Six days after delivering his make-or-break budget, treasurer Jim Chalmers faces his own constituents in a special Q+A from Logan, south of Brisbane. 

The government is sticking by its National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children, but a co-author of the scheme says Labor is failing to back it up with adequate investment.

A long-running inquest into the deaths of four Aboriginal women killed by their partners in the Northern Territory has heard police response times have worsened over the past 12 months.

After winning $215,000, Ali Cobby Eckermann took time off from writing. Now her new book She Is the Earth has won the top prize at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

Separatists in riot-hit New Caledonia refuse to abandon roadblocks that have paralysed much of the Pacific archipelago and halted commercial air traffic, defying a major security operation by French forces.

A court has heard a Casino teenager killed in a fatal 2022 stabbing challenged his alleged attacker, who claims self-defence, to a "one on one" multiple times.