• 1 min ago

The Reserve Bank has kept its cash rate on hold for the eleventh consecutive month, providing little indication of when it will allow rates to rise.

• BREAKING
• 2 mins ago

The Queensland government has canned the proposed $3 billion ASF casino resort development on the Gold Coast Spit. 

• 4 mins ago

The ABC is facing questions over whether an Australian Story episode was connected to the PR blitz for Sam Dastyari's new book.

• 4 mins ago

How unfair is this? The Mooch has already mooched off.

• Live
• 9 mins ago

The ASX pushes higher as the official start of reporting season is marked with some big hits and misses, while the RBA's statement does nothing to dampen Aussie's recent rise.

• 10 mins ago

The government has taken steps to protect children's rights inside the Bimberi detention centre.

• 16 mins ago

It will be the first elected council following last year's merger.

• 18 mins ago

Police will apply for a fresh Apprehended Violence Order against Salim Mehajer on behalf of his estranged wife Aysha, in the latest court battle for the property developer and former local councillor.

• 25 mins ago

A woman has been treated in hospital after she was attacked by a kangaroo on a Gold Coast gold course.

• BREAKING
• 27 mins ago

Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission chief executive Chris Dawson has been appointed WA's new Police Commissioner.

• 34 mins ago

Police are investigating the cause of a fire at a Wanniassa home.

• 43 mins ago

Petrol theft will be reclassified as a criminal offence if the Coalition is elected next year.

• 1 hr ago

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says she is "very optimistic" the government's new trains will be ready in time for the Commonwealth Games.

• 1 hr ago

Ipswich's acting mayor, a sitting councillor and a former One Nation MP are among 11 candidates who will vie for the city's mayoralty at the August 19 by-election, brought on by the resignation of Paul Pisasale.

• 1 hr ago

Tharwa's unofficial mayor, "put his community first, ahead of bureaucracy", Alistair Coe said.

• 1 hr ago

Two humpback whales have died after beaching themselves on a sandbank near Fraser Island.

• 1 hr ago

The woman hurled a cup of water at the magistrate before yelling "F--- you, you hear me?"

• 1 hr ago

After weeks wrapped in white plastic, the first of 60 trams for Sydney's new $2.1 billion light rail line has been unveiled.

• 1 hr ago

'Why the hell should we care what Trump says?' Nicolas Maduro asked a crowd as he celebrated the election of a new legislative superbody.

• UPDATED
• 1 hr ago

Geelong superstar Patrick Dangerfield will not be eligible to win the 2017 Brownlow Medal after he accepted his one-match suspension from the match review panel.

• 1 hr ago

Banks will stop trying to sell add-on insurance to customers at the same time as they are taking out a credit card.

• COMMENT
• 1 hr ago

In another blow to NBN's reputation, Vodafone is using NBN installation disasters as a marketing tool to promote its upcoming home broadband service with 4G LTE failover.

• 1 hr ago

Wyndham Police Sergeant Simon Womersley said the kids helped officers with a minor incident earlier in the evening, and were rewarded with an impromptu street party for their efforts.

Donald Trump personally dictated a statement in which Trump jnr said he and the Russian lawyer had "primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children" when they met in June 2016

Rollout of new semi-automatic gun holsters to Victoria Police officers suspended over safety concerns.

University students are experiencing an "alarming" rate of sexual assault on campus, a survey of 31,000 Australian students has found.

• EXCLUSIVE

Conservatives are scrambling to head off an uprising by moderate Liberal MPs over same-sex marriage next week.

"I checked Gypsy's bed and blankets, and she wasn't there... I clapped my hands and slapped my knee and that usually gets her to come, and she didn't. I checked her little plastic kennel and she wasn't there either. My heart just sunk."

​A Sydney man will remain behind bars after he allegedly pointed a handgun at his young daughter and pulled the trigger.

​A man in a wheelchair has died after falling off a cliff at a beach in Sydney's east.

A "distraught" New Zealander dry-retched on the side of a busy Queensland motorway after a man he had punched in the face was fatally hit by a truck, a court has heard.

• COMMENT

Even by the standards of the Trump administration, the Scaramucci era was brief to the point of abrupt.

A car salesman in Perth's east has been fined $30,000 for selling cars with their odometers would-back.

Study found at least 116 Australian National University students sexually assaulted in 2016.

New Zealand opposition leader Andrew Little has quit just two months before the country goes to the polls.

BAE Systems will build 225 combat vehicles at old Holden factory in Melbourne if it wins a $5b contract.

Many of the most successful people have got job interviews down to a science. Here are the questions 10 business leaders love to ask.

Inside a suburban garage, a group of young men talked about motorbikes, parties, weddings and Masterchef.

Iron ore's 7.2 per cent jump has traders excited but it's unlikely to signal a period of sustained strength.

Fears that children are being kidnapped across Cambodia to have their kidneys cut out and sold have sparked mob violence and cries by authorities of "fake news".

The controversial series 13 Reasons Why triggered an increase in Google searches for specific methods of suicide and suicide hotlines.

Two of these three exhibitions deal with World War II themes.

How is the new $500 million public service "modernisation fund" being spent?

Fiona Murray has donated her liver, but not to another person.

Hawthorn captain Jarryd Roughead has a new appreciation for footy after overcoming his recent cancer scares.

Accused Bourke Street killer Dimitrious Gargasoulas is absent from court again, days after a magistrate was told he was too mentally unwell to attend.

Money woes blamed for closure of 104-year-old tourist attraction in the goldfields town.

Home prices in Australia's major cities rose strongly in July, putting a question mark over regulators' attempts to cool the market.

Governing body SANZAAR has defended its decision to appoint South African referee Jaco Peyper to control the Super Rugby final between the Lions and Crusaders in Johannesburg on Saturday.