Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce calls for an overhaul to the hiring regulations at Parliament House to allow politicians to work alongside their partners.

Knee reconstructions for young Australians are on the rise, posing an expensive and painful public health problem in the future, a new study finds.

Veteran Boomers centre Andrew Bogut ends his 13-season NBA career and will return to Australia to play in the NBL with the Sydney Kings.

After a week of shocking revelations at the banking royal commission, Financial Services Minister Kelly O'Dwyer repeatedly avoids questions about the Government's delay in establishing the probe.

The idea that low inflation is a problem may be dismissed by anyone struggling to make ends meet, but it's worrying the RBA, particularly as jobs growth looks to be slowing.

Port Adelaide's Lindsay Thomas faces an AFL suspension after he was reported for high contact with Geelong's Scott Selwood, which left the Cats midfielder concussed.

The Federal Government is ordering aged-care homes to offer staff a flu vaccination this year after last year's deadly influenza season saw about 1,000 people aged over 65 die of influenza-related complications.

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's final album Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow), released posthumously last week, becomes the first in an Australian Indigenous language to top the Australian music charts.

For more than 100 years, Private Edward Attfield was wrongly believed to have been a deserter from the Australian Army — but in fact, his body was buried in an Egyptian war cemetery.

A UK man who caught what was dubbed the world's "worst-ever" case of super-gonorrhoea is cured — but two similar cases have now been reported in Australia.