Cyclone Debbie is just hours away from making landfall in north Queensland, possibly as a category five storm, with winds of up to 190kph already battering the Whitsunday Islands and power cut to thousands of homes in Airlie Beach.
Cyclone Debbie is maintaining its intensity as it moves towards the Queensland coast, with meteorologists predicting it will make landfall about 1pm. Follow live.
Evacuation centres are designed to be a safe place to wait out a cyclone, not to be a home away from home. "They don't want people there longer than they need to be."
When a corporate dispute involves a drug-dealer turned businessman, a standover man, a Mafioso and a key targets of the Trade Union Royal Commission, it's likely it will end badly.
A hundred years ago people with an intellectual disability were locked up in "lunatic asylums". Today they're still locked away it's just behind the walls of suburbia,writes Alison Branley.
A top-order batting collapse is set to cost Australia any chance of a rare series win in India, with the hosts on the verge of victory in the fourth Test in Dharamsala.
Engineers are frantically working to solve engine problems on the Royal Australian Navy's two largest ships, with fears the Landing Helicopter Docks could be out of action for several weeks — ruling them out for any support efforts in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Debbie.
Foreign Correspondent travelled to the drought-stricken Bundelkhand region in central India to film underworld criminals at work, stealing sand — a resource that's now so valuable it's been dubbed "India's gold".
Melbourne is planning for hundreds of new apartments in the inner city, and more than a dozen new suburbs in the outer sprawl. So how does family life in the booming centre compare to the expanding fringes?
Tax Office officials say they heard "bureaucratic whispers" Attorney-General George Brandis could seek to intervene in litigation to claw back close to $1 billion from the late Alan Bond's failed Bell Group of companies.
The world's first commercially viable clear, solar glass is developed in Western Australia, and is being viewed as a game changer for the renewable energy industry.
Last week, all of the big four banks raised interest rates. According to one analyst, it wasn't because of the increased cost of borrowing on the wholesale market.
Outspoken British political figure Nigel Farage says he does not agree with comments made about Islam by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, saying it would be a mistake to outlaw Islam.
Australia is home to the only surviving 1914 Delage Type-S grand prix car in the world, and thanks to a world-first feat of technology this centurion is still on the road.
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