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A coroner has reminded WA's deputy corrections commissioner she is under oath amid tough questions at an inquest for a teen who died in custody.

Advocacy group Save Our Schools also backs inquiry into funding for religious-linked institution that received more than $130m from taxpayers over five years

Asic alarmed at commonwealth finding that almost half of companies investigated failed to follow standards

A Supreme Court justice has revoked a woman's bail after she falsely claimed to be Aboriginal during her bail application.

Sakina Muhammad Jan, 48, to be sentenced on Monday after becoming first person found guilty of forced marriage

A mother who forced her daughter to marry a man who would go on to kill her should be jailed to send a message to the community, a court has been told.

The prison watchdog has told an inquest for the first juvenile to die in WA detention he had raised concerns about detainees dying in custody.

One of Sydney's biggest councils will fight NSW government plans to appoint an administrator amid claims of maladministration.

A national Newspoll, conducted July 15–19 from a sample of 1,258, gave Labor a 51–49 lead, unchanged from the previous Newspoll, three weeks ago. Primary votes were 38% Coalition (up two), 33% Labor (up one), 13% Greens (steady), 6% One Nation (down one) and 10% for all Others (down two).

For nearly 200 years, the notion of American political exceptionalism has had currency in the United States: it is an idea rooted in the nation’s status as the first modern republic. As we watch from afar, disturbed yet mesmerised by the latest chapter of violent political division in America, the…

An inquest into the custody death of an Indigenous teen has been told the government must act lawfully and stop locking youths in their cells for long periods.