• 6 mins ago

There have been more than 6000 cases of the flu in Queensland so far this year - more than double the year-to-date mean.

• 17 mins ago

One of Australia's best bars has been forced to turn away a group of French winemakers just a few days after Queensland's new ID scanning laws were made compulsory.

• 21 mins ago

"The town of Bunbury has just not been able to sustain a nightclub; the negative public opinion for the lifetime of the club's operation and poor local economy have been major contributors to this."

• 23 mins ago

Thought you had dodged a speeding fine? You haven't been so lucky.

• 30 mins ago

Marketing agency Appco Group is suing Seven Network for malicious falsehood over an expose alleging the fundraising organisation retains more than a fair share of money it collects on behalf of charities, according to documents filed with the Federal Court.

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• 34 mins ago

Some analysts wonder if there a room in the German port city big enough to house the Trump and Putin egos.

• 35 mins ago

Some 2592 kangaroos killed in government effort to prevent overgrazing of local grasslands.

• 38 mins ago

Amazon's annual Prime Day is turning into one of the biggest shopping events of the US shopping calendar — but the long term benefit to the Amazon "ecosystem" is greater than any single day sales spike.

• 42 mins ago

A bizarre tale involving a stolen dead turtle, a freight train, a citizens arrest and a bag of homemade weapons played out in suburban Geelong yesterday.

• COMMENT
• 42 mins ago

The All Blacks simply aren't the same side without Ben Smith and Ryan Crotty.

• EXCLUSIVE
• 49 mins ago

If David Gillespie is forced from Parliament it could be the end of the Turnbull government.

• Podcast
• 50 mins ago

In truth, economics has much to teach us about the pursuit of "utility" or happiness.

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• 53 mins ago

There are few places to hide this morning as stocks and bonds follow the overnight lead and sell-off in tandem, while there's more trouble for Bellamy's.

• 1 hr ago

Canberra Liberals' MLA Mark Parton says the ACT government's move to bar cash-out via eftpos in ACT clubs is "half-baked policy" and has timed himself walking from ten club entrances to external ATMs to prove it.

• 1 hr ago

The US government's top ethics watchdog who has repeatedly gone head-to-head with the Trump administration over conflicts of interest, is calling it quits.

• 1 hr ago

An illegal banner unfurled from the balcony of the Kings Cross Hotel has become the latest battlefront in a long-running feud over the Sydney's lockout laws. 

• 1 hr ago

Melbourne has overtaken Sydney as the armed robbery and unlawful entry capital of Australia.

• 1 hr ago

Defence barrister says kit symbolised "the pathetic hope of a man in his forties that's he's going to get lucky".

• 1 hr ago

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reportedly is ready to bid for Oncor Electric in Texas after a US$18b deal collapsed.

• 1 hr ago

Dozens of guards have been locked out of Queensland's second largest prison as tensions between staff and management escalate over safety concerns.

• 1 hr ago

Troubled dairy company Bellamy's Australia has hit another roadblock in Chinese authorities suspended the export licence of Camperdown Powder, a company it just acquired.

• EXCLUSIVE
• 1 hr ago

Future housing on the fringes of Melbourne and Sydney threatens to add billions of dollars to the cost of a high-speed rail line, Infrastructure Australia warns.

• 1 hr ago

A father and his teenage son are believed to have gone missing in the Wheatbelt region of WA.

• 1 hr ago

Tesla's meteoric rise to become the nation's most valuable auto maker has ended, at least for now.

The Phong Vuong may have been murdered up to 11 days before his body was found inside his Deer Park home.

Fortitude Valley's Chamber of Commerce has called for the Queensland government to step in so rail commuters did not have to walk through a dark corridor to access the suburb's train station.

Two months before he was stripped of his bank accounts, flash cars and lavish lifestyle, Adam Cranston splurged $200,000 on two racing cars from Italy. 

When analysts at Morgan Stanley were trying to handicap the driverless car race, their thoughts kept turning to chicken wings. And the Disney film "Frozen." And beer. All the things you can do when you're not spending your time locked behind the steering wheel anymore.

Microsoft has started the process of laying off thousands of employees, cuts that fall largely on the technology giant's sales force.

A former Audi AG manager is being charged with fraud by the Justice Department for his alleged role in helping Volkswagen AG cheat US emissions standards, a person familiar with the matter said.

• ANALYSIS

Over the years, the Pentagon has drafted and refined multiple war plans, including an enormous retaliatory invasion and limited pre-emptive attacks.

Australia's earnings from resources and energy exports are expected to rise 25 per cent in 2016-17, despite overall downward pressure on iron ore and coal prices.

The Queensland opposition has questioned Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's control over her cabinet after Steven Miles reportedly used his private email account to send sensitive government material.

France's new government must lose no time reining in its budget deficit, the central bank governor said.

​When Tom Lonergan's AFL career was just seven matches old it appeared to be over.

A bank of winter morning storms is sweeping across south-east Queensland, threatening to soak commuters on their way to work.

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Wall Street suffers falls as nervy bond investors send equities lower, setting up the local sharemarket for falls at the open.

Acting Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has said Australia has "sympathy" for trade sanctions against China in response to North Korea's latest threat, as the international community grapples with the rogue nation's nuclear missile defence program.

Two Wonthaggi men have been charged over an assault that blinded 26-year-old Elliot Harvey in one eye at a club in Melbourne's north.

An enormous iceberg, over 3000 square kilometres big is poised to detach from one of the largest floating ice shelves in Antarctica and float off in the Weddell Sea, south of the tip of South America.

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Melbourne Express is your morning primer - a live blog with breaking news, headlines, transport updates and weather.

Investigators believe they have discovered the "smoking gun" that would support a decades-old theory that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were captured by the Japanese.

​Two centuries ago a young indigenous boy went to Rome - at last his legacy is remembered

Sydney defender Callum Mills has been cleared by medical staff to face Gold Coast, a week after being concussed by a punch from Melbourne's Tomas Bugg.

Hedge funds that built up bullish long-end Treasury wagers to the highest outright level since 2008 are rushing for the exit.

Both Jason Johannisen and Jake Stringer are clearly talented young men, and players who draw people to the footy.

St Mary of the Cross in Point Cook is a light-filled school buzzing with the energy of a young community and its kids. Opened three years ago it's the only primary school serving the burgeoning population of the Saltwater Coast estate in Wyndham in Melbourne's west.

Ice treatment numbers double, fast train forecast for 15 years from now and Canberra real estate becomes a circus

The painting was by renowned New Zealand artist Colin John McCahon.