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The much-touted University of Queensland-CSL coronavirus vaccine is being abandoned because people who get it return false-positive results for HIV, leaving the team behind the work "devastated" and the public disappointed.

Western Australia overwhelmingly voted to break away from the rest of Australia in 1933. Legal experts have explained how WA could try again with the state closed to other Australians.

Fanos Panayides, a former contestant on the reality TV show Family Food Fight, has been charged with incitement

Foxtel says it is too early to assess the long-term impact of the coronavirus, but already axed staff on Wednesday due to challenging market conditions.

More than six million Australians will receive a cash handout of $750 as part of the prime minister's $17.6 billion coronavirus stimulus package. Small businesses will also get a cash injection as the government works to fight off a possible recession

Tasmanian government considering tougher rules for self-isolation after 'irresponsible' actions

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese says the Australian economy was "tanking well before the bushfires and the coronavirus". The Labor leader said the Morrison government has been "complacent about the bushfires and complacent about the slowing

The over-60s are being urged to avoid trips abroad with mounting evidence suggesting they are likely to be hardest hit if they fall ill with coronavirus.

Experts say weather conditions in bushfire-battered eastern Australia could bring "super dangerous" funnel-webs out in droves.

Officials in Australia plan to kill thousands of camels that are drinking too much water as wildfires continue to ravage the country.

As firefighters battle wildfires across Australia, authorities in New South Wales say police have arrested dozens of people for offenses related to fires, including 24 for deliberately lighting fires and three for looting fire-ravaged communities. The big

Already reeling from the death of father-son dairy farmers Robert and Patrick Salway, the dairy industry could take another blow — 'devastating' milk shortages.

The wildfires that are ravaging parts of Australia are so extreme and burning through vegetation that is causing them to generate so much heat the blazes are creating their own weather systems, including fire-generated thunderstorms and fire tornadoes.

Hong Kong has guarded its ability to do things people cannot on the Chinese mainland, like commemorate Tiananmen Square. Is that about to change?

The public will benefit from better government if the free press is protected.

Journalist Des Houghton has said he agrees "wholeheartedly" with a combined press freedom advertising campaign, telling Sky News restrictive laws on journalists are a "serious blight" on democracy. "The free press is at the very founda

Sky News host Alan Jones says Canberra “doesn’t know the difference” between Chinese ownership and investment when it comes to China. The broadcaster noted that China owns 29 per cent of Australian foreign-owned farmland and “a lot of this happened while Morrison was Treasurer”. “We love investment

An Australian couple traveling through Asia who wanted to "break the stigma around travelling to countries which get a bad wrap [sic] in the media," reportedly found out the hard way that some countries may well deserve the reputation they have: t

Australia isn't waiting for new laws to block access to sites with content it deems horrific. The government's e-safety commissioner Julie Inman has ordered internet service providers in the country to block eight websites hosting the Christchurch

Australia has ordered internet service providers to block access to eight websit...