The Latest Breaking News from Commonwealth

Parks Australia is immune from prosecution after an Aboriginal sacred site in Kakadu was allegedly illegally disturbed, the Commonwealth Attorney-General says.

Top-secret evidence will be allowed to be called by the Attorney-General in the conspiracy trial of Canberra lawyer Bernard Collaery.

The monarch said “in these testing times” she hopes people can draw strength and inspiration from the “family of nations”.

Conflicting accounts about the response to NSW flood suggest deep confusion between both levels of government over state of emergency powers.

Commonwealth Day is held in March and another significant milestone is set to be celebrated

Sutherland wants another win as he targets a shot at the British and Commonwealth welterweight titles.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the government had "no authority" to approve or reject the lease of the Port of Darwin to a Chinese company in 2015. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

Eastriggs will be hosting music, children's games a quiz and circus performers between March 12 and 19

I just ran across it for the first time, so I thought I'd pass it along; it's Schoeller v. Bd. of Reg. (Mass. 2012) (opinion by Justice Fernande Duffy): [T]he Board of Registration of Funeral Directors and Embalmers … permanently revok[ed] Troy J. Schoeller's licenses to do business in the…

“The Kentucky General Assembly finds and declares that it is in the best interest of the Commonwealth to legalize and regulate the possession, cultivation, production, processing, packaging, transportation, testing, marketing, sale, and use of medical cannabis and adult-use cannabis,” reads new legislation filed on Thursday by Kentucky Democrats to legaliz

The federal government is planning to trial salmon farming in deeper offshore waters in Bass Strait but conservationists say they have been kept in the dark.