The Federal Opposition will meet this morning to determine the fate of the same-sex marriage plebliscite, and all indications are that it will be rejected. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has made it known he will recommend his caucus block the bill
The most senior Republican in Washington has distanced himself from Donald Trump, saying he will instead focus on protecting his party's majorities in Congress. House Speaker Paul Ryan made the announcement at an emergency meeting of Republican politicians
The sister of Dylan Voller, the teenager who featured in a Four Corners expose on youth detention, says her family is not hopeful that the Northern Territory royal commission will improve the system. "We feel like it's just going to get brushed under the carpet," Kirra Voller said
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's election commitment to hold a same-sex marriage plebiscite looks doomed to fail, with the Opposition today expected to finally reject the Federal Government's legislation.
The leader of the US House of Representatives distances himself from Donald Trump as the Republican presidential candidate's campaign sinks deeper into crisis over his sexually aggressive remarks about women.
The sister of Dylan Voller — the teenager who featured in a Four Corners expose on youth detention in the Northern Territory — says her family feels "left out" of the royal commission and is not hopeful the inquiry will improve the system for young people.
Jim Molan, the man who co-authored Operation Sovereign Borders, tells Q&A Australia's border policy is a "success", defending facilities on Manus Island and Nauru as being "far ahead" of other refugee camps.
Researchers studying coral bleaching capture on video for the first time coral from the Great Barrier Reef convulsing before spewing out the algae that lives within it in response to heat stress.
The Australian Sports Commission has begun work on a new tool to help combat the use of illicit drugs by competitors, and bring sports up to date with changing drug use.
The imprisonment of accused and convicted terrorists in Australia's toughest jail, the Supermax, is under review amid concerns the majority of its inmates have united behind the Islamic State cause.
Changes allowing the Federal Government to intervene in the long-running Victorian firefighters dispute pass through Federal Parliament, 37 votes to 31.
A 27-year-old man is charged with a string of animal cruelty and animal torture offences after allegedly live baiting greyhounds at a property in Sydney's south-west.
Part of a recording between Gable Tostee and the woman he is accused of murdering, detailing alleged moments of violence and expletive-ridden conversations before her fatal fall from his Gold Coast apartment balcony, is played to a court.
A 27-year-old female construction worker believed to be a German national is killed in a fall 13 floors down a lift shaft at an East Perth building site.
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