The No.1 pick from last year's draft, Willem Duursma, will join pick No.4 Cooper Duff-Tytler and pick No.19 Josh Lindsay in making their AFL debuts, alongside mature-age pick-up Milan Murdock.

A cruise carrying more than 100 people became grounded off the coast of Papua New Guinea when a senior crew member unsuccessfully attempted to change course at high speed, a preliminary investigation ...

The Singaporean parent company of Optus is "deeply sorry" for the fatal triple-zero outage, but has deflected questions on foreign ownership of critical infrastructure. Appearing at a parliamentary ...

The coalition has promised teamwork and unity after a chaotic year involving two divorces and fresh leaders. Queensland senator Matt Canavan was elected as the new Nationals leader on Wednesday, with ...

Automated technology, clearer guidelines for health professionals and compact messaging similar to cigarette plain packaging have been cited as measures that could prevent a repeat of a deadly crash.

First Nations people are deemed high risk in prisons at a much higher rate than others and are shut out of support programs as a result.

People-smuggling charges have been laid against an air-charter operator after two fugitives were allegedly flown to Indonesia on a lucrative "black flight" deal. Australian Federal Police charged the ...

A family's extreme religious beliefs against medical treatment were known to authorities years before their "cult" killed ...

Kenna has come back to try to connect with her daughter Diem (Zoe Kosovic) - after the oft-quoted saying "carpe diem" (seize the day) but an odd choice (would you name a child Day? Dead Poets Society ...

The Matildas' hopes of Asian Cup glory have been dealt a major blow after star duo Hayley Raso and Steph Catley were ruled ...

A big stir was caused when North Korea's players refused to see out the first half of their 2-1 Women's Asian Cup loss to ...

The big four banks expect the RBA to lift the cash rate a further 25 basis points to 4.35 per cent in May, which would make for three hikes in a row if their predictions for next week also bear out.