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.
The economy may be the best avenue for the Right and the Left to take as they try to tackle the emergence of One Nation and other political alternatives.
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.
A low pressure system developing off the Northern Territory coast is expected to bring a downpour of rain and strong winds to parts of the Top End on the weekend, including Darwin.
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.
Ipswich Hospital managers shut down the intensive care unit so they can remove the source of a mould outbreak that could be a threat to patients with compromised immune systems.
A perfectly formed anvil thunderstorm cloud spreads across the northern skies of Adelaide, dumping heavy rain on the Barossa and igniting a Twitter frenzy.
The Tasmanian Opposition says the Human Services Minister "lied to the public" after she was forced to correct the record about her knowledge of a Right to Information request.
Two Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighters will fly at Victoria's Avalon air show this weekend, but questions remain about the aircraft's effectiveness and operational readiness.
A man who killed a woman in a head-on crash and injured her two young children while over the legal blood alcohol limit is jailed for four and a half years.
At least one in three young people in detention in Western Australia suffers from foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, according to findings from an Australian-first study.
