Donald Trump addresses Congress for the first time and issues a broad call for overhauling the nation's healthcare system, significantly boosting military spending and plunging $1 trillion into upgrading crumbling infrastructure.
Public servants from the nation's chemical regulator are being forced to work from a local fast food restaurant in northern New South Wales, due to a lack of office space.
Centrelink's decision to release a welfare recipient's personal information to a journalist is unprecedented and will have a chilling impact on public criticism, lawyers say.
A 23-year-old Ballarat woman who was vomiting and had a fever died hours after being told she probably had a virus and was not sick enough to be taken to hospital, an inquest is told.
Today's gross domestic product announcement is evidence that the economy is growing again. But compared to previous decades, the current rate isn't worth celebrating.
Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick apologises after a video surfaces showing him getting into an argument with a driver for the ride service who complained about pay rates.
A Sri Lankan-born doctor who killed her abusive husband in Western Australia's Mid West speaks publicly for the first time after being released from prison, saying she is looking forward to a "peaceful life".
A Malaysian court charges two women — one Indonesian and one Vietnamese — with murder over their alleged involvement in the killing of the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader.
A Queensland fisherman who was paid $210,000 to give up his net licence as part of a government buyback is exploiting a legal loophole to keep fishing.
Police in Canberra are looking to speak to a woman who allegedly assaulted a man for talking during a Valentines Day screening of the erotic drama 50 Shades Darker.
Bernard Tomic's commitment to tennis is expected to come under the microscope again after the Australian pulled out of his first round match in Acapulco citing "unbearable heat".
A pair of New South Wales sheep farmers discover snakes have eyes bigger than their stomachs, after pulling an entire snake from the corpse of another.
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There is a renewed political fight over funding for disadvantaged schools, as the national education union begins a bus tour that will protest what it says are rollbacks to the Gonski funding model.
The Liberal Party is split over whether restrictions on freedom of speech should be watered down, putting pressure on the Prime Minister and Cabinet over which side of the party to favour.
Federal police say a man who blew up a van out the front of the Australian Christian Lobby building in Canberra last year was most likely trying to take his own life.
A 42-year-old Australian electrician alleged to be helping Islamic State develop sophisticated missile technology is behind bars after being arrested at Young, north-west of Canberra.
Cambodia's authoritarian Prime Minister Hun Sen sympathises with US President Donald Trump's antipathy towards the media, saying both he and Mr Trump see the press as stirring anarchy.
Australia's latest multi-billion-dollar defence spend is put on display for the first time, with the arrival of the EA-18G Growler attack aircraft marking the country's first entry into electronic warfare.
The mystery of a fireball crossing the Tasmanian skyline is solved, but not before Facebook users had declared alien life had finally made it to Tasmania.
US President Donald Trump is preparing to release an updated executive order on immigration this week — here's a breakdown of what we can expect from it.
During a fiery Senate Estimates hearing, Attorney-General George Brandis repeats arguments he is not at odds with his West Australian counterpart over when he was personally involved in litigation to claw back $1 billion from the failed Bell Group of companies.
Canada's Disability Minister urges Australian parliamentarians to focus on the rights of the disabled population when debating how to fund support for the sector.
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