It wouldn't do Australians any harm to give their brains a workout by reading big books, author Alexis Wright says.

New York prosecutors will ask the judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial to impose more fines on the ...

A Commonwealth Games leader has accused former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews of trying to "trash" the event's brand.

Prince William and his wife Kate have released a picture of their daughter Charlotte to mark the princess's ninth birthday.

Authorities were concerned a girl would be injured due to her mother's drug-fuelled neglect years before she was left to die ...

Solomon Islands MPs have selected Jeremiah Manele as their new prime minister, elevating the former foreign minister who has ...

The reforms will repeal criminal offences applying specifically to sex workers, create new offences to protect children and ...

A Burundi-born man accused of repeatedly breaching his visa-mandated curfew conditions has faced court.

After a bitterly fought trial, a judge has retired to think about whether Pauline Hanson made a racial slur when telling a ...

Australia's interest rates may need to stay higher for longer to beat lingering services inflation, an international economic ...

Two men who committed hundreds of acts of sexual abuse against children, including family members and those in their care at a childcare centre, have had their ...

A passionate plea to stop draining the "lifeblood" of country to provide water for mining towns has been put to the Rio Tinto ...