Australia

Why an award-winning reporter who spent years getting an ‘absurd’ blackmail charge against him dropped is still fighting one of Australia’s highest courts and a leading law journal to clear his name.

AARON PATRICK: If the Prime Minister continues to be seen misleading voters, he risks losing the most precious quality of any political leader: respect.

Hecklers who booed a Welcome to Country during an Anzac Day dawn service have been dealt their punishments, but they remain unrepentant for their actions.

Shoppers have been forced to lock themselves inside stores, with a video showing a man with a large knife.

After an American beauty queen vanished without trace, a murder trial has been told someone called the US consulate with a ‘strange’ story.

Posing as consultants, the spies offer lucrative payments to government and military personnel.

A viral video involving two Sydney nurses that made international headlines last year may be thrown out of court as their bombshell trial looms.

Peter Liddy was released on Thursday but the government is fighting to get him put back behind bars.

A State's police Budget is under fire after an independent review uncovered a looming $400m deficit, triggering a corruption watchdog referral.

Jules Neale says she has been ‘overwhelmed’ by the Australian public’s support following her high-profile breakup from Brisbane Lions player Lachie Neale.

‘That’s when it will really start to bite.’

A woman accused of slavery offences after returning from Syria has hit a stumbling block before her latest court appearance.

An elderly couple have been seriously injured and a man has been shot during a suspected home invasion in a ‘fairly quiet’ neighbourhood.

Police sprung the alleged offenders, including four boys, in a series of raids weeks after a man was allegedly kidnapped and his body left near a playground.

A parent has been sanctioned after storming onto the field during a heated on-field exchange at a junior sports match.