Mike Pezzullo argues the AFP needs the extra powers to ensure public safety, but cannot say which other countries have them.

Westpac fought and won a case with the Financial Ombudsman Service that enabled it to evict an elderly pensioner with multiple serious medical conditions, with only a last minute deal preventing that outcome.

Northern Territory politicians are no longer required to publicly report their taxpayer-funded travel, after changes to their allowances were quietly brought into effect earlier this year.

The Turnbull Government has been pressuring AGL to keep the ageing Liddell coal-fired power plant open beyond its scheduled closure date of 2022, or sell the facility.

Ginger, fresh air and hydration are some of the so-called remedies to cure seasickness, none of which assisted (slightly green) ABC News reporter Rhiannon Shine during a week at sea on the RV Investigator.

Building materials maker James Hardie says compensation claims from its historical production of asbestos fibre are higher than expected and have dragged down its profits.

A global miner is continuing to front up to gender equality at its Hunter Valley coalface with a fifth generation of graduates.

More than 400 jobs will be lost at private hospitals in Geelong and Melbourne's east as Healthscope announces it will close two facilities in the coming weeks.

The Government says it is cutting the permanent migration program, but temporary visa holders in Australia are at a record high and include 37,000 mystery holders whose nationality is unknown.

ASX Corporate Governance Council chairman Elizabeth Johnstone calls on the internal auditing profession to lift its game to better weed out unethical or unlawful practices revealed in the financial services royal commission.

You won't bee-lieve how many bees Australia has exported to Canada in the past four years.

Small business loans remain in the spotlight at the banking royal commission, with Westpac set to make three appearances and ANZ also due on the stand.

Wall Street closes sharply higher as the US and China place "on hold" a tit-for-tat trade war, with tensions easing for now.

Pauline Hanson says Finance Minister Mathias Cormann's Government has "let him down", as she withdraws One Nation's support for proposed tax changes.

Tony Abbott has suggested the Government may need to compulsorily acquire the Liddell Power Station. But his colleague Tim Wilson said such action "would be only ever be raised and actioned as a last resort and when all other pathways have failed." RMIT ABC Fact Check takes a closer look.

Lenders' mortgage insurance is designed to protect the banks — not the borrower. But an alarmingly high number of borrowers fail to understand that.

Garry Robinson walks free after pleading guilty to falsifying Commonwealth documents that allowed 22,000 sheep to be imported into Pakistan, where they were brutally killed in vision that shocked Australia.

Garry Robinson walks free after pleading guilty to falsifying Commonwealth documents that allowed 22,000 sheep to be imported into Pakistan, where they were brutally killed in vision that shocked Australia.

Prison authorities in two states and the Northern Territory lost track of criminals when recent Telstra outages caused their electronic monitoring devices to fail, the ABC has learned.

In a statement, Santos says its independent directors and chief executive unanimously resolved to reject the $14.4 billion offer, which it says was "too low" and "high risk".

In a statement, Santos says its independent directors and chief executive unanimously resolved to reject the $14.4 billion offer, which it says was "too low" and "high risk".

The introduction of paid parking later this year at what is soon to be Western Australia's biggest shopping centre draws the ire of customers, who have threatened to shop locally or online to avoid paying.

The introduction of paid parking later this year at what is soon to be Western Australia's biggest shopping centre draws the ire of customers, who have threatened to shop locally or online to avoid paying.

There are high hopes direct flights between Broome and Singapore will reverse a slump in tourist numbers in Western Australia, and open up new opportunities for visitors from Asia and Europe.

SA Health stops short of declaring Adelaide's $2.4 billion new hospital safe from future blackouts, after publishing a pair of reports detailing a range of failures which led to a 17-minute outage in February.