Malcolm Turnbull says he cannot remember anyone but Tony Abbott being "too drunk to get into the chamber", after Mr Abbott revealed he missed a crucial 2009 vote because he was out cold after a boozy dinner with Peter Costello.
Three students and a lecturer are injured in an attack by a baseball bat-wielding student in an Australian National University classroom, in an incident that has been described by the vice-chancellor as "shocking" for everyone involved.
Malcolm Turnbull desperately needs the postal ballot to be a win for the Yes side. A No result would leave a running sore that would further reduce his diminished authority, writes Michelle Grattan.
A driver who may have been blinded by the sun runs into a group of cyclists at West End, in inner-city Brisbane, injuring five people, including one who has critical head injuries, paramedics say.
The Australian Electoral Commission received 765,000 requests from eligible voters to either join the electoral roll or update their details to ensure postal ballot papers arrived at the right address.
A South Korean court jails Jay Y Lee for five years on a range of bribery and perjury charges, in fallout from a corruption scandal that led to the ouster of former president Park Geun-hye.
The Deputy Prime Minister's links to the Land of the Long White Cloud have been thrust into the spotlight in recent weeks, amid Federal Parliament's dual citizenship crisis.
A paroled rapist receives Victoria's harshest possible punishment for the brutal murder of his neighbour, Victorian mother Karen Chetcuti, near Wangaratta in January last year.
Highly venomous snakes are among a horde of 100 native reptiles seized by wildlife officers in Western Australia's Goldfields after a bid to send them interstate for sale on the black market is foiled.
As Spanish police piece together the final movements of the men involved in last week's attacks in Spain, French authorities are also investigating why some of the suspects made a whirlwind trip to Paris only days before the attacks.
A Gulf of Mexico storm rapidly intensifies and could be the biggest hurricane to hit the mainland United States in 12 years, forcing thousands to evacuate as it take aim at the heart of country's oil refining industry.
It's time the public started asking the hard questions about the point of the mission, especially if Australia is there for the long haul, writes C August Elliott.
Ahmed Fahour was handed almost $11 million after quitting as Australia Post CEO earlier this year. The severance package, twice what he had been expected to get, came amid political and community uproar about his fat pay deal.
A 10-year-old American boy saves his brother from drowning by imitating a scene from his favourite movie, earning film star Dwayne Johnson's respect as a "real-life hero".
A young black macaque adopts a chicken that wandered into the enclosure at an Israeli safari park, treating it like an infant and becoming inseparable from the rogue fowl.
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