The Federal Government is urging political parties to be vigilant about foreign cyber threats. It's in response to claims Russia ordered a hidden campaign to influence the US presidential election
Has it been a sweltering summer where you are? Well spare a thought for the people of Moree, who are in the midst of a 27-day heatwave that has smashed records in NSW
President Donald Trump has signed executive orders to abandon the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It's basically a formality, since the trade deal hadn't even received US Senate ratification
"Who would have imagined a wolf-size otter?" Believe it, scientists say. It lived in a wetlands region of south-western China about 6.2 million years ago.
Here's what's coming up:
12:00pm AEDT: Professor Michelle Simmons delivers 2017 Australia Day address
2:30pm AEDT: New Health Minister Greg Hunt will be sworn in after Cabinet reshuffle
5:30pm AEDT: Australian of the Year ceremony begins
8:30pm AEDT: Decision handed down by UK's Supreme Court on whether PM can begin process of leaving the EU without parliament's assent
US President Donald Trump delivers on his campaign promise to formally withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and also institutes a government hiring freeze.
Australia's film and television union says it will take a fresh look at safety for the entire industry after a man was shot dead during the filming of a music video for Australian hip hop group Bliss n Eso in Brisbane's CBD.
The three-month-old victim of Melbourne's Bourke Street rampage is identified as Zachary Bryant, a "beautiful, loving, happy and perfect little baby" who his family say was the light of their lives.
Thousands of people gather in Melbourne's Federation Square to mourn victims of the Bourke Street car rampage, with a witness asking the crowd to now focus on how the community has come together in the wake of the attack.
As the mercury soars past 40 degrees Celsius in Sydney, spare a thought for the people of Moree, who are in the midst of a 27-day heatwave that has smashed records in New South Wales.
Emergency crews digging into an avalanche-slammed hotel are cheered by the discovery of three puppies who survived for days under tonnes of snow, giving them new hope for the 22 people still missing in the disaster.
Two women from NSW are charged with trafficking a commercial quantity of heroin after allegedly being caught with more than 700 grams of the drug on a freeway south of Adelaide.
Australia's big-hitting Test opener David Warner wins his second straight Allan Border Medal, while Southern Stars captain Meg Lanning wins the Belinda Clark award for the third time.
Scientists unearthed fossils of an intriguingly large otter as big as a wolf that frolicked in rivers and lakes in south-western China about 6.2 million years ago.
The spread of fake news online leads scientists to develop a "vaccine" to inoculate the public against what they describe as the damaging effects of misleading myths about climate change.
A common bacteria kills up to 16 critically endangered orange-bellied parrots at a captive breeding centre in Hobart, in what the environment department labels "a heartbreaking start to the new year".
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