Boxing Day warning as firies prepare to battle blazes
Firefighters are working around the clock to prepare for sweltering Boxing Day conditions as warnings for several major blazes are downgraded.
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The week between Christmas Day and New Year's Day is the worst time for drownings in Australia, lifesavers warn, with an average of 15 lives lost annually.
A Greyhound bus driver has died after his vehicle collided with a truck on a highway in the early hours of the morning, leaving several passengers injured.
The execution of two Australians for drug smuggling in Indonesia has refocused a spotlight on how the nation co-operates with countries using the death penalty.
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Train pain ahead of New Year’s Eve fireworks threat
Cancelling Australia's biggest New Year's Eve fireworks display could send businesses to the wall, but the impacts of rail network chaos are already in play.
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‘Enough jail Christmases’: PM hails Bali five’s reunions
After almost 20 years in an Indonesian prison, five members of the Bali Nine will spend Christmas with their families after returning to their Australian homes.
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Qantas braces for industrial turbulence
Contingencies in place to avoid maintenance engineers' industrial action impacting Christmas holiday makers during a busy aviation period, Qantas says.
Hundreds more Australians have arrived in RAAF planes from earthquake-stricken Vanuatu, with those returning sharing stories of chaos, survival and relief.
Australians stranded in Vanuatu are calling for help as two RAAF planes bring 148 citizens home after delivering vital assistance following a deadly earthquake.
The overhead HumeLink transmission line will be crucial to the national energy grid but has drawn criticism from farmers, communities and environmentalists.
Experts are warning domestic violence attacks are likely to escalate on Christmas Day and New Year's Day, as new data reveals the extent of the increase.
After committing an alleged war crime by murdering an Afghan civilian, an Australian special forces trooper boasted of having a "good day" in the field.
More than a dozen people have been killed by a 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck in Vanuatu but little is known about damage further afield.
Ex-shock jock Alan Jones will face court for the first time over multiple alleged indecent assault and sexual touching incidents spanning almost two decades.
People who own property might be able to make more than $30,000 a year, if the market is good, simply by holding onto their asset for about nine years.
No Australians are reported to be seriously hurt after a major earthquake rattled the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, killing at least 14 people.
Australia has recorded its deadliest month on roads in almost seven years despite a goal to halve the number of people killed in cars by 2030.
The release of five Australians serving life sentences in Indonesia for drug smuggling is viewed as an act of political goodwill by President Prabowo Subianto.
Families of the children killed and hurt in Tasmania's Hillcrest Primary School jumping castle tragedy have launched a class action.
