Tasmanian Labor leader Josh Willie says a bill to limit state election spending will help make campaigns a contest of ideas not finances. 

Oil prices have jumped, putting downward pressure on global stock markets, including the ASX. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 

Foodbank Australia’s latest hunger report found 3.6 million households in Australia are going hungry, 100,000 more than reported last year. 

Natalie Wood has paid the price for taking Essendon to a meagre one win, getting the sack with a round to go in the AFLW season.

Jimmy Anderson says if it was up to him, his Lancashire career "wouldn't have ended like this", after the club ended its 25-year association with England's leading Test wicket taker. 

Australia returns to the scene of Sandpapergate for the third Test in Cape Town, with the series on a knife edge. 

Manchester United's players were booed off at Old Trafford after the club fell to another shocking defeat, this time against Bournemouth in the Premier League,

It has been a month since the Wyndham Aboriginal Youth Corporation in northern Western Australia closed its doors without warning. The organisation has been credited with reducing crime rates.

Amid the political furore and media scrutiny surrounding the Kumanjayi Little Baby child protection review, the most shocking and obvious issue laid bare in the report — family and domestic violence — has struggled to command the same attention.

Serbia's elections came after almost two years of student-led demonstrations against perceived corruption and creeping authoritarianism.

As parliament returns without Helen Haines, federal MPs are being encouraged to sign a civility pledge that the independent MP backed. Follow live.

Emergency Services Minister Paul Edbrooke, a former firefighter, found the bullet on his car on Saturday.

A 19-year-old woman who was shot in the head and neck remains in a critical condition after the drive-by shooting on Saturday. 

Days after proposed timetable changes were abandoned, the government is promising to electrify the rail line from Kiama to Bomaderry and add additional tracks.

The Victorian government says Paul Guerra brings significant commercial, governance and stakeholder engagement experience to the role as chair of the Melbourne Market Authority.

Opposition Leader Jess Wilson says the phrase will be outlawed under incitement to violence laws if her party wins government.

Next weekend's Mexican Grand Prix shapes up to be the coronation of Kimi Antonelli as an F1 champion. Here is how he can seal the world title. 

Some passengers were unaware their flights were to Western Sydney International Airport.

Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has defeated right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro in a run-off to secure a fourth non-consecutive term.


 

The WA Liberals must make a difficult choice as they confront the threat of One Nation, and leader Basil Zempilas left no doubt about it while selling his vision for victory to the party faithful.