It took a jury in the Supreme Court in Cairns seven hours to reach the unanimous guilty verdict after an almost four-week retrial.

The Coalition is applying more heat to Sport Minister Anika Wells over flights she claimed for herself and her husband to attend two Boxing Day cricket test matches in recent years, and several AFL Grand Final events.

Barnaby Joyce's defection gives One Nation its first lower house seat since 1998.

Jim Chalmers says the end to the "temporary" subsidy was a "hard" decision but recognises pressures on the budget.

Western Australia's first recorded death in youth detention was predictable, a coroner finds, declaring the care of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd was "inhumane" and "reminiscent of 19th century jails". WARNING: This story contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died.

Surgeons have separated a rare set of conjoined twins after they were urgently flown from Papua New Guinea to Australia, but only one of the boys has survived.