Australia

A formal racial discrimination complaint will be investigated after a group of First Nations families were ordered to leave a country town's public pool.

Days after a man rang emergency services and claimed his partner had been injured in a car crash with a kangaroo, the 33-year-old has been charged with murder.

A second midwife has been charged months after an influencer midwife was accused of the death of a newborn following a home birth on the coast.

The landfall guessing game for forecasters continues as tropical cyclone Maila funnels weather and builds off the Australian coast.

Police allegedly found tanks of fuel stacked in the Queensland man’s backyard.

Three people have been arrested after an alleged shooting murder in a Melbourne residential apartment block.

Emergency services were called to a Brisbane home late Thursday, where a state MP Jimmy Sullivan was found dead.

An underground coal mine will be allowed to continue extracting for two extra years, but new restrictions will prevent the coal from being shipped overseas.

The Grace Tame Foundation, set up by the former Australian of the Year and sexual abuse survivor, has announced it is closing.

A major hunt is underway after a 30-year-old inmate escaped custody from a Sydney prison while being transported to hospital.

Arthur Freeman, the depraved father who threw his four year old daughter off the West Gate Bridge to her death, has been brutally attacked inside a maximum security prison.

Bruce Lehrmann has lost his final bid to overturn his defamation loss to Network 10 and Lisa Wilkinson, with Brittany Higgins declaring “finality to a painful chapter”.

Police investigating the death of a man last seen alive on AFL grand final day have made four new arrests.

One of Sydney’s busiest hospitals was put on high alert after the man was allegedly assaulted with a hammer.

Regions in the far north of Australia still recovering from a battering at the hands of cyclone Narelle have been warned to prepare for another huge weather event.