Labor senator Stephen Conroy has announced his shock retirement from politics. He tabled a speech in the Senate last night which said it was "time to say farewell", but Acting Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek was caught by surprise when she was asked about the news during a press conference earlier today
The Football Federation of Australia has admitted many W-League players have been playing for nothing, but that could change in time for the 2016/17 season. Competition to pay higher wages to female athletes is heating up, with both Netball Australia and the AFL making announcements in recent weeks
Search and rescue crews have found a body in a dam in western Victoria. It's believed to be that of a farmer who was swept away by floodwaters on Wednesday
Labor senator Stephen Conroy announces his intention to retire from politics, in a move which appears to have caught at least some of his colleagues by surprise.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull warns One Nation and his own outspoken backbencher George Christensen that demonising all Muslims is playing into the hands of extremist groups.
A man has pulled out of a line of cars waiting at a breath-testing station and crashed his car soon after, killing himself and his two-year-old daughter, Tasmania Police say.
As Pauline Hanson re-enters Parliament, relatives of Chinese gold rush miners conduct a long walk to honour their ancestors' journey and remember a long history of xenophobia.
The creators of the Lucas Mill — an Australian-made sawmill exported to more than 100 countries worldwide — employ a private investigator and a team of patent lawyers to stop a Chinese company selling a near-exact copy of their hugely successful product.
A former Adelaide taxi driver who caused a fatal head-on collision in the Adelaide Hills is a "bad driver", who has a history of driving offences, the District Court hears.
Any oil spill from BP's proposed project in the Great Australian Bight would almost certainly hit some of South Australia's biggest tourism and aquaculture hotspots, research shows.
The media giant's face-blurring technology does not seem to discriminate, as a cow was discovered in a Street View image of Cambridge with its face obscured.
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