America’s experiment with lethal injection has failed.

Isaac Heeney accepted the Bob Skilton Medal with a pre-recorded video message, as the club boss said the players involved in the Pullman Hotel scandal deserve “the presumption of innocence”.

The ABC's Four Corners program had insufficient verification and fact-checking and a culture of "limiting knowledge" about anonymous sources, its independent ombudsman has found, identifying breaches ...

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Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on how Donald Trump is abandoning America’s historic allies and abandoning the Pacific to China.

Sydney is set to be without some of its biggest names for the remainder of the 2026 season.

Fresh statements from the AFL and Sydney Swans responding to an alleged hotel incident signalling a tough approach and imminent sanctions have been welcomed by advocates, but the delay raises question...

Verdict relates to atrocities committed during the country’s 14-year civil war in which about 500,000 people died

Britain's new left-leaning PM Andy Burnham has seized the same public discontent driving Nigel Farage on the populist right but with a very different agenda. As One Nation climbs in the polls, Austral...

Richard Flanagan has brought out a collection of essays, speeches and columns entitled Heresies. Its topics range from Manus Island to the Black Summer bushfires to the growing corrosion of democracy...

Assessment of more than 2,000 native species warns nearly one in five at high risk of deadly H5N1, including parrots, fur seals and quolls

Volunteers have been a mainstay of conservation in Australia. As bird flu spreads, they must be supported – and kept safe.

Helicopter surveillance finds dead and dying greater crested terns off South Australian coast as H5 virus spreads * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast More than 80 dead and sick birds seen on rocks off the South Australian coast are suspected to be the first mass mortality event from the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, only six weeks after the disease arrived in Australia. Authorities reported on Saturday that helicopter surveillance had revealed 49 dead greater crested terns on Baudin Rocks, near Robe, as well as 35 more sick terns. Continue reading...

Gianni ⁠Infantino has said Fifa ​has scrapped plans to ⁠sell a stake in the World ⁠Cup to private ​investors ‌after widespread ‌backlash

A Four Corners investigation has uncovered products whose labels did not match independent scientific testing, raising serious questions about the integrity of Australia's food supply.

A recent study found that people spoke fewer words a day in 2019 than in 2005.

Does your bookclub cost $20 to attend? In the age of late stage capitalism, finding a true ‘third space’ is near impossible - and it’s becoming a consumer trend, writes Alyssa Forato.

The president is ordering new signs outside the Smithsonian to warn Americans about history.

A luxury development planned by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump has spurred anti-corruption protests.

Tasmania's health department is challenging a coronial review into allegations that a clinical director falsified death certificates at Launceston General Hospital.

Spain’s 1–0 win over Argentina demonstrated all of the ways that this sport is still foreign in the United States.

He knew exactly how to stand, and where to stand. In a city that celebrates chefs, this restaurant - and the entire suburb - is mourning a great waiter.

More than 150 years after the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris, the Art Gallery of South Australia and Geelong Gallery cast new light on the influential art movement.

The filmmaker on her series which documents a period some historians call the most important war Australia has ever fought in. Rachel Perkins is one of this country's great storytellers, translating ...

First Dog on the Moon (AKA Andrew Marlton) is a Walkley-Award winning political cartoonist at the Guardian, as well as a book illustrator and public performer. He has described his politics as "anarch...

Cape Verde didn't win a match at the World Cup, and somehow, that didn't seem to matter. The African team's debut on this stage was unforgettable.

The ABC, The Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney University have created a new fellowship to honour the late Judith Whelan, a trailblazing leader in media.

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The warming caused by climate breakdown in the landlocked east Asian country is transforming its fragile ecosystem

In 2015, author and journalist Margaret Simons and photojournalist Dave Tacon published their investigative essay Fallen Angels on the children of Australian sex tourists who’d been abandoned to live ...

A damning report by Australia’s audit office makes explosive revelations about the Australian National University’s financial management.

A vast area of the Bellingshausen Sea should be covered by sea ice by now, with one expert calling the loss of ice ‘depressing’