An Australian man who murdered a British woman while breaking into her Queensland home will be eligible for earlier release after appealing against his sentence.Emma Lovell, who emigrated from ...

Warning: This story contains details readers might find distressingA homeless man in the Australian state of Victoria has been charged with the alleged murder of a pregnant woman and ...

Watch: Can you un-bleach coral? BBC visits remote Australian reef to find outWorld-famous coral reefs along Western Australia's (WA) coast have suffered the worst bleaching on record after the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Five Australian women who were strip-searched and invasively examined at Doha airport have won the right to sue Qatar Airways after an appeal.The women were ordered off a flight ...

A New South Wales (NSW) politician has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two young men in Australia.A jury found Gareth Ward - who is still a sitting member ...

Monica Garnsey and BBC Eye InvestigationsReporting fromCentral QueenslandBBCA small ceremonial fire has been burning for more than 1,300 days on a dusty stretch of Wangan and Jagalingou Country in ...

Lana Lam & Simon AtkinsonBBC NewsEPAUncle Pabai Pabai, right, and Uncle Paul Kabai, both elders from the Torres Strait Islands, travelled to Cairns to hear the decision in their ...

A backpacker who survived nearly two weeks lost in Western Australia's outback has said she is "simply beyond grateful to have survived".Caroline Wilga, a 26-year-old German national, was rescued ...

One of Australia's largest private childcare operators will speed up the rollout of CCTV across more than 400 centres, days after child sex abuse allegations against an employee emerged.G8 ...