A spilled vase solves the bunny ears issue.

A small, multicultural crowd gathered at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne to witness the fly-past of the RAAF Roulettes and the army’s 21-gun salute.

While a cool change is expected to bring relief late on Tuesday or early Wednesday morning, Sydneysiders are in for another warm evening.

Preliminary evidence suggests vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna will provide slightly-weaker-but-effective coverage against new variants of COVID-19.

Thousands of protesters filled Forrest Chase in the Perth CBD to attend an Invasion Day rally in protest of Australia Day and the poor conditions facing many Aboriginal people.

Beaches near Jervis Bay have been evacuated and an Aboriginal community put on alert as an out of control bushfire burns through the Booderee National Park on the NSW South Coast.

At 3pm, police attended a party on a sandbar at Lilli Pilli where about 100 people were gathered for a party. Police have dispersed the crowd. 

Pharmaceutical company Moderna says its vaccine protects against the COVID-19 variants that have emerged in South Africa and the United Kingdom. Confirmed cases worldwide have almost reached 100 million, Johns Hopkins University data shows. 

The teen’s death comes after a surge in drownings this summer, compared to last year.

Stinging sun and a global pandemic did little to deter an estimated 5000 people gathering in solidarity with Indigenous Australians and calls for a rethink of Australia Day.

The accused paedophile and former school principal is expected to spend at least two weeks in quarantine in custody after her arrival in Australia.

The positive test results have become a recurring theme, with fragments found in 31 samples in the past 12 days.

Thousands of Australia Day protesters marched peacefully through the city in groups of 100 as part of an Invasion Day rally.

Surfers Paradise beach was closed by lifesavers after a shark was seen attacking a pool of bait fish offshore.

Thousands of people have peacefully marched in the Invasion Day rally through Brisbane, calling for the date of Australia Day to be changed.

The 49-year-old woman has been charged with domestic violence offences and assaulting police officers who apprehended her.

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

Bowman’s hatred of injustice and bigotry was often in evidence.

A pair of young siblings missing for almost 24 hours after disappearing near a train station in Melbourne’s north-east have been found safe, police say.

Police made four arrests following a scuffle at a secondary gathering in Hyde Park about 12pm, after the organised rally had concluded and viewed by police as a separate group.

Police are not treating the death as suspicious and a report will be prepared for the coroner.

Five year’s after ditching Australia Day and the Fremantle mayor says it is time for the rest of the nation to follow suit.

Sydney celebrates Australia Day 2021

The Gunditjmara hold a smoking ceremony at the Convincing Ground to remember the first massacre of Aboriginal people by Europeans in Victoria.

Margaret Court believes her Companion to the Order of Australia nod in the Australia Day awards this year was for her tennis career and says “it was a long time coming”.

In this episode, senior journalist Jacqueline Maley and Good Weekend editor Katrina Strickland discuss Jacqueline’s cover story about the Australian honours system and criticism that it’s too politicised, too weighted towards the wealthy, too pal...

Juan Visagie is accused of killing his four-week old daughter, Aleaha, after the infant died on December 27.

Last year was the deadliest for shark attacks since 1929. Why? And what do we really know about the secret lives of sharks?

An Invasion Day rally to fight for the date of Australia Day to be changed will also go ahead in the CBD just after midday.

The idea that a drowning person splashes and calls for help is mostly a myth. How do you spot someone in trouble? What are their chances of surviving once you do? And how well should a child be able to swim?

Michelle Payne, Lisa Alexander and Greg Chappell have been recognised with Australia Day honours for work that transcends the sporting realm.

A man’s body was found in a car in the Blue Mountains on Tuesday morning.

After conducting a surprise visit to the Regis Nedlands nursing home on January 20, the Commission decided there was an immediate and severe risk to the health, safety or wellbeing of the elderly people living there.

Victoria has reached 20 consecutive days without a new locally acquired COVID-19 case, but one new case has emerged in hotel quarantine.

Saskia Longuet-Higgins never considered giving birth to her second child Serayah anywhere but at hospital. But then the coronavirus pandemic hit.

The WA government plans to spend another $4.4 million on COVID-19 advertising by July this year, having already spent $6.63 million from April to November last year.

This year’s Honours List includes some of the first recipients recognised for their contribution in support of Australia’s response to the 2019-20 bushfires and COVID-19 pandemic.

A man’s body has been found after flames took hold of a house on Melbourne’s bayside.

New research has found the venom from spitting cobras is supercharged to cause as much pain as possible.

UQ researchers have analysed 65,000 years of food scraps at a site in Kakadu national park which shows the area is the driest it has even been in human history.

January 26 will always be a problematic date for a national celebration because of the event it commemorates.

John Thwaites, the deputy premier of Victoria from 1999 to 2007, has been made a member of the Order of Australia for services to Parliament, the people and the environment.

Leading Melbourne surgeon Helen O’Connell, credited with discovering the full extent of the clitoris, is among dozens of doctors honoured.

Two brilliant minds have been honoured for exploring the hidden beauty of mathematics and making a string of crucial contributions to the space race.

Cricket Australia’s diversity and inclusion boss Adam Cassidy has found support close to home.

Lorraine Vass, of Wyrallah, has been made a member of the Order of Australia.

The election of Donald Trump shows Australia just how flimsy the ANZUS treaty really is – and how we need to foster unity, not dissent.

It’s time Australian MPs swore allegiance where it counts – to the Australian people and not to the head of the British royal family.

There is only one state in Australia that can hold its head high in terms of being representative and egalitarian – and it’s not NSW.

Parliament House remodel, new wing officially opened and dearth of rain.