Push to punish those who help ‘IS brides’ dismissed
The opposition's proposal to punish those who help IS-linked families return to Australia has been labelled a headline grab that lacks any detail.
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Former staffer Fiona Brown has alleged Scott Morrison lied about speaking to her regarding her role in the fallout of the Brittany Higgins rape scandal.
The ACT Brumbies have celebrated James Slipper's 200th game with a victory as they ended a 26-year losing streak against the Crusaders in Christchurch.
Police believe two suspicious car fires could be linked to the kidnapping of a grandfather, who investigators say was taken in a case of mistaken identity.
Politics
‘Don’t want them back’: threat to returning ISIS brides
Security agencies have not given any advice that would allow the government to bar a cohort of so-called "ISIS brides" from getting passports, a minister says.
Police
Campbell man charged over Hyatt conference attack
A 20-year-old man has been accused of throwing incendiary device into Hyatt Hotel during conference, prompting counter-terrorism investigation.
Police
Alleged gunmen behind ex-NRL star’s shooting charged
Police are probing potential links to overseas crime entities after the alleged gunman behind the shooting of a former NRL star was charged.
Conservationists are outraged that a minister has used national interest provisions to continue strip-mining a forest ecosystem.
Australia's legislative processes are the subject of a new integrity watchdog report.
A Labor minister has delivered some of the harshest criticism yet about an IS-linked group of Australian women who went to a war zone with children.
A supermarket giant is defending claims it misled customers with its "down down" campaign, saying it offered value for money.
Sections of Commonwealth Avenue and Parkes Way will close at night and on weekends in February and March as work continues on Light Rail Stage 2A, including construction of a new bridge deck over Parkes Way.
Police are less hopeful about finding a mistakenly kidnapped grandfather alive after they searched a semi-rural property believed to have held the 85-year-old.
Canberra assistant coach Brock Shepperd believes the changes to the NRL's bench rules will play right into Daine Laurie's hands at the Raiders.
Woman accused of stealing more than $700 worth of items during 12 visits to a Mawson petrol station.
A woman has been accused of attempted murder after a man was allegedly stabbed during an argument at a Braddon home last month.
Why was Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested, and what legal protections do the royal family have? FRANCESCA JACKSON has some answers...
The Flying Kangaroo has been criticised for closing three regional bases – including Canberra – with an inquiry finding it risks calling itself a country carrier "in name only".
Police have seized five posters from Civic bar Dissent as part of an investigation into possible hate imagery under newly enacted Commonwealth legislation.
