Australia's govt plans to introduce targeted artificial intelligence rules including human intervention and transparency amid a rapid rollout of AI tools by businesses and in everyday life.
Extreme weather across three Australian states is expected to ease as the clean-up gets under way after strong winds left a woman dead, homes destroyed and towns on flood watch.
The parents of one of dozens of young girls raped by a childcare worker say the system is broken and they can't fathom how he got away with prolific offending over years in a "room full of horrors".
Tens of thousands of people in Tasmania were without power on Sunday after a cold front brought damaging winds and heavy rains, sparking flood warnings.
Anthony Albanese has denied a senior US official's claim that Kevin Rudd convinced the Americans to call off plans for their own regional force in the Pacific.
Police have released new images as they try to identify a man after a baby boy was badly burnt when a stranger allegedly poured hot coffee on him in a park.
Leaders of several Pacific Islands have endorsed an Australian-funded plan to improve police training and create a mobile regional policing unit as Canberra tries to block China from expanding its security role.
Australia is limiting the enrolment number of international students at 270,000 for 2025, as the government looks to rein in record migration that has contributed to a spike in home rental prices.
An apparent conspiracy theorist has stabbed multiple people after a two-car crash on a major Sydney highway, witnessed by a rugby league team chairman.
Banning a transgender woman from a female-only app constituted unlawful discrimination, a judge has found in a landmark Australian gender-identity case.