A British backpacker has pleaded guilty to killing a man in Australia after hitting him while riding an e-scooter with an alcohol level more than three times the legal...

Famed Australian crocodile wrangler Matt Wright urged friends to "torch" evidence and tried to pressure a hospitalised witness after a fatal helicopter crash, prosecutors have told his trial.The former...

An Australian politician and convicted rapist has resigned from parliament moments before he was to be kicked out, after losing a legal challenge to remain.Gareth Ward, 44, was last...

Footage of police interviewing Australian mushroom murder Erin Patterson on 3 August 2023 has been released by the Victorian Supreme Court. During the trial Patterson admitted she lied to...

Once branded "Australia's worst mother" but now considered the victim of one of its greatest miscarriages of justice, Kathleen Folbigg has been offered A$2m (£975,580, $1.3m) in compensation for...

Getty ImagesParts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the largest annual decline in coral cover since records began nearly 40 years ago, according to a new report.Northern and...

An Indigenous group has launched legal action to stop a 63,000-seat stadium for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics being built on culturally significant land. The Queensland government announced in March...

Katy WatsonBBC News, Sydney Harbour BridgeWatch: Aerial footage shows thousands of people on Sydney Harbour BridgeA planned pro-Palestinian protest across the Sydney Harbour Bridge has gone ahead after it...

Tiffanie TurnbullBBC News, SydneyAustralian MuseumBefore koalas became Australia's animal ambassadors, the country tried platypus diplomacyIn 1943, a camouflaged ship set off from Australia to England carrying top secret cargo...

Filipina-Australian artist Loribelle Spirovski has won the People's Choice Award for the Archibald Prize - Australia's most prestigious portrait art prize.Her winning work is a portrait of Aboriginal Australian...

An Australian childcare worker has been charged with filming child abuse material inside his Sydney workplaces.Artarmon man David James, 26, is accused of creating "explicit" images or videos of...

A researcher at an Australian university has discovered a new "supersized" species of stick insect in a remote rainforest in Queensland, Australia. Professor Angus Emmott identified the new Acrophylla...