Police following up reported sightings of a missing Irishman in the Northern Territory have been offered help from clairvoyants and water diviners, but remain convinced it is unlikely he is still alive.

The Commonwealth Bank, the bank at the centre of many of the biggest scandals to hit the industry, becomes the last major bank to confirm that victims and former staff are free to give evidence to the banking royal commission.

If you felt like all you heard about for the past 12 months was same-sex marriage and the citizenship of this MP and that MP, the art world seems to agree.

Whether you're a Winter Olympics aficionado, or you don't know your moguls from your halfpipe - here are the Aussies to keep an eye out for in Pyeongchang.

Independent MP Cathy McGowan suggests Australia should follow the United States and ban sexual relationships between politicians and their staff.

There are calls for tighter regulatory controls of the superannuation industry, with reports more and more self-managed super funds are turning to volatile cryptocurrencies.

The Federal Government will water down its proposed foreign espionage laws, in the face of a backlash from Labor, the Greens and the country's largest media organisations.

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce calls the end of his marriage "one of the greatest failures of his life", but remains fiercely private about his relationship with a former staff member who is expecting his baby.

ANZ and Westpac are paying back a combined $21 million to some credit card account holders after scrutiny from the corporate watchdog.

Mining giant Rio Tinto rides the wave of higher commodity prices for a big surge in annual profit, with its net profit for the 2017 financial year coming in at nearly $US8.8 billion.

Private health insurance is meant to take pressure off the public system. But with exclusionary policies, people are often ditching or downgrading their policies anyway.

In a bid to fend off Government attacks over dual citizenship, tearful Labor MP Susan Lamb tells Parliament she can't lay her hands on documents that would clarify her status because she has been estranged from her mother since she was a six-year-old girl.

Fly swatting is as challenging a sport as any you’ll face this summer — so why is it so hard to squish these little beasts?

A British court rules to uphold the UK arrest warrant against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, rejecting calls from his lawyers for the warrant to be withdrawn as it "lost its purpose and function".

Days out from the Financial Services Royal Commission, the Productivity Commission releases a report warning the "four pillars" policy is outdated in today's digital world and risks allowing poor management practices to emerge and continue undetected.

Andrew Hastie joins Cory Bernardi in arguing female soldiers should not be allowed to fight on the frontline, saying the "fighting DNA of a close combat unit is best preserved when it's exclusively male".

Film taken by a camera classed as a weapon, a Buddha crawling with maggot-like statues, floor-to-ceiling skulls: Insta-savvy art galleries look to entice selfie-takers out of stadiums and cinemas and into the nation's publicly funded galleries, write Patricia Hoffie.

The song Bamboo, by Melbourne's Harvey Sutherland, was used without permission under a video on the retailer's Instagram page. It's not the first time the chain store's social media activities have been criticised.

Eloise Babos always wanted children but a genetic condition has sped up her plans and put her on track to remove her ovaries by her early 30s.

The High Court finds Devonport Mayor Steve Martin eligible to replace Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie, after he faced a challenge by a One Nation candidate.