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.

In the wake of a number of complaints about the treatment of women in federal politics, the Country Women's Association is calling for more respectful debate.

Dozens of people with a vision impairment, some who took the day off work, have been left waiting on a Brisbane train platform after one of the problem-plagued new trains they were there to test out never arrived.

Former Treasury secretary Ken Henry, the man who carried out a comprehensive review of Australia's tax system a decade ago, backs a cut to the corporate tax rate but says taxes will need to go up to fund government spending.

New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters warns Australia and New Zealand's influence in the Pacific is waning as China flexes its muscles in the region.

The Federal Government announces it will spend $6 billion buying out New South Wales' and Victoria's shares in Snowy Hydro Limited, bringing it one step closer to starting work on the Snowy Hydro 2.0 scheme.

Financial planning crisis, money laundering scandals, market manipulation … you can add breaches of responsible lending to the list of questionable behaviour pressing down on Australia's banks, writes business reporter Philip Lasker.

South Africa removes both Cameron Bancroft and Usman Khawaja early as David Warner and Steve Smith look to steady the ship in Durban. Follow all the day one action in the first Test in our live blog.

Nationals MP Darren Chester will return to the frontbench and become the Minister for Veterans Affairs after being booted from Cabinet late last year.

Malcolm Turnbull says she was "bullied and provoked" into making extraordinary remarks about the Opposition Leader's staff yesterday as the Jobs Minister makes a comical return to a committee hearing, being shielded from the media by security guards with a whiteboard.

Victoria's Agriculture Minister refuses to rule out shutting down the Game Management Authority following a damning leaked report.