Sydney news

A Queensland lettuce farmer says having two properties helps to offset the risks of the summer storm season.

Passengers on board a Virgin Australia flight from Sydney to Hobart are forced to change planes in Melbourne, after a "minor engineering issue" was detected.

Parents of at-risk children in Queensland will face mandatory random drug testing under a new policy introduced by the Government, but the Opposition says the policy misses the mark.

A growing number of cattle producers rely on artificial insemination as a more inexpensive option to rebuild herds.

The Filipino community has brought its unlikely national sport to Sydney. And no family is more obsessed with basketball than Blacktown's Figueroas, as Ann Arnold reports.

Analysis of agricultural exports shows commodities already trading with China, Japan and Korea are the biggest winners from the early years of free trade agreements.

Embattled Parramatta Eels player Semi Radradra inks a one-year deal with Toulon, according to the French rugby union club.

There has been a resurgence of the rare condition of scurvy among a group of diabetes patients at a major western Sydney hospital, a doctor finds.

Queensland University of Technology students are being urged to contact the Australian Tax Office over a glitch that puts their student loans into credit instead of debt.

Speaking publicly for the first time, former fly-in-fly-out workers tell the ABC they are suffering serious consequences after breathing in toxic smoke from burning rock on one of the world's biggest zinc and lead mines, and that owner Glencore has not offered compensation or assistance.

Sunscreen is being used on pineapples to minimise production losses from the Northern Territory sun.

Indigenous cattlemen and women from across Australia's north travelled to Kununurra last week for WA's first Indigenous cattlemen's workshop.

A man who allegedly threatened a three-year-old girl with a firearm after abducting her, a woman and another child and driving along Rundle Mall is shot by police.

Two months after Canberra Airport welcomed its first regular international flights, Qatar Airways announces plans to start flights to Doha.

Queensland scientists confirm this year's mass coral bleaching event resulted in the largest die-off of corals ever recorded on the Great Barrier Reef, but some tourist areas around Cairns and the Whitsundays showed remarkable improvement.

How one childcare service has been workingon a shoestring budgetto give Indigenous children an equal start in life.

The operator of five Adelaide nursing homes and retirement villages is worried the RSL will sell them off if it takes control of its board as expected at a meeting this afternoon.

Desperate parents believe it is safer for their children to go to boarding schools in Kenya or Uganda than live in some Melbourne suburbs.

The third pygmy marmoset monkey stolen from a wildlife park south of Sydney on Saturday has been found alive and well, New South Wales Police confirm.

A Northern Territory judge criticises the Department of Territory Families, saying its "parenting" of a 14-year-old girl accused of multiple property-related offences seemed appalling.

Embattled Parramatta Eels player Semi Radradra inks a one-year deal with French rugby club Toulon, in a move that will see him change codes.

West Australian Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan rejects union claims that another 1,000 officers are needed to help police the state, saying a more strategic mix would be better.

A Canberra criminal lawyer who allegedly accepted payment from a client's mother while also receiving funds from Legal Aid is being tried for dishonesty in the ACT Supreme Court.

A West Australian council makes a pre-election plea for more jobs and infrastructure to service its rapidly expanding suburbs on Perth's northern fringes, but an academic warns the WA capital is sprawling too far.

Police are investigating the death of an 83-year-old man whose body was found on a footpath in the Melbourne suburb of Reservoir.

South Sudanese parents in Australia are sending their children to boarding schools in Africa to escape rising youth crime rates.

Attorney-General George Brandis is embroiled in a controversy over accusations he entered into a secret deal to grant a political favour, accusations he strenuously denies.

A university student suing federal Labor MP Terri Butler for allegedly smearing him on national television has rejected her written apology, labelling it a "sham".

A former Virgin employee accused of making hoax radio calls to pilots and air traffic controllers could endanger lives if he is released on bail, a court is told.

A Barnett Government reform team is expected to soon give the go-ahead for a $225-million package aimed at improving support and services in 10 remote Aboriginal communities.

Former Anglican priest Raymond Cheek is found guilty of sexually abusing five boys over a 30-year period in Western Australia's south.

A new housing development threatens black cockatoo nesting sites in Bunbury.

Traffic on Sydney's M4 motorway is brought to a halt as a four-wheel drive spins out of control with its driver sitting unconscious behind the wheel, as brave onlookers try to help.

A 90-year-old man is being questioned by police following the discovery of a man's body on the footpath of a property at Reservoir, in Melbourne's north.

Lawyers for a Canberra woman on trial for killing her mother describe the crime as "horrific", "bizarre" and "almost ritualistic", as they urge a jury to find her not guilty by reason of mental impairment.

The media has been blocked from joining a Supreme Court visit to the site of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital on Tuesday to look at five alleged building defects.

Leaked documents reveal the South Australian Opposition is considering a pre-election commitment to spend up to $150 million and upgrade the Oaklands road and rail crossing in Adelaide.

Canberra taxi drivers are angry about a deal between Uber and the ACT Government to get weekend partygoers home from Civic during the silly season.

With Aboriginal students severely under-represented in the tertiary sector and many Indigenous languages critically endangered, it's hoped that a new National Centre for Aboriginal Language and Music will play a role in helping to reverse these trends. The centre, at Adelaide University, aims to strengthen Indigenous communities through education, cultural development and innovative collaboration.

Accused-murderer Darren Ashley, who allegedly killed his former partner, persistently told a friend he was going to kill the woman, a court hears.

An innovative community-led approach to tackling domestic violence has been launched in central Queensland with residents and service providers joining forces to create a website dubbed #canihelp?

The Ageing in North Queensland symposium is challenging communities to take the lead on creating connections with seniors.

The WA Government is on a collision course with the WA Police union over its proposed new workers' compensation scheme for serving officers.

Retired Anglican priest Raymond Cheek is found guilty of sexually abusing five boys over a 30-year period in Western Australia's south.

Survivors tell the royal commission examining institutional responses into child sexual abuse of the legal "catch-22s" that can trap victims.

Play dates between kids in a Melbourne kindergarten and a group of nursing home residents proves age is no barrier when it comes to developing new friendships.

Visitors to Canberra Airport will now be greeted by a new state-of-the-art advertisement that watches them while they are watching it.

Doctors at the Nepean Hospital in western Sydney have welcomed a major upgrade announcement but say it does not go far enough to meet projected future demands and shows the Government is beholden to the richer suburbs' "medical mafia".

Michael Gunner says he has confidence in Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw, who has launched a new inquiry into a historic allegation of rape within the police force.

WA students have begun working with the Department of Agriculture and Food to create a snail-detection app, as part of coding club.