Rudd to leave Washington a year early
Former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd is stepping down from his role as ambassador to the US to head an international think tank and focus on China analysis.
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A study analysing Aussie teens has found kids using social media in a particular way had better wellbeing than peers who had no online interaction at all.
A 31-year-old man has been charged with multiple driving offences following an overnight pursuit through Tuggeranong’s southern suburbs.
A 36-year-old Coombs man is facing court after allegedly stealing two vehicles and driving on the wrong side of the road, causing a head-on collision.
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Man caught drug driving twice in one day
A 25-year-old Googong man was allegedly caught drug driving twice on Sunday.
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Summernats: police seize 19 vehicles
Police seized 19 vehicles and detected 22 impaired drivers during enforcement operations in the lead-up to and throughout this year’s Summernats.
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Major flooding threat as power, water cut after cyclone
Residents are without power and drinking water as the clean-up from ex-Tropical Cyclone Koji gets under way, with the system slowly tracking inland.
Australia's politicians will be called back to Parliament House early to implement sweeping changes in the wake of the Bondi terrorist attack, reports TESS IKONOMOU.
Writer Randa Abdel-Fattah says attempts to police speech "will be met with a strong response", as dozens of writers withdrew from a festival after she was axed.
Donations and praise have poured in for the heroic police officer who brought a stabbing rampage to an end as she battles a rare form of cancer.
A 50-year-old Barton man is facing court after allegedly using an instant messaging application to share child-abuse material.
Australia has been invited to a meeting in the US where major economies will discuss the next steps for a $1.2 billion critical minerals stockpile.
Radical preachers using unlicensed premises to brainwash and radicalise mostly young men are on notice with councils enlisted to shut them down.
Social media giant Meta has criticised the federal government's world-first social media ban as it releases data into how many accounts it wiped in one week.
Communities are on alert as category one cyclone Koji inches towards far north Queensland with up to 200mm of rain recorded overnight
People affected by devastating bushfires ravaging a state will have access to financial support under an assistance package worth millions of dollars.
The weight-loss journey for a growing number of Australians using "miracle" medications must include exercise or risk long-term health problems, experts warn.
Police are seeking to identify a man and a woman following theft at a retail store in Gungahlin.
Three people missing in Victoria's bushfires are safe and well, although dozens of properties have been destroyed at multiple fire scenes.
