Investigators believe the fire was deliberately lit, with police yet to formally identify the bodies found inside the Browns Plains home.

The man allegedly yelled racial obscenities and attempted to burn a woman with a makeshift flamethrower, in a "cowardly and random attack" in Perth’s outer suburbs.

Australia’s Health Minister Greg Hunt is speaking from Canberra as thousands continue to be vaccinated across the country.

Defence Minister Linda Reynolds has been admitted to hospital following advice from her cardiologist relating to a pre-existing medical condition.

While some experts in the domestic violence sector argue it’s a matter of ‘how and when’ coercive control is criminalised in NSW, others are calling on all alternatives to be considered.

More than 11,000 people signed the petition for parents to be considered the immediate family of Australian citizens or permanent residents, so they can enter the country under COVID-19 travel exemptions.

A new report into the black summer bushfires shows less than half the federal government’s bushfire funds have been allocated.