Needle spiking is when a person is injected with a form of drug against without consent, and it's unknown how much it's happening in Australian venues. ⌘ Read more
Needle spiking is when a person is injected with a form of drug against without consent, and it's unknown how much it's happening in Australian venues. ⌘ Read more
Federal independent MPs say a culture of public servants "bending to political will" is undermining fairness in government spending and leading to "pork barrelling". ⌘ Read more
Research shows that mortgage borrowers are paying the highest share of their income on housing costs in at least four decades, but the current situation for renters is not historically unusual. ⌘ Read more
Brazillian singer Astrud Gilberto, best known for her English-language cameo on The Girl from Ipanema, dies aged 83. ⌘ Read more
The PGA Tour, European Tour and rival Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit announce a landmark agreement to merge and form a commercial entity to unify golf. ⌘ Read more
Prince Harry gives evidence against a tabloid publisher whose titles he accuses of phone-hacking and other unlawful activities, becoming the first senior royal in a witness box in more than a century. ⌘ Read more
It's official — Ange Postecoglou leaves Celtic to make history as the first Australian to manage a Premier League team, with Spurs confirming he has signed a four-year contract. ⌘ Read more
Collingwood star Jordan de Goey has escaped with the minimum ban for his bump on Elijah Hewett with the midfielder to serve a three-match ban. ⌘ Read more
The former teacher has pleaded not guilty to one count of carnal knowledge of a girl aged over 10 and under 17. ⌘ Read more
Vanuatu's Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau told Defence Minister Richard Marles the National Security Council was going over the details of the deal, which would come to parliament before the end of the year. ⌘ Read more
Western Australia's newest MP is fined and given a community-based order for emails he sent to a protected person, but he says his only mistake was pleading guilty. ⌘ Read more
The Australian Transport and Safety Bureau has delivered its findings into a major derailment at Nana Glen in 2021. ⌘ Read more
A former FBI agent who took more than $2 million in cash and diamonds to trade secrets with Moscow in one of the most notorious spying cases in American history, dies in prison. ⌘ Read more
Australia have secured the services of rising Parma defender Alessandro Circati after the 19-year-old was named in Graham Arnold's squad for next week's friendly against Argentina. ⌘ Read more
The mine where former Wallaby David Pocock chained himself to plant equipment when construction started nearly a decade ago wants to extend its operations. ⌘ Read more
A "veteran of brothels" convicted of raping, choking and spitting in the mouth of a sex worker at a Canberra brothel, has walked free from court after being sentenced in the ACT Supreme Court today. ⌘ Read more
The counsel assisting an inquest into the death of 20-year-old Adelaide man Kobee Huddy, has asked the state's deputy coroner to not consider his death as a "suicide by cop" but a "death by misadventure". ⌘ Read more
The Griffith and Wade High Schools will be re-established after they were merged in 2019, as parents label the lack of consultation around the decision to demerge as "disappointing". ⌘ Read more
Although New Zealand has one of the lowest rates of adult smoking in the OECD, it has banned future generations from smoking in a push to be "smoke-free" by 2025. ⌘ Read more
A specialist disentanglement crew is on its way to try to rescue a whale entangled off the NSW Central Coast. It is the second whale to be entangled off NSW in the past week. ⌘ Read more
Billabong Zoo in Port Macquarie has announced the death of Milo due to post-surgery complications after he had been diagnosed with a rare autoimmune condition. ⌘ Read more
Frasers Property Australia says 12 remedial teams are fixing "design issues" in some of the 3,500 homes being built in Shellharbour, but some residents are critical of the slow pace. ⌘ Read more
A court hears paedophile John Wayne Millwood transferred more than $800,000 to his former partner and daughter the same day he was sentenced for sexually abusing a person who is now in a legal fight to claim a $6 million compensation payout. ⌘ Read more
The odds of a warm, dry winter and spring have shortened after the Bureau of Meteorology took its El Niño warning to a new level. ⌘ Read more
