Federal budget deficits will increase by more than $10 billion in coming years as the Government battles low wage growth and falling company profits, but it insists it will still return a surplus in 2020/21.
The good news from the MYEFO is Treasurer Scott Morrison appears to have achieved an improvement in the current year compared to the May budget — the bad news is the forecasts for next year and beyond look shocking, writes Ian Verrender.
India releases a new power plan promoting a dramatic increase in renewable energy, raising doubts about the Indian-owned Adani Group's massive coal mine in Queensland.
Two men have been forcibly evicted by police from a Perth court hearing of a case involving former One Nation senator Rodney Culleton, who walked out after demanding the men leave.
A man who sexually molested and then strangled Victorian girl Zoe Buttigieg in her bedroom after a night of drinking and smoking cannabis, in a crime the judge described as "incomprehensible", receives a life sentence.
Finding a snake in your Christmas tree is not the kind of surprise anyone wants during the holiday season, but that is exactly what one woman discovered in her Melbourne home.
Zsa Zsa Gabor, the actress and Hollywood socialite who had a penchant for calling everyone "dah-ling" in her thick Hungarian accent, has died at the age of 99, her publicist says.
Naomi Hiratsuka is just one of the indomitable parents left behind when their children were swept away in the 2011 Fukushima tsunami. But her long search for her daughter's remains finally brought some closure after her unthinkable loss.
Domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty appeals to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to let Dr Chamari Liyanage, who killed her abusive husband Dinendra Athukorala, to stay in Australia.
France reaches a compromise with Russia on a UN resolution that it says will prevent "mass atrocities" in besieged areas of Aleppo, where thousands of trapped civilians and rebel fighters await evacuation in freezing temperatures.
Independent candidate Tony Windsor raised nearly half a million dollars in donations to try to oust the Deputy Prime Minister from his seat at this year's federal election, donations records show.
Nine people, including a Canadian tourist, are killed after gunmen launch a series of attacks in and around a medieval castle in the southern Jordanian town of Karak.
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