Getting a song on a major radio station can be a big break for an Australian band. But new research suggests commercial stations may not be hitting their mandated quotas for local content.

Pauline Hanson will vote for the Turnbull Government's company tax cuts, in exchange for more cash for apprenticeships for young Australians. But the Government still needs the support of crossbenchers Derryn Hinch and Tim Storer.

Winx has become the closest thing there is to racing certainty, but jockey Hugh Bowman says it isn't collecting silverware that is the highlight of his job, "it’s just that feeling of acceleration".

Federal MP Andrew Broad warns there could be a humanitarian crisis like a food shortage in South Africa if white farmers are allowed to migrate en-masse to Australia following reports of increased violence towards them.

An Australian who has been outspoken about Chinese Communist Party influence says he was denied entry to China and immediately placed on an 11-hour return flight to Sydney.

Westpac tells the banking royal commission a car loan granted to a carer in 2012 that she could not afford to pay back would not have been approved today.

The Federal Government is staring down the prospect of legal challenges to a series of forest agreements allowing logging in native forests, with one lawyer saying their proposed plans would "lock-in decades of future logging on the basis of vastly outdated science".

This is the registered Australian head office of the shady big data company that claims to be so powerful it got Donald Trump elected. It's a house in Maroubra which belongs to a former used-car salesman who smelled a business opportunity.

It's been an emotional moment for the traditional land owners of Adelaide, with a federal court finally granting the Kaurna people ownership to most of the area almost two decades after their applications were first lodged.

A month after a huge deadly earthquake in Papua New Guinea, there are warnings that schools won't be able to reopen until next year, leaving traumatised children in limbo.

A prominent Australian businessman is extradited from Serbia, facing numerous drug offences in connection to his alleged involvement in Australia's second largest cocaine seizure.

ANZ tells the banking royal commission that continued processing errors saw it charge customers the wrong amount of interest and fees on their home loans to the tune of at least $90 million.

Australia's Privacy Commissioner steps into the scandal surrounding data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica, telling Facebook to confess if any Australians are among millions of people whose profiles have been harvested without their permission.

South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada is available to play in the remainder of the Test series with Australia, after a successful appeal against a two-match ban over an incident with Steve Smith in the second Test in Port Elizabeth.

The Western Bulldogs are dealt a big blow ahead of Saturday's AFLW grand final, with skipper Katie Brennan ineligible after failing to overturn a one-match ban.

There are cars for sale in Australia with some automated features, but with some fine tuning, law changes and software upgrades they could do a lot more of the driving themselves.

A lack of identity and personality is a spy's protection from foreign operatives, but a dig through a faceless Twitter account reveals some interesting insights into Australia's top dog in the shadowy world of intelligence.

Grieving mother Colleen Holding's daughter went missing in 1979 while hitchhiking. Now Ms Holding is adding her voice to calls for a dedicated forensics lab to help solve more than 2,000 long-term missing person cases in Australia.

The Australian Workers Union's legal fight to end an investigation into donations it made to an activist group is delayed by a judge until federal police complete their own inquiry into how the media was alerted to raids on the union's offices.

Vladimir Putin's Government has been accused of chemical attacks and election meddling, but foreign policy expert Lydia Khalil tells Q&A we are not headed for "Cold War 2.0".