A 61-year-old man is in Canberra Hospital after apparently crashing his motorbike into a street sign on the Kings Highway.

One in five young people still think that jealousy is a sign that your partner loves you, and men should be the head of a household.

The Turnbull government is launching a major crackdown on dodgy family daycare providers, with new integrity measures designed to save taxpayers up to $250 million.

Coalition ministers hops their blistering attack on Tony Abbott has finally silenced him ahead of Federal Parliament's return, but the former prime minister's most loyal confidante says he's not going anywhere.

With $40,000 on offer Olympian Lauren Wells will drop down in distance to compete in the 120m Stawell Gift.

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.