High school costs forcing indebted parents to work more
The significant cost of educating children in Australia is forcing parents to work more hours and families to cut back on holidays.
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Australians are buying more used hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electric cars, although sales across all states and territories are slowing down.
Stock losses are mounting and some communities are looking at months of isolation in the wake of a former cyclone after widespread flooding.
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd will focus on the America-China relationship in his new role, after announcing he's quitting as ambassador to the US.
Police
Car rolls several times on Athllon Drive
Police are seeking witnesses and dashcam footage following a single-vehicle collision in Phillip on Saturday night.
Politics
Hate crackdown revealed as day of mourning announced
Australians will commemorate the 15 innocent people killed at Bondi's terrorist attack as the prime minister unveils details of laws criminalising hate speech.
Technology
Some social media use can benefit teen mental health
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.
A 25-year-old Googong man was allegedly caught drug driving twice on Sunday.
Police seized 19 vehicles and detected 22 impaired drivers during enforcement operations in the lead-up to and throughout this year’s Summernats.
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.
