A date has been set for the first Victorian state by-election in almost six years following the departure of long-time Liberal MP Ryan Smith. Lower house speaker Maree Edwards confirmed …

A French woman has voluntarily agreed to return a marble fragment from the Erechtheion on the Acropolis of Athens back to Greece. Jacqueline Junelles has owned fragment since the 1970s, …

Former coalition ministers have been found to have dismissed or ignored key concerns about the unlawful robodebt scheme. But it is not yet clear which – if any – ex-ministers …

The head of the NSW unsolved homicide squad has conceded his team has no record of multiple cold cases being examined during an inquiry into dozens of suspected gay hate …

During her private visit to Cyprus, the federal parliamentarian Maria Vamvakinou also had a series of meetings organised by Australia’s High Commission. Vamvakinou, who is the Chair of the Australia-Cyprus …

Job applicants with non-English names receive half as many call backs as those with English names, according to a new study by from Monash University published in The Leadership Quarterly. …

EU lawmakers on Thursday pushed for an independent probe into a migrant boat tragedy off Greece in which hundreds of people are believed to have died, calling an internal investigation …

Newly re-elected Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday warned far-right lawmakers not to “impede” the country’s progress as he outlined his government’s policies over the next four years. “This …

A system outage at international airport check-in points across the nation has been fixed after causing delays for passengers. The provider of the Australian Border Force’s advanced passenger processing systems …

Melbourne’s city centre has been shrouded in smoke as crews try to contain a large factory fire. Twelve fire trucks were called to the blaze on Clarendon Street in Southbank …