It’s the day for it.

Newly named 2021 Australian of the Year Grace Tame has added her voice calling for a change to Australia’s national day on January 26.

The 2020 Australian of the Year has a tattoo on the back of her hand that sums up her survival from child sexual abuse.

The former NRL and Canterbury Bulldogs chief executive was courted by the stars of the game to become the new CEO of the Australian Cricketers Association.

The event will start with a flag raising in Musgrave Park, followed by a rally at Queens Gardens and the CBD march that will feature face masks and QR codes.

Surf lifesavers have been unable to revive a man who died after getting into difficulty in the surf on Sydney’s northern beaches.

Technical errors have marred two W-League matches and one in the A-League, prompting criticism from the Australian players’ union about falling below “professional standards” of broadcasting.

The new guidelines, which follow the revelation that the late Richmond footballer Shane Tuck had severe brain disease, will introduce a mandatory post-concussion rest and non-playing period, even if it means missing a grand final.

Australia’s top players could sacrifice 50 per cent or more of their Test payments to ensure their Super Rugby teammates remain on full pay.

The pandemic year challenged even the most resilient students – education experts explain how parents can help make the start of the new school year as smooth as possible.

The Liberals want to create a new West Perth precinct with a rail-sinking project that Labor says would cost between $600 million to $1 billion.

Cam Oliver left NBL fans stunned on Saturday night after bulldozing through Kings pair Jordan Hunter and Craig Moller for one of the best dunks seen in the league.

Don Pyke’s warning when he left the Crows about the increasing pressure on AFL coaches proved rather prescient, considering the toll the profession has taken on some of his former colleagues.

The fast bowler is keen to make his long-awaited Test debut even if it means risking his place in the national Twenty20 side.

Seven people have died in the water this year in Victoria, prompting urgent pleas from authorities for swimmers and boating enthusiasts to take greater care.

Chairman Rod Sims said Google’s market dominance had created a “take it or leave” bargaining environment but competition could encourage smaller search engines to do deals with media companies.

May 9 would mark a truly national day – when a united Australia came into being.

Officers were called to Glen Brook Dam in John Forrest National Park just after midday on Monday.

Construction technology is booming with startup Matrak banking $5.85 million in funding on the back of increased activity in the sector as it moves to digitise. 

When you have to replace the tallest forward in the league with one the smallest players in the competition, any coach would find it a challenge.

Student accommodation providers face another year without a stream of international students to fill empty bedrooms.

AFLW fans have snapped up thousands of seats to round one of the competition on the first day that all women’s matches charged spectators an entry fee, with Richmond’s Punt Road Oval clash a sellout.

New Zealand’s first local case in more than two months is a patient who contracted the highly transmissible South African variant while in quarantine.

Today marks exactly one year since the first cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Australia among returned travellers from China. Worldwide there have been almost 99 million cases confirmed, and 2.12 million deaths from the virus.

A proposal to help workers rebuild their super after accessing it during the pandemic has attracted some support, along with suggestions of other ways to help.

Australia has suspended its quarantine-free travel arrangement with NZ after a case of a highly transmissible variant of COVID-19 was detected in the community.

Workers escape injury after being evacuated from a commercial building in Sydney’s north shortly before a large part of it came crumbling down on Monday afternoon.

Accused paedophile Malka Leifer has boarded a plane for Australia just hours before Israeli borders were due to close due to coronavirus restrictions.

The Prime Minister says the Australia-China relationship is important to both nations but discussions “won’t take place on the basis of any sort of pre-emptive concessions on Australia’s part”.

There’ll be no wondering what might have been when Mark Newnham sends Skymax around in Tuesday’s listed $150,000 Australia Day Cup at Warwick Farm.

Everything you need to know to pick a winner on a seven-race card.

A parliamentary inquiry said the disparity between vice-chancellor pay and that of their staff who were in insecure work represented a “failure of leadership”.

Twenty-three people have already died on WA roads, the highest number of deaths by January 25 in a decade.

Support for Australia becoming a republic has slipped, according to a poll which reveals only a third of Australians are in favour.

Protesters are doubling down on their intentions to go ahead with the rally even in the absence of an exemption despite warnings of fines for those who breach health orders.

Further COVID-19 fragments have also been found in sewage samples collected at seven Queensland wastewater treatment plants.

The Morrison government will face significant pressure to join US military action in the Taiwan Strait if Beijing carries out its threats.

A pregnant Victorian woman accused of inciting others to protest against the coronavirus lockdown could finalise her case next month because she is stressed at facing a criminal charge while waiting to give birth.

Can Prezado win around the Caulfield bend? That’s the biggest challenge standing in his way on Australia Day, according to co-trainer Simon Zahra.

A member of the national squad across all three formats just two summers ago, Peter Handscomb accepts he has fallen a fair way back in the pecking order for both Test and white-ball cricket. But the Victorian captain is in a much better headspace tha...

Hawthorn’s Tom Scully has not trained for a fortnight and has been granted indefinite leave as he wrestles with a personal matter.

Approval of the new US President’s COVID relief package, Donald Trump’s second impeachment and a pesky filibuster rule all point to a possible gridlock.

The United Nations estimates that nearly 80 per cent of Syrians live under the poverty line.

The NRL Integrity Unit is studying video footage of a Cronulla street fight involving Dragons star Corey Norman and former NRL player James Segeyaro, who claim they were combatting racist abuse.

The Tokyo Olympics might be in doubt but if they do go ahead, Matthew Ramsden can book a ticket.

A long-time friend of a former solicitor who shot dead his partner has admitted signing blank documents that allowed the killer to dodge authorities before the attack.

After watching him jettison his anti-corruption pledges and botch Brazil’s coronavirus response, some say they were wrong to back the Trump of the Tropics.

The temperature in the city has already dropped by about 15 degrees after cracking 39.2 degrees just after noon, but gusty winds and extreme heat in the state’s north still pose the ‘most significant’ fire risk this summer.

Boom Geelong recruit Jeremy Cameron has suffered a hamstring injury, but it’s hoped the setback won’t delay his Cats debut.

Coke Europe could walk away from the $12.75 per share deal - or stump another 40 to 50 cents which analysts reckon would get it over the line.