Aussies trying to keep holiday spirit alive as they struggle with weeks of fierce fires.

Strict emergency travel bans are introduced after a string of deaths.

Morrison has spoken for the first since his holiday – and many Aussies weren't impressed.

A rural firefighter paused to rescue a group of stranded koalas.

Garden hoses and buckets of water were no match for the flames.

Scott Morrison finally addressed the elephant in the room – his holiday to Hawaii.

Chilling conspiracy theory claims the global elite is slowly trying to kill us all.

Relax, it's going to be a nice Christmas Day.

Melbourne woman who killed a stranger was scared her "bad side" would come out again.

A 4.5m python latched onto the boy's leg and was pulling him into bush.

When it became clear he wouldn't receive a community-based sentence, he began to sob.

Aussie PM has cut his holiday short to return to Australia.

Australia temperatures soar, with warning tomorrow for NSW where two firefighters died.

A video emerged of a police officer threatening to arrest a young girl and her father.

Teen who met man on dating app searched 'I will kill someone tonight' before he arrived.

Brisbane mother and daughter rescheduled visit after tour was cancelled two years ago.

'I'd go for early morning meetings and then after school I'd be making pizzas.'

The bodies of Rick Elzer and Karla Mathews were to travel home together.

Trio of high pressure systems is conspiring to smash the record books with 50C levels.

The remains appeared to be two intact leg bones with a diver's bootie attached.

Two people have been killed following an axe attack in Sydney's southwest.

The man became trapped after falling on to the tracks.

Expert snake catchers were shocked to discover one of world's deadliest snakes in drawer.

Marise Payne is in New Zealand after the White Island deaths.

Efforts to find two remaining bodies on Whakaari/White Island have been hampered.

Doctors warn the smoke contains highly dangerous levels of deadly particulates.