POLICE are monitoring 644 gang members who are on a statewide youth crime watch list.

AUSTRALIA will offer upgraded defence and security support for Papua New Guinea as it seeks to shore up relations with close Pacific neighbours amid increased competition in the region from China.

PROGRESS to close the gender pay gap between women and men in Australia has failed to make any ground for the first time this year, a new study shows.

Police and ambulance triple-0 call-outs to the street of Melbourne’s only injecting room have more than doubled since the North Richmond facility opened in 2018.