A potentially lifesaving project to offer genetic screening for newborns has shown more serious conditions can be detected and treated early, compared with the traditional heel-prick test for ­babies.

Releasing the state’s long-awaited five-year energy road map on Friday, Treasurer and Energy Minister David Janetzki will recommit to keeping some government-owned coal-fired electricity plants open ...

Balah in central Gaza on Thursday (October 9), hours after Israel and Hamas said they had agreed to a long-awaited ceasefire and hostage deal.

Papua New Guinea’s offer of 10,000 citizens to join the Australian Defence Force is a “statement of intent” rather than a plan, with the number still to be determined, Defence Chief David Johnston ...

The Middle East was approaching a new dawn after Donald Trump secured a deal to end the war between the state of Israel and terror group Hamas, with all remaining Israeli hostages set to go home and ...

The exiled Middle Eastern crime boss suspected of conspiring with the Iranian regime to carry out the firebombing of the Adass Israel Synagogue has been branded a “national security threat” by federal ...

Anthony Albanese and Home ­Affairs Minister Tony Burke say Australian women and their children who escaped Syrian detention camps and returned to Australia were only given access to rights “they were ...

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas has revealed commonwealth contributions for hospital funding in his state will fall to just 34 per cent under the federal Labor’s $20bn offer, declaring a ...

Anthony Albanese has declared the Middle East has taken a “much needed step towards peace” after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a US-led peace plan in the Gaza Strip.

Thousands of jubilant Israelis gathered in a Tel Aviv square Thursday, hopeful for the return of hostages held in Gaza, after two years of fear and worry.

Kidney Health Australia says dialysis services are at capacity in regions such as western Sydney, and healthcare teams are already rationing life-sustaining treatments. “Some services around the ...

A Sydney socialite found guilty of raping a woman while on holiday in Greece has had an apprehended violence order against him withdrawn by police.