A-G Mark Dreyfus to visit Israel

After a year of back-and-forth ceasefire talks there's renewed hope of a truce being struck between Israel and Hamas.

The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has today promised $3 billion in funding to upgrade the National Broadband Network, if his government is re-elected.

As wildfires continue to rage in Los Angeles, the death toll has risen to at least ten people and thousands of buildings have been destroyed.

In Los Angeles, fierce bushfires are raging out of control. At least five people have died and more than a 100,000 people have fled their homes.

A 23-year-old Melbourne man missing in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains for two weeks has been found alive.

The Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus will visit Israel, in what some political observers believe is an attempt to mend relations between our two countries.

The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has started this election year by committing more than $7 billion to upgrade Queensland's Bruce Highway.

Investigators in South Korea have been forced to abandon their attempt to arrest the President Yoon Suk Yeol after a six-hour stand-off at his Seoul residence.

In the U-S city of New Orleans, the FBI is investigating whether a New Year's Eve attack on revellers was an act of terrorism.

One of the most significant laws coming into force on January 1 makes intentional wage theft a criminal offence nationwide.