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Tasmanian police launch an investigation after the former prime minister and prominent same-sex marriage no vote campaigner says he sustained a "very slightly swollen lip" when he was headbutted outside a private event in Hobart.
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An outraged tweet from Australian Conservatives senator Cory Bernardi over a primary school's fundraising drive results in more than $140,000 being raised — far exceeding the school's original target of $900.
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A bureaucratic blunder by the SA Health Department may have impacted more than a dozen criminal cases involving suspected child abuse victims.
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A Government foray into artificial intelligence — featuring a virtual assistant voiced by Cate Blanchett — is shelved over concerns politicians have been spooked by the 'robo-debt' and census bungles.
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The lawyer for One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts says his client's credibility may have been affected by evidence given during a lengthy cross-examination at the High Court on Thursday.
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SA Labor is continuing to make overtures to jilted MP Frances Bedford, who quit after losing preselection, with Modbury Hospital looming as a key piece of the puzzle.
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As SA looks to develop its space industries, Premier Jay Weatherill urges the Prime Minister to announce the creation of an Australian space agency ahead of next week's international convention in Adelaide.
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There are 22,000 suitable locations for pumped hydro sites across Australia and if storage was built at a tiny fraction of them, we could be 100 per cent powered by renewable energy within 20 years, researchers say.
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The image of a girl in wheat fields at sunset adorning the silos of a regional South Australian town, and celebrating the local farming heritage, is expected to provide an economic boost.
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The staff of a Tasmanian pizza shop alter the meaning of an No campaign billboard next to their business, a day after a Hobart hotel distanced itself from a similar advertisement atop its premises.
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Australia meets India in Kolkata in the second one-day international of their series, looking to bounce back from an opening loss in Chennai. Follow our live ScoreCentre.
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Fairfax Media warns that its revenues are down 4-5 per cent on last year's levels, as it prepares to reveal its Domain separation plan as early as Friday.
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Hurricane Maria lashes parts of the Dominican Republic with heavy rain and high winds after pummelling Puerto Rico with severe flooding and cutting off power to the entire island.
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Three days after burying an 18-tonne whale in a deep hole, a NSW council decides to dig it up again.
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Even from the sidelines of a suburban soccer match in Munich, the diplomatic fallout from Ankara and Berlin can be felt after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Turks in Germany to vote against the major political parties in the upcoming election.
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Volunteers are not giving up on finding more survivors at a Mexico City school where least 20 children were killed when a building collapsed in the aftermath of this week's magnitude-7.1 earthquake.
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A man is sentenced to 12 months in prison for illegally marrying a 14-year-old bride in an Islamic wedding in Melbourne last year.
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A Federal Government MP says women who breastfeed in Parliament are a "bit over the top" and are trying to make a "statement".
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An unemployed father of three from Bundaberg says the inability to withdraw money once he is given a cashless welfare card in lieu of Centrelink payments will prevent him from providing properly for his family and visiting relatives interstate.
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Armed with petrol bombs, sticks and metal bars, hundreds of Buddhists in Myanmar try to prevent an aid shipment reaching Muslims in Rakine state.
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Former RSL NSW chief executive Chris Perrin confesses to being "careless" and failing to act on concerns from staff members that former president Don Rowe was abusing his corporate credit card.
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Best-selling children's author and Hiroshima bombing survivor Junko Morimoto urged the Prime Minister to sign a treaty banning nuclear weapons before her death today.
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Tasmanian MP Nic Street reprimands colleagues who warned "homosexual roleplaying" would be taught in schools if same sex marriage becomes legal, saying as a child he once played a sheep in a play but he has not felt compelled to "leap the fence ... and munch the grass".
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Dumped pet goldfish are found in Australian estuaries, prompting fears the fish — which are highly adaptive and can grow to 2 kilograms — could make their way into connected river systems and kill off native species.
