Disability advocates slam One Nation senator Pauline Hanson's call for children with autism to be removed from mainstream classrooms, saying the "hurtful" idea would amount to "segregation".
A Labor- and Greens-dominated Senate committee is calling on the Government to suspend Centrelink's controversial debt recovery program until it reconciles "a fundamental lack of procedural fairness", but that recommendation is rejected by Coalition senators.
Queen Elizabeth II unveils the UK Government's revised plan for a not-so-hard Brexit at the formal opening of the new Parliament, but with no sign of the usual pomp and ceremony or her husband Prince Philip.
The man known as the "Godfather of Coral" is calling on the Federal Government to revoke its environmental approval for Adani's $16-billion coal mine, arguing two bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef have happened since the decision was made.
Prime Minister Theresa May apologises for the British Government's response to the deadly London tower block blaze and promises rehouse all those displaced within three weeks as the first funeral of a victim is held.
What do you do when your heart is racing at what feels like a million miles an hour? The answer, for some, is to lie on your back, with legs in the air, and blow hard.
Having a higher number of contacts on social platforms in order to stay in touch from afar is leaving regional Australians more open to harassment from trolls, a report finds.
A senior official from the US Department of Homeland Security says there is evidence that Russian hackers targeted election systems in last year's presidential election but denies any actual votes were manipulated.
Argentina plans to donate dozens of Nazi artefacts found in a hidden room behind a bookshelf to a Holocaust museum, but one prominent researcher is against the plan, saying we shouldn't "pay too much attention to [what] the perpetrators produced".
Submarine jobs in Adelaide could be in doubt because of an apparent U-turn by the French company contracted to build the future fleet, federal senator Nick Xenophon says.
A Victorian man who visited Phuket for 10 days last month and struggled to stay awake after returning home dies from Japanese encephalitis. Doctors say the risk of catching the mosquito-borne disease is "in the order of one in a million".
Balinese authorities confirm the hole used by four inmates, including an Australian, to escape from Kerobokan jail could have been dug from either inside or outside the facility.
Even before a price hike kicks in next month, welfare organisations are seeing a surge in the number of clients who are struggling to pay their electricity bills.
Uber's chief executive and co-founder Travis Kalanick resigns from the troubled ride-booking company after pressure from investors following allegations of sexual harassment and questions over his treatment of staff.
An extreme heatwave that has pushed temperatures to almost 50C in parts of the south-west United States has made it so hot, planes literally cannot take off from the runway.
From the deck of an aircraft carrier to the sub-zero temperatures of a Himalayan military outpost, tens of thousands people stop to practise the ancient discipline of yoga, with 50,000 devotees joining Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on their mats.
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