The World Today

A UN conference aimed at working towards a two state solution between Israelis and Palestinians has been boycotted by both the US and Israel.

Israel has announced a daily pause in the fighting in three areas of Gaza to allow more food to get into the strip.

The French President Emmanuel Macron vows to recognise the Palestinian territories as a state, as international pressure builds on Israel to end the war.

The cattle industry's response is mixed after the Federal Government announced a lift to bio-security restrictions on beef imports from the United States

The government has used the second day of parliament to introduce legislation to cut student debt and reforms to the childcare sector.

Israel's facing growing international pressure to end the war in Gaza.

A tenuous truce appears to be holding in southern Syria, after a week of deadly fighting. But leaders from Syria's minority Druze community say their people have been killed, homes looted, and women raped.

A Victorian courtroom has erupted after a man accused of murdering Hannah McGuire changed his plea to guilty midway through the trial.

The unemployment rate has jumped as tens of thousands of Australians lost full-time positions in June.

Bradley John Murdoch died serving life in prison today, taking to his grave vital information about his victim Peter Falconio.