Chinese sponsors drop French soccer star Kylian Mbappé after a video surfaced appearing to show him commenting about a meme depicting him as Mao Zedong.

New Greens leader David Shoebridge will address the National Press Club, proposing a new tax cut and a welfare boost and declaring he will pursue "rivers of gold" from the resources sector.

New Australian Federal Police data has analysed teen boys being radicalised, shattering previous intelligence assumptions about who is targeted. 

A ceasefire brokered with the assistance of Melania Trump has come into effect in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky.

Two men have been charged with national security offences over last month's incident at RAF Fairford, a US-run military base in England.

The move breaks with a longstanding practice among Western European leaders of shunning direct contact with the Kremlin.

The senator lost a presidential election earlier this week to incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and was later ordered to hand in his passport to authorities in relation to a money laundering probe.

In a rush to force AI on us, policymakers are embracing a technology that is exceptionally good at destroying the things that bring meaning to our lives.

The federal government has invited more than 50,000 people to apply for compensation as it reinstates part of its controversial welfare compliance regime.

Tasmania's environment department is considering declaring Macquarie Harbour a "critical habitat" for the endangered Maugean skate, which could have significant ramifications for the state's west coast salmon industry.

The government asking the state's anti-corruption watchdog to look at the $15.4 billion South Road project has been spun as a proactive step against potential bikie infiltration, but there is devil is in the detail.

The University of Tasmania will place greater emphasis on in-person and supervised assessments to ensure students are not relying entirely on artificial intelligence. 

More than half of Australians say they're lonely — but rural areas are 'isolation hotspots. So, how are small community groups helping?

An inspection of a 24-hour holding facility for prisoners in NSW found menstruating women were left for days without access to sanitary supplies.

Moonee Valley councillors last night voted to scrub former mayor Cam Nation from plaques on dozens of council buildings after his sexual assault conviction.  

The man is accused of making a false statement that he was injured in the Bondi shooting and making subsequent fraudulent claims for compensation.

Thousands New South Wales motorists have been overcharged for their green slips after NRMA Insurance applied incorrect risk ratings to the locations in which vehicles were garaged.

A 167-year old example of an ancient species of tree in Geelong's Botanic Gardens takes top honours in the Victorian Tree of the Year competition. 

A Launceston software engineer has created an online tool that tracks hateful online rhetoric after his partner, a federal Labor MP, was subject to online abuse.

If you are feeling the squeeze at the check-out, official data confirms what your receipt likely shows: prices keep rising. Here are the reasons behind it.