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MPs in NSW will be required to make more regular disclosures about their financial interests and those of their immediate family.

The Online Safety Act allows authorities to remove prohibited content and to punish those that posted it.

The Fair Work Ombudsman says the operators of two Adelaide Vietnamese restaurants allegedly underpaid staff more than $400,000 and unlawfully punished them for incorrectly charging customers. 

A year after voluntary assisted dying came into effect in South Australia, families of some of the 110 people who have opted to take that path describe their experiences.

The Move Forward Party was attempting to change some of the world's strictest defamation laws and now faces the risk of dissolution and a ban on its leaders after losing the legal case.

Julia and Matthew Mooney thought they'd be celebrating the new year in their new unit on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Instead, they're back to square one in their property search.

As Victoria's Supreme Court prepares to sentence obsessed killer Luay Sako, experts say stalking remains an "epidemic" that authorities are struggling to contain.

Kezia Whitton was abused by her brother when she was five years old. Years later, her former church declined to report him to West Australian police — but in a different state, they may have had to.

A booking enquiry stated the hall would be used for a "casual" party and would have "young children in attendance".

Some of group members were from NSW, but at least 20 were from Victoria, with others from Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania.

An Adelaide magistrate dismisses a prosecution application to revoke home detention bail for Raelene Polymiadis, who is accused of murdering her elderly parents by injecting them with her own insulin.

First Nations singer-songwriter Nancy Bates teaches inmates at the Adelaide Women's Prison how to write songs, sing and play the ukulele in what she hopes will prevent them from reoffending.

Dylan Lloyd faces the Adelaide Magistrates Court charged with indecently assaulting a woman in Adelaide’s south in July, after being re-arrested earlier on Wednesday.  

South Australia's Chief Psychiatrist restricts James Nash House from admitting some patients to its Birdwood Ward over concerns that the facility "looks and feels like a prison".

The government has announced the parameters for an inquiry that could potentially overhaul judicial responses to sexual violence, with the report set to be released in a year's time.

Dylan Lloyd, 21, who is accused of sexually assaulting a child on a train in Adelaide's south, is denied home detention bail for the protection of the alleged victim, a court hears.

Georgie Burt, whose son died in a jumping castle tragedy in Tasmania in 2022, has joined calls for harsher penalties for workplace deaths.

Residents of a Sydney development have been assured by the NSW Building Commissioner that there is 'no threat to collapse' despite defects being found.

Some British Postal Service workers were jailed, others ostracised and some took their lives over theft convictions prompted by faulty software.

Meme Caroline Thorne, whose peak-hour protest outside the Adelaide Convention Centre during an oil and gas conference triggered the SA government to introduce new anti-obstruction laws, is ordered to pay $750 in compensation to the emergency services who retrieved her.

The Pope's recent pronouncement against surrogacy has sparked heated global debate about the controversial issue. In Australia, surrogacy is complex: deplored by some but embraced by others whose lives have been transformed by remarkable acts of generosity and love.

The laws around the minimum age Australian kids can work are notoriously rubbery and, as any young worker will tell you, inconsistent or thoughtless laws leave young people vulnerable and open to exploitation, like I was, writes Virginia Trioli.

Human Rights Watch warns of an authoritarian slide across the region in its latest annual world report. Still, there were several milestones in 2023, particularly across LGBT rights and same-sex marriage.

Raelene Polymiadis is released from jail after being rearrested on Monday, with police alleging she breached her strict bail conditions on five different occasions.

Strata schemes grappling with the fire risk of lithium-ion batteries are also advised to ban modified and cheaper imported devices.