Strong earnings results from reporting companies failed to stem the tide of a falling market, the big miners and the bigger banks pulling the index into the red.

Lionel Patea has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his former partner Tara Brown on the Gold Coast in September 2015.

A suite of changes to Australia's hate speech laws will be proposed but it will be up to the PM whether the government acts.

The 89th Academy Awards suffered a serious blunder on Monday, with presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty reading out the incorrect winner for Best Picture.

The Western Freeway at Mount Coot-tha is down to one lane and the Legacy Way tunnel closed after a truck fire.

A swimmer has been bitten by a bull shark at Coral Bay.

Nathan Cleary's introduction to rugby league was enough to turn most away from the game for life. At a local park in Auckland six years ago, a scrawny 13-year-old son of a gun picked up a football for the first time - taking on bearded men in an open age game that would be the making of a teenage pr...

Max Baucus expressed frustration with the Obama administration's weakness but also accused Donald Trump of having 'not even graduated from high school' on China.

La La Land has a record 14 nominations for the 89th Academy Awards, but will Lion roar or Moonlight step out of the shadows to prevent the musical sweeping all before it? Stay tuned for our blow-by-blow account as it happens.

For roughly the 147th time its nearly 10 years on air - spanning the entirety of Australia's Pin The Tail On The Donkey era of national governance - Q&A got right down to business on Monday with a debate about which donkey the tail might next be pinned upon.