A traditional owner has been successful in a legal bid over a regulator's decision to allow Santos to drill eight wells in a gas field off the Tiwi Islands.
The governor of Iran's Kurdistan province says three people have been killed amid protests in several cities following the death of a woman in custody.
Five AMP companies have been fined $14.5 million after the organisation was found to have charged members fees for services they were not receiving.
The owner of the property where Bruce Saunders' body was found in a woodchipper says it didn't make sense after asking questions about the horrific death.
A man has admitted involvement in laundering more than half a million dollars through Brisbane businesses after using stolen identities to set up accounts.
Queensland police say the decision to ban the use of controversial spit hoods in watch-houses was in direct response to community concerns.
Queensland Police has established a task force to review DNA testing from evidence, as a report into the state's forensic lab is handed down.
The inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker has heard of concerns an officer had about potential payback after the shooting.
Convicted murderers in NSW will be denied parole unless they reveal the location of their victim's body, under new legislation to be introduced to parliament.
The use of controversial spit hoods has been banned in watchhouses across Queensland.
Bruce Saunders was killed before his body was fed into a wood chipper after unwittingly becoming embroiled in a "love quadrangle", a Brisbane court has heard.
A teenage girl has revealed words can't compare to the damage her father did to her life and so many others by killing her mum, Samantha Fraser.
A Rebels Outlaw Motorcycle Gang president and six associates have been charged with more than 50 burglary, weapon, and drug offences in Queensland.
An elderly man has received a suspended jail term after he drove a car over his 90-year-old partner and killed her when his sandal got stuck under the brake.
Manly Sea Eagles hooker Manase Fainu has lost a last bid for freedom after being found guilty of stabbing a church leader at a Mormon event in October 2019.
A man has been arrested after firing as many as five shots inside Canberra Airport, forcing passengers to evacuate and planes to be grounded.
Ali Rachid Ammoun is charged with three firearm offences following a shooting at Canberra airport and remains in custody until at least September 5.
Detectives will question a man over the sudden death of a woman in Queensland's north following his arrest at Proserpine on Sunday night.
The tech giant will pay the fine for misleading users when it told them it would not obtain data about their locations.
Australian academic being tried with ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi testifies in court for the first time.
Four children aged three, four, seven and eight have been taken from a central Queensland property, with police looking for a man in a four wheel drive.
West Australian taxpayers are set to be spared some of the cost of the Premier Mark McGowan's defamation case against billionaire litigant Clive Palmer.
The victim of a teenage rapist found guilty of sexual assault and choking has called him a monster and said he belongs in jail.
Two men who shot dead a patron and security guard from a car outside Melbourne's Love Machine nightclub in 2019 have faced a pre-sentence hearing.
The NSW government is closer to banning the Nazi swastika as laws outlawing their display pass the Legislative Assembly.
Police have been accused of not following proper procedures in a murder investigation at a Queensland man's Brisbane committal hearing on Tuesday.
Manly Sea Eagles hooker Manase Fainu was an unimpressive and evasive witness who gave contradictory answers, a prosecutor has told the jury in his trial.
A 49-year-old man has been charged with the stabbing murders of a man and a woman at a home in southern Brisbane.
Darryl Young appeared before a magistrate for the first time after being charged with killing three family members on a remote Queensland cattle property.
A 49-year-old man is assisting police with their inquiries after the bodies of two people were found at a property in Brisbane's south.
Many Sea Eagles hooker Manase Fainu, giving evidence at his trial, has told a jury he did not bring a knife to a Sydney church dance and denies the stabbing.
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