Australia's illicit tobacco trade has become so lucrative that criminal overlords have built a secret pipeline suspected of smuggling tens of millions of dollars overseas. With most Australian ...

Australian Simon Carman has agreed to plead guilty to concealing a corpse, one of four charges laid against him in the trial over teenager Tunchanok Donhomla's murder in Thailand. Australia's foreign ...

A small town is searching for answers after two students were shot dead at school. All signs point to a new wave of extremism in the form of a little-known online community. In his final column before ...

A former high-ranking counterterrorism official is among 24 women working in the public sector who told Four Corners they experienced discrimination after falling pregnant. The WA Greens senator says ...

OpenAI's delayed reporting of an autonomous agent breaching a government website has strengthened Australia's push for tougher AI safety and disclosure rules. The three-day summit is likely to be more ...

News figures show annual headline inflation jumped to 4 per cent in August, up from 3.5 per cent in July.

For the bulk of his murder trial former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon has remained impassive, except for when his former friends have been on the stand testifying against him. What so many of the ...

Australia's big four banks are ramping up their use of artificial intelligence to answer customer calls and assess loan applications. How long before a machine rather than a human writes your home ...

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Questions on both sexual orientation and gender will feature in Australia's next census, as the federal government seeks to repair the fallout from earlier efforts to abandon questions about LGBTIQ+ ...