Interest rates could be slashed as early as June, as smaller petrol and food price hikes helped slow inflation to its lowest growth in almost two years.

Iconic Australian supermarket brand Woolworths has been condemned for ditching its ties to Australia Day after announcing it would no longer sell any merchandise related to the public holiday.

Melbourne footballer Joel Smith is facing a suspension of two years – and possibly longer – for taking cocaine.

Hundreds of Queenslanders are in hospital with Covid-19 as the wave that began in October has unexpectedly persisted, leading to a double whammy of two subvariants crossing paths.

In Adelaide, the mother of a teenage boy shot in the leg in his suburban home  has told of how the horror ordeal unfolded.