Australia is to become the first country in the world to introduce jail terms and multi-million-dollar fines for social media giants that...

Activist group GetUp has been declared independent of any particular political party, after an investigation by electoral authorities. The Australian Electoral Commission...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australia must acknowledge the long and painful journey of sexually abused children and say sorry. Hundreds of...

Facebook has taken down Fraser Anning’s page, sparking outrage from the Katter’s Australian Party senator. Senator Anning had posted a series of...

A Senate committee has rejected a plan to legalise cannabis, despite an argument it would ease the burden on police and bring...

Australia’s major banks have been sharply criticised in a new report for strangling smaller players in the market and pushing up costs...

Nine Australians involved in the heroic Thai cave rescue operation will receive medals from Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove to honour their efforts....

Labor has a battle on its hands to retain the Queensland seat of Longman as the Super Saturday by-elections campaign enters its...

Big states will no longer be unreasonably subsidising small states, Scott Morrison has promised in a new GST carve-up with funding boosts...

Anthony Albanese has fired the starting gun on a Labor leadership contest, the Coalition says. But Labor emphatically denies any rift between...