Australia's largest literary talkfest is imploding with mass board resignations and speaker cancellations following the dumping of a controversial Palestinian author.
Australians have defied expectations by increasing household spending 1 per cent in November, with Black Friday sales and major concerts driving the surge.
As ex-Tropical Cyclone Koji batters North Queensland, emergency crews have carried out dramatic rescues, including two adults and five children forced onto tables by rising floodwaters.
Police officers armed with semiautomatic rifles will be deployed for the Australian Open in a move one senior political figure has branded a sad sign of the times".
Thousands are without electricity as ex-Tropical Cyclone Koji lashes North Queensland, forcing dramatic rescues and sparking warnings of potentially life-threatening flooding."
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Koji has made landfall in North Queensland, with warnings the system's heavy rainfall could cause life-threatening flash flooding".
A single mum who repaid rent arrears after falling ill last year is being evicted from a social housing home where she has lived for the past four years with nowhere to go.
Thousands have braved heatwave conditions to attend Canberra's iconic car festival, which has been given an exemption from the territory's first total fire ban in six years.
North Queensland is bracing for Cyclone Koji to make landfall about 4am, with residents warned to expect damaging winds, heavy rain and possible flooding.
A dire warning has been issued from authorities who are urging those in heatwave affected areas to use common sense, stay cool and look out for the elderly as temperatures soar past 43C.
Australia is on the cusp of reaching a population milestone - even as the nation stares down the barrel of a demographic crisis amid crashing migration and birthrate levels.
A man's chilling words uttered to a woman after he fired a sawn-off rifle at her head have been revealed along with horror details of his campaign of abuse" against her.
The individual figures attached to Jake Weatherald's maiden Test summer weren't flashy, but there is one statistic that sits firmly in his favour for the future.