Australia

An inmate has confessed in court to fatally attacking a convicted child sex offender inside a Queensland jail.

After weeks of denying one was required, Anthony Albanese has finally bowed to pressure and announced a royal commission into anti-Semitism and social cohesion after the deadly Bondi Beach terror attack.

Former Home And Away actress Alea O’Shea has opened up about the devastating toll her brain cancer treatment has taken on her body.

Police say two men were convincing elderly drivers to open the bonnets of their cars while simultaneously stealing their money.

A group of activists has announced they will fight a controversial protest ban that was brought in following the Bondi Beach terror attack.

A man has died in hospital after being found with a head injury outside a Queensland home.

A man, armed with sharp objects, has been shot dead by police following a tense six-hour stand-off.

The most intense heatwave forecast to hit Australia in six years has descended.

A push to give the AFP and Home Affairs Department more counter-terrorism resources is intensifying after revelations that a national surveillance team was demobilised shortly before the Bondi attacks.

‘A better place with him here.’

ANDREW GREENE: One Labor insider believes a federal royal commission would ‘set us up for a year of pain’.

A disability worker has been charged over the death of a man in a house fire at an assisted living facility nearly five years ago.

Parents are being warned to check the batch number of a popular brand of baby formula that may be contaminated with a toxin. 

The Sydney-born singer shared a major update following multiple allegations about his behaviour with fans surfaced at the end of last year.

The identity and school of a WA teacher charged with sexually abusing a male student have been revealed.