Rehabilitation support services should be improved before drugs are decriminalised, Portland mayor Ted Wheeler is expected to tell Australian lawmakers.
Luke Costin
Australia's economy is tipped to modestly step up its quarterly pace of growth, helped along by strong public spending.
Poppy Johnston
Providers tasked with helping people with disability find a job have been put on notice, with the government releasing scorecards on their performance.
Kat Wong
The South Korean parliament has voted to defy the country's president and immediately lift his martial law declaration.
Staff Writers
Social Democratic Alliance leader Kristrun Frostadottir says she will hold coalition talks with two other parties after Iceland's general election.
A new report reveals a staggeringly low number of jobs up for grabs in Australia, with one state reporting far more people available to work than there are jobs.
Alexandra Feiam
The Greens have announced a major election push to make all forms of birth control free, including the contraceptive pill and IUDs.
Jessica Wang
A trio of top industry groups are calling for several key provisions in Labor’s Secure Jobs, Better Pay laws to be overturned.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
The Princess of Wales will help kick off the emir of Qatar's trip to Britain as she returns to formal welcoming duties after undergoing cancer treatment.
Sarah Young
US President-elect Donald Trump will attend the reopening celebration for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, his first foreign trip since the election.
Costas Pitas and Steve Holland
While plumbers and bricklayers made the cut on the skilled visa list alongside dog trainers and yoga teachers, a key industry group said more needs to be done.
A State Government minister has responded to concerns from three Wheatbelt shires about several renewable projects forecast for the area by 2030.
Hannah Whitehead
A talented seven-year-old from the Shire of Pingelly had her artwork displayed prominently in Perth’s CBD as the “people’s choice” winner of a Statewide competition.
Melissa Sheil
Closer defence ties and further investment in the transition to net zero have been discussed by senior Australian and Singaporean ministers.
Dominic Giannini
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has discussed the return of the remaining members of the Bali Nine with his Indonesian counterpart in Jakarta.
Joanne Williamson, Jessica Wang
Five Australians serving life sentences in Indonesia for their role in attempting to smuggle heroin as part of the Bali Nine are a step closer to coming home.
It’s become a December tradition for many West Aussies - buying their Christmas crayfish fresh off the back of the boat.
Dylan Caporn
A fight for a blanket ban on gambling advertising has been reinvigorated after Sportsbet paused promotions on Spotify following an incident.
Bringing home the remaining Australians convicted in 2005 would either require a ‘bespoke’ agreement between Indonesia and Australia, or revisiting a scrapped deal that fell apart almost 20 years ago.
Ellen Ransley
It’s the $1600-a-day job WA’s agriculture sector thinks no one will want: the Government is searching for someone to advocate for its live sheep export ban.
Katina Curtis
Strong public spending is offsetting an overall weak economy, new figures from the ABS reveal, ahead of the release of the latest growth figures on Wednesday.
Cameron Micallef
Protesters have been hit with tear gas and water cannons for another night in Georgia as police crack down on thousands of anti-government demonstrators.
Sophiko Megrelidze
China has removed its last remaining ban on two beef exporters, ending a raft of restrictions and sanctions on Australian products which totalled about $20bn.
Two abattoirs have had Chinese import bans lifted, the final trade restriction to fall after Beijing imposed $20 billion of tariffs against Australia.
