Australia

A Sydney businessman was arrested after police alleged he spiked his wife’s tea with pesticide in an attempted murder plot spanning over nearly two years.

Serious questions are being asked of mental health services after two patients absconded from a Sydney hospital and were allegedly involved in three deaths.

An activist’s efforts to overturn the Australian Government’s designation of Hamas as a terrorist organisation has been decided by a court.

A man has been arrested after allegedly making threats to kill Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

The bomb squad has been deployed, a school has been placed into a lockdown and a man has now been charged in Melbourne.

The hotel failed to raise the alarm when a mother and three children were stranded for hours in rough conditions.

Alcoa has agreed to pay $55 million to restore a forest habitat that's home to protected species after clearing it for bauxite mining without approvals.

Two schools were placed into lockdown after a man with a backpack allegedly sparked a bomb scare in a Melbourne suburb.

AARON PATRICK: The academic’s invitation to the Sydney Writers’ Festival demonstrates how arts festivals have been ideologically captured, Jewish leaders say.

The man was ‘kicked out’ of his exit row seat on a Jetstar flight.

TOM RICHARDSON: Bank shares have surged in February as they impress investors with cost control and benefit from the flow through of three interest rate cuts in 2025.

A neo-Nazi supporter who railed against Jews in a hate-filled Australia Day rally speech has been jailed for his offensive and abhorrent crime.

Bizarre CCTV footage shows the moment an alleged thief flees a crime scene after accidentally setting himself on fire.

Netflix star Matt Wright has been transferred into Darwin jail’s Complex Behavioural Unit, designed for inmates with significant mental health and disability needs, sparking questions over who signed off on it.