The Youth Advocacy Centre's chief executive says they're being punished for criticising the state government's approach to youth justice. 

The Queensland government has failed to appoint Indigenous leaders to its hospital boards, despite being legally required to do so. 

Darwin's Smith Street Mall has reopened to the public following what police say was a false report of a "credible threat" this morning.

As the Adelaide Festival launches its program for next year, its director confirms Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah has accepted an invitation to appear at next year's Adelaide Writers' Week.

Coach Sam Wright becomes another casualty in Collingwood's horror AFLW season, saying he will leave the club after the final-round match against  Essendon.

A regional Victorian woman says she may never need a guide dog again after using smart glasses, but says new rules restricting usage need more clarification.

The Duchess of Sussex said she was thrilled to return to the cooking show's team, after joining as a guest judge on MasterChef Australia in April.

A speeding driver in Victoria's south-west has been let off from a ticket after police came to the rescue to deliver a baby who would wait for no-one.  

Infrastructure Department officials categorically rejected the prime minister's claim regarding the Marrickville Golf Club grant at a Senate estimates hearing last night.

A half-hour call Beau Lamarre-Condon made to a police assistance line on the way to meet detectives has been played in court during the double murder trial.

Anthropic looks set to surpass SpaceX's record-breaking IPO despite so far failing to produce an annual profit.

The South Australian town of Tungkillo fears its rolling hill landscape, which is part of Australia's first dark sky reserve, is at risk of being tarnished if a proposed hyper-scale data centre goes ahead. 

WA's environmental watchdog releases for public comment a plan for a mega gas-fired power plant on the same day the state government trumpets an ambitious plan to almost double renewable energy generation.

A court has overturned the Gold Coast council's approval of a $130 million, 14-storey Kirra tower, finding its design "lacks coherence and harmony" and did not justify exceeding the height limit.

The 19-year-old is fighting for her life in intensive care after being shot by two masked men outside Fitzys Loganholme on Saturday night.

A Tasmanian senior secondary college has withdrawn invitations to politicians for its end-of-year celebrations, as the fallout from the premier's social media post about another school's Christmas event continues.

Meta has automatically rolled users on to its new Meta Account system, bringing account management for apps like Facebook and Instagram under one unified approach.

William Hamish Yeates previously admitted to creating sexually explicit deepfake images of a teenage girl before sharing them online.

Twenty-one days and an "army" of voters is all it took for a social media movement to grow so vocal it delivered Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva an historic fourth presidential term.

The parents of a four-year-old boy killed in a Canberra car crash have asked that the 80-year-old driver be granted leniency to "spend the rest of her life surrounded by her children and grandchildren".