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An emotional Tim Paine has quit as Australia's Test captain less than three weeks out from the Ashes after a historical sexting scandal became public.

Queensland could reach 80 per cent COVID-19 vaccination coverage as early as December 6, as the state government continues a war of words with the federal government over mandates.

Tasmania is offering iPads and other prizes to 12-18 year olds who get vaccinated against coronavirus, due to a lagging rate of uptake among teenagers.

Federal Labor MP Sharon Bird will quit politics when Australia heads to the polls after holding the NSW seat of Cunningham for more than 17 years.

Vaccinated Victorians will be allowed back onto dancefloors, as the state looks towards a summer of freedoms many have not seen since the pandemic began.

Police investigating the disappearance of toddler William Tyrrell have charged his former foster parents with the unrelated assault of a different child.

Former federal Labor MP Craig Thomson has been charged, accused of being involved in a multimillion-dollar migration fraud.

Another search for the remains of three-year-old William Tyrrell on the NSW mid-north coast is yet to turn up answers, as bushland is cleared and potential evidence is combed over...

A man was a financial burden to his family, but his wife of 30 years paid the ultimate price - when he bashed her repeatedly on the head with a...

Hundreds of NSW police officers will descend on the area where three-year-old William Tyrrell disappeared seven years ago to conduct "high intensity" searches following new evidence.