An Australian woman has been killed by a US police officer responding to a 911 call in Minneapolis. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety (BCA) said...
Tobacco giant Philip Morris has been ordered to pay the Australian government millions of dollars after unsuccessfully suing the nation over its world-first plain-packaging laws. In...
An AirAsia X flight bound for Kuala Lumpur has been forced turn back to Australia after a suspected bird strike left passengers shaken. The jet, carrying...
The Vatican treasurer, Cardinal George Pell, has vehemently denied any wrongdoing after being charged with sex offences in his native Australia. He complained that he had...
Australian police have seized a World War II era machinegun during a traffic stop 100km (60 miles) north of Sydney. Officers searched a car on the...
Police in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia have shot dead a man after a hostage situation at an apartment building. Officers went to the address in...
An SOS signal made of rocks in a remote part of Western Australia has prompted fears that someone, or more than one person, could be missing....
Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest and his wife, Nicola, have announced they will give A$400m ($298m) to charity. PM Malcolm Turnbull said the donation was “the...
Australian Senator Larissa Waters has become the first politician to breastfeed in the nation’s parliament. Ms Waters, from the left-wing Greens party, fed two-month-old daughter Alia...
One in five Australians has suffered image-based abuse, according to the nation’s most comprehensive study on “revenge porn”. The national survey of more than 4,200 people...
An Australian woman who killed eight children in a stabbing attack at her home will not stand trial because she was of “unsound mind” at the...