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Police say a woman who handed herself in at Echuca is charged with the attempted murder of one of her sons, as police look for the younger brother who is feared drowned, after an incident at Moama on the Murray River last night.
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The Prime Minister's department confirms 54,997 penalty notices were issued from July 1 to September 30 last year for participants in the Community Development Programme.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is using blunt language to describe the fight against the Islamic State group, declaring Australia is "destroying Daesh" in the Middle East as he marks the arrival of the first Joint Strike Fighter in Australia.
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The Senate clerk recognises concerns the DHS's release of personal information to a journalist could have a "chilling" impact on sources in the Centrelink investigation.
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Lawyers for a man charged with murdering three people in a factory fire in Melbourne's west have asked a court for a psychiatric assessment.
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For the first time, scientists create a structure resembling a mouse embryo, using a 3D scaffold and two types of stem cells, in research they say could help explain why two-thirds of human pregnancies fail during the early stages.
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US Attorney-General Jeff Sessions removes himself from an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, following revelations he twice met with the Russian ambassador and did not say so when pressed by Congress.
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The Federal Opposition seemingly switches its position on a bill that would allow the Government to release the personal information of veterans, saying strict safeguards need to be in place to protect the data.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull officially welcomes the cutting edge Joint Strike Fighter to Australia, as new government-commissioned research predicts the controversial program could deliver up to 5,000 jobs.
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A 24-year-old nanny sexually assaulted in Brisbane last year has died in a traffic incident in Poland, in the same week her alleged attacker appeared in court, Queensland police say.
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NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn faces tough questions over the bank's financial planning arm and its practises.
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After fire destroyed the historic Kandanga pub, locals made sure the small Queensland town was not without a meeting place where anyone was welcome to have "a beer and a yarn".
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The number of people joining the National Disability Insurance Scheme is rising dramatically, according to official figures, but disability advocates say in the race to meet enrolment targets, people entering the NDIS are losing out.
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A boy with a disability spends hours locked in a school bus at a depot south of Wollongong before being discovered by transport company workers, sparking an investigation into the incident.
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The company behind Snapchat is valued at $44 billion after shares soar on its first day of trading on Wall Street, defying doubts about the company's early-stage business model and slowing user growth.
