CONCERNS FOR AGEING MIGRANTS IN REMOTE MINING TOWN

Ms Vastag's clients have been instructed to visit the Lightning Ridge Neighbourhood Centre if they need help... READ MORE›

POLICE BUST RECORD-BREAKING COCAINE HAUL

This is a very significant organised crime group, said New South Wales Police Force Assistant Commissioner Mark Jenkins... READ MORE›

SYDNEY AIRPORT ARREST OVER NYE THREATS

A man has been arrested by counter-terrorism police at Sydney Airport off a flight from London and charged with making threats related to New Year's Eve... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN POLICE BUST DRUG SMUGGLING RING, SEIZE $260MN WORTH OF COCAINE

Australian police bust drug smuggling ring, seize 260mn worth of cocaine -- RT News... READ MORE›

NAVARRO AS TRUMP TRADE CHIEF SHOWS COMPLEXITY OF CANBERRA CHINA TIES

For example, Hudson Chen Hak Fan, an honorary adviser to the Australia China Economics Trade and Culture Association gave A 100,000 to the Liberal Party... READ MORE›

FAMILY DEMAND JUSTICE FOR DEATH IN CUSTODY OF DAVID DUNGAY JNR

Mr Dungay died while in Long Bay prison serving an 8 year sentence for home invasion and sexual assault... READ MORE›

SYRIAN REFUGEES FIND PEACE A LONG WAY FROM THE WAR

And for Hamid Alanizan and his family, their experience of Newcastle, he says, has been nothing but positive... READ MORE›

COMMENT: GLOBALISATION THROUGH THE EYES OF ONE AUSTRALIAN SUBURB

A hundred years later, Eastwood has become a large suburban centre of over 14,000 residents... READ MORE›

UNDERWORLD FIGURE BARBARO GUNNED DOWN IN SYDNEY

Pasquale Barbaro, 35, was found dead an Earlwood footpath after the shooting at about 9.40pm on Monday... READ MORE›

FORMER PARTNER TAKES POLICE TO BUSHLAND

Mr Leveson was last seen leaving the ARQ nightclub at Darlinghurst with Mr Atkins in September 2007... READ MORE›

DENG ADUT 'SHOCKED' TO BE NAMED NSW AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR

The 33-year-old refugee and criminal lawyer shed tears as he received the top honour from Premier Mike Baird at ceremony in Sydney on Monday night... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA, NORTH CAROLINA BEACH TOURISM BATTLE DEADLY SEA CREATURES

Record Shark Attacks Around The World Australia, North Carolina Beach Tourism Battle Deadly Sea Creatures... READ MORE›

'MY THIRD-CLASS DEGREE MADE ME FEEL I WANTED A PRACTICAL LIFE'

I had a job working as what was called a fettler, maintaining a railway line going across the desert... READ MORE›

SURFER IS THIRD AUSTRALIAN SHARK ATTACK VICTIM IN A MONTH

On Sept. 26, a 17-year-old surfer required stitches to close a leg wound after he was bitten by a shark off Ballina, 600 kilometres north of Sydney... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA DISCOVERS THE COST OF BLOCKING CHINA

Australia just found out the price of blocking foreign investment... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN TEST PLAYERS 'LIKE A TUMOUR'

Ex-Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke has said some players have been like a tumour on the sport, but denied calling Shane Watson a cancer ... READ MORE›

MPS IN AUSTRALIA PASS A MOTION CALLING DONALD TRUMP A 'REVOLTING SLUG'

A motion filed by Greens party MP Jeremy Buckingham to the Upper House of the NSW parliament calling Trump a revolting slug is passed without objection... READ MORE›

BODY FOUND IN BRISTOL MOTHER AND BABY SEARCH

Avon and Somerset police said Ms Bevan's family had been informed... READ MORE›

HOSTAGES HELD BY 'ISLAMISTS' IN SYDNEY CAFE SIEGE

Sydney siege hostages held by 'Islamist' gunman in Lindt cafe... READ MORE›

MONSTROUS SHARK CAUGHT IN AUSTRALIA AS SURFERS CALL FOR CULL

A fisherman named only Matthew told the local Northern Star newspaper that he caught the shark a while ago and kept the teeth as souvenirs... READ MORE›

