The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) says phone scams have been growing in prevalence since it launched a review 18 months ago into how to better combat the problem.

Authorities are predicting phone scams will leave Australians a record $500 million out of pocket this year alone, prompting the Federal Government to announce a crackdown.

A former Families South Australia worker who blew the whistle on one of the state's worst paedophiles is suing the state of South Australia for damages. 

The woman, who can't be named, is seeking compensation for emotional distress and financial losses suffered after her concerns were ignored by superiors within the government department.

Traditional owners say their formal recognition as native title holders over Moreton Island off south-east Queensland means they can now use traditional fire management practices on the island hit by bushfires last week.

The Quandamooka people were formally recognised as traditional owners of the island in Federal Court yesterday following a legal process first launched more than two decades ago. 

Television presenter Andrew Denton is calling for Premier Anastasia Palaszczuk to introduce voluntary assisted dying laws before the next election, in case the LNP comes to power. 

Mr Denton, an advocate for voluntary euthanasia believes there is little chance of a conservative Queensland government pushing the legislation through.

Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera has asked lawmakers to allow troops back on the streets to defend key public infrastructure, despite reports of “abuses” committed by security forces.

Piñera’s announcement came shortly after the international rights group Human Rights Watch, said in a report that police had beaten protesters, shot teargas cartridges directly at them and run over some with official vehicles or motorcycles.

Three US men who spent 36 years in prison have been released after authorities say they were falsely convicted of a 1983 murder.

Baltimore men Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart were granted a writ of innocence after being convicted of the first-degree murder of a middle school student, DeWitt Duckett.

The men, who were teenagers at the time of their arrest, are now in their early fifties and are preparing to enter adulthood on the outside for the first time.

Tasmania has rejected a Chinese-backed bid to build a tourist resort overlooking Freycinet National Park on the state's eastern coast.

Company Cambria Green applied for the creation of a special development zone in April 2018 to enable the construction of a vast complex including 550 accommodation units and hotel rooms, two golf courses and an 80-bed health spa or palliative care unit.

Nineteen South Australian prison guards are attempting to have a coroner removed from investigating the death in custody of an Indigenous man, after seven guards lost a bid to avoid giving evidence at the inquest.

Wayne Fella Morrison died, while in the custody of the guards, after being pulled blue and unconscious from a transport van where he was forcefully placed face-down on the back seat in 2016.