A fight involving machetes at a Melbourne shopping centre has prompted an Australian state to fast-track the country's first-ever ban on the weapon's sale. The ban - to start...

An outgoing state MP caused a scene in Western Australia's parliament after he ended his valedictory speech with a shoey - the act of having a celebratory drink, typically...

A "really muscly" kangaroo "tried to drown" a man in Australia, after the two got into a punch-up.Don James is said to have found himself fighting for his life...

A rescue team has filmed the moment they found an elderly woman stranded in her flooded home in Taree.The Australian prime minister, Antony Albanese has described the floods affecting...

Ottilie Mitchell and James ChaterBBC NewsWatch: Cattle washed onto beaches in widespread Australia floodsTwo people have died and another two are missing after major flooding in New South Wales...

Australia's conservative Liberal-National coalition - the nation's main opposition political party - has split after a partnership lasting almost 80 years.The move marks a seismic change in the country's...

EPAWilliam Goodge says he beat the previous record by four daysA British ultra-endurance athlete says he has broken the world record for running across the width of Australia, after...

Australian Football League (AFL) player and coach Robert Walls has died aged 74, after using voluntary assisted dying laws.Walls - a Carlton Football Club legend - won three premierships...

An Australian man who was captured by Russian forces while fighting alongside Ukraine has been sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security prison, Russian-installed prosecutors have said.Oscar Jenkins,...

Katy WatsonAustralia correspondentWatch: How snakes and spiders are milked for venomWith a pair of bright pink tweezers in hand, Emma Teni is delicately wrestling a large and leggy spider...

An Australian novelist jailed in China has in a letter to his supporters and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese detailed his "unbearable suffering" as he enters his seventh year...

A juror in the trial of an Australian woman accused of killing three relatives by feeding them poisonous mushrooms has been removed for possible misconduct.Erin Patterson - who has...