• 7 mins ago

A former private school student who used the names and birthdays of people who'd posted their resumes on the internet to rort Medicare out of more than $20,000, which he then used to pay for his own health insurance, has been jailed for three years.

• 7 mins ago

"People sit there and expect young people to be on Centrelink, and that's just not the case, I don't want to be on centrelink."

• 8 mins ago

Public car parks, school grounds, council parks and leased private land will be transformed into temporary park 'n' ride sites to move thousands of fans to the Commonwealth Games.

• 11 mins ago

Fluctuating interest in the big banks explained an up-and-down session on the ASX, but in the end investors shook off a shaky start to push firmly higher.

• 12 mins ago

NSW's 350,000 solar households could soon be paid twice as much for the power they export to the grid.

• 14 mins ago

Ageing and the decay it places on an athlete's body is not a challenge to try to fight and conquer like so many of the battles Nathan Jones has waged on a football field. Rather it's a problem to be negotiated and mitigated, using the brain, rather than the body as the tools.

• 15 mins ago

Construction on the ACT courts precinct redevelopment ground to a halt after the counterweight on a tower crane at the Civic site slipped on Monday. 

• 18 mins ago

"'Rogue' players, as they've been called, should not be allowed to shift their costs to the rest of the industry."

• 20 mins ago

Notorious H1N1 virus caused 58-year-old Kerri Cosma to become dangerously ill, her organs shutting down and lungs collapsing. After 10 days in a coma in Nanjing, there are 'signs of recovery', but she's not out of the woods yet.

• 22 mins ago

All politics is local, according to the adage.

• BREAKING
• 22 mins ago

A young child has died after being hit by car near Ballarat.

• 27 mins ago

​Celebrity accountant sat red-faced with his head bowed as his wife walked into the courtroom and gave her name.

• 30 mins ago

The Kangaroos five-eighth wants to begin his representative farewell with the final Anzac Test.

• EXCLUSIVE
• 32 mins ago

Ji Dongsheng didn't "flee", but came to Australia on a skilled migration visa that took several years to process, his sister-in-law says.

• 36 mins ago

A third man intends to admit to setting a historic hotel in Western Australia's south ablaze, causing more than $2 million worth of damage.

• 42 mins ago

Treasurer Scott Morrison has reportedly agreed to an independent inquiry into the distribution of GST to the states and territories.

• 45 mins ago

The invitation to the White House caught US officials off-guard and they are expected to raise objections internally.

• 50 mins ago

Police have stumbled across a hydroponic set up inside a Baldivis house after officers conducting patrols noticed the property's garage door was open.

• 53 mins ago

Investors wiped $200 million off the company's value - after they read page 107 of a 110 page presentation.

• UPDATED
• 55 mins ago

A Perth radio station has claimed Brownlow medallist Nat Fyfe has agreed a multi-million dollar deal to play with St Kilda from next AFL season.

• UPDATED
• 57 mins ago

Former Olympic road cyclist Tracey Gaudry has been announced as the new chief executive of Hawthorn Football Club.

• 58 mins ago

Umpires will be reminded to limit conversations with players to what happens in that particular match, following an incident involving Greater Western Sydney star Toby Greene and umpire Shaun Ryan on Friday night.

• ANALYSIS
• 58 mins ago

Gaunt, frail and pale; Eman Sharobeem arrived at the ICAC on Monday a much diminished figure from the heady days of 2014 when she stood alongside then premier Mike Baird and received accolades as a finalist for the Australian of the year.

• 1 hr ago

The former Australian of the year finalist has been accused of rorting the public purse in alleged decade-long fraud.

• 1 hr ago

A man had surgery on his jaw after he was punched at Civic's Mr Wolf nightclub on April 1, police say.

• 1 hr ago

If the Reserve Bank was still retaining its narrow focus on keeping inflation between 2 and 3 per cent per annum, it would be cutting interest rates at its May meeting on Tuesday.

• 1 hr ago

Treasurer Scott Morrison has seized on a new report that shows house prices in Sydney and Melbourne are slowing to claim regulatory measures to easy Australia's housing affordability crisis are working.

• 1 hr ago

Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan has made the startling claim it could take up $90 million of taxpayers' money to fix the ongoing bungles at the state's peak DNA testing agency.

• ANALYSIS
• 1 hr ago

Away from the barricades, things are looking good for Victorian regional rail.

• 1 hr ago

Try-scoring sensation Suliasi Vunivalu will make his international debut for Fiji in Saturday's Pacific Test against Tonga, but his representative future remains unclear.

• 1 hr ago

Emergency crews are working to free a construction worker pinned underneath a concrete pipe which fell on him while he was working in a trench at the SAS Campbell Barracks in Swanbourne.

• 1 hr ago

Anxiety in children is huge and research shows it's on the rise.

• 1 hr ago

Retailers are looking at innovative ways to attract customers back to physical stores.

• 1 hr ago

An elderly Mornington Peninsula couple have gone missing while visiting caves near the Victoria-South Australia border.

• 1 hr ago

If Port Adelaide players are expecting to sit back and relax on their historic trip to Shanghai, they need to think again.

A WA police sergeant will fight allegations he sexually abused four boys while he was a school teacher at a Catholic college more than 30 years ago.

• COMMENT

The big question raised by last month's slowdown in Sydney and Melbourne's housing markets is whether this is a blip on the radar.

Kylie Blackwood's family must wait another seven months to learn if the man charged with murdering the mother-of-three faces trial, after his lawyers were granted more time to seek access to DNA evidence.

The dreaded long weekend crawl back from the Sunshine Coast is living up to all expectations after a Bruce Highway crash north of Brisbane.

After weeks on a cliffhanger, US congressional negotiators reached a deal on Sunday night to avert a government shut down.

Former ACT parliamentarian and Member for Ginninderra Jayson Hinder has died in a motorcycle crash.

A panel has fallen from the top floor of a high-rise building in Sydney's CBD with an "almighty bang", raining shards of glass onto a busy intersection, witnesses say.

The representative availability crisis has hit a new low, with City Origin forced to delay their team naming on Monday morning due to a high number of withdrawals.

Saint kicks the greatest ever clanger, umps make a fine mess, the maestro returns, and a Giant acts up again.

My business Little Tokyo Two and the State Library of Queensland created a "Business Studio" about 12 months ago with an intention to fit the gap between having an idea and deciding to start it - essentially a feeder to the rest of the ecosystem. 

• BREAKING

The AFL is on the verge of striking a landmark six-year wage agreement with its players.

Is Matteo Renzi's gamble showing signs of working?

Christian Petracca feared he would require another knee reconstruction after a knock during Melbourne's loss to Richmond last week.

Matt Canavan will put his money where his mouth is after being contacted by Fairfax Media.