Households are getting their budgets under control as they continue to find more ways to cut spending so they can pay their mortgages, National Australia Bank says. While many have …

Optus has been hit by a nationwide outage, with its mobile phone and internet services down for millions of Australian customers and businesses. On its website early on Wednesday, Optus …

Jockey Mark Zahra has won his second successive Melbourne Cup, riding Without A Fight to victory at Flemington. Chris Waller trained the second and third-placed finishers with Soulcombe, ridden by …

The festive season could be soured by another round of interest rate pain if the Reserve Bank board decides more tightening is needed to drive inflation down. A 25 basis …

An Australian woman seems to have had all the required documents to bring a baby delivered by surrogacy in Greece back to Australia. The Georgian national and the facility she …

Thousands of Centrelink and Medicare staff are being recruited in a bid to shorten call wait times and provide better customer service. The federal government will hire 3000 new recruits …

There has been a jump in the number of Australians and their family members in Gaza needing assistance from the federal government. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is …

Big supermarkets are being warned that increased surveillance of shoppers, including close-up cameras on self-checkout screens, is more likely to anger shoppers rather than deter theft. Consumer behaviour expert Nitika …

The federal government is continuing to support 67 Australians trapped in war-torn Gaza and find a pathway for them to leave, as Israel continues its retaliatory strikes after Hamas militants …

As reported on the ABC last week, Courtney Houssos, the finance minister for New South Wales, has accused a Liberal MP of misogyny for raising concerns about her husband’s involvement …