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An OpenAI agent has accessed public and private data after hacking into a Medicare data portal in June.

A landmark report has found Indigenous workers are on average paid 16 per cent less an hour than the average Australian, amounting to nearly two months of work each year for free.

This spot on the city's northern beaches has been named the cleanest, while another popular Sydney beach is given a "poor" rating for the fifth year running.

Betty Gregory moved into aged care just weeks before turning 95.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says an unauthorised AI agent has accessed a government website.

Seasoned senior officers are not in the habit of being publicly unrestrained in their feelings, but a moment of emotion from the chief detective investigating the disappearance of four-year-old Gus Lamont has underlined the commitment and determination of…

A coroner has heard Joanne Butterfield's telephone bill showed nine calls to another landline in the lead up to her 1998 disappearance but detectives did not speak with the man that number belonged to for more than two decades.

A bitter fight is brewing between EV charging companies and poles-and-wires companies, and now a regulator has weighed in.

In a major foreign policy speech set to be delivered in New York, Anthony Albanese will declare the post-1945 world order "is no longer fit for purpose" and warn China and the US the Indo-Pacific is not a "chessboard".

Twenty years of sentencing data shows convictions for one of the most serious related offences are up by more than 60 per cent.

Tasmanian footballer Alex Pearce can create history on Saturday by becoming the Fremantle Football Club's first-ever AFL premiership captain.

An intricate stone carving and two tiny dolls are just some of the antiques pulled from storage spaces across Tasmania this week, as part of a push to bring one of the world's most popular television shows to the state.

The daughter of a Jehovah's Witness who died after refusing a blood transfusion on religious grounds in 2019 has expressed anger after the church altered its longstanding opposition last week.

NSW Police failed to adequately investigate multiple persons of interest in the unsolved 2005 killing of German tourist Simone Strobel, according to the senior barrister who acted as counsel assisting at the most recent coronial inquest into her death.

Australia's three main time zones are about to expand to five, but there are a few other clock changes to be mindful of depending on where you are in the country.

New video captures a sighting of the elusive bird in its grassy home in the remote Great Sandy Desert during the day.

Dads-to-be would be screened for perinatal distress alongside their partners under one proposal to be canvassed by a parliamentary inquiry.

New figures reveal many workers are waiting months and even years for their cases to be investigated.

The capacity of Andrew Forrest to dream big about jumping on board the AI revolution while at the same time acknowledging the technology could end us all is a perfect example of the dilemma being confronted at the UN this week.

ChatGPT might be the face of AI, but behind the prompts lies a complex physical ecosystem that is reshaping power balances around the world.

Lainey Wilson on home, her connection with Dolly Parton and how Tim McGraw inspired her ambition in music.

Wallace & Grommit studio Aardman Animations was always the dream for Sammy Lewis.

Know your David Williamson from your Ray Lawler?

Iran's president delivers an unyielding speech at the UN, describing his country as "victims of terrorism" and declaring it will never surrender to US and Israeli aggression.

In another #MeToo reckoning, Harvey Weinstein will spend 15 years behind bars for sexually assaulting a production assistant at his Manhattan apartment 20 years ago.

Half of all young Australians are still living with their parents, up from 39 per cent in 2001, new survey reveals

Dolly Parton's nephew has been accused of threatening to commit violence and destroy his aunt’s legacy and business empire, court documents show.

Donald Trump may not be keen on implementing AI guardrails but one of the 'Godfathers of AI' Yoshua Bengio is siding with nations who want to slow the acceleration of the technology.

A 22-year-old rope access worker dies while installing lights inside Rome's famed Colosseum.

Clarence Valley councillors say a breakdown in the relationship with the general manager led to a "dysfunctional council".

Mal met Marge at the cinema in the late 1940s, and couldn't believe her cheek when she stole his seat and then his heart.

Victorian Premier Ben Carroll tells 7.30 "One Nation terrifies me" but beneath the message analysts say it is a "fear campaign" to try and keep Labor voters.

The federal government is paying to keep an oil platform safe after its owners collapsed.

About two thirds of young people engaged in the Youth Crime Prevention Program offended within six months of starting it, a Victorian auditor-general's report has found.

The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption heard fugitive property developer Jean Nassif claimed he was being extorted by former Toplace contractor Navid Ardestani, who was pursuing him for money he believed he was owed.

An inquest hears that about 100 inmates from Goulburn prison will be transferred to Junee jail, but staffing will remain the same.

There was so much demand from fans to watch the Dockers train before the grand final, the team made it a ticketed event.

Isaac Heeney speaks publicly for the first time since he was banned by Sydney for breaching the club's standards after the Swans season came to an end.

The grief-stricken parents of young boy Gus Lamont, who vanished almost a year ago, say they are "desperate for answers", urging anyone to come forward with information on what happened to their son.

The Victorian Department of Education pleads guilty to breaching the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a serious accident in a jewellery class.

A remote Aboriginal corporation has temporarily suspended some services in the community of Arlparra following unrest that has prompted calls for a curfew and increased police presence.

The national Aboriginal children's commissioner has arrived in Port Hedland after reports of children living unsupervised in the Pilbara town sparked a political firestorm.

An inquiry into the capital's high fuel prices will examine why ACT motorists pay more for fuel than people just over the border in New South Wales.

The state government will allow greyhound racing to continue — but with an integrity oversight body — after the industry was given two years to improve its standards.

Family-run firearms businesses say they are copping the brunt of the Minns government's post-Bondi gun laws, with some forced to sell their homes and dip into their retirement nest eggs.

One of the Snowtown serial killers James Vlassakis is today being transferred to Adelaide Pre-release Centre, marking the first step towards his release into the community.

The ARIA Hall of Fame inductee spent 50 years in the music industry and also became a television presenter and youth advocate.

Following the government's budget changes, a narrow majority of housing investors would pay more tax, while 43 per cent would pay less, researchers from an economic policy institute have found.

Months on from the worst flooding Katherine has seen in almost three decades, the regional Northern Territory town has welcomed a $13.3m government promise to establish a new levee.

Sydney underworld figure and "Coconut Cartel" boss Iziah Utai has survived an attempt on his life overseas in Europe, sources have told the ABC.