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.

Erin Patterson's estranged husband, whose parents both died after the fateful meal, has given emotional evidence in the triple-murder trial.

New figures show the RBA's preferred measure of inflation has fallen within its target band for the first time in more than three years.

A lunch of Beef Wellington, allegedly laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms, is at the heart of a triple murder trial which began in Morwell, Victoria today.

With just five days to go until election day both leaders have stepped up the tempo of their campaigns, in the hopes of winning over millions of undecided voters.

Hundreds of thousands of Australians have gathered at Dawn Services across the country to pay tribute to the ANZACs. 

Chronic disease now afflicts more than 60 per cent of Australians and one of the issues on voters' minds this election is the availability and cost of seeing a doctor.

Donald Trump softens on his trade war with China.

Cardinals are gathering in the Vatican, as Catholics around the world mourn Pope Francis.