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Protesters have accused police of brutality at last night's rally in Sydney, with NSW Police and the premier arguing officers were put in an "impossible situation" as they attempted to protect Jewish mourners gathered at the nearby International Convention Centre.

Israeli President Isaac Hertzog's visit to Australia begins, so too protests in Sydney's centre, set to culminate this evening.

Victorian prosecutors abandon a decades-old drug trafficking case against Tony Mokbel

Almost two years since Joel Cauchi murdered six people at a Bondi Junction shopping centre, the NSW Coroner has handed down her findings.

Meet 13-year-old Austin Appelbee, who swam four kilometres, through heavy seas, to save his family.

The markets are pricing in a 72 per cent chance of a rate hike today, the next question is by how much?

Victoria Police "strongly believe" fugitive Dezi Freeman is dead in Victoria's Mount Buffalo National Park.

The federal government has struck a deal over public hospital funding with the states committing an extra $25 billion in federal spending over five years.

The US moves a massive armada to the Middle East, as Donald Trump threatens to attack Iran if a nuclear deal is not made.

Some analysts say it's the biggest indicator yet of a cash rate rise next Tuesday, when the Reserve Bank next meets for the first time.

The worst heatwave since the Black Saturday bushfires is fuelling bushfires and causing temperatures to near 50 degrees.

With Australia Day celebrations across the country, you'll meet an Indigenous sparkie, Frank Mitchell, who was named Australia's local hero.

I will survive; that's what Liberal opposition leader Sussan Ley is saying today after her Coalition's second bitter divorce, a divorce which may alter the Australian political landscape for some time to come.

Flags at half mast and building lit up- a national day of mourning for the victims of the Bondi beach terror attack, leaders appeal for acts of kindness in a time of darkness.

Three senior Nationals are expected to resign the shadow frontbench, after voting against the Coalition's official position on hate speech reforms.