Hundreds of thousands of Australians forced to pay back welfare debts created by an illegal automated system have won the largest payout in the country's history. Known as "Robodebt", the scheme wrongly told welfare recipients they had been overpaid (...)
A fugitive who allegedly murdered two officers in a small rural town in Australia's Victoria is being helped by some members of the community, police have said.
Dezi Freeman has been on the run since last Tuesday, when police arrived at his (...)
Tens of thousands of people marched through Australian cities and towns on Sunday, calling for urgent action to save Palestinians facing starvation in Gaza.
Protesters filled streets in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and more than a dozen other cities, (...)
A court in Australia has found a mother-of-two guilty of murdering three of her estranged husband's relatives and attempting to murder a fourth after she served them a lunch containing poisonous mushrooms.
A 12-person jury unanimously decided on (...)
British colonists committed genocide against Australia's Indigenous population in Victoria, a landmark Aboriginal-led inquiry has found.
The Yoorrook Justice Commission found violence and disease reduced the local Indigenous population by three (...)
Bali police have arrested two people over a shooting that killed one Australian and seriously injured another.
Zivan Radmanovic, 32, was shot dead just after midnight on Saturday after two men broke into his villa in Munggu, in the south of the (...)
Norway's Princess Ingrid Alexandra is moving to Australia for her university studies, enrolling in a degree program at the University of Sydney.
Alexandra, who is second in line to Norway's throne, will join her classmates from August and will study (...)
A devastating Israeli airstrike on Friday killed nine of the ten children of a pediatrician in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, as the humanitarian crisis in the territory deepens and civilian casualties continue to rise.
According to Nasser Hospital, (...)
The Israeli military has launched a sweeping new offensive in the Gaza Strip, marking a sharp escalation in the ongoing conflict.
Dubbed "Operation Gideon's Chariots" by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), the campaign seeks to seize and hold (...)
Australia's most-decorated living soldier Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost an appeal against a landmark defamation judgement which found he committed war crimes.
A judge in 2023 ruled that news articles alleging the Victoria Cross recipient had murdered (...)
Five people have drowned and two remain missing after powerful waves struck Australia's eastern coastline at the start of the Easter weekend, prompting safety warnings from authorities.
On Saturday, emergency services recovered the body of a man (...)
Police in Australia have charged a 17-year-old who got on a plane with a shotgun and ammunition.
He was filmed being wrestled to the ground by passengers and crew as the aircraft prepared to take off from Avalon Airport, near Melbourne, carrying 160 (...)
Republicans in the US House of Representatives narrowly passed a multi-trillion dollar government spending bill on Tuesday, a major boost for President Donald Trump that advances his 2025 agenda.
The 217-215 vote was seen as a key early test for (...)
Residents in an Australian region engulfed by bushfires were given two hours to return home to collect their belongings before Christmas on Tuesday, as emergency crews try to contain the blaze.
Communities around the Grampians, in Victoria, have (...)
Worshippers have been forced to flee an Australian synagogue after it was set on fire in what the prime minister has condemned as an "act of hate".
Firefighters were called to Melbourne's Adass Israel synagogue just after 04:00 local time on Friday (...)
A man wanted over one of Australia's most infamous cold cases, dubbed the Easey Street murders, is on his way back to the country after being extradited from Italy.
Suzanne Armstrong, 27, and Susan Bartlett, 28, were stabbed to death in their (...)
Police in Australia said a woman was forced to fend off a deadly tiger snake in her vehicle while driving 50 miles per hour on a freeway outside Melbourne.
Police officers responded to reports of a barefoot woman trying to flag down vehicles on the (...)
A hiker who was lost in the backwoods of British Columbia for more than five weeks has been found alive.
Sam Benastick, 20, was reported missing on 19 October after he failed to return from a 10-day fishing and hiking trip in Redfern-Keily Park in (...)
Victoria Kjær Theilvig of Denmark has been crowned Miss Universe 2024, becoming the first Dane to ever win the competition. The 21-year-old, a competitive dancer, entrepreneur, and aspiring lawyer, beat more than 120 other contestants to win the (...)
Authorities in Australia's southeastern Victoria state issued evacuation orders on Saturday for residents in several towns as bushfires raged nearby, Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported.
The Country Fire Authority (CFA) issued "leave (...)
An Australian soldier has been posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross — the Commonwealth's highest military honour — for bravery during the Vietnam War.
The then 19-year-old Private Richard Norden ran into enemy fire to reach a wounded comrade and (...)
A Scottish man has landed his "dream job" as a lighthouse keeper on a remote Australian island.
Sandy Duthie, 42, jumped at the chance when the previous lighthouse keeper decided to retire after 25 years on Gabo Island, off the coast of (...)
Children as young as 10 can soon be jailed once again in Australia's Northern Territory (NT), after the government there lowered the age of criminal responsibility.
Australian states and territories have been under pressure to raise it, from 10 to (...)
With a night of bottomless drinks, a three-course dinner and an auction packed with royal memorabilia, the University of Queensland Monarchist League's annual ball is a sell-out.
Billed as a celebration of the Crown, a rendition of God Save The King (...)
Last week, authorities in the Indian city of Kolkata announced plans to eliminate trams entirely, retaining only a small heritage loop. In response, a group of activists is fighting to ensure that trams remain a vital mode of transport rather than (...)
