The widow of Sergeant La David Johnson said she had "nothing to say" to President Donald Trump, whose condolence call pulled the grieving widow into the centre of a national controversy.
Sexual assaults on Victoria's public transport system have gone up by 40 per cent in a year, a spike that's lead Crime Stoppers to launch a campaign to identify perpetrators and urge victims to report the crime.
One of Bill Shorten's closest advisers has quit over a blackface costume controversy.
A crackdown on polluting industries in northern China for an unprecedented five months over winter is not a one-off and is set to hit Australian iron ore and coal exports.
Up to $300 billion in government spending will come under scrutiny as state and territory leaders consider a "refresh" of the Closing the Gap strategy to reduce Indigenous disadvantage in Australia.
Some parts of the south-east looked like they had received a blanket of snow due to the large amounts of hail that fell.
Gay couples will enjoy free venue hire in the City of Sydney once same-sex marriage is legalised, in a provocative move that will outrage conservatives.
Who’s to blame for the omnishambles of the NBN? Pretty much everyone. But mostly, successive governments composed of morons, villains and butt-ass incompetents with humpty-dumpty hands and no more sense than a chocolate tea pot.
A Perth woman accused of stabbing 18-year-old Aaron Pajich to death has explained the discovery by police of personal notes and pictures depicting torture as research for books she was writing.
The Senate has passed only $24 billion of the government's $50 billion program of company tax cuts.
As election date speculation continues to swirl, some Labor candidates are bringing in the big guns to launch their campaigns.
Residents in the Morningside ward will likely have to cast a vote in two separate ballots at the upcoming state election
Two people are dead after a light plane ripped through Northern Territory bushland, losing both of its wings before crashing near a rural road outside of Darwin.
New Queensland coal seam gas and expanded northern gas pipeline network may alleviate the east coast gas shortage.
This year, more than 58,500 students - or 75 per cent of the year 12 cohort - are enrolled in at least one maths course.
The manual was lost by a company involved in security upgrades at Parliament House.
Clubs will be able to keep trading draft picks after the trade deadline and right up until the national draft in a suite of changes proposed for next year.
The commission's annual report highlights concerns with strip searching and the use of force.
The last time Jarryd Hayne played for Fiji at a Rugby League World Cup he resurrected his career.
The man's last known location was Salisbury in Brisbane's south on Monday afternoon. He has been in and out of custody since his release due to a drug problem.
He said there was nothing untoward in his correspondence with the Institute of Public Affairs.
A 15-year-old boy filmed and shared a video of an alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl at a party.
Brisbane men are the most likely to be working excessive hours on the job, and the Sunshine State shines for interstate migration.
Concerned club presidents Peter Gordon, Ben Buckley and Peter Summers could approach the AFL Commission next month to lobby for a better deal for their clubs at Etihad Stadium.
Myer's incoming chairman has doubled down in support of the under-siege department store's turnaround strategy and board, saying his own investment of half a million shares proves his conviction that the company is on the right track.
Home security footage has captured the moment two thieves assaulted a woman as they made off with a safe in South Bunbury on Saturday night.
Two Victorian police officers have been disciplined because they did not breath test Premier Daniel Andrew's wife following a car crash in which a teenager cyclist was injured almost five years ago.
Edward Purcell told the court he arrived at the hotel with friends, and began chatting to Warren Ryan about Donald Trump.
Amid an anti-gay crackdown in Egypt, gay dating apps are sending users tips on how to protect themselves from entrapment.
People living in Sydney or Melbourne were less likely to hop in the car to commute than workers in Brisbane.
MPs "bombarded" by with calls and emails as no-camp gets intense.
So popular is Melbourne with the rest of Australia that the locals are moving out to regional Victoria
Accused Claremont killer Bradley Edwards has had his October court appearance date pushed back by three months.
One of the basic premises of the Carter Centre is that you should talk to dictators.
A body has been found on a rural property in Tyabb, triggering a homicide investigation.
An extra 57 full train loads of Melburnians are catching the train to work than there were five years ago, new Census data reveals.
Playing for New Zealand means the world to Jordan Rapana.
Protecting the National Broadband Network from private sector competition would be a "disastrous" move that would inflict higher internet costs on households, according to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims.
An image and health obsessed Australia has provided a jobs boon for fitness instructors and beauty therapists.
Many CBD roads should be ripped up and converted into "linear parks" and bike paths if the city wants to keep its title as the world's most liveable, says Melbourne council's new transport chairman.
The US refuses to say why it denied Indonesian military chief Gatot Nurmantyo entry to the US.
Perth radio station 96FM has axed its breakfast show hosts Carmen and Fitzi with the duo set to be replaced by Lisa Fernandez and Paul Hogan in 2018.
Professionals, including lawyers famous for their long hours, have been pipped for overtime by real estate agents and others in the hiring business.
A Canberra woman felt she was being watched before she noticed a phone pointed at her, a court heard.
Police investigating if man took a lethal dose of heroin after his body was discovered in back seat of a car.
The proportion of Australians with a university degree has tripled over the past 25 years.
ASIC would be able to "disgorge" or confiscate company profits obtained by breaking the law, under a proposal expected from a high-powered review.
Memphis, who tips the scales at two tonnes, enjoyed extra celery and a cake made from ice, fruit, and carrot.
Shares stumbled to snap an eight-day winning streak despite as banks dragged on the bourse ahead of their profit reports.
Oil Search chairman Keith Spence is to head rival energy firm Santos, stepping down from his current role in the Papua New Guinean focused gas company.
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