New employment figures reveal much stronger jobs growth than had been forecast.

New official data shows Australian workers have seen their wages rise faster than inflation.

Sussan Ley has become Australia's first female Opposition leader and the first woman to lead the Liberal party in its 81 year history.

A handful of knife-edge seats have been decided in the Federal election, as Nationals MPs prepare for a leadership vote.

World leaders have congratulated the first American pope - Chicago-born Robert Prevost on his election as Pope Leo XIV.

Cardinals in the Vatican will continuing voting for a new Pope, after their first attempt to elect the next Pontiff was unsuccessful.

Indian missile strikes hit nine sites in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, killing eight and injuring 35, in major escalating tensions on the subcontinent.

The only guest left alive after the fatal mushroom lunch takes the stand in Victoria's triple murder trial.

The Coalition has been left reeling without a leader after a major election defeat on the weekend.

Queues have formed outside many early voting centres again today, as Australians choose who will sit in the next Federal Parliament.