The Federal Government has ruled out offering consular assistance to the Australian families of Islamic State fighters currently stuck in Syria.

As the new Liberal leader gets his shoes under the desk with an initial polling bump - where to next for the party?

Angus Taylor is the new leader of the Liberal Party, being elected by the party room 34 to 17 over Sussan Ley - how does this re-shape the Coalition's polices and priorities?

The Liberal Party leadership will be spilled, Angus Taylor says he has the numbers to topple Sussan Ley.

Liberal leadership rumblings at fever pitch, Angus Taylor expected to contest Sussan Ley's leadership.

Protesters have accused police of brutality at last night's rally in Sydney, with NSW Police and the premier arguing officers were put in an "impossible situation" as they attempted to protect Jewish mourners gathered at the nearby International Convention Centre.

Israeli President Isaac Hertzog's visit to Australia begins, so too protests in Sydney's centre, set to culminate this evening.

Victorian prosecutors abandon a decades-old drug trafficking case against Tony Mokbel

Almost two years since Joel Cauchi murdered six people at a Bondi Junction shopping centre, the NSW Coroner has handed down her findings.

Meet 13-year-old Austin Appelbee, who swam four kilometres, through heavy seas, to save his family.