Mental health patients are waiting an "entirely unacceptable" period of time in emergency departments, in a practice experts are calling discriminatory and dangerous.

One Nation will not ask the Senate to consider the eligibility of Senator Fraser Anning, after a public spat between Pauline Hanson and her former colleague.

One staff member suffers burns after a blaze gutted a winery's storage facility on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne.

David Gillespie drops out of the running, leaving Michael McCormack as the sole candidate for the Nationals leadership — but sources within the party say first-term Queensland MP David Littleproud may make a late bid.

Residents on Canberra's northside have seen their homes inundated, with heavy rain overnight and through the morning prompting more than 150 calls for help to emergency services.

The PM uses a gathering of America's political elite to urge the United States not to allow its presence in the Indo-Pacific to diminish, saying it has been the "sheet anchor" of peace and prosperity.

Catherine Marriott, the woman who filed a sexual harassment complaint against outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, says she did it to speak up against inappropriate behaviour.

Malcolm Turnbull appears to have pulled off an impressive feat of navigation — successfully charting Donald Trump's temperament and helping steer an old alliance closer towards full health, writes Andrew Probyn.

The Prime Minister says he does not want to lecture America about gun control, after he is pressed on the politically fraught subject during a press conference with US President Donald Trump.

On a night of broken records and giant victories, everything good about the Western Bulldogs was painfully lacking in Carlton as the gap between the contenders and also-rans widens ever further.