Cash and drugs were also seized with police 'determined' to end 'public acts of violence'.

The hospital treating the child believes the family don't have the medical equipment required to keep him at home.

Iconic indigenous Australian singer Dr G Yunupingu has died in a Darwin hospital at age 46.

A Perth woman in her 50s has been bashed and raped in her Hilton home late on Monday evening.

A Queensland woman is in intensive care after she was doused in petrol and set alight by a man she had met two weeks earlier.

A woman approached the back of a Minneapolis police car and "slapped" it shortly before an Australian woman was shot and killed by an officer, according to a search warrant.

On Monday, dashcam footage emerged of the enraged male driver getting out of his car at Lake Munmorah on the NSW Central Coast before delivering a right fist to the 22-year-old Bianca Sams' face.

Canberra forward Sia Soliola has been handed a big suspension for his sickening late hit on Storm star Billy Slater.

Australia's most senior Catholic Cardinal George Pell will make his first court appearance as he fights historical sexual offence charges.

Cabinet Minister Matt Canavan stands down just weeks after Greens Senators Larissa Waters and Scott Ludlam resigned.