Today's NAPLAN results are raising concerns for educators and parents with the latest figures showing a third of Australian students are not meeting expectations in literacy and numeracy.

At a Senate inquiry, gambling industry representatives have rejected allegations that problem gamblers have been offered drugs and sex workers to lure them into betting more.

A cluster of dead and sick birds found in South Australia is being described by the federal government as the nation's first "mass mortality bird flu event."

The US President, Donald Trump, is heralding a breakthrough in the peace process in Gaza, announcing that Hamas has agreed to disarm and hand over security control of the strip to an international force.

Australia's communications watchdog, ACMA, is suing Optus after last year's mass network outage that left customers unable to make emergency calls.

Today's inflation figures have come in below forecast but economists are divided over the prospect of a rate rise at the Reserve Bank's August meeting.

Victoria has a new Premier after Jacinta Allan resigned to make way for her deputy Ben Carroll, who immediately announced a Royal Commission into the construction sector.

The Federal Government is declaring the test of the new national emergency alert system a success after millions of mobile phones across the country turned into sirens this afternoon.

The United States has raised the tariff on Australian goods from 10 to 12.5 per cent on the basis the nation is not doing enough to counter modern slavery, a claim the Federal Government rejects.

In his speech to the ALP's 50th National Conference in Adelaide, the Prime Minister has attacked the credibility of One Nation and the Federal Opposition.