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Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt delivers a big-spending budget that focuses on jobs and infrastructure, setting the groundwork for Labor's re-election pitch. Find out what the Queensland budget means for you.
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A bigger than expected surplus, a commitment to fund Brisbane's Cross River Rail project even without federal support, and a focus on jobs are the key elements of Queensland's $55.7 billion budget handed down today.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull accuses the Queensland Premier of holding national rail projects hostage, because the Commonwealth would not fund Brisbane's Cross River Rail project.
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The deputy ATO commissioner Michael Cranston resigns after being formally charged in connection with a $130 million fraud, in which his son and daughter are also implicated.
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Five construction workers escape the Philippine city of Marawi after hiding from Islamic State (IS) fighters in a basement for three weeks.
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The Queensland Government may have budgeted $5.2 million to boost development in rural communities, but agricultural groups have decried the overall outlay as "very beige", not proactive and lacking vision.
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Logan Mayor Luke Smith denies any wrongdoing after being grilled by the Crime and Corruption Commission about allegations he misused his position to favour developers who donated to his 2016 campaign.
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After a two-year investigation, a 28-year-old man is charged with the murder of a two-year-old boy at Kingston who suffered "horrific injuries", police say.
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Donald Trump is reportedly "weighing [the] option" of sacking Robert Mueller, the man tasked with investigating the election campaign's alleged ties to Russia after FBI director James Comey was fired.
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For the first time ever a film crew has been granted full access to Kerobokan jail in the centre of Bali's tourist mecca. Foreign Correspondent meets five prisoners who call the space inside these walls home.
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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is ordered to pay the ABC's legal costs after withdrawing action seeking to block the broadcast of more secret recordings about the party, as proceedings against the party's former treasurer Ian Nelson continue.
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The home of hits like MasterChef and the Big Bash slips closer to being put into administration, after confirming it has failed to win a $200 million extended line of finance from its key shareholders.
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A former Australian of the Year finalist spent thousands of dollars of public money on an outdoor fountain and gardening supplies for her home, the NSW corruption watch dog is told.
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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop accuses Labor senator Sam Dastyari of putting a $400,000 price tag on his position on the South China Sea, and says Bill Shorten's response "sold out our national interest".
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Flood warnings are issued for parts of the New South Wales north coast just 10 weeks after the region was devastated by ex-Tropical Cyclone Debbie.
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US President Donald Trump's tweets could be preserved as presidential records if a politician's proposed COVFEFE Act becomes law.
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Medicinal cannabis produced overseas will be easier to access for terminally ill patients, after the Senate voted to remove tighter controls — a move the Government has slammed as a "reckless" risk to lives.
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An Uber driver is sentenced to a minimum six years and four months in jail for raping a female passenger he picked up outside a Kings Cross nightclub in 2015.
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The third inquest into the death of American mathematician Scott Johnson almost 30 years ago hears evidence that gay men were bashed and killed at Manly's North Head.
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India's Power Minister reluctantly says he will support Adani's plan to import coal if it means cheaper power but blames past governments for putting the nation in a position where it is dependent on foreign imports.
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An apparent prescription drug overdose involving 11 teens at a Taranganba property is "concerning and extremely dangerous", paramedics say.
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Thirsty Sydneysiders may have to wait a little longer to blow the froth off a few, after a truck laden with cartons of beer becomes wedged under a motorway overpass at Granville.
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Bizarre footage shows a riderless motorcycle cruising down a motorway near Paris. But, days after it left online viewers bewildered, the mystery appears to have been solved.
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A national Christian group lobbies for the Disability Discrimination Act to be changed so that it can discriminate against people with mental illnesses, which a disability advocate labels "cruel" and "hypocritical".
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The nation's judges and magistrates criticise an attack by federal Coalition ministers on their Victorian colleagues and terror sentencing, calling it "unfounded, grossly improper and unfair".
