A constitutional challenge against Australia’s social media ban on children younger than 16 has been filed in the nation’s highest court, ...

Australian far-right Senator Pauline Hanson wore a burqa to Parliament on Monday as a political prop in her push to ban the Muslim garment...

Australia has become one of the first countries to ban children under 16 from using social media, with the law taking effect on December 10....

Australian researchers have discovered a miniature light-emitting shark and a transparent almond-sized crab during a deep-sea expedition of...

Bold swings and cheeky dropshots can earn amateur tennis players bragging rights and a million-dollar payday when they take on top profess...

A 60-year-old man was in custody in Australia Monday after police said he shot up to 50 bullets into a busy Sydney street, wounding more tha...

Britain, Canada and Australia announced Sunday that they now officially recognize the State of Palestine, marking a significant diplomatic s...

Erin Patterson, having been convicted in the Supreme Court of Victoria two months ago on three counts of murder and one count of attempted...

Two children, ages 12 and 15, were found dead in Melbourne after a knife attack by what police believe are members of a youth gang. The two ...

A manhunt is underway in southern Australia for a heavily armed gunman who police said shot dead two officers and wounded another on Tuesd...

Australia has severed diplomatic ties with Iran and expelled its ambassador after intelligence services determined Tehran directed antisem...

Australia’s Glenn Maxwell produced an unbeaten half-century in a tense chase to help the hosts edge out South Africa by two wickets in the...

Three-quarters of U.N. members have already or soon plan to recognise Palestinian statehood, with Australia on Monday becoming the latest to...

An Australian woman who murdered three of her in-laws with a meal of toxic mushrooms also allegedly tried to murder her husband using pois...

Labor's Anthony Albanese has defied the so-called "incumbency curse" to be re-elected Australia's prime minister in a land...

An Australian woman has given birth to a stranger’s baby after a fertility doctor accidentally implanted the wrong embryo, the clinic owne...

McLaren’s Lando Norris swept to victory in a wet and wild Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, holding off defending champion Max Verstappen in...

“Australia’s most s3xually active woman” has revealed she is ready to settle down after going on just one date in the last tw...

A severe heatwave is gripping southeast Australia, pushing temperatures far above seasonal averages and prompting heightened bushfire warn...