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Sky News host Andrew Bolt says something dramatic has happened in the Anglican Church a faith ten per cent of Australians believe in."A lot of Anglicans have thought their church has gone too far to the Left too - not just here but overseas," he s

THE NEW Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese has been pegged to remove the Queen as head of state.

Conservative politicians who have taken huge bites out of the right flank of the LNP as Brisbane has become just as progressive as inner Sydney and Melbourne, writes Matt Wordsworth.

Anthony Albanese will return Labor from the political wilderness to government, seizing power from the Coalition after it has been almost a decade in office.

Tens of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate their homes and many more have been told to prepare to flee as parts of Australia's southeast coast are inundated by the worst flooding in decades

"Yes, these are strong measures, but the threat to lives is extreme."

Chinese Wolf Warrior diplomat Victor Gao says Australia and the US will face 'Armageddon' if they defend Taiwan from the authoritarian rules of Beijing in a military conflict.

Australia has outlined plans to lift a pandemic ban on its vaccinated citizens traveling overseas from November. But no date has yet been set for welcoming international tourists back.

Victoria's Acting Chief Health Officer has declared the City of Greater Shepparton will enter a seven-day lockdown starting at 11:59pm tonight, Friday October 1.

There are reports of a fresh COVID-19 case in Hamilton as Queensland tries to deal with five separate outbreaks.Contact tracers are looking into the infection but are unable to confirm whether it is already linked to the area.While Premier Annastacia Pala

A surge of interest in micro-apartments located in certain areas is piquing the interest of some property buyers who have been priced out of major markets.

Russia's deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov says the AUKUS announcement poses a "great challenge" to the international nuclear non-proliferation regime.

Moorabool in regional Victoria will be thrust into lockdown as cases soar in the region.

Home prices continue their recent surge, rising more than 20 per cent over the past year in the biggest annual boom since 1989, leaving many first home buyers looking at property investment as an alternative.

Welcome to Mondays live coverage of Australias Covid-19 situation.

Scott Morrison met with Joe Biden and the leaders of Japan and India for The Quad, enraging China which mocked the four and claimed the US would 'dump them like trash'.

Two Melbourne vaccination centres have shut down after staff were spat on by people who were part of a mob that's been violently disrupting the CBD for days.

In a dramatic end to the third day of protests in Melbourne, police have fired non-lethal rounds into a crowd of hundreds of protesters gathered at the Shrine of Remembrance.

Melbourne was shocked by a powerful earthquake that rocked the city but a geologist has explained why we shouldn't be surprised.