Passengers waiting for Qantas flights from London to Sydney — as well as to and from Denpasar — are left waiting a long way from home at the start of the holiday period. 

Awards season arrives in the UK, with the stars gathering for the BAFTA awards.

MORNING BRIEFING: From Wednesday, people do not have to wear masks in taxis, rideshare services and indoor areas of cruise terminals.

Here's the latest on the COVID-19 outbreak, including new cases confirmed in Australia, advice from doctors and news that people are testing positive again after being discharged from hospital.

The federal government has announced a plan to develop an offshore wind farm zone off the New South Wales Hunter region that would have the capacity for hundreds of turbines.

Multiple Australian companies are pioneering the country's electric aviation industry. So how are green planes powered, how safe are they, and what will it cost?

For people living in some of the nation's most remote and disadvantaged communities, a weekly air delivery service is a lifeline, delivering food, medical supplies — and online shopping purchases.

The owner of a major timber mill in regional South Australia says it will be shut until Monday while authorities investigate the death of a long-time worker at the site.

After giving up fish and sheep farming, Philippa Noble now grows and harvests timber for "$2,000 a tree". With a national timber shortage, could farm forestry be the way forward?

After two days of silence, Commonwealth Bank was the first of the "big four" banks to lift interest rates on its variable mortgages by 0.5 percentage points — in an uncharacteristically slow response to the Reserve Bank's rate hike on Tuesday.

Thousands of residents and businesses across the Central Tablelands have been without gas for more than a week, but communities are working together to ensure no-one is going without food.

It's taken five years to build, $293 million and 2 kilometres of beer lines, but North Queensland finally has a new stadium in the heart of Townsville's struggling CBD.

The debate over height restrictions for developments along the coast of a regional Queensland town is back in the spotlight, but now the decision could be up to the state government.

A major grain handler has raked in an 100 per cent jump in revenue but fortunes are far more bleak for NSW farmers trying to salvage crops from flood disaster. 

Prawn lovers in New South Wales are facing higher-than-normal prices this Christmas as the drought takes its toll on the commercial fishing industry.

The University of Tasmania has said there is room to reconsider the location of its new STEM building, in a major walking back of its city-centric campus push..

The Reserve Bank increases interest rates for the fourth month in a row, raising its cash rate target by half a percentage point.

Planned work on a Victorian transmission line will be delayed following SA's power station fire.

Australian shares rise on Monday, while Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese was sworn in as the country's 31st prime minister after nine years of rule by the conservative Coalition.

Western Australia's government calls time on its involvement in coal power, declaring the state will exit the market before 2030 and plough billions of dollars into renewable energy and storage.