Home price rises across every capital city except Darwin drove national dwelling prices 1.1 per cent higher last month, with five capital cities now recording record-high property values. A 1.2 per cent rise for Melbourne prices last month was enough to send that city to record-high values, erasing an 11 per cent fall in values since the previous peak in …

The family of a Murri boy will donate more than $600,000 to local charities after declining a crowdfunding trip to Disneyland. Young Quaden Bayles, 9, who was born with Achondroplasia, the most common form of Dwarfism, was visibly distressed in a Facebook video his mother posted last week after he had been bullied earlier that day. In it, he was …

An Uber driver is behind bars after he was found guilty of raping a drunken teenager in the back of his car. Onur Dedeoglu, 39, will be sentenced in the Downing Centre District Court in April after a jury on Thursday found him guilty of three charges and he was refused bail. During the trial before Judge Nicole Noman, Dedeoglu …

Pauline Hanson has said that, in the wake of the murders of Hannah Clarke and her three children, all men should not be demonised “because these things happen”. Hannah and her children Laianah, six, Aaliyah, four, and Trey, three, were killed by Rowan Baxter, their father and her estranged husband, in a horrific car fire. The One Nation leader made …

Motorists in NSW could face hefty fines if they’re caught by hidden cameras using mobile phones when driving from Sunday. A three-month grace period for mobile phone detection cameras was slated to end this weekend – with drivers set to lose five demerit points and a $344 fine, or a $457 fine if caught in a school zone. However, Transport for New …

A 39-year-old woman has died after an elderly driver crashed over a wall and into a table at a Sydney café. Liz Albornoz was with a group of other mums who had dropped their children at North Epping Public School before heading to the Sizac Cafe at North Epping Shopping Village on Malton Road. About 10am, a Holden Commodore careered …

If you were to come up with the concept now, the idea of two people standing toe-to-toe and belting each other in the head until both were senseless and one was flat on the floor would only ever be a metaphor for modern political debate. Yet in a world where we are so determined to eradicate brain trauma that young …

Sometimes, things just keep coming back to haunt you. That’s particularly the case in politics when even the most innocent remark continues to be thrown back in a pollie’s face. As brutally honest as it was, former prime minister Paul Keating’s quip “the recession Australia had to have” is still bandied about almost three decades down the track. Then there …

The world has been given an insight into the cruel reality of a young Indigenous boy with a disability, but Quaden Bayles is not alone in his struggle. A video of the nine-year-old crying after being bullied at school has struck a nerve with the millions who have watched it, and generated an overwhelmingly generous response, with almost $700,000 being donated to …

Neo-Nazis are emerging as one of Australia’s most challenging security threats, according to the country’s top intelligence chief. ASIO director general Mike Burgess says “small cells” of right-wing extremists are regularly gathering to salute Nazi flags, inspect weapons and to disperse their “hateful ideology”. In a rare public address from inside ASIO’s heavily fortified Canberra headquarters, Mr Burgess said foreign …