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A 42-year-old man is arrested for allegedly seeking to advise the Islamic State group on how to develop high-tech weaponry, including long-range guided missiles, at Young, north-west of Canberra.
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The rebel MP tells the ABC he spoke with colleagues about his decision to resign from the role last night, citing the need to speak freely on policy.
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A parliamentary committee has proposed a range of changes to the handling of the Racial Discrimination Act, including providing more parliamentary oversight. Follow live.
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Australia Post chairman John Stanhope admits it was a mistake to try and hide its director's $5.6 million pay packet from the public to avoid media scrutiny and reputation damage.
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As you are probably now aware, Oscars presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway called out the wrong winner for the best picture award yesterday at the Academy Awards. But who are they?
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The Government's privacy watchdog wants answers from bureaucrats who provided a Centrelink client's personal details to a journalist in a bid to counter her public criticisms.
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A surge in commodity prices and exports, as well as reasonable government and household spending, are almost certain to keep Australia out of recession.
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US President Donald Trump proposes a $US54 billion ($70 billion) increase in military spending to be funded by cuts elsewhere in government, including in foreign aid, the White House says.
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Former New South Wales premier Mike Baird is moving back to banking, as the National Australia Bank's chief customer officer for corporate and institutional banking.
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New South Wales Police plan to charge a Queensland man with the murder of a woman, who died days after the car she was a passenger in veered off a road and plunged into the Tweed River two years ago.
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A new strategy for school canteens in NSW will ensure fruits, vegetables, sandwiches, pastas and stir fries make up at least 75 per cent of menus, with "occasional foods" like sausage rolls limited to the remaining 25 per cent.
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Veterinarians in Sydney's west are running low on a vaccine to protect domestic rabbits against a new strain of calicivirus, which is being introduced across Australia this week to kill the animals in the wild.
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WA Liberals say candidate Lily Chen did the wrong thing by handing out free bottles of wine while doorknocking for next month's state election, but say she did so "in recognition of Chinese New Year".
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Senior Brothers 4 Life gang members Mumtaz and Farhad Qaumi refuse to enter the dock as a judge finds them guilty of the 2013 shooting murder of a standover man in western Sydney.
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Mange is not the only threat facing Tasmania's wombats, as more than 50 permits are issued in the past year to cull the protected mammals on farming properties.
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A host of Australian sports stars throw their voices behind a new campaign to stamp out poor sideline behaviour that is turning kids away from weekend games.
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One of Sydney's most prominent examples of brutalist architecture, the almost deserted Sirius building at The Rocks, is opened to the public for the first time in almost 40 years.