Mia De Rauch says she has "no more time to give" as she runs a video production business and works hospitality shifts to keep up with increasing mortgage repayments and bills. ⌘ Read more
Scientists say we need to make 'very rapid and very large' emissions cuts as atmospheric CO2 jumps to an all-time high at the Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory. ⌘ Read more
Tell us your loan size, term and interest rate, and our mortgage repayment calculator will work out how much extra you may have to pay on your loan. ⌘ Read more
Interest rates climb above 4 per cent for the first time in more than 11 years, as the Reserve Bank moves aggressively to clamp down on inflation. ⌘ Read more
Paul Xavier Tobin was accused of pressuring the victim of a domestic violence case in 2019. ⌘ Read more
Scott Phillip White will be sentenced on Thursday for the manslaughter of Scott Johnson, whose body was found at the base of cliffs at Manly in 1988. ⌘ Read more
When Spencer Leniu ruptured his testicle, the doctors said he'd miss eight weeks, but the Penrith enforcer is back early in an effort to chase a State of Origin berth. ⌘ Read more
One of the pilots from the Defence helicopter that started the devastating January 2020 Orroral Valley fire near Canberra tells a coronial inquest he was totally focused on getting his passengers to safety. ⌘ Read more
A 70-year-old woman has been charged following a deadly crash on the Pacific Highway in regional New South Wales which left a four-wheel drive suspended in the air. ⌘ Read more
An artificial intelligence tool is being launched to help Australian sheep farmers identify the best breeders in their flocks. ⌘ Read more
Naomie Richings has been remembered as an incredible, "bright and bubbly" person as the Orange community rallies to support her family. ⌘ Read more
A dingo expert says the lure of food at a campground and breeding season behaviour could be factors behind recent unprovoked attacks. ⌘ Read more
A disability advocate's call for all Adelaide taxis to be made fully accessible is being considered by the SA government — but it says a solution will not be in next week's state budget. ⌘ Read more
The family of a retired Sydney baker jailed in Vietnam for 12 years on "terrorism" offences express new hope for his freedom after Anthony Albanese's visit to the South-East Asian nation. ⌘ Read more
A man accused of threatening Nick Kyrgios's mother at gunpoint and stealing her son's car, pleads not guilty to aggravated armed robbery in the ACT Magistrates Court. ⌘ Read more
Former City of Stirling councillor David Michael will become the WA government's newest cabinet member today, as Roger Cook prepares to be endorsed by his party as the next premier. ⌘ Read more
Joel Russo, who was only months out of prison when he repeatedly raped a female jogger on the banks of Melbourne's Merri Creek is jailed for more than 20 years. ⌘ Read more
Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker says her office will investigate whether BHP was negligent in failing to identify if it was underpaying workers over a 13-year period. ⌘ Read more
A Tasmanian man who used a company fuel card to buy more than $24,000 worth of fuel, some of which he onsold to friends, avoids prison — the court acknowledging his marriage breakdown caused "great upheaval" for him before the offending started. ⌘ Read more
With the end of La Niña and the expectation of drier El Niño conditions, the agricultural production outlook is for a reduction in crop yields compared to the records of the past season. ⌘ Read more
A GP clinic in south-west Victoria has taken the extraordinary step of recruiting an in-house childcare worker so its doctors and nurses can spend more time with patients. ⌘ Read more
US investigators trudge through rugged terrain to reach the site where a private plane slammed into a mountain, killing four people, after earlier flying over the nation's capital, prompting officials to scramble fighter jets. ⌘ Read more
A troubled young pop star manipulated and taken advantage of by a sinister impresario. We've seen it before — and some say we've seen it done much better. Why is there so much controversy surrounding HBO's The Idol? ⌘ Read more
The odds have been shortening on the Reserve Bank of Australia lifting interest rates again, and Australia's workers are once more being blamed for driving inflation, writes David Peetz. ⌘ Read more