FIVE HOSTAGES ESCAPE LINDT CAFE AS SUSPECTED ISLAMIST GUNMAN TAKES UP TO 15 PEOPLE CAPTIVE

New South Wales Police has requested that media organisations do not repeat the gunman's demands or relay what the hostages have said during these calls... READ MORE›

SYDNEY SIEGE: GUNMAN ISSUED DEMANDS, THREATS

Contributing Associated Press Two hostages run to safety outside the Lindt Cafe, Martin Place on Sunday in Sydney, Australia... READ MORE›

NASA KEPLER-452B 'EARTH 2.0' DISCOVERY BRINGS US CLOSER TO DISCOVERING ALIEN LIFE

So Kepler could in theory support plant life, but what about alien life?... READ MORE›

THIRD HOME SEARCHED IN BECKY CASE

Police said searches of houses in Wilton Close, Southmead, the city's Barton Hill district, and the family home, were part of lines of inquiry ... READ MORE›

FIVE HOSTAGES FLEE SYDNEY CAFE DURING STANDOFF

Major landmarks in Sydney, including the Sydney Opera House, have been evacuated as police respond to a hostage situation... READ MORE›

New South Wales Police said that a raid had indeed occurred but that the parents had not been charged... READ MORE›

Despite the weirdness of Campbell Newman running for premier from outside the parliament in 2012, his government began its work in a familiar, austerian manner... READ MORE›

HAJJ PREP SEARCH SOUL BUY STURDY SHOES PAY THE DENTIST

If you buy them in Mecca or Medina, it's around 35 a kilo... READ MORE›

GIANT GOANNA GIVES AUSTRALIAN MAN A SHOCK AFTER CLIMBING ACROSS HIS HOUSE

Mr Holland, who lives in Albury in New South Wales, said the goanna quickly left the property and has not been seen since... READ MORE›

SYDNEY INQUEST HEARS OF SIEGE DEATHS

Sydney siege inquest details tori johnson and katrina dawson deaths... READ MORE›

FRESH CALLS FOR NATIONWIDE PLASTIC BAG BAN

South Australia banned the use of disposable plastic bags in 2009... READ MORE›

NSW $12M MEDICINAL CANNABIS RESEARCH CENTRE TO 'LEAD THE WORLD'

New South Wales is leading the world with its 12m medicinal cannabis research centre the state's premier Mike Baird says... READ MORE›

STEPHEN HAWKING ANNOUNCES 'BIGGEST EVER' PROBE INTO ALIEN LIFE

LONDON World renowned scientist Stephen Hawking and entrepreneur Yuri Milner announced Monday an unprecedented 100 million project to determine if intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe... READ MORE›

ARMED POLICE CALLED TO CITY STREET

A force spokesman said Armed officers were deployed into the Grangetown area of Cardiff and are still carrying out inquiries... READ MORE›

BEEKEEPERS IN AUSTRALIA INVENT 'REVOLUTIONARY' HIVE

Their contraption, called the Flow Hive, consists of plastic artificial honeycomb cells in which the bees leave honey before sealing the cells with wax... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA FENCES 'KEEP TOADS AT BAY'

Cane toads are native to South America but were introduced to Australia in 1935 to control beetles that infested sugar cane... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA TOWN CONSUMED BY 'HAIRY PANIC'

A fast-growing tumbleweed called hairy panic is clogging up homes in a small Australian town... READ MORE›

VISA PRISONER MATHEW DAVIES FREED FROM INDONESIA JAIL

Lindsay Whittle, Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales East, campaigned for Davies' release... READ MORE›

THE TARGETED EROSION OF NEW ZEALANDERS' RIGHTS IN AUSTRALIA

As of 31 March 2016, New Zealanders made up the second largest group of people in Australian immigration detention facilities ... READ MORE›

