One of the world's biggest charities condemned the behaviour of some former staff after a report said aid workers had paid for sex while on a mission in Haiti.

​A young girl at "extreme risk" of self harm at the Nauru detention centre has been brought to Australia after the Federal Court ruled she needed specialist mental health treatment.

John Kelly and Donald McGahn's are under increasing pressure to explain why Rob Porter was kept in a key role in which he had access to classified information.

• ANALYSIS

A laundry list of lawyers for a laundry list of bad banking behaviour.

Four adults are expected to apply for bail next week over accusations they sexually and physically abused three young boys in the Blue Mountains over two years.

A retiree is wowing neighbours with free screenings at his glamorous, 14-seat movie house.

Proposal to redevelop sections of unused land in coastal Anglesea has alarmed residents

Daniel Andrews has taken a dim view of Jane Garrett's declaration that she might enter the race to be the next lord mayor of Melbourne.

The message was hardly a revelation: It will be cold at the Winter Olympics.

• COMMENT

Farcical, damp squib, paper tiger, stillborn. They are just a few of the words being used to describe the long awaited and much needed Royal Commission into financial services.

Jim Molan backs down from threat to sue Greens MP.

A selection of photographs from around the world by Fairfax picture editors.

Police in US identify a man wanted for theft on the basis of a pretty sketchy drawing of him.

• EXCLUSIVE

More than 20 staff are under investigation for alleged inappropriate spending on their corporate credit cards.

The ups and downs on the road with Sydney's ambos.

• COMMENT

It's easy for prime ministers to make big promises at some emotion-charge moment of national attention, but a lot harder to keep those promises when the media spotlight (and that prime minister) are long gone.

The council responsible for poisoning thousands of bees in an eastern suburb of Sydney is facing swarms of criticism for the drastic action.

The national body representing the judiciary has jumped to the defence of a Victorian magistrate who criticised the state government's delay in changing the bail laws.

Some might argue the risk far outweighs the return but Wigan are adamant the first Super League competition game played outside Europe is only a blueprint for forward-thinking NRL clubs.

The US House of Representatives joined the Senate early on Friday morning in approving a bill to end an overnight federal shutdown, sparing Republicans further embarrassment and averting serious interruption of the government's business.

Canberrans with serious conditions are waiting up to five years just to see a specialist. 

David Grice has been jailed for a minimum of 18 months over the collision that left a 26-year-old woman dead.

Affordable electric vehicles that can drive up to 600 kilometres on a single charge will help bring the motoring revolution to Australia

The ACT's minister for multicultural affairs has acknowledged the event is experiencing some growing pains.

The forgotten men of Australia's offshore detention regimes found a friend and a brother in Michael Gordon. They talked to me about their feelings of loss.

Three men have charged following a mass brawl in Prahran on Thursday morning, which left a young man seriously injured.

The sedan had run down the embankment and was sinking with the 25-year-old driver trapped inside.

Chief Minister Andrew Barr waived more than $2.1 million of payroll tax owed to territory coffers by five ACT businesses in the 2015-16 year.

New laws to protect children from sexual abuse could in fact "criminalise sex education".

• EXCLUSIVE

A decade ago Shani Goldsboro catered for Hugo Boss. But now she's lucky to cater for herself.

Trish Ollman always believed the public health system would look after her if she was sick. 

There will be no woodchopping at the Royal Canberra Show this year.

A two-year long tender process for a major ACT government-wide facilities management contract could be killed off.

A witness has recalled a Kooringal High School student revealing he was going to be killed, just moments before he was stabbed to death.

Meegan Fitzharris has issued a qualified apology for the series of failures in the treatment of Canberra man Paul Fennessy.

Survivors, sector staff and politicians will sit down again to focus on how abuse affects the next generation.

Statistics appear to say different things depending on who's reading them.

Megan Davis, expert member of the UN Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People (EMRIP) and the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a UN body, knows what is going to happen in Canberra on Monday, when Malcolm Turnbull launches the 10th annual Closing the Gap report on improving health, education and employment "outcomes" for Aboriginal people.

Road safety experts are shocked by NSW's refusal to use speed averaging cameras.

Edward Cameron, the 27-year-old son of the late Sydney business identity John Hemmes stemming from a secret six-year affair, has been awarded $1.75 million from the estate of the father he never met.

• OPINION

In an election year Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton is determined to remain neutral.

Peter Sourris travelled around Brisbane in his Bedford truck with a hand-wind projector in the 1900s. Now his grandsons are expanding the business he started.

Penny Wong has been a prominent figure in domestic politics. But her main game is on the world stage.

"When you are appearing before Ken Hayne you know you have to be across all the issues."

The result is a piece of foam that captures every detail from the top of the thighs right up to the neck.

The Wallabies coach and Rugby Australia's boss have conceded the Quade Cooper situation is a bad look for the game.

David Pocock's sabbatical year has been one of the talking points of the season since the flanker returned to Australia only to have surgery to repair an ongoing knee issue. But Wallabies coach Michael Cheika had a few things to say to the critics.

A man's lung was punctured during the home invasion in Kaleen.

Some last-minute changes were made before land was sold for a shopping centre at Coombs.