President Trump expresses aggressive hostility to all but a handful of political websites or conservative TV personalities who praise him, and labels everything else “fake news", argues Joseph Kahn.

More than two in three Australians have returned their same-sex marriage postal survey forms, including 800,000 more in the last week.

Malcolm Turnbull has unveiled his shiny new energy policy, complete with its own three-letter acronym to replace the doomed Clean Energy Target. Here's what it all means.

Glenn Maxwell says he's honed his defensive technique that can withstand long periods of pressure, as he stakes his claim for the number six spot in Australia's Ashes line-up.

Australian manufacturing businesses will have access to a new $1-billion fund if Labor wins the next election, with the party announcing plans for a government-run bank it says will support car part makers and food factories.

Adelaide United ruins Brisbane Roar's first home game of the season with two goals at the death to seal a 2-1 come-from-behind A-League victory.

Former Liberal treasurer Peter Costello suggests a new nationally administered "safety net" fund be created to manage Australian workers' default superannuation payments.

The Socceroos will need to get the job done on Tuesday night in Sydney after Syria held Australia to a 1-1 draw thanks to a late penalty in Malaysia.

The Socceroos have to settle with a draw with Syria from the first leg of their Asian qualifying play-off for the 2018 World Cup. Relive the action as it happened in our live blog.

The popular holiday spot is the most dangerous destination for Australian tourists, with 203 deaths recorded in the last year. And Indonesia and the United States aren't far behind.

Up to a third of borrowers with interest-only loans may not realise they have them and may not be prepared for rising repayments, investment bank UBS warns.

Wallabies discard Quade Cooper will have a chance to reaffirm his international credentials when he captains the Alan Jones-coached Barbarians against Australia's Test side.

Marilou Danley, the girlfriend of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock has become a central figure of the investigation into the killer's motives but her whereabouts and activities in the days prior to the massacre are a mystery. This is what we know so far.

The Government has confirmed that if football chiefs cannot find an adequate solution to a governance dispute, it will pull funding for the women's world cup bid.

The North Queensland Cowboys won't get the chance to train at the NRL grand final venue due to recording artist Macklemore needing to rehearse for his performance at the same event.

Australia records its highest number of drug-related deaths in two decades, with ABS figures showing prescription drugs used to manage anxiety and pain are the leading cause.

Malcolm Turnbull says religious freedom "is fundamental and it will be protected" if same-sex marriage is legalised, despite former PM John Howard's concerns.

The ABS has it wrong: inequality isn't stable in Australia. It's getting worse and worse, write Christopher Sheil and Frank Stilwell.

Financial Services Minister Kelly O'Dwyer rejects claims that reintroduced legislation to overhaul the governance of superannuation funds is ideological.

Photos shared widely on social media appear to expose a trick that could reveal the responses inside same-sex marriage postal survey envelopes.