Alarming new national accounts data shows gross domestic product or G-D-P rose just point-two of one per cent in the March quarter. 

Erin Patterson has broken down in tears giving evidence for the second day in her triple-murder trial in regional Victoria.

Investigations are underway after a man used a makeshift flamethrower on a crowd gathered to support hostages in Gaza.

The Trump administration's sweeping tariffs are back on, reinstated by a United States federal appeals court after another court deemed them illegal.

The cross-examination of the prosecution's last witness, the investigating police detective, has taken the stand in Victoria's mushroom triple murder trial

As the NSW flood clean up continues, a team of veterans funded by the federal government joins the recovery effort.

Flood-ravaged communities on the New South Wales mid-north coast are moving into recovery mode with Defence personnel and specialist disaster relief teams now on the ground to help with the clean up.

The Prime Minister has announced further flood support for the Mid North coast of New South Wales, including deploying defence personnel, to help with the clean up.

There have been at least four deaths in the New South Wales flood emergency which has isolated tens of thousands from the state's central coast to Grafton in the north.

The first death has been recorded in the New South Wales flood emergency and three people are missing as severe rain and record river levels inundate towns on the state's Mid North Coast.