne last July, a court is told.

An investigation finds thousands of counterfeit prescription pills made their way into Australia's official supply chain in 2010, ending up at a children's hospital in Sydney.

Australia's energy operator finds power plant failures contributed to the unprecedented pressure on the New South Wales electricity grid during this month's heatwave.

The Territory Government resists calls to have an independent watchdog investigate the three NT utilities corporations at the centre of a multi-million-dollar staffing blowout.

It's always distressing and tragic when we hear a report of shark attack. But what is the actual likelihood of dying due to a shark encounter in Australia and how concerned should you be?

Parents should be pre-vetting every app that children download amid renewed concerns about virtual reality gaming, a cyber safety expert says.

Tourists may be forced to wear life jackets while snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, under a plan being considered by the Queensland Government following a spike in deaths.

A secrecy culture of "don't ask, don't tell" could explain allegations of child sex abuse within a religious order, the royal commission is told.

Aviation and community groups say there are too many developments hampering pilots and putting people at risk at Archerfield Airport, on Brisbane's outskirts.

Follow all the stats and commentary from the third and final Twenty20 between Australia and Sri Lanka at the Adelaide Oval in our live scorecentre.

Australia's Ross River virus has the potential to become a global epidemic, similar to the Zika virus, researchers say.

A union questions how psychological testing of current child protection workers in South Australia will be done.

New sites of Aboriginal heritage significance are discovered on Tasmania's Tarkine coastline, renewing calls for the area to become a national park.

It is much cheaper to destroy a greyhound in Tasmania than re-home a dog through an industry-run program - a situation that is angering animal rights activists.

Australia's largest salmon company Tassal says it will oppose legal action taken by competitor Huon Aquaculture against Tasmania's Environment Protection Authority.

A young woman was thrown 80 metres when she was hit and killed by a speeding drunk driver in West Melbourne last July, a court is told.

A plane that crashed near Essendon Airport, killing five people, had been through a maintenance check only last month, it is revealed.

It's always distressing and tragic when we hear a report of shark attack. But what is the actual likelihood of dying due to a shark encounter in Australia and how concerned should you be?

Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney is dealt a blow on the eve of the hearing of his multi-million-dollar defamation case against the state of WA, with WA's highest court ruling a hearing examining whether he should be allowed to keep practising law can go ahead.

A man who allegedly pretended to be a police officer to pull over his stepdaughter before blindfolding her, driving her to a deserted bush area and stripping her naked and photographing her is refused bail.

Money was at the heart of a lot of the debate on the WA election hustings today, with barbs traded over hospital funding and the sale of Western Power.