An woman has died and a man is in a critical condition in hospital after fire gutted their home in Melbourne's west.
One school in Ipswich produced both the best and the worst of end-of-year behaviour as 45,000 Queensland students finished Year 12.
Two men have been charged with a raft of drug and weapons offences after police raided two properties in Melbourne's west.
Tennis great John Alexander is trying again to win Liberal party preselection, this time in former Prime Minister John Howard's old seat of Bennelong.
Senator Nick Minchin has denied Tony Abbott is preparing to challenge for the Liberal leadership in a split over the emissions trading scheme.
The hottest day in Victoria since Black Saturday has ended with wild storms hitting metropolitan Melbourne.
A coroner has described decisions by authorities that led to the deaths of three truck drivers in a WA bushfire as "demonstrating extreme incompetence".
A lethal new batch of heroin is thought to be responsible for at least three fatal drug overdoses in Perth in a week, West Australian police say.
Every Queensland indigenous community has a substantial violence problem, and a new approach is needed to tackle the mayhem, a landmark report says.
Queensland's anti-corruption chief has apologised over a delayed report into the police handling of an Aboriginal death in custody.
A sexual predator who cruised Perth streets posing as a cabbie, picking up young drunk men and sexually assaulting them, has been jailed for at least 18 years.
A six-year-old Melbourne schoolboy has been bitten by a snake in the playground at lunchtime.
Sydney parents have been duped into paying a large sum of cash to an anonymous caller falsely claiming to have kidnapped their daughter.
A bushfire fanned by strong hot winds destroyed a house on Tasmania's east coast on Friday ahead of a southerly change expected to bring relief.
The federal government is considering modelling a new mental health early intervention service on the existing 30 'headspace' centres across Australia.
Two extra total fire bans for areas of NSW have been issued by the RFS, leaving just three regions free of bans as the state swelters through a heatwave.
The owner of two exclusive Sydney nightspots facing tough new licensing rules says people are more likely to be struck by lightning than by patrons at his bars.
The OECD's latest upbeat appraisal of Australia emphasises the importance of a formal trade agreement with China, the federal government says.
NSW Labor MPs and govt officials have been cleared by an inquiry of any wrongdoing surrounding the sale and planning decisions involving land in western Sydney.
A Melbourne man who strangled his controlling de facto wife in a fit of rage must serve at least 10 years in jail.
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