US President Donald Trump defends his firing of FBI director James Comey, saying he had "lost the confidence of almost everyone in Washington" and "when things calm down, they will be thanking me".
The nation's biggest banks are expected to be briefed today about the Government's proposed new $6 billion levy, a measure that has angered them and raised fears customers will be slugged with extra costs. Follow live.
If there's one thing we've learned from recent years, it's that there's a big difference between outlining a budget and actually getting the Senate to pass what's in it.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten will use his budget reply speech to argue the Federal Government should maintain a temporary tax on high-income earners.
An Australian soldier taking part in training at a Northern Territory facility commonly used for live firing exercises dies in the second fatal military training incident in the past week.
Senator Derryn Hinch announces his support for the Government's education overhaul, saying he is satisfied the changes are fair, less than 24 hours before the Government introduces the bill into Parliament.
After a single-day trial, prosecutors in Indonesia's Aceh province are demanding two young gay men be punished with 80 strokes of the cane, a move which would make them the first in the country punished by the courts specifically for homosexuality.
Consumer advocates say the almost 66,000 complaints to Australia's telecommunications watchdog in the second of half last year are just the tip of the iceberg. Here's some advice on what to do if you're having problems with your telephone or internet provider.
TJ Carpenter has been homeless for 12 years but he is getting his life on track with a place to stay, a budget and goals for the future, which include finding the right person to settle down with.
In addition to Advance Australia Fair, an alternative version of the national anthem will be played at tonight's first match of the Indigenous round of the NRL season as part of a push to start a conversation about other anthem options.
Once you've reached the pinnacle of your sport and then lost that status, how do you cope, and how do you drive yourself to get back on top? It's the question Jason Day has been asking himself for months.
The Federal Government's plan to drug-test welfare recipients is slammed by anti-poverty advocates who say it is a discriminatory tool for profiling vulnerable people.
The mother of a man who took his own life after being targeted by a scam on the gay dating app Grindr, tells the ACT's Children court her "beautiful and kind" son was "snatched from life".
A former nurse pleads guilty to the degrading and humiliating filming of an elderly dementia patient she was assigned to care for at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide.
Millions of five-cent pieces are thrown into a giant heart in Canberra to raise money for the Love Your Sister charity, created by Connie Johnson and her brother actor Sam Johnson, in what Connie calls her final hurrah.
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