Australia

A High Court case examining the local impacts of a coal mine expansion could exert far-reaching influence on fossil fuel project approvals.

Almost three years after a 95-year-old great grandmother with dementia symptoms was tasered and killed by a police officer, an inquest is set to begin.

Australia is expected to add another 1.4 million people over the next four years

Fresh details have emerged after a year 7 student was hit by a train in a traumatic incident at a Melbourne railway station.

The 17-year-old is the first person to be charged with planning a terrorist act in the ACT.

The young man has shared how he plans to spend the life-changing windfall.

The incident occurred as guards were transporting cash from a van to an ATM.

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says ‘silence is killing our babies’ as she demands ‘courage’ from governments after the alleged murder of her five-year-old niece in Alice Springs as Territory chief minister fires up.

At one property, police found more than 750 kilograms of meth, 16 kilograms of cocaine, massive sums of cash, other drugs, and electronics.

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Police are appealing for information and dash cam footage from witnesses.

The suspect fled the scene and police are appealing for information.

The Australian Defence Force said the 50-year-old veteran of the Afghanistan war died after his parachute became entangled with another parachute.

Nobody's Girl: A Memoir Of Surviving Abuse And Fighting For Justice, written by the late Virginia Giuffre, has picked up two prizes at the British Book Awards.

There was allegedly a physical altercation between the man and a security officer.