A pilot who caused a deadly light plane crash on an island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been spared a jail sentence.British tourist Jocelyn Spurway, 29, was killed...

Getty ImagesA PNG side at a trial match in Sydney in 2013Papua New Guinea (PNG) will join Australia's national rugby league competition, after signing a deal that obligates them...

Australian police have launched an investigation after a car was set alight and houses were vandalised with anti-Israel graffiti in Sydney. The incident has been condemned by Prime Minister...

Former world champion cyclist Rohan Dennis has pleaded guilty over a car incident in Australia which killed his wife, fellow Olympian Melissa Hoskins.Hoskins died in hospital on 30 December...

A fire which ripped through Melbourne's Adass Israel synagogue is being treated as a likely terror attack, Australian police say.Three suspects are being hunted over Friday's early-morning blaze, which...

Getty ImagesNeighbours actor Ian Smith, who plays Harold Bishop on the Australian soap, has announced he is leaving the show after revealing he has terminal cancer.The 86-year-old told Australia's...

PA MediaJack Pitcher arrived at Bondi Beach in Sydney early on Thursday, having set out from Perth in early October A man has broken the British record for running...

Worshippers were forced to flee an Australian synagogue after it was set on fire in what the prime minister condemned as an "act of hate".Firefighters were called to Melbourne's...

A man who was cleared of murdering a British woman during a break-in at her home in Australia has been sentenced to 18 months detention for burglary and assault...

Australian Police have seized 2.3 tonnes of cocaine from a broken-down boat off the coast of Queensland, authorities said on Monday.Eleven men and two juveniles were arrested, including the...

A man wanted over one of Australia's most infamous cold cases, dubbed the Easey Street murders, has arrived in Melbourne after being extradited from Italy.Suzanne Armstrong, 27, and Susan...

A former childcare worker dubbed "one of Australia's worst paedophiles" has been sentenced to life in prison for raping and sexually abusing almost 70 girls.Ashley Paul Griffith, 47, confessed...