Four people were injured in a shooting at a rally celebrating the Toronto Raptors' first NBA championship on Monday, resulting in a stampede as fans...

Trans, gender diverse and intersex Victorians will no longer need to have gender reassignment surgery in order to change the sex on their birth certificate,...

Disability advocates are outraged at reports an intellectually impaired Indigenous boy was held naked inside a police watch house in Brisbane for days.

The world's population is getting older and growing at a slower pace but is still expected to increase from 7.7 billion now to 9.7 billion...

The number of Australian women experiencing cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks, strokes and death is declining but more younger women are being hospitalised with the...

AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan has apologised to fans, amid a widespread backlash to increased security at matches.

Encrypted messaging service WhatsApp says it is working with authorities to help them locate missing Belgian backpacker Theo Hayez.

The NSW treasurer says this week's "state-building" budget will in many ways be one for the bush, with farmers at its heart.

It was a wet and dark evening when Queensland policewoman Wendy Anne Evans was hit and killed by a bus while holidaying in Hobart, but...

NRL head of football Graham Annesley personally phoned North Queensland CEO Jeff Reibel to admit his whistleblowers got a crucial call wrong, which cost them...