Almost one in three businesses have yet to add an electric car to their fleet and half say they will not make a full move until after 2030, a new study finds.
It's never been more difficult to find a rental in Australia as a report confirms rental vacancy rates have hit record lows in some capital cities.
Optus is being slammed for "inadequate" compensation offered to customers after an outage affected millions of people and small businesses.
Nauru President David Adeang says he isn't pulling his country from the Pacific Islands Forum, while Australia will offer resettlement to Tuvalu residents.
A shortage of baits is frustrating efforts to stop the spread of fire ants, which pose a huge threat to the Australian economy and the environment.
A former junior police officer has described his terror when a colleague pointed a gun at his head over a film spoiler.
NSW's environmental watchdog is rewriting search rules after the Forestry Corporation looked for an endangered nocturnal glider during the day.
The deaths of four police officers in Victoria were avoidable if not for serious safety breaches at a trucking firm, a court has heard.
Short-term accommodation owners in Western Australia will be offered a $10,000 sweetener to rent their properties to long-term tenants to boost housing supply.
Star Entertainment Group has avoided a possible board spill at its annual general meeting as its new CEO has described working 18-hour days on its turnaround.
The family of slain paramedic Steven Tougher have planted a fig in his memory in an emotional ceremony in Sydney.
A jury has awarded a child abuse survivor almost $6 million, finding the AFL's Western Bulldogs were negligent in giving a pedophile special access to the boy.
City of Canada Bay mayor Angelo Tsirekas has been suspended by the local government minister after an integrity commission found he engaged in corrupt conduct.
Police are conducting fresh bushland searches in southern Tasmania as part of investigations into a 2017 missing person case.
Some mortgage holders are already trimming their spending and working extra hours, with the latest rise to put more pressure on households and the economy.
Seven years after dressing up as a cop and beating two men with hammers, leaving them in a pool of blood, a man has been jailed for a decade for the crime.
A High Court decision ruling indefinite detention illegal has led to calls for an urgent review of the cases of stateless people held in detention.
First responders with post-traumatic stress disorder and workers facing domestic violence may soon have greater protections, with laws closer to passing.
Corporate tax payments broke a record in 2021-22 but the federal government is worried some large multinationals are still not paying their fair share.
National Australia Bank has been looking at how its business and personal customers are dealing with rising interest rates, and the news isn't too bad.
Artificial intelligence will be used to identify and flag threatening messages sent to victims' bank accounts, in a tool to be shared with banks worldwide.
Massive amounts of hand sanitiser could be put to new use after thousands of tonnes of the product expired in government stores.
Australian supermarkets have been given an F for fail on plastic waste reduction, with an audit detailing some disturbing practices.
Optus has offered its customers 200GB of data for the holiday season after a mass outage affected millions of Australians.
Anthony Albanese has stepped quickly into stride on the Cook Islands as he prepares for crunch talks with Pacific Islands Forum leaders.
In a historic decision, the High Court has upended a 20-year-old determination and ruled indefinite detention of immigrants with nowhere else to go is unlawful.
Pressure is mounting for a national ban on the use of engineered stone as one state sets a deadline on talks and threatens to go it alone.
Police have released CCTV footage from an incident in which a man was tasered outside a care facility after criticism from human rights advocates.
Demetrios Charisiou has admitted a $395 million investment fraud involving NDIS-supported housing, claiming he was in a manic state during the offending.
An Australian family of three has fled the violence-stricken Gaza Strip through the Rafah border into Egypt, but another 76 Australians remain in the war-zone.
Kathleen Folbigg could have her convictions for killing her four children officially overturned after earlier receiving an unconditional pardon.
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