A 13-year-old boy has been charged after a drive-by shooting at a home in Perth's east.

Former Labor attorney-general and judge Robert McClelland is set to become the new head of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, after a turbulent first few years for the federal anti-corruption watchdog.

Australia's nuclear science agency and other highly sensitive government organisations have been targeted by a sophisticated, foreign bad actor that secretly weaponised online ads to install spyware. 

Greens leader David Shoebridge has insisted that Senator Jordon Steele-John should take personal leave, after the WA senator denied he had offered or agreed to step back while allegations against him were investigated.

Melbourne councils are looking to Europe for inspiration to clean up the Yarra River, in the hope of bringing swimmers back to the city's main fresh waterway.

An alleged brawl happened weeks after police responded to separate public fights at Glenelg and Henley Beach last month, which drew crowds of hundreds of young people.

A man is accused of lewd act during a baby-friendly movie session at a Sydney cinema, leaving a mum feels "really sad and hopeless".

Half a million people will lose access to food assistance in Gaza due to United Nations funding cuts, according to the World Food Programme.

Australia's sex discrimination laws must be overhauled to stop workplaces "penalising" pregnant women and mothers, a new report urges.

Officers found the body of a 48-year-old man in bushland off Kittyhawk Drive at Chermside just before midday on Sunday.

Prosecutors push to convict a teenager they allege "aided and enabled" the sexual assault of a woman in her Cairns home in 2025.

Five months after it was first announced, a report into Kumanjayi Little Baby's contact with the child protection system before her alleged murder is set to be tabled in parliament tomorrow.

Vanuatu has signalled it expects a change in Beijing's police presence after the Pacific nation signed the landmark Nakamal Agreement with Australia.

The navy's vice admiral said the decision for the person to continue to receive pay was "normal convention" during an investigation.

Australian-made autonomous submarines will be able to set sea mines and launch armed aerial drones, according to newly declassified details.

After a false start on day one, Australia and South Africa hope for far more action on day two of the second Test at St George's Park in Gqeberha. Follow live.

St Kilda AFL player Charlie Banfield accidentally ran over his close friend with a car on a private property in WA's south-west earlier this month.

Whyalla workers say critical safety equipment like heat suits contained "massive holes" when the plant was run by Sanjeev Gupta, whose company GFG Alliance is not taking responsibility for the broken blast furnace.

Independent MP Helen Haines has been critically injured in an attack near her Wangaratta office in regional Victoria. Follow the latest in our live blog.

A New South Wales man is given a two-year good behaviour bond for trading fake gold bullion for an electric mountain bike.