Australia

Mortgage-holders will be given an insight into the likelihood of further rate hikes when minutes from the Reserve Bank's latest meeting are revealed.

One of Gus Lamont’s grandparents has been charged with firearm offences as police search the Oak Park Station, where he was last seen, for evidence.

Nine paid a woman $700,000 in hush money to stop her going public with allegations against star reporter Nick McKenzie, in a deal the media company tried to keep secret for 50 years. 

Dry heat, storms and gusty winds are ramping up the fire danger across large swathes of the country as authorities warn there is plenty of fuel left to burn.

A hardline policy banning arrivals from ‘declared terrorist’ hotspots in more than a dozen Muslim countries and a beefed up border taskforce is being considered by new Liberal leader Angus Taylor.

A major Australian supermarket misled consumers into believing its prices had been cut when in fact they had increased, a court has been told.

Bung Siriboon vanished 15 years ago while walking to school and has not been seen since.

A former Australian Federal Police deputy will take over as interim Queensland Police Commissioner.

The bizarre circumstances surrounding an elderly grandfather’s mistaken kidnapping in Sydney continue to evolve after police confirmed they believe he is still alive.

Police are reportedly tracking a man who fled into bushland near the Queensland-NSW border after shots were fired.

A new apprenticeship scheme could soon help bring construction costs down, but another key factor has been identified as the biggest impediment to new housing.

Police were called after reports of a group armed with machetes pursuing a young woman and her friends near a Northern Territory hospital.

The surviving gunman from the Bondi Beach terror attack has faced court for the first time on 15 murder charges, uttering his first public words.

Detectives investigating the suspected murder of four-year-old Gus Lamont have confirmed a fresh search of a key location, just 11 days after police declared his disappearance a major crime.

The waitress was allegedly chased down and stabbed by a former colleague, who had been fired for inappropriate behaviour hours earlier.