Australia

A state police commissioner has been forced to answer further questions over his use of a taxpayer-funded chopper after an earlier apology.

A suburban home in Sydney’s southwest has been peppered with bullets overnight, with police now hunting the gunmen.

Thousands more Australians have snapped up their first homes under the government’s housing scheme, but experts warn the boom may be short-lived.

The deadline has been set for thousands of childcare centres in one Australian state to make sweeping changes.

He performed a dramatic citizen’s arrest in his underwear, but claims he is no hero.

Qantas has launched a major domestic fare sale, offering one-way flights from $99 across Australia.

Prison guards who roughly handled a one-legged inmate who had just had a seizure suspected he had taken illicit drugs, an inquest into his death has heard.

Bandmates have issued an emotional tribute to the late performer.

Mushroom cook Erin Patterson will rely on seven grounds to fight her murder and attempted murder convictions after lodging a bid to appeal her guilty verdicts.

China has been accused of widespread intellectual property theft and political meddling by Australia’s spy chief.

Optus is facing another network outage in NSW, warning it may affect triple-0 calls, less than two months after a nationwide blackout was linked to three deaths.

The man was arrested after ‘behaving erratically’.

The return of inflation is hurting retirees more than workers, although hopes for interest rate cuts that would help home owners are deteriorating.

Two men have been charged with murdering Sydney plumber John Versace, who was allegedly shot dead after being mistaken for a gangland figure.

South Australia’s top cop has revealed what’s next in the search efforts for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont, more than five weeks after he vanished from his family’s remote sheep station.