A new parliamentary inquiry recommended by Education Minister Jason Clare is part of a bid to dramatically lift tertiary completion rates from 60 per cent today to at least 80 per cent by 2050. It ...

After weeks of campaigning, debates and speculation, voters in South Australia are heading to the polls in what has been ...

Staff and scientists on Lizard Island waited out a category 5 cyclone from inside a bunker built so solid they did not even ...

A young North Queensland man told a woman he could “kill you right now” as he choked her and only stopped when she started fighting back, a Townsville court has heard.

Buying a home with the proceeds of crime will be a lot harder from July 1, but the state real estate body says agents fear ...

Aussie families are staring down the barrel of an economic meltdown that could be “more severe” than the 2008 Global ...

In a rallying cry to property and development leaders, Mayor Nick Dametto declared Townsville “open for business,” pledging ...

The health union is requesting an urgent meeting with government negotiators after rejecting its latest pay offer.

Geelong council faces fierce criticism from unions and MPs over proposed creche closures at four of its leisure centres, with 26 jobs potentially impacted and concern parents will lose what some see ...

ACT Brumbies scored four tries in the last 21 minutes to produce a come-from-behind Super Rugby win over the Chiefs in James ...

Queensland women and babies would be the guinea pigs in a new, experimental maternity model that would allow birthing in units without an obstetrician, pediatrician or anaesthetist on site.

A veteran cop retiring after almost four decades will work his last shift at the same police station he helped open almost 17 ...