The Bill Shorten era is over.Labor will now pick a new leader to take on the returned coalition government.

Scott Morrison has claimed victory after a remarkable election where the coalition defied the the polls and the pundits.

Liberal Party faithful came expecting a funeral and found themselves at a coronation.

A motorcyclist is the latest person to die on Victoria's roads, and it comes a day after a couple in their 70s were killed in a crash in the state's west.

The woman who defeated Tony Abbott in Warringah says her grassroots movement has proven there's "no such thing as a safe seat in Australia".

A Tasmanian man is dead after he accidentally shot himself in the chest with an unstable, homemade firearm.

Sadness and disbelief swept across the room as Labor supporters' worst nightmare came true.

Liberal leadership tension over the past year has been blamed for dragging down the party's vote.

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Missouri's Republican-led House has passed sweeping legislation designed to survive court challenges, which would ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy.