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Scott Morrison's Liberal-National coalition is edging closer to a majority after Saturday's federal election.

Paul McGregor has threatened to wield the axe at St George Illawarra after the Dragons slumped to their fourth straight loss at the hands of Newcastle.

A 60-year-old man is behind bars charged with fatally stabbing his wife before she was found near a hospital in Sydney's eastern suburbs.

Scott Morrison was rarely flanked by ministers in the election campaign, but now he faces the task of deciding who will form his refreshed ministry and cabinet.

THE LABOR LEADERSHIP BALLOT EXPLAINED- Bill Shorten will stay on as acting leader while the Labor national executive starts the process of finding his replacement- Shorten will remain in parliament- All shadow ministers will remain in their current portfolios- Nominations open at a parliamentary party meeting (caucus), and remain open...

A teenager has been shot on a Sydney street shortly after leaving a party.

A man has been arrested after another man was stabbed in Sydney's inner west.

Liberal Party faithful came expecting a funeral and found themselves at a coronation.

A motorcyclist is the latest person to die on Victoria's roads, and it comes a day after a couple in their 70s were killed in a crash in the state's west.

The woman who defeated Tony Abbott in Warringah says her grassroots movement has proven there's "no such thing as a safe seat in Australia".