Sydney news

An autistic Canberra man missing since Thursday has been found safe after a search involving police and SES crews.

Investigations are continuing into the deaths of a man and a woman after their bodies were found inside a unit in Southport on the Gold Coast on Friday evening.

Crews are working to restore power after a severe hail storm damaged electrical infrastructure in far-western and central New South Wales.

The second Test between Australia and South Africa is almost here, with the hosts needing a victory to keep the series alive. Follow all the action in our live blog.

A trophy gun captured on the Western Front nearly 100 years ago has undergone a dramatic restoration by a handful of far north Queensland craftsmen.

Donald Trump's victory in the United States election was a salutary warning to political parties around the world to ignore the working class at your peril.

Thousands of Nationals voters in Orange in the state's central-west are expected to turn away from the party when they take to the polls in a NSW by-election today.

A 25-year-old man is remanded in custody, charged over the theft of a car which had a six-month-old baby inside, outside a Melbourne school earlier this week.

Emergency workers respond to hundreds of calls for help related to storm damage and flash flooding, including to rescue a woman after a tree comes down on her tent.

Adelaide United snap a run of four straight losses with a hard-fought 1-1 draw against Brisbane in Friday night's A-League clash at Hindmarsh Stadium.

Emergency services are cleaning up after a severe hail storm lashed the city of Broken Hill, in far west NSW.

Emergency services workers race to free a man and a child from the wreckage of car that hits a home in Victoria's south-west.

Authorities are warning of extreme fire conditions for parts of Western Australia on Tuesday, the anniversary of a fatal bushfire on the state's south coast which claimed four lives last year.

WA Attorney-General Michael Mischin indicates he has the support of the Premier in his plan to expunge all historical homosexual convictions.

Donald Trump's shocking victory on the heels of an equally surprising Brexit vote in the UK is rattling the major parties in Australia, and in the Queensland city of Ipswich people could not be happier.

Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools Australia organisation has been involved in 'high risk' business practices potentially leaving the schools open to possible fraud and official misconduct, according to a confidential government audit.

Flinders University warns its world-renowned gambling research centre could be wound up when a State Government therapy contract is handed over to a private provider.

Curtin University is preparing to let a significant number of teaching contracts expire at the end of the year, saying the budget has been affected by Western Australia's economic slowdown.

David Hockney's new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria features many of his recent works created on smartphones and tablets.

The surging iron ore price will add $2 billion to the WA budget's bottom line if the higher than estimated prices continue, easing pressure on record debt and deficit levels, Treasurer Mike Nahan says.

Curtin University is preparing to let a significant number of teaching contracts expire at the end of the year, saying the budget has been affected by Western Australia's economic slowdown.

Two men have been arrested over a carjacking in Melbourne's north in which a woman leapt onto a vehicle in an attempt to stop it being stolen with a baby on board.

Remembrance Day is commemorated at ceremonies around the Northern Territory to mark 98 years since the end of World War I.

Remembrance Day is commemorated at ceremonies around the Northern Territory to mark 98 years since the end of World War I.

An elderly patient is recovering from a rare and potentially deadly strain of meningococcal on the Sunshine Coast.

WA Governor Kerry Sanderson recognises the suffering diggers continue to suffer after the battles stop during her Remembrance Day speech in Perth.

Surf Life Saving Queensland says an augmented reality app may be the way to teach beachgoers about safety.

Pet owners in the Bridgewater area north of Hobart are being urged to keep their animals inside at night, amid fears pets are being deliberately set alight.

Sex workers, asylum seekers and public holidays are on the agenda at Tasmanian Labor's annual conference.

One chef is opening the minds of farmers, wholesalers and chefs to non-prime cuts of meat.

Northern Territory Police are accused of causing the injuries a man suffered when he allegedly kicked the roof off the top of a police vehicle travelling at 80 kilometres per hour and leaped out.

Victorian detectives question a Senior Constable after a toddler was dangled over a balcony on Melbourne Cup day.

New West Coast Eagles recruit Sam Mitchell refuses to be drawn on whether he will accept the 2012 Brownlow Medal, after Jobe Watson said he would return it in the wake of the Essendon doping scandal.

Blake Smith is a poster boy for the Australian Baseball League after being sent from the US to work on his pitching before returning to play in the Major League.

A former criminal associate of Garry Dubois tells a Brisbane court his mistrust of police prevented him coming forward sooner about the 1974 killings of Barbara McCulkin and her two daughters.

Public servants are quitting or looking for other jobs, out of frustration over lengthy pay disputes, a parliamentary inquiry investigating the deadlock over pay agreements is told.

Five people are sentenced to life in prison over the murder of a Perth man who was bashed unconscious at his home before being dumped in the boot of a car and burnt alive.

Hail the size of golf balls pelts Adelaide in a sudden downpour as storms move across South Australia.

This week's Changing Track is for Simon.

A stoush is brewing between the two houses of Western Australia's Parliament about the powers and rights of the Legislative Council, with suggestions the dispute could even be settled in court.

The behaviour of those involved in a riot at a Townsville youth detention centre which left a guard seriously injured is branded "abhorrent and disgusting" by the Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner.

WA's potato industry has been left wondering when a promised support package will become available.

Anti-child abuse advocates hit out at a decision by the Archbishop of the Canberra-Goulburn region not attend a healing service for those who were abused at Marist College.

A western Sydney man who allegedly tried to kill a woman by crashing a car into a power pole is remanded in custody after a brief court hearing.

The best way to end the working week. This week Richard is joined by Subby Valentine, Zoe Coombs-Marr and Colin Buchanan.

A house in which an elderly man died in a fire in 2015 burns for a second time, with police taking three youth into custody in relation to the blaze.

At least two people are treated for smoke inhalation as "significant" fire sent massive plumes of smoke across Melbourne's CBD.

A Lutana man is charged with two counts of assault after his housemate is hospitalised with severe facial injuries.

ACT police appeal for public help to find missing Canberra man Damien Ezzy who has autism and was last seen in the early hours of Thursday morning.

ACT police appeal for public help to find missing Canberra man Damien Ezzy who has autism and was last seen in the early hours of Thursday morning.