The future of Hobart's planned AFL stadium is again in doubt, after the state's independent planning commission released a scathing report recommending it should not be built.

An inquiry by the United Nations Human Rights Council has found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

A comprehensive assessment of the risk climate change poses to Australia is warning us to expect more severe weather events in the decades ahead.

The Federal Environment Minister has given the go-ahead for Woodside's North West Shelf project to keep operating until at least 2070.

The U.S. President Donald Trump is vowing a crackdown on political violence in the wake of the assassination of his close ally, the powerful right wing influencer Charlie Kirk.

World leaders are condemning Israel's airstrikes on Qatar but Israel is defending the action saying it was targeting Hamas leaders.

The Victorian Government has introduced proposed legislation to the state parliament to establish the first treaty between an Australian jurisdiction and its Indigenous people.

Two years after she served her notorious Beef Wellington lunch in regional Victoria, the convicted triple murderer Erin Patterson has been sentenced to life in jail for her crimes.

Thousands of mourners have attended the Melbourne funeral of Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart who was shot dead in north-eastern Victoria last week.

The Federal Government has agreed to settle a class action brought by Robodebt victims for $475 million. If approved by the Federal Court, it will be the biggest class action payout in Australian history.