Kenyan-born Lucy Gichuhi is free to take Bob Day's seat in the Federal Senate, after the full bench of the High Court shoots down Labor's last-minute bid to challenge her eligibility based on questions about her citizenship.
The man accused of killing six people and injuring dozens of pedestrians during a driving rampage through Melbourne's Bourke Street mall tells a court he is "the saviour".
Scientists say there just are not enough Australians working in fields like quantum physics and they are concerned the visa changes will make it even harder for them to make the next scientific breakthrough.
Remember the US carrier group supposedly steaming towards North Korea to deliver a deterrent message to Kim Jong-un? It was actually in the Indian Ocean, carrying out exercises with the Royal Australian Navy.
Federal Liberal backbencher Stuart Robert's evidence to Queensland's corruption watchdog about his fundraising activities appears to be contradicted by his own website.
"It's no secret the agency is changing — and that doesn't have to be a bad thing" — that's one of many official talking points handed to public servants who are seemingly scared to speak freely about their department's relocation to Armidale.
Ministers are being told to detail which of their departments are suitable for relocation to a regional area, as well as justify why any are not, in a new decentralisation push from the Federal Government.
Clive Palmer says he will cancel the registration of his Palmer United Party, which at its height boasted four members of Federal Parliament with the mining magnate himself representing a seat on the Sunshine Coast.
In a dry outback quarry, 500 kilometres from Australia's east coast, a volunteer unearths Richmond's first dinosaur-bird, a species previously unseen in what was Australia's inland sea.
Staff at the Aboriginal medical service in Mount Isa say children with dangerously high blood lead levels are being treated with hygiene advice and colouring books, and that the current public safety campaign is not working for Indigenous children.
A herd of "absolutely enthralled" cattle follow a "wayward" beaver around a pasture on their Saskatchewan farm, in what the ranch owners called "possibly the most Canadian thing we have ever witnessed".
Netball may be considering rolling back the widely praised pay and conditions for players that saw it revelling in praise just months ago, according to Liz Ellis.
An art festival defends its upcoming show featuring local performers covered in blood, quashing media reports a bull will be slaughtered in front of an audience. And a warning — this story contains some really disgusting images.
In the wake of WWII a generation of Holocaust survivors moved to the every corner of the planet. Now, a new project brings them together to explore just what it means to be a "survivor".
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