RESEARCHERS have sounded alarm bells over water quality in the Blue Mountains, claiming the world-heritage listed site is suffering some of the worst environmental pollution in the world.

A jury has heard how police linked a former Jetstar pilot to the disappearance of two elderly campers in one of Victoria’s most remote locations — and what he says happened.

PHILOSOPHER and ethicist Peter Singer says “we need to move on” from Sunday penalty rates, but believes people should be compensated somehow for the loss of wages.

A LEADING civil rights organisation has called on Amazon Australia to pull “anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial books” from its site.

LIONEL Patea has been sentenced to life in prison for the brutal killing of his ex-girlfriend Tara Brown on a suburban Gold Coast street.

Tony Abbott has delivered a manifesto he will never get to implement as Liberal leader.

THEY say laws are like sausages — it’s best not to see them being made.

MANY forget the NBN is not just a broadband internet service but will also be the only way we can make home phone calls.

SHANNON Noll has been excused from a scheduled court appearance over a scuffle with security guards outside an Adelaide strip club.

Qantas is investigating a mechanical issue that forced a flight to be diverted mid-air while over Antarctica on Christmas Day.

A man is suspected of setting himself alight outside a fast food venue on Christmas morning after singed underwear and clothing were found at the scene.

Samantha Murphy’s disappearance quickly became one of Australia’s high-profile missing persons cases – but the progress of the case has the nation frustrated.

MALCOLM Turnbull has rejected Tony Abbott’s claims the Coalition is “drifting to defeat”, after it emerged that the ousted prime minister hasn’t given up on the Liberal leadership.

A tropical downpour drenches the stage, and highly skilled performers in Cirque du Soleil’s “love letter to Mexico”, Luzia. Go behind the scenes to see how they pull it off.

A WOMAN who works at Spotlight in Campbelltown and stands to lose $80 a week out of her $600 pay, had some powerful words for the Prime Minister about the loss of her penalty rates.

SACKED Sky News commentator Mark Latham has attacked his critics as he prepares to debut his own show on Facebook Live tonight.

A COMMUNITY has rallied around the father and daughter who have lost their three closest family members in the cruellest tragedy of the NSW floods.

ABC presenter Yassmin Abdel-Magied has been forced to delete a social media post in which she suggested Australians should be thinking about Manus Island, Nauru, Syria and Palestine today instead of the Anzacs.

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Mark McGowan has led the West Australian Labor party to a crushing defeat of the Barnett government, which has lost more than half of its MPs.

Locals have been left furious after 15,000 people flocked to a tiny beach to celebrate Christmas Day with an ‘insane’ party.

JULIE Bishop has encouraged Irish companies to invest in Northern Australia, as the two countries look to strengthen trade relations off the back of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union.

AUSTRALIAN authorities have made the largest ever seizure of the drug ice in the nation’s history in Nunawading in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs.

Amid warnings over the government’s recently announced Future Made in Australia plan, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said taxpayer funds would not be wasted.