More than 100,000 Aussies in Middle East travel limbo
Australia is considering how it can help bring tens of thousands of people home from the Middle East as airspaces remain closed, preventing any flights.
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Angus Taylor is preparing for his first parliamentary sitting week as opposition leader, with polls showing some green shoots for the coalition.
Canberrans are being invited to help decide what the territory’s five federal MPs should prioritise in 2026 at a Community Assembly in Curtin on March 8.
Community consultation opens on 14 additional single-use plastic items as government looks to expand reduction laws.
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Australia unlikely to join US attacks on Iran: minister
The government has played down the likelihood of Australian military involvement in Iran as the US pushes for regime change.
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Liberals claim ambulance service under strain
The Canberra Liberals say internal documents reveal mounting pressure on the ACT Ambulance Service, with routine station closures and paramedics working long hours amid staffing shortages.
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Cale’s late heroics saves Brumbies from Blues upset
The Brumbies have kept their unbeaten start to the Super Rugby Pacific season intact, overcoming an almighty scare from the Blues to win 30-27.
Millions are bracing for torrential rains, severe storms and dangerous floods as a tropical low brings unpredictable weather to swathes of the country.
"A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms is a look at what life is like in this grimy, broken world for those just trying to survive and Duncan is an effortlessly likeable underdog," writes streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
An unprecedented, detailed image of the Milky Way’s centre has mapped a vast, turbulent web of cold gas around the galaxy’s supermassive black hole, with ANU researchers helping decode how stars form in the extreme environment.
A 58,000-hectare Australian expanse containing some of the world's oldest evidence of animal life could be included on the prestigious World Heritage list.
Denmark's Tasmanian-born Queen Mary and King Frederik will begin their state visit to Australia in the "Red Centre".
The Liberal Party will not publicly release a long-awaited review into its deplorable 2025 election campaign, which one of its authors described as horrifying.
Neil Sedaka, the million-selling singer and songwriter, has died at the age of 86.
Two men and a woman have been arrested following the alleged knifepoint theft of a vehicle in Holt and a string of violent offences across Canberra during February.
Police are investigating after an arrow became lodged in the bonnet of a car travelling along Fairbairn Avenue on Friday night.
Police allege a stolen Range Rover was driven at officers and forced another vehicle off the road during a dangerous pursuit across Canberra.
Political candidates are preparing for a hotly contested four-way race to replace Sussan Ley in parliament after she was deposed as opposition leader.
Tactical police have rescued a man abducted and taken to a bush property in the same suburb where police believe a kidnapped grandfather was killed.
