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Prime Minister Scott Morrison, meanwhile, said that it was “regrettable” his own senators even voted for the motion in the first place.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten announced the policy shift on Monday following the leaked religious freedom review.

The Australian prime minister has been slammed for his “shallow approach” to tackling labour shortage.

Facebook has yet again become the victim of a cyber attack.

The buyer of the shredded Banksy artwork has proceeded with the sale.

Chinmay Naik was also ordered to pay the university’s $8,000 legal fee on Friday.

Alex Turnbull posted a Facebook video on Thursday, telling voters to reject the party at the upcoming Wentworth by-election on Oct. 20.

Médecins Sans Frontières wants the immediate evacuation of asylum seekers from Nauru.

Kelly Val Smith, 40, was sentenced to at least two years in jail on Wednesday.

William Nordhaus and Paul Romer have been awarded the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (colloquially known as the economics Nobel).

There is little dispute the pay packages for leading chief executives have reached gross and excessive proportions while the wages of poorly paid Australians have stagnated.

Further upgrades to one of the Northern Territory's high-priority cattle routes has started, following the start of construction for Package 1 in June.

Religious schools could be given a weapon to discriminate against LGBTI, according to a new report.

Adolf Hitler’s oldest male and living descendant has come out of obscurity to take a swing at Donald Trump.

Viktoria Marinova was found brutally murdered and raped in a park in the Danube town of Ruse on Saturday.

A Banksy painting has self-destructed after fetching £1.04 million (AU$1.93 million) at auction.

Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for their work in trying to end sexual violence during war and armed conflict.

One of the 2018 Nobel Prizes in physics went to Donna Strickland, a major accomplishment for any scientist. Yet much of the news coverage has focused on the fact that she’s only the third female physicist to receive the award.

Scouts Australia has apologised to the victims of child sexual abuse during their time in the organisation.

A 40-year-old IT project manager has been accused of raping a 13-year-old boy in his front yard.

Australia has joined the UK and other international partners in condemning cyber attacks from Russia.

The 50-year-old Indonesian national arrived from Denpasar with other crew members late Tuesday night.

he delivery driver swiped the food off the bag before giving it to the customer.

Tampon tax will be removed after states and territories have agreed to make sanitary items exempt from goods and services tax.

Mannix College has responded to a former student’s accusation that it did nothing when she reported multiple times the harassment she suffered from a fellow student.

A husband who stood to receive $1.4 million from his wife’s life insurance policy has been found guilty of aiding her suicide.

He agreed to step down as chairman of Tesla and pay a US$20 million (AU$27.73 million) fine on Saturday.

The former Australian prime minister has been heard in an audio recording criticising his predecessors for staying in politics after leaving office.

One day after hearing emotional testimony from accuser Christine Blasey Ford, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to become a U.S. Supreme Court justice pending an FBI investigation.