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The Justice Department has signed an $87,000 contract with architects to explore converting an unused quarantine centre in Perth's north-east into a minimum-security prison.
Tasmania Police say initial inquiries suggest the 15-year-old boy who died was driving the car when it crashed.
Experts have nominated two butterflies, a pair of beetles, a signal fly and a glow-worm as 2026 ABC Insect of the Year finalists. Now you get to help decide the winner.
Clinicians at Victoria's leading paediatric hospital have been using gloves that were not tested or approved for administering chemotherapy, despite the issue being raised a decade ago.
Israel has awarded a presidential medal to five of its citizens who helped prevent a flydubai plane crash on Wednesday as it calls for the pilot who allegedly caused the midair altercation to be extradited.
Captain Smit Machchhar was stabbed while flying to Tel Aviv. But who was he?
Carlo Piero Stewart died in hospital after suffering three gunshot wounds during a brawl between two groups outside a North Booval home in July, 2021.
The person is believed to have taken the medication in the days after the death of their partner, who had been diagnosed with cancer, earlier this year.
Doctors at Victoria's public hospitals will walk off the job for four hours leaving staffing at weekend levels, as a 14-month bargaining process over pay and conditions continues to grind on.
A teenager who allegedly posted "pro-Nazi, anti-immigration, anti-trans and white nationalist" content on Instagram has faced the Youth Justice Court on a string of Commonwealth charges.
Local media are identifying the pair as independent journalist reporter Tang Ho-wing and activist Lee Ying-chi, who were arrested under laws passed following the sometimes violent 2019 protests.
Former Wallaby Nathan Charles, who defied cystic fibrosis to play international rugby, has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND).
Families in Carnarvon say five years without access to local birthing services and support has had a deeply traumatic impact on the community.
The girl's parents told the ABC police informed them their daughter died of a suspected overdose, but they are yet to receive a written explanation from the Department of Child Safety.
Chau Van Kham spent more than four years in a Vietnamese prison on terrorism charges. He says Australian Hiep Tran, who was detained after going missing in Cambodia, can expect a long sentence.
He's the 202-centimetre 17-year-old West Australian, who was the raging favourite to be taken at pick No.1 in next year's AFL draft.
A mother who experienced a traumatic birth at the Queanbeyan Hospital says her daughter could have died due to care failures during her labour.
Australian families who rely on au pairs are facing ongoing uncertainty amid working holiday visa processing delays.
Doctors and pharmacists have criticised Eli Lilly's new online platform LillyDirect that will dispense certain medicines, starting with Mounjaro, directly to a patient's door.
A WA couple who fell pregnant after 11 years of IVF celebrate their baby joy with a unique gender reveal at Kalgoorlie's Super Pit gold mine.
A non-verbal man who was later diagnosed with pneumonia was ramped for more than nine hours at an outer suburbs hospital amid significant demand that the doctors union says left staff feeling "helpless".
A court has heard a former senior Sydney police officer's "absolutely impaired" judgement was behind his assault of two men who had played a game of "knock and run" at his home.
A new sentencing judge will hear a case against former Olympic cyclist Rohan Dennis, who has pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified.
Alexander Robert Macdonald, who shot a man to steal his identity in the 1990s while committing dozens of bank robberies, has been sentenced for more historical offences.
Police are searching for a group of offenders who broke into the urban farm in Bundoora before stealing a tractor and ramming it through the front door of the cafe.
A 65-year-old Australian woman has died following cosmetic surgery at City International Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City's An Lac Ward, the municipal Department of Health has confirmed.
Emergency services were called to the Moonyoonooka area just east of Geraldton in Western Australia's Midwest in the early hours of the morning.
The NRL's and NRLW's best gather in Sydney tonight to crown rugby league's biggest stars at the Dally M Awards. Here is what you need to know.
The Greens will select a new leader after the shock resignation of Larissa Waters, as the party considers its future direction amid a surging One Nation.
While the study of death records across 500 occupations is US based, experts say the finding could be similar in Australia and suggests more radiation monitoring of airline crew is needed.
Last week, when Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the world that an OpenAI agent had accessed "non-public files" from his country's Medicare statistics portal during testing, his description of the incident was a little light on details. Today, we're getting new information on just how far OpenAI's overzealous agent went in attempting to satisfy a rather innocuous-sounding informa...
