• 4 mins ago

​One Nation has lost yet another candidate for the next Queensland election, with former policeman Mark Ellis announcing he has withdrawn his candidacy.

• 6 mins ago

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled talks with Germany's visiting foreign minister, snubbing Sigmar Gabriel.

• 7 mins ago

Residents living around Blackburn railway station say Wednesday morning's flooding of the stop's pedestrian underpass has become a common occurrence and that works undertaken by the Andrews government have made it worse.

• 9 mins ago

Narrabundah man charged after assaulting another man outside a Phillip club on Anzac Day.

• 16 mins ago

An electorate officer for federal LNP MP Stuart Robert has contradicted her boss in a hearing into whether disclosure law was broken during local government elections in Queensland in 2016.

• COMMENT
• 22 mins ago

Poor Girt. The most cutting - and possibly most accurate - comment that's been made about the old thing is that Australia is in danger of falling off to sleep while singing the words, which barely anyone knows anyway. That was the judgment of a former National Party senator from Queensland, Sandy MacDonald, who found himself bored and embarrassed as he listened to a military band struggling to give life to old Girt on the shores of Gallipoli on Anzac Day, 2001.

• 25 mins ago

Before sentencing three brothers, the judge seeks more information on the conditions in which the men will be kept.

• 33 mins ago

A week after playing the villain, Wayne Bennett has emerged as George Burgess' saviour after supporting the South Sydney enforcer's plan to count England's Test next week as part of his four-match NRL ban.

• 41 mins ago

He's almost 34 and played just seven games in two years, but Australian coach Mal Meninga is adamant Billy Slater still has a future in international rugby league.

• 46 mins ago

The driver accused of going on a deadly rampage down Bussel Highway in Capel in February has again been unable to attend a court hearing due to a brain injury he suffered in the incident.

• 52 mins ago

ARLC chairman John Grant is disappointed in Canterbury's decision to block players from the annual NSW City-Country clash, but admits the NRL is powerless to stop them.

• 54 mins ago

The findings highlight the importance of keeping humpback "nursery" waters as quiet as possible, scientists say.

• 56 mins ago

The acting Prime Minister says relief for farmers and small businesses affected by Cyclone Debbie is "imminent", despite a "tardy" state government effort.

• COMMENT
• 59 mins ago

Regional Australians may eventually get a taste of gigabit broadband as NBN pushes Fixed Wireless to the limit.

• 1 hr ago

Republican Senator expected to meet PM in Australia within weeks.

• 1 hr ago

Canterbury Bulldogs five-eighth Josh Reynolds has agreed to join the Wests Tigers on a four-year deal worth $3 million, Fairfax sources confirmed on Wednesday morning.

• 1 hr ago

The annual rate of inflation has crept above two per cent for the first time in two years but won't have the Reserve Bank reaching for interest rate hike lever anytime soon.

• 1 hr ago

A man has told of saving a fishing companion who couldn't swim after a "perfect storm" overturned a boat in Moreton Bay on Wednesday morning.

• EXCLUSIVE
• 1 hr ago

Australian Olympic chief John Coates urged a female staff member to "get out in the real world," because he was not running a "sheltered workshop," internal emails from the embattled organisation have revealed.

• 1 hr ago

The boy was having the time of his life playing with all the toys.

• 1 hr ago

Almost two decades after an investigation revealed failures in Queensland's youth detention system, several of those issues still remain, a damning report has revealed.

• 1 hr ago

The "missing link" in Melbourne's ring road, the North East Link, will be kickstarted with $100 million planning funding in next week's state budget.

• 1 hr ago

West Coast midfielder Andrew Gaff denies his team are mentally scarred by their MCG flops, saying they simply haven't played well enough whenever they've travelled to the venue.

• 1 hr ago

Independent MP says Turnbull government is disrespecting public servants.

• 1 hr ago

Collingwood president Eddie McGuire on Wednesday morning came out in passionate support for the embattled coach who has come under mounting pressure as the Magpies continue to rack up the losses.

• 1 hr ago

BHP Billiton has claimed a Western Australian record for the largest open cut mine blast after setting off an 11 million tonnes blast at its Jimblebar mine.

• 1 hr ago

Kieren Jack will sit out at least two rounds of footy to nurse a hip injury he's carried since preseason.

• 1 hr ago

Twice weekly services between Perth and Canberra will run in parliamentary sitting weeks from August.

• 1 hr ago

Two sides with a 5-0 win-loss record will do battle on Sunday evening for the first time in 36 years.

Japan Post Holdings said on Tuesday it will book its first annual loss in at least a decade, after unveiling a $US3.6 billion ($4.7 billion) writedown on its Australian logistics arm.

For anyone watching Dino Djulbic's immense A-League display last weekend, just the thought of lining up against the Perth Glory hardman is intimidating.

The Giants have suffered a major injury blow ahead of Friday night's preliminary final rematch with the Western Bulldogs.

A top level investigation into cyber crime has identified nearly 9000 malware-laden servers and hundreds of compromised websites, including government portals in Asia.

• Live

Investors jump into shares buoyed by record highs and climbing confidence on Wall St, with banks leading the charge as ABS data shows inflation edging higher.

Despite a slide in US bond yields, slump in iron ore and equities pullback, Credit Suisse expects "reflation to return".

It is believed the 18-year-old woman knew the 89-year-old victim.

The Australian Rugby League Commission has announced the Kangaroos squad to face New Zealand in the 2017 Anzac Test.

Fremantle coach Ross Lyon has declared star midfielder Lachie Neale fit to play his crucial on-ball role in Saturday's Western Derby clash with West Coast in Perth.

Traffic was banked up for several kilometres on the M7 at Prestons after a truck crash.

• ANALYSIS

The tech world just witnessed a robbery. The heist was so brazen you kind of had to admire it, even if it was pulled off with all the grace of a gas station stickup.

• UPDATED

Emergency services have freed a woman whose leg became trapped between a tram and a platform in Prahran.

A Brazilian goalkeeper who served part of a 22-year sentence for murder before returning to first-class football in April has been ordered back to prison

Autumn is likely to feel a lot like winter over the coming days - particularly in the evenings and early mornings.

The controversial former deputy mayor of Auburn council Salim Mehajer has pleaded not guilty to assaulting a taxi driver outside The Star casino and assaulting TV news reporter Laura Banks hours later.

Deborah Thomas has announced she will stand down as chief executive of Dreamworld owner, Ardent Leisure, just two years after she took the job and six months after the tragedy which claimed the lives of four people at the Gold Coast theme park.

Cory Bernardi's breakaway conservative party will join forces with Family First but the incoming Senator for the soon-to-be-defunct party will not join the Liberal defector, depriving the Senator of a two-person voting bloc.

Baby humpback whales "whisper" to their mothers to avoid attracting unwanted attention from predators and marauding males, scientists studying whale behaviour in Western Australia have discovered.

• COMMENT

The last player to make his debut against the British and Irish Lions in the first test of a series scored two tries.

• ANALYSIS

Between the two outsiders battling to become France's president, their political parties command just three lawmakers out of 925 in parliament.