Petra Rees

Petra ReesDeputy Editor

Julie Bishop has encouraged Middle East countries to take a more active role in the military campaign against IS.

It was supposed to be his ‘one big deal’ but instead Jamie Gao was shot by two former cops, a jury has heard.

The dispute between Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop over Australia’s stand on a new UN secretary-general has intensified.

Coulson Street in the Sydney suburb of Erskineville marks a vast technological divide.

SAM BUCKINGHAM-JONES and ANNABEL HEPWORTH

An eggshell of a giant bird is the first direct evidence implicating First Australians in the bird’s extinction.

CHERYL JONES

Australia is likely to conduct a freedom of navigation exercise in the South China Sea after the US revealed a similar operation.

Malcolm Turnbull has vowed to hold a binding plebiscite on same-sex marriage if the Coalition wins the next election.

The cost of rehabilitating the toxic land and ponds of Clive Palmer’s nickel refinery has been estimated at $1.4bn.

Tony Abbott says a national vote will have the authority of the people, amid rising opposition to a plebiscite’s cost.

Two Aboriginal leaders have called for radical new approaches of the type not seen since the NT intervention.