Australia’s share market has topped 8800 points for the first time, as inflows into global miners and continued banking sector strength trounced worries about global growth. The S&P/ASX200 hit a …

Australia will chart a “sensible, middle path” on regulating artificial intelligence, the treasurer says, as concerns grow over its impact on the future of work and the arts. Treasurer Jim …

Advocates call for the scrapping of an “unlawful, harsh and unfair” welfare scheme that wrongly cancelled income support payments to almost 1000 jobseekers. Payments were automatically terminated for 964 people …

The leaders of Australia and France have made plans to meet at a United Nations gathering, where Palestinian statehood and the crisis in Gaza will be major issues. Prime Minister …

Convicted Snowtown murderer James Vlassakis has been granted parole after spending more than two decades in prison. Vlassakis, who was the youngest of four men involved in South Australia’s notorious …

Chanel Contos, the Australian campaigner who spearheaded the inclusion of sexual consent in the national curriculum, is now calling for “porn literacy” to be the next urgent reform in Australian …

Australia has chosen a Japanese company to build a new $10 billion frigate fleet for the navy. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Mogami-class frigate is the federal government’s preferred vessel for its …

Mary Kostakidis’s legal team has come out in staunch opposition to claims her posts constitute hate speech, stressing they will defend her at every step in the lawsuit made against …

Australia will have its first female Australian Federal Police commissioner after Krissy Barrett was appointed to the role. Ms Barrett will become the ninth AFP commissioner after a 25-year career …

Alison Duncan, Australia’s Ambassador to Greece, returned home for meetings in Canberra and used the opportunity to strengthen engagement with the Greek Australian diaspora—an essential force in enhancing bilateral ties. …