The night of nights for the Australian LGBT community is particularly fabulous this year, marking four decades since the original march and being the first since gay couples won the right to be married in Australia. But for one couple there was extra cause for celebration.

Champion mare Winx wins her 23rd consecutive race in her Autumn comeback with a comfortable win in the Group 1 Chipping Norton Stakes.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop confirms Australian security contractors sustained minor injuries when a car bomb targeting a convoy of four Australian vehicles was detonated in Kabul.

John Frankcombe, 25, has muscular dystrophy but he doesn't let his disability stop him having an important job on the family's dairy farm in north-west Tasmania. With the help of interactive technology and a motorised wheelchair, he helps run the farm as the "finance guy".

Vladimir Putin's boast that Russia now possesses unstoppable nuclear weapons capable of causing widespread destruction anywhere on Earth has spooked Australia and close allies.

The victims of a violent home invasion in New York by rugby league player Matthew Lodge say they feel betrayed by the NRL for allowing him to play while their court ordered compensation remains unpaid.

Corporate watchdog ASIC is taking legal action against Rio Tinto and two former executives over allegations of misleading or deceptive conduct, amid similar charges in the United States.

The National Disability Insurance Agency will implement all 25 recommendations made in an independent review of their prices, despite an associated cost of up to $420 million.

Trade Minister Steve Ciobo says there could be a recession if other major economies take up retaliatory measures in response to Donald Trump's levies, and is seeking an exemption for Australia.

Donald Trump's steel and aluminium tariffs are unlikely to harm China. It is US factory workers, farmers and allies like Canada and Europe and to an extent Australia who are in the firing line, writes business reporter Stephen Letts.