Australia

Santos, already faced with a court-ordered stop to drilling its Barossa gas field, has now halted construction of an offshore gas pipeline after a regulator's direction to check for Indigenous heritage along the route....

Even if billionaire Solomon Lew hasn't the appetite for a Myer takeover his stake has given him gatekeeper status if anyone else wants to have a try....

Prosecutors are challenging the community corrections order handed to a man who caused the death of his son when doing doughnuts in a buggy on Christmas Day 2020....

Police said scans revealed Harry Froling had suffered head injuries....

A major restructure of Sydney's toll road system will happen by 2025, the premier says, but taxpayers will be subsidising toll operators for years to come....

We have more in common with the creatures of the natural world than we sometimes acknowledge. Yet here we are, not the fastest or strongest or largest, placed in a custodial role over all creatures....

Australia's biggest miner has struck a new deal to explore for copper as it looks to boost its exposure to metals vital to driving the clean energy transition....

Anmatyerre artist Barbara Weir achieved international acclaim for her unique paintings of the grasses, lands and dreaming stories of her Central Australian homelands....

There are three cases before the US Supreme Court that could make social media platforms liable for the content they host. At the centre of them are "the 26 words that created the internet"....

Victoria's legal community has come out in favour of reforms to the state's bail laws, arguing the current regime disproportionately affects First Nations people and has led to increases in the prison population....

Zip Co co-founder Peter Gray has argued the buy now, pay later company can be resilient if the United States goes into recession....

Two kangaroos filmed fighting at a campground on NSW's Mid North Coast....

Chief executive John King said the company has recorded the best sales it has seen in the first five months of a financial year since records started in 2004....

Japan's Prime Minister has sent a warning about the country's ageing population....

Elon Musk's Twitter is being sued by the Crown Estate after allegedly failing to pay the rent on its London headquarters....

A struggling echidna has been rescued from a Victorian lake by a wake boarder....

Queensland Police hunt gunman after teenager shot in the arm in a Gold Coast car park....

The crypto rebound has gained so much speculative vigour that even tokens torpedoed last year by their dependence on discredited mogul Sam Bankman-Fried have rallied....

The mayor of Alice Springs has called on the government to take action amid the Territory town's crime crisis....

Police pursuit ends with the death of two people in Sydney's west....

A man has suffered significant burns after his two-storey unit caught ablaze in Melbourne's north overnight....

New figures showed supermarket price growth accelerated during the final months of 2022....

After the car crashed and burst into flames on the M4, police and members of the public tried to remove the two people in the car, but were unable to do so....

Police seek gunman after teenager shot in arm at Gold Coast car park....

Police pursuit ends with the death of two people in Sydney's west overnight....

The ASX is set for a positive open as Wall Street grows more convinced the Federal Reserve is set to turn the screws on the economy less aggressively....

For several years PwC's clients seemed to have almost prescient knowledge of the government's plans to change tax laws. Now we know why....

Perpetual started a new chapter through its merger with Pendal on Monday, in a deal that has faced scepticism from some in financial markets....

The music streaming service is the latest tech company forced to rethink its pandemic-era expansion as the economic outlook weakens....

Alcoa will only use bauxite mined in WA's jarrah forests in its local refineries in a decision that will slightly reduce its impact on a threatened ecosystem....

With the new deal, the tech giant hopes to remain at the forefront of generative AI, technologies that can generate text, images and other media in response to short prompts....

Last month, an obscure Swiss-based syndicate agreed to buy the refinery from the controversial billionaire for about $1.5 billion, but it has still to secure funding....

The treatment of an Indigenous woman in prison caused her preventable death, a coroner will find, and has sparked a call for far-reaching change....

The Indigenous woman's preventable death should make Victorians angry enough to see long-awaited change become reality....

As the world changes, universities should interrogate why they risk being outwitted by a language processing tool....

The construction of towers on Prince Alfred Park would free up space behind Central to be used for a vast land deck covered by parkland....

The accountant who pocketed millions in fees over the liquidation of Alan Bond's billion-dollar Bell Group has found his company on the other end of a wind-up order....

Vets across the state are swamped, but it's not just pandemic pets fuelling the strain....

No food, no fuel, no essential items and no alcohol has led to tensions running high in the northern WA town of Derby....

And why is it we cannot have daylight saving a few months longer?...

CSIRO's nuclear waste-safeguarding robot has been developed at the agency's Brisbane facility, and recently passed a key test with flying colours....

The details, laid out in a new report, come as the state prepares to build two new youth prisons despite long-standing plans to keep young people out of them....

Sean Kelly identifies what the problem is with Peter Dutton's approach to the Voice. Dutton wants a fight....

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today's interactive superquiz and target....

Drivers from across the city who regularly use motorways can claim up to $750 back on toll fees, though western Sydney motorists are expected to claim the most....

Australia has advantages in this new motoring revolution, and we should be making more of them....

Kylie Bazzo, the mother of West Coast Eagles defender Rhett Bazzo, has been killed in a boating accident....

Emergency services have worked to free a man after a crane tipped in Perth....

Homicide detectives are investigating claims a woman was assaulted before she collapsed and died in Perth's CBD....

While skittling statistics....