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Will the Blues end Queensland's dynasty, or will the Maroons force a decider in Game II in Sydney? Join our live State Of Origin blog to find out.
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Submarine jobs in Adelaide could be in doubt because of an apparent U-turn by the French company contracted to build the future fleet, federal senator Nick Xenophon says.
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A Labor- and Greens-dominated Senate committee is calling on the Government to suspend Centrelink's controversial debt recovery program until it reconciles "a fundamental lack of procedural fairness", but that recommendation is rejected by Coalition senators.
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Former Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale defends his legacy and says he will fight charges of extortion and two other offences, as he is granted bail by a Brisbane court despite police objections.
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The Duke of Edinburgh is in hospital with an infection and has missed the Queen's speech at the formal opening of the British Parliament, but Buckingham Palace says the Prince is in "good spirts".
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Uber's chief executive and co-founder Travis Kalanick resigns from the troubled ride-booking company after pressure from investors following allegations of sexual harassment and questions over his treatment of staff.
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The Federal Government appears to have secured the numbers it needs to unlock billions of dollars in extra funding for Australian schools, with One Nation, the Nick Xenophon Team and crossbench senators all in favour of its education overhaul.
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What happened to American student Otto Warmbier in North Korea reveals the central threat to that despotic regime. Kim Jong-un's greatest fear isn't nuclear weapons, it's freedom of thought, writes Sara James.
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A Victorian man who visited Phuket for 10 days last month and struggled to stay awake after returning home dies from Japanese encephalitis. Doctors say the risk of catching the mosquito-borne disease is "in the order of one in a million".
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Even before a price hike kicks in next month, welfare organisations are seeing a surge in the number of clients who are struggling to pay their electricity bills.
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It is not the typical learning environment, but for Queensland prison inmate Terry (not his real name), his time behind bars has given him the chance to learn a trade for the first time.
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Matthew Taylor admits he wasn't a model prisoner. He says he did ice and got into fights with officers and other detainees. He was also among the first inmates to be chosen as a mentor in a unique peer support program.
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As Queensland and New South Wales line up on the football field for game two of the State of Origin series, who won this year's interstate battle of the budgets?
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Balinese authorities confirm four prisoners, including an Australian, who tunnelled out of the Kerobokan jail did not become stuck in the waterlogged hole during their escape.
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Luxury vehicles, properties and aeroplanes have been seized by police as part of an investigation into alleged tax fraud but "extremely" large sums remain unaccounted for, a court is told.
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Actress Rebel Wilson will seek $7 million in damages for a series of defamatory magazine articles depicting her as a serial liar, but that figure is "conservative" given she could have made up to $18 million from lead roles, the Melbourne Supreme Court hears.
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Ten years after what would become known as "the intervention", Indigenous leaders are still calling for a voice in a political process that does not hear the ambitions and aspirations of Aboriginal people, writes Stan Grant.
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From the deck of an aircraft carrier to the sub-zero temperatures of a Himalayan military outpost, tens of thousands people stop to practise the ancient discipline of yoga, with 50,000 devotees joining Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on their mats.
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Argentina plans to donate dozens of Nazi artefacts found in a hidden room behind a bookshelf to a Holocaust museum, but one prominent researcher is against the plan, saying we shouldn't "pay too much attention to [what] the perpetrators produced".
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Republican Karen Handel wins the most expensive congressional race in history, avoiding a Democratic upset in a race that was widely seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump.
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Belgian authorities say they foiled a "terror attack" when soldiers shot dead a suspect after a small explosion at a busy Brussels train station that continued a week of attacks in capitals across Europe.
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A United States biotechnology company announces it will build a biorefinery in Queensland to make cosmetics out of sugar cane.
