abc.net.auadded August 2026
ABC News Australiaby Stephen Dziedzic24 Aug 2026
In short: Australian officials say they are dismayed by the Trump administration's ongoing assault on the International Criminal Court.
ABC News Australiaby Fiona Blackwood24 Aug 2026
In short: Tasmania's labour market has been described as the least financially attractive in the country, with full-time average weekly earnings about $12,000 a year less than the average of other...
ABC News Australiaby Rachel Eddie24 Aug 2026
In short: Victorian Premier Ben Carroll is hoping to save $2 billion on the first leg of the Suburban Rail Loop.
ABC News Australiaby Elizabeth Byrne24 Aug 2026
In short: The grandson of Irma Palasics has told a sentencing hearing for the two men convicted of her manslaughter that her death began a "life sentence of grief".
ABC News Australiaby Cam Wilson24 Aug 2026
In short: Australia's main music charts have announced a ban on AI-generated music to start this week.
ABC News Australiaby Jake Evans24 Aug 2026
In short: Data centres are expected to draw as much power from the grid by 2036 as all homes in NSW and Victoria do today, the energy market operator has forecast.
ABC News Australiaby Stephanie Dalzell and Paige Cockburn24 Aug 2026
In short: There have been 538 cases of diphtheria in 2026 across Australia as part of the largest outbreak of the disease since records began.
ABC News Australiaby Peter de Kruijff and Stephanie Dalzell24 Aug 2026
The detection of a deadly strain of bird flu in seals in Australia may have you wondering about the risk to humans.
ABC News Australiaby Georgie Hewson24 Aug 2026
In short: Young men are more likely to hold hostile attitudes to women than their grandfathers' generation, according to a new survey.
ABC News Australiaby Zena Chamas24 Aug 2026
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology could have significant implications for the future of education, according to one of Australia's leading AI education experts.
ABC News Australiaby Anna Chisholm24 Aug 2026
Some of us track our finances and some of us do not (after all, there's a long list of things we would probably rather do instead). Mia Sandgren falls confidently into the first category.
ABC News Australiaby Tansy Gardam, Sky Kirkham, Sonia Nair, Jamie Tram, and Velvet Winter24 Aug 2026
Welcome to the ABC Arts August film wrap. This month has relations on the brain with the anticipated release of Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex and Icelandic drama The Love That Remains.
ABC News Australiaby Nassim Khadem24 Aug 2026
In short: Documents reveal allegations former KPMG partner Chris Jordan hid money in an offshore bank account to avoid paying tax in the late 1990s.
ABC News Australia24 Aug 2026
In short: A huge blaze is burning perilously close to neighbourhoods in the Nevada city of Reno, with authorities warning that shifting winds could put homes at risk.
ABC News Australia24 Aug 2026
In short: As Ukraine marks 35 years since independence from the Soviet Union, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is vowing the country will not surrender to Russian aggression.
ABC News Australiaby Aoife Hilton24 Aug 2026
In short: New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has unveiled a proposed law banning children younger than 16 from using social media platforms.
ABC News Australiaby Nicholas R Ward24 Aug 2026
In short: A man who headbutted an ambulance windshield while naked in WA's Goldfields has avoided further jail time.
ABC News Australiaby Bella Munro24 Aug 2026
In short: A $31.9 billion data centre project has been proposed for regional Queensland, amid national conversations around water and energy consumption. What's next?
ABC News Australia24 Aug 2026
In short: Kyra Cooney-Cross has been warmly welcomed back in Arsenal's preseason game against Paris FC. The Matildas star missed the end of last season after her mother was diagnosed with cancer.
ABC News Australiaby Alysia Thomas-Sam24 Aug 2026
In short: Supermarket giant Coles says incidents of abuse towards retail staff have increased by 85 per cent over the past two years in Victoria.
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