The Northern Territory has lowered its cap on pokies to 1,659, but applications for 20 additional gaming machines at two of Iris Capital's Alice Springs venues "remain in train". ⌘ Read more
Anders Wiklöf says he really regrets driving 30 kilometres per hour over the limit in Finland, where such penalties are based an offender's income. ⌘ Read more
More than 4,000 pages of documents related to the disgraced financier's death have been obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, including a detailed psychological reconstruction of the events leading to his suicide in prison. ⌘ Read more
Survivors recount seeing mangled metal and hearing the cries of children in the chaotic first moments after the train crash in the state of Odisha in India. ⌘ Read more
The athletics world is paying tribute to the late Jim Hines, the first man to stop a clock in under 10 seconds for the 100m. ⌘ Read more
Australia's citrus industry welcomes an administrative milestone, the publication of a new list of orchards, packhouses and treatment facilities allowed to export to China. ⌘ Read more
Mining, construction and farming and other business groups have mounted a campaign over changes the Employment Minister Tony Burke says the government is not proposing to make. ⌘ Read more
Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor says Australia has higher core inflation than all of the countries in the G7. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates. ⌘ Read more
While some US states are making prison phone calls free, a 12-minute phone call from a Victorian prison can cost more than a prisoner's wages for the day. ⌘ Read more
Economists are tipping interest rates will rise for the 12th time in a year when the RBA announces its latest decision this afternoon, while Apple shares have set a new record high in the wake of the company showcasing its new products. Follow live. ⌘ Read more
A 13-year-old boy dies three days after a fire tore through a home in Geraldton in Western Australia's Midwest. ⌘ Read more
A review into a Morrison-government-era grant funding program finds only two of 171 projects attached to the program were "highly suitable" and almost half were based in marginal electorates. ⌘ Read more
An unexpected discovery when comparing the head shapes and teeth of red kangaroos inside and outside the Australian dog fence has been made by researchers, with one group growing up quicker. ⌘ Read more
Two boys aged 17 and 18 have been charged with various offences following a brawl in Sunshine last month during which a teenager was fatally stabbed. ⌘ Read more
Former US vice-president Mike Pence has declared himself a candidate in the 2024 Republican race for the White House, setting up a challenge to former president Donald Trump. ⌘ Read more
Australia's Steve Smith says he won't put an expiry date on his Test career despite veteran opener David Warner's decision on his future. ⌘ Read more
Western Australia has the lowest rate of Aboriginal voter enrolment in the country. A trial to increase that number could soon roll out nationally. ⌘ Read more
For more than three decades, researchers have known that children from larger families are less likely to develop allergic disease, but the potential reason for that remained a mystery. ⌘ Read more
A three-year-old Palestinian boy shot by Israeli forces during clashes in the occupied West Bank last week has died of his wounds, Israeli and Palestinian officials say. ⌘ Read more
A firm has revealed in a letter to Premier Daniel Andrews that its bid to take over the myki ticketing system was $100 million cheaper than the winning bid. ⌘ Read more
Evidence is growing about the importance of being exposed to enough natural light, but what rights do residents have to protect their access to it? ⌘ Read more
There is activity at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, but it's not what scientists at this cutting-edge nuclear laboratory trained for. ⌘ Read more
Pixar director Peter Sohn's latest film, Elemental reflects his own experiences navigating life as the child of immigrants. ⌘ Read more
It took 15-months for Carolyn Hocking to receive her husband's superannuation after his sudden death. She says the financial and emotional strain of the delay was "horrendous" – and she is not alone. ⌘ Read more
New laws require a landlord to give a reason for refusing a tenant's request to have a pet, like if the animal is dangerous or the property is too small for it. ⌘ Read more
The full findings into the Victoria Cross recipient's unsuccessful defamation lawsuit are now public, and outline Justice Anthony Besanko's reasoning. Here are five findings you may have missed. ⌘ Read more
