Emergency services are treating multiple causalities after a car crashed into a crowd during a Newcastle Knights pre grand-final farewell.

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Madrid to ask for protective measures for tenants, anti-fraud rules, and a ban on evictions without alternative housing.

Dash-cam footage captures the frightening moment a caravan begins fishtailing while overtaking a truck driver in Western Australia's Great Southern region. 

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

An OpenAI agent has accessed public and private data after hacking into a Medicare data portal in June. Follow live. 

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A disability advocate says three men being left in a Tasmanian hospital for months because they can't secure extra NDIS support to manage at home is "inhumane and unfair".

A former co-director of a company that oversaw Ann Marie Smith's care was captured on a listening device admitting she has a drug problem after she was asked to leave her workplace to seek help, court documents show.

Pensioners will be hit hard by the federal government's controversial private health insurance rebate changes, with new analysis revealing that about half of the $3 billion in forecast savings will be...

A bleed on April Coulson's spinal cord left her paralysed. Funding for her NDIS plan has been slashed.

‘Australians facing economic disadvantage are carrying a much higher burden of premature mortality than others.’

An underground aquifer on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula is producing award-winning mineral water as Australian producers tap into the growing global fine-water market.

Amnesty International is demanding formal investigations into three American and Israeli attacks on densely packed suburbs of Tehran, which killed at least 41 civilians.

The dark, red tongue spreading in the Pacific is growing at a rate not seen in living memory. The uncertainty over what is driving it has alarmed experts.

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China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.

The renowned tunnel expert says underground environments can remain survivable for a long time after devastation above ground, citing past rescues in Chile, Thailand and India.

Last week, research by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) confirmed that they were wrong in 2023 to criticise research by The Australia Institute, which showed rising profits were the significant cau...

A video of a flightless bird being chased by a police officer down a road on the NSW Central Tablelands goes viral, with the local chief inspector saying it's all part of "the life of a country cop".

Leah Stewart, who was bitten while swimming at Coogee beach, says she asked herself ‘which limb am I willing to lose’ as she fought back

Like all the privatised care services, the business of aged care is about property, cheap labour and public money

The Fair Work Commission will soon require applicants to disclose any AI use with consequences for failing to be transparent.

After horrifying video of a landslide hitting China-controlled Tibet emerged online it started to disappear in China. This is just one way Beijing is trying to control information about the disaster.

Kathmandu, 18 March 2026 – Glaciers across the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) are melting at an accelerating rate, with ice loss rates doubling since the year 2000, according to two new landmark reports th...

In a still-unfolding disaster, verified videos and images show widespread destruction — and a desperate rescue mission.

Investigators allege the man set up two businesses and submitted false invoices for services he did not receive.

At 6:58 this morning, just as the sun was rising over Washington, D.C., Donald Trump was already wide awake inside the White House, posting on social media about renaming lakes to provoke and harass o...

A new report shows generational inequality is pushing young Australians out of the housing market.

The NACC is refusing to release its investigation into millions of dollars in Meals on Wheels contracts, instead telling the whistleblower she is confused about the outcome.