26 year-old Angela Ponce will be the first transgender model to compete in the international Miss Universe pageant, since the pageant allowed transgender women to compete in 2012.

Australia will continue to oppose renewed efforts by Japan to conduct ‘scientific’ whaling.

The latest migration data reveals Australia’s annual intake of permanent migrants has fallen to the lowest level since 2007 under the leadership of the Turnbull government.

Cameras have been called to be installed on Queensland roads to catch drivers using their mobile phones.

Passengers on a flight from the Philippines to Brisbane this week have been urged to check their immunisation status after a child on board was found to have measles.

Members of the European Parliament forced a display about the Srebrenica Genocide to be moved from Brussels, back to Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina for displaying “too many skulls and bones”.

US President Donald Trump has held talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels, hours after he criticised German policy on defence spending and gas imports from Russia.

Earlier, President Trump claimed a pipeline project had made Germany "totally controlled" by and "captive to Russia".

Ms Merkel said she had discussed migration and trade with Mr Trump and looked forward to further exchanges as the US remained a partner of Germany.
 

Social workers in Tennant Creek are regularly seeing children out on the streets after midnight, and often eat their main meal of the day at the Barkly Regional Council's After Hours Youth Centre.

Children are often bussed between the homes of family members until social workers find a house with a family member that is not intoxicated.

Each night the centre feeds around 70 children, where they also play sports and music, and create art projects before they are given a lift home.