Opposition Leader Rebecca White grills Tasmania's premier over a promised million-dollar grant to a rum distillery with links to a Liberal Party staffer, which Ms White says should have been open to other businesses to seek. ⌘ Read more
In its 70th year, the festival program boasts almost 300 films — from international heavy hitters and award-winners to lesser-known gems and trailblazing debuts. Here are nine you can't miss. ⌘ Read more
There is one issue that stands head and shoulders above the rest as Philip Lowe's greatest threat in the battle to control inflation, writes business editor Ian Verrender. ⌘ Read more
Sherry used to love smiling, spending time with her family and volunteering but a lack of affordable dental care has changed everything. ⌘ Read more
Extensive scientific and medical evidence proved to be key to setting Kathleen Folbigg free, 20 years after she was convicted of killing her four children. ⌘ Read more
Prince Harry's no-show at court on the first day of his individual case against a tabloid newspaper was "absolutely extraordinary", the newspaper's lawyers say. ⌘ Read more
Russia claims to have thwarted a major Ukrainian offensive in the Donetsk region, killing hundreds of troops, while Kyiv accuses Moscow of spreading lies. ⌘ Read more
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says two Australian citizens who faced the death penalty in Vietnam have now been granted clemency. ⌘ Read more
The long-running legal dispute over the Edgecliff property, which Edward and Barbara Grimley co-owned with their daughter, is settled. ⌘ Read more
Hong Kong police detain 23 people for "breaching public peace" as authorities ramp up security for the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. ⌘ Read more
The inquest is examining the cause of a collision on the Bunya Highway in May 2019, which killed two boys and two girls, all aged under 6, and their mother, Charmaine McLeod. ⌘ Read more
An education official says two separate primary schools were targeted with an unknown poison. ⌘ Read more
The City of Coffs Harbour has been fined $20,000 after a judge found it was aware of its obligations to maintain its gas collection system, but failed to do so. ⌘ Read more
A mother of three who suffered burns to 40 per cent of her body in an alleged domestic violence incident is described as a "kind and caring" person. ⌘ Read more
The fishing practice has been identified as a significant danger to multiple threatened and protected marine species, including dugongs, dolphins, turtles and some sharks. ⌘ Read more
The widow of chef Jock Zonfrillo has spoken for the first time in a video posted to social media, telling followers of her late husband's Instagram account that she wished he knew how loved he was by people "all over the world". ⌘ Read more
At least 275 people are dead and nearly 1,200 more injured after a horrific three-train pile-up in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. Here's what we know so far. ⌘ Read more
A man who had been jailed for assault has been found two days after he allegedly ditched his handcuffs and fled from a Rockhampton hospital. ⌘ Read more
Almost half a million protesters marched through Warsaw in fear their country is moving away from democracy. ⌘ Read more
Visibility fell to 100 metres and road traffic slowed to a crawl as fog blanketed large parts of outback South Australia. ⌘ Read more
War veteran Ben Roberts-Smith may have committed a criminal offence by sending threatening letters to a former SAS colleague, a Federal Court judge finds. ⌘ Read more
The inquest found Nigel Harris, 60, died from multiple blunt force injuries after being hit by a competing trophy truck in 2021. ⌘ Read more
Australia's third biggest gold miner, Evolution Mining, has approved a $250 million expansion of its Mungari operations near Kalgoorlie, despite concerns about the overheated construction sector. ⌘ Read more
Twenty years after she was jailed for killing her four children, Kathleen Folbigg has been pardoned and released from prison. She has a few options available. ⌘ Read more
Police alleged Jamie Lauder, 20, and Justin Roberts, 23, escaped from the low-security compound of the Darwin Correctional Facility in Holtze on Saturday night. ⌘ Read more
Justice Anthony Besanko has released his full judgement after dismissing Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation suit on Thursday. Follow live ⌘ Read more