A head-on collision involving a car and truck has killed a mother and her four children near Kingaroy, north-west of Brisbane. Queensland police said the crash happened when a Nissan station wagon being driven by Charmaine Harris McLeod tried to overtake a truck on the Bunya Highway at Kumbia, just before 7.30pm on Monday. The car and oncoming truck collided …

After a frenetic campaign and a long count, Chisholm has finally made history. Liberal Gladys Liu will become the first Chinese-Australian woman to sit in Federal Parliament’s Lower House after notching a surprise victory in the suburban Melbourne seat, securing Scott Morrison a majority Government. It wasn’t meant to be this way. A few months ago Coalition strategists had almost …

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says everyone has had a “gutful” of the long-drawn out approvals process for Adani’s controversial coal mine and wants a timeline fixed for public release by Friday. ‘We need some certainty and we need some time-frames,” the premier told reporters near Mackay on Wednesday. Ms Palaszczuk was visiting the Hay Point Coal Terminal with local state …

They say beauty is pain, and Kim Kardashian proved that recently at the Met Gala when she arrived in a dress that made her waist look impossibly tiny. While some users on social media speculated that she had her ribs removed, the truth is it all came down to corsets and exercise. A new Vogue video revealed Kardashian had a …

It’s been third time’s a charm for Sydney artist Tony Costa who has won the 2019 Archibald Prize for his portrait of painter Lindy Lee. Costa has been announced the winner of the prestigious prize at the Art Gallery of NSW and takes home $100,000 prize money. “I’m absolutely overwhelmed, honoured and thrilled,” Costa said in a statement. “I am …

Australia reached their first Fed Cup final for 26 years with a 3-2 win over Belarus in Brisbane. Ashleigh Barty and Samantha Stosur beat Victoria Azarenka and Aryna Sabalenka 7-5 3-6 6-2 in the deciding doubles tie to seal victory. Barty also won both her singles matches, while US Open champion Stosur lost twice. In November’s final, Australia will host …

A woman has received 28 demerit points — enough to have a driver’s licence suspended twice over — after a single police stop on the NSW Central Coast at the weekend. NSW Police said they pulled over the 24-year-old on the Pacific Highway at Ourimbah yesterday afternoon after noticing she was using her mobile phone behind the wheel. While they …

Scott Morrison has crossed paths with Tony Abbott away from the official election campaign trail at a Good Friday church service, telling the former prime minister he’d be on the hustings in Warringah “soon”. The Prime Minister, who was with his wife Jenny Morrison, read a traditional Good Friday reading from the Book of Isaiah at the St Charbel’s liturgy …

Popular Australian actor Lincoln Lewis has issued a warning on the perils of social media after he was inadvertently embroiled in a malicious catfishing scam, which destroyed the lives of two young women. Melbourne woman Lydia Abdelmalek created fake accounts of celebrities, including the former Home and Away star, and used them to lure the women into destructive online relationships. …

Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has called for regulators and governments to play a “more active role” in establishing rules that govern the internet. Mr Zuckerberg, whose company is under pressure for failing to adequately police hate speech and protect user privacy on its platform, wrote in an opinion piece for the Washington Post that a “standardised approach” …