Thousands of students have taken to the streets across Australia to call for action on climate change in defiance of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s advice for them to stay in school. Crowds of thousands of students blocked busy city streets in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane, with smaller gatherings also taking place in regional centres. Up to a thousand children packed Sydney’s …

Christmas lights can be a great way to bring people together. But keep your neighbours up at night, and they may not be so merry. Here are some of the most common reasons why people complain, and what local councils, police and experts in neighbourhood disputes say you can do to keep everyone onside. Lights are too bright or shine …

In the end it took 96 seconds for Jeff Horn to deliver the comprehensive victory he knew he had to produce against Anthony Mundine. Horn may have been late to the pre-fight weigh-in at Lang Park due to Brisbane’s Friday night traffic but he ensured a quick finish when he faced the veteran in the ring. Mundine looked sluggish from …

Sexting among teens could be considered legal in some cases under new laws aimed to reduce the risk of consenting children being convicted of possessing child pornography. The laws — which come into effect in New South Wales today — provide a legal exception for children under 18 taking, sharing or keeping nude photographs of themselves and others, particularly if …

A Liberal campaigner and former candidate has blamed Opposition Leader Matthew Guy’s mismanagement for the stunning electoral loss. Labor could pick up as many as 60 seats out of 88, in a commanding majority for Premier Daniel Andrews. Four seats are expected to remain in doubt until later this week. Megan Purcell, who ran for the Liberal Party in Bendigo in …

The turkeys voted for Christmas. That’s the only conclusion to be drawn from the latest Newspoll, which predicts a bloodbath of 21 Coalition seats to be lost at the next election. The two-party preferred vote is unchanged at 45:55 for the second consecutive poll. Compare that with The Australian‘s final Newspoll before the turkeys voted to kill Malcolm Turnbull: Labor …

A NSW Labor MP has attempted to shut down speculation Opposition Leader Luke Foley will be ousted before the next state election. Senior NSW Liberal members are confident Mr Foley’s leadership is over and are preparing to instead face deputy leader Michael Daley in the March state election, Fairfax Media reports. But opposition health spokesman Walt Secord has dismissed any suggestion …

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has given a national apology to victims of child sexual abuse. Hundreds of people gathered in Canberra on Monday to hear Mr Morrison deliver the emotional address in parliament. It follows a five-year inquiry which found tens of thousands of children had suffered abuse in the nation’s institutions over decades. “Today, we finally acknowledge and …

It has been the most sombre moment of the royal tour so far, but one that matters just as much to Prince Harry. The Duke of Sussex on Saturday officially opened the enhanced NSW Anzac Memorial in Sydney’s Hyde Park to honour the state’s fallen veterans. The Centenary Extension finally realises the vision of the memorial’s architect Bruce Dellit, after …

Federal Police have been asked to investigate how secret security advice warning of possible violence in response to Australia considering moving its embassy in Israel was leaked to a news outlet. The Guardian Australia has today published extracts of an “ASIO bulletin” which reportedly warned that raising the prospect of relocating the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem may “provoke …