Australia’s High Court will next week hear a major constitutional challenge to the federal government’s new prohibited hate-group regime, in a case that could define how far…

Australian grain growers are again pleading with visitors to stay out of flowering canola paddocks as the annual rush for spectacular social-media photographs brings trespassers onto working…

A young Queensland boxer who joined two teenagers in a violent vigilante sting targeting a 70-year-old gay man has been sentenced to two years in prison with…

A former senior Australian industrial relations judge and Monash University law lecturer has pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing child abuse material, more than 18 months…

For a few extraordinary minutes at Allianz Stadium, one of rugby league’s oldest and most bitter rivalries stopped being about winning. South Sydney and the Sydney Roosters…

A decision on the long-term future of one of the Hunter Valley’s biggest coal operations has been pushed to the end of September, as newly appointed NSW…

The funding framework available to Ben Roberts-Smith’s defence caps senior counsel at $3,650 a day, significantly below the maximum rate Commonwealth agencies can negotiate for senior barristers…

Former prime minister Tony Abbott has called for ministers to face questioning over explosive claims that Australian counter-terrorism officers were pressured to give greater attention to far-right…

Monash University has broadened access to its paid Gender Affirmation Leave, allowing continuing and fixed-term employees to access up to 30 days over the course of their…