Treasurer Jim Chalmers has revealed Labor’s mid-year budget update will save billions, but stopped short of divulging the fate of a looming $42bn deficit.
Ria Pandey
Nearly two dozen Philippine fishing boats have been targeted by Chinese coast guard ships which hit them with powerful water cannons in the South China Sea.
Staff Writers
More than 22,00 homes are without power in the Mid West and a Chittering blaze is threatening lives and homes as the State braces for temperatures up to 40C today.
Claire Sadler
A 17-year-old girl has died after slipping from the side of a cliff while reportedly trying to take a photo, with emergency services issuing a warning to Australians.
Max Corstorphan
Get ready Fringe World festival-goers because The Lady Boys Of Bangkok are coming to Perth.
Hannah Cross
A 17-year-old girl has died in Queensland after horrified onlookers watched her slip off the side of a popular cliff lookout.
A woman is fighting for her life, while three other people were seriously injured when a car struck a group of pedestrians.
Liam Beatty
Known as one of the most reliable celestial spectacles of the year, the Geminid meteor shower is set to peak across Australia tonight. Here’s how you can watch it!
Taylor Renouf
Tipping the scale at an incredible 360 grams, Charlie Jones is believed to be the tiniest baby ever born in Queensland.
Pamela Rontziokos
Tiny Charlie Jones has made history as one of the smallest premature babies in the country - tipping the scales at just 360 grams.
Robyn Wuth
Coles and Woolies will face up to $10m in fines if they breach the new laws, announced as part of Labor’s crackdown on price-gouging.
The mother of a boy who died at a juvenile detention centre has urged the state government to immediately close the controversial facility, following scathing findings by a coroner.
Emma Kirk
Fighting continues in the long-running border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia despite US President Donald Trump saying he has brokered a new ceasefire.
Two people have been killed and eight are fighting for life after a shooting at an Ivy league university in the US, with the gunman still on the loose.
KIMBERLEE KRUESI, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
The director of a ‘boutique luxury builder’ is being reported to WA Police and the corporate regulator by the liquidator appointed to investigate the company’s collapse.
John Flint
A 17-year-old girl has died after falling from a Sunshine Coast cliff while attempting to take a photograph.
A full active shooter lockdown is underway at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with anyone on campus told to hide and silence their phones.
Police have charged 50 people for retail crime during a two-day blitz at two popular shopping districts ahead of Christmas.
More than 400 people have been killed and 200,000 are displaced after Uvira, in eastern Congo, fell to the Rwanda-backed M23 paramilitary group.
The Associated Press
Causing excruciating pain, kidney stones can be years in the making - but they're also more likely to hit sufferers in the warmer months.
Katelyn Catanzariti
A senior Labor MP broke parliamentary rules during a family trip to Perth that billed taxpayers more than $21,000, the expenses watchdog has found.
A United Airlines flight has been forced to make an emergency landing after an engine failed and a fire broke out.
Police in Germany believe they have foiled a planned vehicle attack on a Christmas market in the southern state of Bavaria, with the arrest of five men.