CLIMATE CHANGE COMPOUNDING THREATS TO AUSTRALIA'S ECOSYSTEMS, STUDIES FIND

Climate change compounding threats to Australia's ecosystems, studies find... READ MORE›

MONK STREET IN ABERGAVENNY CLOSED AFTER 'SERIOUS' FIRE

The A40 Monk Street is closed in both directions between Lower Castle Street and Lion Street because of the blaze... READ MORE›

BEACHES CLOSED TO SWIMMERS AS NSW RECORDS 60 SHARK SIGHTINGS IN TWO DAYS

Windang Beach was closed while beachgoers waited for a number of sharks to move offshore, while five hammerheads were also spotted at Warilla... READ MORE›

QLD ELECTION NON-VOTERA??S FINE DROPPED OVER ABORIGINAL RELIGIOUS BELIEF

I'm 20 now, so I haven't voted in two elections, the state Queensland and federal elections, he told SBS News... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA'S FIRST FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION TRIAL

So when she was called to give evidence against her mother in the supreme court, Emma was a reliable witness... READ MORE›

NURSE DIES AFTER CRASH AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES

The Cardiff and Vale health board confirmed the dead man was one of its nurses... READ MORE›

HUGE 'CLOUD TSUNAMI' ROLLS INTO SYDNEY BEACH

The staggering footage shows what is usually known as a shelf cloud rolling in at Bondi Beach in the east coast city... READ MORE›

'REWILDING' DINGOES COULD HELP REVERSE DECLINE OF AUSTRALIA'S NATIVE WILDLIFE

'Rewilding' dingoes could help reverse decline of Australia's native wildlife... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA TO BAN CHINESE FROM LEASING SYDNEY POWER GRID

When it comes to foreign investment, particularly in an asset such as this, the national security issues are paramount, he said... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA TO BAN CHINESE FROM LEASING SYDNEY POWER GRID

Post to Facebook Australia to ban Chinese from leasing Sydney power grid Treasurer Scott Morrison declined to detail the security issues raised by the deal... READ MORE›

BATTLE FOR MULTICULTURAL VOTES HEATING UP

NSW and Victoria hold some of Australia's most marginal and multicultural seats... READ MORE›

HUNDREDS EVACUATE AS WILD WEATHER MOVES SOUTH

Flood warnings remained in place on Monday afternoon for a number of NSW rivers and coastal homes after the vicious storms left 545 properties isolated... READ MORE›

LIU QIBAO VISITS THE ROK, NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA

Multiple media cooperation agreements and memorandums of understanding were signed between Chinese and Australian media outlets on May 27 in Sydney... READ MORE›

PM DISTANCES HIMSELF FROM DUTTON'S 'ILLITERATE' REFUGEE COMMENTS

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has accused Immigration Minister Peter Dutton of insulting Australia's great migrant history... READ MORE›

SYDNEY POLICE QUESTION WINE BAR OVER WINE LIST

NSW police media told SBS the bar was approached as part of a wider operation in the inner Sydney region on Saturday... READ MORE›

FAMILY REUNITED IN AUSTRALIA AFTER SIX YEARS IN KENYAN REFUGEE CAMP

In this particular segment the group went to visit Deo Masudi, who was living with his wife and children in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya... READ MORE›

'REALLY EMOTIONAL': AUSTRALIANS MOURN DAVID BOWIE

My idea was to present an Indigenous people in a capitalist mainly white society, Bowie said of the video... READ MORE›

FIRST DAY: THE PIONEERING SURGEON WHO CAME TO AUSTRALIA ON A LEAKY BOAT

It's hard to say exactly what was the first day Dr Munjed Al Muderis spent in Australia... READ MORE›

BEACH CLOSED AFTER SUSPECTED GREAT WHITE SHARK SIGHTINGS

On Thursday about 100 swimmers were ordered out of the water after another group of sharks was spotted near the shore at Hyams beach... READ MORE›

RARE TORNADO CAUSES CHAOS IN SYDNEY

We're seeing homes that are completely unroofed, others with very significant structural damage, emergency services official Phil Campbell told ABC News... READ MORE›