Senator Jacqui Lambie is calling on the One Nation candidate and creator of the party's 'Please Explain' cartoons to drop out of the race for an upper house seat in next month's Victorian election.

Defence personnel based at Victoria Barracks in Sydney have begun "packing boxes" for a Christmas eviction, despite the NSW premier calling on the federal government to reverse its move to sell the historic site.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau releases two preliminary reports into close call incidents at the airport in August.

As parliament suspended business to offer messages of support for attack victim MP Helen Haines, an orange cockatoo was poignantly perched in her empty seat in the House of Reps.

A 59-year-old man is charged after over the alleged assault of Amanda Dow's husband on Sunday.

Two brothers and their brother-in-law suspected of attacking a church have been arrested following a shootout with Jordanian security forces.

The case has prompted widespread public outrage on the southern island where the heavy American troop presence has remained a sensitive issue.

The company behind Claude could be floated on the Nasdaq as soon as next month, despite making a $114 billion loss in the first half of 2026.

Technology and artificial intelligence have enthralled investors, and Australia's super funds have dived in with their ears pinned back. But now comes the reckoning.

More businesses are falling behind on payments as operators face policy changes, inflation and interest rate rises.

The Wheelaroos will have prime-time exposure this Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup, and they are hoping to use it to take their rough-and-tumble, uniquely inclusive sport mainstream.

A group of parents of transgender and gender diverse children has written to Tasmanian MPs urging them to support a bill that would ban harmful conversion practices in the state.

Despite being the first Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise some drug use, advocates say people are still dying from preventable overdoses, in part due to a narrative that "others" them.

Police are investigating a suspected arson attack at the Moonee Vale Clinic overnight, as well as a separate incident outside a Brighton home.

Brisbane and the Gold Coast are on track for their wettest October in six years as the Bureau of Meteorology predicts more showers and thunderstorms across south-east Queensland.

Tens of thousands of bananas are ruined as starving bats search for food on NSW Mid North Coast farms. 

Child protection workers acted in error when they "informally" placed three South Australian children in the care of family members, against their mothers' wishes, the state's Ombudsman has found.

Australia are set to favour Marnus Labuschagne's ability to soak up pressure against the new ball and help the batters around him, and to give him one more chance for the third Test in South Africa.

A failed bidder in the tender to build Hobart's stadium is set to have its costs reimbursed by the Tasmanian government — up to an amount the ABC understands is in the millions.

Peter Gibney says he doesn't want to stop working and nor can he afford to. He says he's being punished for that by the age pension system.