The Latest Breaking News from Australia

The fourth case of the rabies-like lyssavirus has led to a man's death in hospital, several months after he was bitten by a bat.

Wesley Enoch tells ABC RN the artist’s work was not about glorification of terrorism and says Sabsabi is ‘incredibly peace-loving’

Our turned backs are precisely what the perpetrators of atrocity want to see. We must not give them that

If you are an Australian Survivor fan and haven’t heard the news, my condolences because the rumours are true: Jonathan LaPaglia is officially out after Australia v The World. Channel 10 confirmed the news with a polite social post, but it quickly became apparent that the parting of ways was not amicable following JLP’s spicy Instagram post…

The reinstatement of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino as Australia’s representatives for the 2026 Venice Biennale closes a bruising recent cultural episode and exposes the fragility of the systems meant to protect artistic freedom in Australia.

Australians are reeling from the news that Victorian childcare worker Joshua Dale Brown has been charged with more than 70 offences against children, including rape.

A media frenzy erupted over the recent Jeff Bezos “wedding of the century” in Venice.

Australia is experiencing a housing crisis. But for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the challenge runs deeper than high rents and limited supply. A major problem is that housing in Australia is rarely designed with Indigenous communities in mind.

The federal arts funding body has apologised to an artist and curator axed from representing Australia at the Venice Biennale, but who have now been reinstated.