Sydney news

A shadow is cast over the future of a $152 million marina development in WA's Pilbara when it is revealed the Town of Port Hedland may not be able to fund annual maintenance of the facility.

The quality of the pitch at Sydney Football Stadium has players concerned ahead of the A-League grand final, with a Super Rugby game scheduled for the night before.

Andrew Hastie has been typecast as a Christian politician from day one. While he says that can be frustrating, it's meant he's never felt the need to hide who he is.

A Federal Government trial restricting how Centrelink recipients can spend their money is costing taxpayers up to about $10,000 per participant.

With buying their own home a distant dream for many Australians, one company is offering investors the chance to get a foot on the property ladder by selling tiny shares in properties.

Aged care giant Bupa is facing allegations that its poor care of a resident in Adelaide led to his death, with his family saying he had open wounds, bruises and was not showered for days.

Aquaculture giant Tassal failed to report a rise in fish deaths in Macquarie Harbour in the timeframe required under its license, according to documents obtained by the ABC.

Seven new ambulances are to be stationed in South Australia's APY Lands in an effort to improve health services and boost staff safety after the murder of a nurse last year.

An Adelaide nursing home run by the SA government is at the centre of allegations that it has been abusing and neglecting residents for the past decade. 7.30 has now uncovered more allegations of neglect at another Adelaide nursing home, sparking calls for an overhaul of the complaints system.

Simon Birmingham defends changes to university debt repayments which will see graduates having to make higher repayments, sooner.

Convicted Australian terrorist, Khaled Sharrouf, has used his son in an ISIS-style propaganda video. The boy's grandmother, who has spent years trying to bring the children back from Syria, says she doesn't understand why Sharrouf would use his own son as a media tool.

Hundreds of union members and supporters march through the streets of Darwin for the Northern Territory's annual May Day event.

Doors so heavy it takes a number of people to hold them open, a dilapidated sewage system and no green space. After years of teaching children with severe disabilities in run-down facilities, a Melbourne principal will now knock it all down and start again.

A WA judge labels methamphetamine Australia's biggest ever social problem, tantamount only to the treatment of Indigenous people, as he jails a woman caught with almost 165 grams of the drug.

Former ACT Labor parliamentarian Jayson Hinder, described as a "great friend to many Canberrans", is killed in a motorbike crash in the United States.

Richer state's support the idea of changing the way GST is distributed around the nation, with some hoping a per capita model can be adopted. But poorer states say the current method of distribution brings equality and access to services.

Counter-terrorism police raided the Sydney home of a relative of infamous Islamic State fighter Khaled Sharrouf following concerns the pair may have spoken about undertaking an act of terrorism on Anzac Day.

WA's Minister for Agriculture and Food Alannah MacTiernan dismisses the interstate response to a pest psyllid outbreak as "a circus" and says national biosecurity protocols need to be better prepared.

Hobart City Council launches a stinging attack on the Tasmanian Government over its plan to compulsorily acquire land for a cable car project.

WA Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan suspects human error is to blame after it took them one year to tell a man he had been wrongly convicted of a home burglary because of a PathWest mix-up.

Australia's largest private hospital operator will face the Federal Court to answer accusations by the ACCC that it warned surgeons away from a competitor.

The family of an Adelaide man who died after being stabbed outside a shopping centre say they are relieved someone has been charged over his death.

Former Olympic cyclist Tracey Gaudry becomes Hawthorn's new chief executive, and the first woman to hold the top job at an AFL club.

Taree Aboriginal artist, Andy Snelgar, has been selected as a finalist in a prestigious National Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.

Security footage shows radicalised teenager Farhad Mohammed giving an Islamic State-style one-fingered salute just minutes before he fatally shot police accountant Curtis Cheng, a Sydney court is told.

Cody Walker will play alongside a familiar face in the halves for Country Origin against City Origin in Mudgee on Sunday, his childhood team-mate Tyrone Roberts.

A man convicted of brutally attacking two backpackers at Salt Creek in South Australia now pleads guilty to indecently assaulting another woman less than two years earlier.

An Adelaide woman who has been arrested and detained in Colombia for drug trafficking may have to endure "pretty rough" conditions behind bars if she is convicted, the author of a book on South American prisons warns.

The Victorian budget includes $10 million for a feasibility study on a rail link to Melbourne Airport but knowing how long it will take will will depend on what option is chosen.

Labour hire companies in Queensland will be regulated by a new licensing scheme to target rogue operators, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announces at a Labour Day rally in Brisbane.

Broome's iconic camel rides are headed for a legal tangle over sharing Cable Beach with nudists, dogs and cars.

A WA seed potato producer fears he will have to leave the industry because of the financial implications tomato potato psyllid has caused.

Police attempt to piece things together after a Lego-loving thief stole a large amount of the collectable toy bricks from a shop in regional NSW.

Dumped asbestos in and around remote Indigenous communities is a widespread problem and the cost to remove it is trebled compared to non-remote areas, a Federal Government study finds.

Canberra's light rail line could bypass Parliament House and instead travel through the departmentally-dense suburb of Barton, under one of two proposed routes.

A much-needed paediatric intensive care unit opens at one of New South Wales' busiest hospitals, enhancing capacity for critical care services for children.

The Tax Justice Network says it is dismayed that the Federal Government review of the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax, now delayed by 4 months, will not include a new royalties regime.

A regional Victorian psychologist who has worked in prisons and a detention centre, says working through her terminal cancer prognosis has been easier with the understanding she has acquired through her work.

Greater Western Sydney's Toby Greene is offered a two-match suspension after being charged by the AFL match review panel for striking the Western Bulldogs' Caleb Daniel.

Some dog owners are spending hundreds of dollars a month on day care to keep their 'fur babies' healthy and happy.

Former ACT Labor parliamentarian Jayson Hinder, described as a "great friend to many Canberrans", is killed in a motorbike crash in Canada.

The family of Melbourne mother Kylie Blackwood, who was killed four years ago, will be forced to wait another seven months for her alleged murderer to face a committal hearing, after his lawyer was granted more time to prepare his case.

No rain fell in Perth at all during the month of April for only the fourth time in the past 140 years, the Bureau of Meteorology says.

Milk and nutrition formula maker Wattle Health Australia makes steady gains after a rocky time to float on the stock exchange.

First of eight roundtable discussions begin at Orange to address gaps in palliative care in regional New South Wales.

A new public art installation in the Cairns CBD featuring traditional Aboriginal shields captures the region's tragic history while offering protection for the future.

An Australian of the Year finalist and migrant women's rights campaigner rorted hundreds of thousands of dollars of government money, a NSW corruption inquiry hears.

Andrew John Sheals, 19, pleads guilty to causing the deaths of his teenage girlfriend and their baby son through negligent driving.

Turia Pitt's story of rehabilitation and strength after suffering burns to 65 per cent of her body is a significant event in her life, but one that she refuses to be defined by as she continues to enjoy what she always loved to do like trekking to Everest Base Camp.

It can be a hard and sometimes dangerous life working in outback Australia.Three graziers, who each lost their husbands in separate tragedies, have been left to run enormous, remote sheep and cattle stations.