Former prime minister Paul Keating has launched a scathing attack on Peter Dutton, urging voters in the Home Affairs Minister's electorate to "drive a political stake through his dark political heart".

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Tony Abbott's comments were not his words and Bill Shorten says Bob Hawke would've dismissed Abbott's comments about having both a 'Labor heart and head'. May 17, 2019.

The decision leaves Anthony Albanese as the only declared candidate to replace Bill Shorten.

The Member for Grayndler is the only declared candidate currently contesting the opposition leadership position.

The Reserve Bank cut interest rates this week due to anaemic per capita spending rates.

Authorities continue to search for a 2-year-old boy missing in remote western Queensland, near Kowanyama.

Professor Lorana Bartels from the ANU says the ankle bracelet worn by the alleged Darwin shooter was one of 23 parole conditions. Professor Bartels says it's generally better for offenders to be released on parole early than to complete their sentence and be released with no restrictions.

Professor Lorana Bartels from the ANU says the ankle bracelet worn by the alleged Darwin shooter was one of 23 parole conditions. Professor Bartels says it's generally better for offenders to be released on parole early than to complete their sentence and be released with no restrictions.

The ABC chair spoke out today against this week's AFP raid on the broadcaster's headquarters.

A police officer was stabbed at a house in Sadleir, near Liverpool.

The man accused of leaking The Afghan Files to the ABC speaks outside the ACT Supreme Court after making his first appearance since being committed for trial.

Friends, colleagues and figures from across the political spectrum came together to remember the former Prime Minister.

Hawthorn captain Ben Stratton will come under fire for repeatedly pinching his Essendon opponent, Orazio Fantasia, throughout their match.

Premier Daniel Andrews says more than 100 doctors have already undertaken intensive specialist training ahead of Victoria's voluntary assisted dying laws taking effect on June 19.

Assistant Commissioner Bob Hill urged two brothers who allegedly assaulted off-duty Assistant Commissioner Chris O'Neill near a Melbourne train station to turn themselves in.

Sailing out of Devonport's Mersey River on the Julie Burgess

The vehicle has a maroon body and silver tray, with a distinctive bar across the back of the tray.

Australia's biggest new gold mine, the $621 million Gruyere project in WA's Great Victoria Desert, pours its first gold bar as the precious metal continues to trade near record highs but the mood in the industry is not all good.

American college basketballers are increasingly turning to opportunities to play in regional Australian towns, but in Kalgoorlie they have long been a part of the town's rich basketball culture.

A search is underway for missing 67-year-old Tony Hickey whose explosives truck caught fire and blew up near Sandstone in Western Australia's Mid West, with police unable to find him at the scene.

Seven years after closing the doors of her famous Kalgoorlie brothel, madam Mary-Anne Kenworthy has listed the property for sale, marking the end of an era for the historic red-light district.

Business is booming for the gold mining industry as the price of the precious metal sets new benchmarks almost every day, but not everyone in mining towns like Kalgoorlie is taking a shine to the recent "mini gold rush".

Analysts are calling for calm as a series of false starts, delays and lay-offs look set to destabilise Western Australia's burgeoning multi-billion-dollar lithium industry.

Unperturbed by the region's infamous sharks and 13-degree Celsius sea temperature, Lisa Julian is among a group that swims off the state's south coast each week without wearing a wetsuit.

Hidden in outback scrubland lies a once legendary racetrack, where speed records were broken, sometimes even in the nude.

Australia is home to 91,000 Jews. Most of them live in Melbourne. Welcome to life inside Australia's most populous Jewish community.

The find at a dam in outback Western Australia is even more incredible considering the number of fossickers who camp there while prospecting in the Goldfields.