A pressing need for tea calls for its own alarm.

Former Elsternwick school principal Malka Leifer is expected to face a Melbourne court on Thursday after her extradition from Israel.

Police said legal provision for offences relating to the killing of unborn children was being considered after parents-to-be were killed while they were walking their dogs.

Uniting Church minister Alistair Macrae is handing back his Australia Day award in protest of Margaret Court’s upgraded honour.

It’s ‘crazy and surreal’ seeing top tennis players up close, says Maddie Higgins, who with sister Lucy will be a 2021 Australian Open ball kid.

The CFMEU and Electrical Trades Union have launched a multi-platform campaign arguing that a group of key crossbench senators should vote down the legislation entirely.

Queensland-based players could be forced out of the NRL’s All Stars clash should Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on Thursday keep the borders closed to Greater Sydney.

Australian selector delivers broadside to captain’s critics and says Tim Paine’s position was ‘never in question’

Essendon’s reigning best and fairest winner Jordan Ridley’s pre-season preparation is on track after being on light duties to overcome a minor calf injury.

The Reverend Alistair Macrae, a former president of the Uniting Church in Australia, has joined a growing list of Australia Day honours recipients to reject their awards.

The river claims the lives of about two Victorians on average each year; a 35-year-old man became the latest drowning victim on Tuesday while swimming near Cobram.

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has urged social media companies to take more responsibility for the content on their platforms as the government moves to bolster her powers

A proposal to reintroduce dingoes into the Grampians has divided public opinion, with an animal rights group warning the native predators would be at risk of being poisoned or shot.

The New Zealand Ministry of Health is carrying out “urgent testing” after two more people tested positive for COVID-19 after leaving hotel quarantine.

Stomping on a teenage boy’s head, the violent group can be heard in a video shouting “run that s--t ... get it, get it, get his wallet ... I got his phone”. 

Weary Test stars face at least another month in a bubble in South Africa but would do so at a resort marketed as a “haven of peace and tranquillity”.

Dinh Lam Nguyen was last seen in Balga, where he lived, on Wednesday, January 20. An associate reported him missing two days later.

A Toowoomba man has died after his motorcycle crashed in Queensland’s Central Highlands on Wednesday morning.

As the Australian Open’s quarantine program prepares to release its first members onto Melbourne’s streets on Thursday night, two of the biggest names in tennis have backed the nationa’s strict measures.

Most people wear the same two dozen items regularly, and they rarely touch the rest. Follow these tips for a more sustainable – and organised closet.

Former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has called for a major overhaul in the Coalition arrangement with the Liberals ahead of a new parliamentary year.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian had foreshadowed rolling back restrictions to levels in place before the Avalon outbreak, but on Wednesday conceded “things have changed”.

Miss Powerbelle hasn’t started since a fair closing effort at Dubbo on June 1, but she has signaled her return with a runaway trial.

A woman abducted off a Melbourne street and raped 35 years ago told a friend police didn’t want to prioritise her case and that she considered compensation she later received as “hush money”, a court has heard.

A fire that burnt through hundreds of hectares of the Booderee National Park on the NSW South Coast will be investigated, with authorities treating the blaze as suspicious. 

The 39-year-old was pulled over in Stretton in Brisbane’s south on Wednesday - the first day back for most students.

Two Sydney men have been extradited to the US while a BRW Rich Lister who parties with Snoop Dogg awaits his fate in a Perth jail.

Despite pressure not to speak out, Zhang has been organising relatives of coronavirus victims in China to demand accountability from officials.

The phone call between Benji Marshall and Wayne Bennett that lured the supercoach’s special player out of retirement to Redfern.

Everything you need to know to pick a winner on today’s eight-race card.

When Southampton’s Caleb Watts was sent onto the field in the 74th minute against Arsenal, he became just the second Australian to have played in the Premier League this season.

A new report accuses the government of money-laundering and being indifferent to the devastating impact on its people.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said reality did not match the rhetoric of Xi Jinping after the Chinese President told world leaders the “strong should not bully the weak”.

AstraZeneca denies its COVID-19 vaccine is not very effective for people over 65, after German media reports said officials feared the shot may not be approved in the European Union for use in the elderly.

Big Bash boss Alistair Dobson has reignited hopes of a finals game in Sydney after keeping the first week of the final series outside of NSW.

Six races over February and March will be subject to tougher whip restrictions as part of a trial, which Racing Victoria says will be invaluable to Racing Australia’s wider review into national whip rules.

The Waratahs announced on Wednesday that Tim Rapp’s eight-year stint at NSW had come to an end.

The European Union’s push to slow exports of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines has put Australia’s vaccine rollout under a cloud.

Online bookseller Booktopia has smashed analyst expectations just months after its debut on the ASX.

The Everest is rated the best race in Australia but still doesn’t have group 1 status because of a broken system, according to Racing NSW boss Peter V’landys.

The Melbourne Stars are exploring making a play for Renegades young gun Mackenzie Harvey and are keen to re-sign Nic Maddinson after missing the finals for just the second time in their 10-year history.

Professional money managers are warning retail investors the Reddit-fuelled rush into unloved tech stocks will end in tears.

Breaking from the previous government, the 43-year-old also pledged not to spend any more public money to support Estonia’s fossil fuel industry, and end oil shale mining by 2040.

Friends of the Brisbane bayside couple have been left “absolutely heartbroken”, as the community prepares for an evening vigil to remember them.

The Future Fund’s chairman and CEO don’t believe the current sharemarket ‘frenzy’ can last, and the sovereign wealth fund is positioning its portfolio for the hangover.

The man claimed he was actually unconsciously scratching a persistent rash in his pubic region.

Nick Kyrgios looks “really fit” and “fired up” ahead of the upcoming Australian Open, according to compatriot John Millman.

In a report, the top human rights watchdog also found that traditionally patriarchal relationships in the South Korean mayor’s office had created conditions that led to harassment and abuse.

Victorian police union secretary Wayne Gatt said police could be better used fighting crime now that cases of coronavirus had plummeted.

Republican Senator Rand Paul’s proposal argued the former president couldn’t be tried as a private citizen. It was defeated 55-45.