Geoff Hunt shot dead his wife and children before taking his own life on a New South Wales farm because he believed they were dependent on him, a coronial inquest is told.
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie calls for a police investigation into former Labor minister Peter Garrett's about-face on claims he was offered an improper payment from Clubs New South Wales.
Russian warships launch cruise missile strikes against what the Kremlin says are Islamic State targets in Syria, as Vladimir Putin's warplanes go into action again in support of a major ground offensive launched by regime troops.
Auburn's Deputy Mayor Salim Mehajer is charged with intimidation after he allegedly threatened to find out where the father of a Lindt cafe siege survivor lived and to kidnap his children.
Liberal Party federal director Brian Loughnane has announced he is standing down, in what some Liberal MPs see as the natural conclusion to the leadership spill which felled Tony Abbott.
Harrowing accounts of sexual abuse and cruelty at four children's homes run by the Salvation Army are heard as Adelaide hearings for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse go into a third day.
A Tasmanian mother who illegally uses medicinal cannabis to control her child's life-threatening seizures says it is too dangerous for her daughter to participate in the New South Wales trial of the drug.
Tyalgum in north-east New South Wales wants to make a name for itself by working on a plan to become the first town in Australia to voluntarily disconnect from the electricity grid.
A senior CFMEU official tells the royal commission into trade unions he would have called in the police if he had known that bribery or extortion was taking place at the union he ran.
A 48-million-year-old horse predecessor, whose exceptionally well-preserved remains were discovered in Germany, still has its foetus and some soft tissues intact, researchers confirm.
Volkswagen's new boss says the auto giant needs more than a year to fix all its pollution-cheating cars, as the company suspends four employees suspected of being behind the global deception.
Protesters storm the red carpet at the glitzy premiere of Suffragette staring Meryl Streep, staging a lie-in and saying the fight for women's equality was not yet over.
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