Julie Bishop says it is important not to "undo" efforts to stop people-smuggling.

Aussie PM talked down the need for a U.S.-style ban on legislators having sex with staff.

Zoo's preview of new critters and their love habits.

Turns out Enoch Orious, aka Jamie Burfoot, grew up on North Shore and went to Westlake.

COMMENT: Barnaby Joyce's new love should be celebrated, argues Elizabeth Rolfe.

Queensland police are now investigating a man's horrific woodchipper death as murder.

For the first time there's a number on the size of the great white shark population.

New Zealanders are held in detention centres while they await results of an appeal.

He's about to become the grandfather of deputy PM's child - and he's not happy.

The Pizza Hut dine-in experience is back but with some twists.

Accusations include woman allegedly having sex with boys while others filmed the acts.

Woman was was bitten outside her home in Western Australia.

Pair reportedly got together after seeing each other smoking in Parliament House garden.

Four people have responded to charges of alleged sadistic sexual abuse at circus school.

Dame Annette King tipped to follow on from current High Commissioner to Australia.

COMMENT: PM has brought peace to Waitangi. Can we ask for more water at public sites next?

A member of the public was already performing CPR on the woman when medics arrived.

National Burns Centre forced to limit admissions to stop spread of a drug-resistant bug.

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will meet with Winston Peters this week.

Even a Super Bowl advertisement couldn't help Michael Hill penetrate US retail market.

Biological father of missing boy William Tyrrell has been jailed for seven months.

These women are left battling painful conditions after Australia's ban on OTC codeine.

A man accused of repeatedly drugging and raping a woman over a number of weeks.

The dead baby in a suitcase mystery that shook Sydney to its core.

Chrissy Junge was fed up with soaring housing costs so she took a drastic step.

State Highway 6 has reopened, but some still remain without power on the West Coast.

Rihanna knows how to get the job done.

A petition organiser wants permanent home on bridge for Aboriginal emblem.

Police have reached "disturbed soil" in their search for missing Beaumont children.

Video has emerged of a full-on punch-up between two blokes before a bizarre end.