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.

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.

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.

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”. 

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The child was riding his bicycle in Launceston, when the collision with the truck, which was collecting bins in the area, occurred.

Professionals who had worked in the commercial block in Crows Nest for several years were ordered to evacuate shortly before a large part of the side and rear walls came crumbling down.

The men were due back on Tuesday afternoon but never returned. It is believed they may have had engine trouble after setting out on their trip earlier that day.

This year’s foundation students will be more adaptable and have ‘heightened awareness’ after living through Victoria’s second wave of COVID-19, a veteran principal says.

Martin Pakula says officers are still needed to enforce Victoria’s border rules as the state notched up 21 consecutive days without a new locally acquired COVID-19 case.

Rosemary Rogers accepted kickbacks worth more than $5 million, bankrolling lavish domestic and international holidays for herself and her extended family.

A couple who died when they were hit in Brisbane’s bayside have been identified, with police also confirming the woman was pregnant.

Dr Stead, a businesswoman, was referred to as a “feminist cretin” in one of a series of columns which a judge found amounted to bullying.

A Wiradjuri man and university researcher describes an annual trauma felt by Indigenous people, especially at being ignored by fellow Australians.

Wendy Brennan left her teaching career to become Australia’s bestselling romantic novelist, authoring or co-authoring over 100 novels for Mills & Boon.

A 17-year-old male will face court today charged with murder after a couple walking their dog were killed in Alexandra Hills.

The museum opened to the public again at the weekend - despite the fact the ticket sales would get nowhere near saving it.

While vaccine supply is limited, its fast and efficient rollout to Australians is critical.

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?

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.

Councillors will vote on Wednesday to advertise a new parking law which would allow the local government to charge $3.50 for anyone who parks on Marine Terrace all day.

The man was found by police divers after friends reported him missing on Tuesday afternoon.

The trial uses Spotify’s geo-targeting ability to track when drivers come within five kilometres of a school zone.

Olga Horak, 94, is a Czech-born Jewish Holocaust survivor, or as she puts it, a “graduate of the Holocaust”.

The suburbs of Bidwill and Cherrybrook illustrate the big gap in lifespans which has opened up across short distances in Greater Sydney.

One couldn’t ask for a better person for the Australian of the Year gong than well-deserving Grace Tame.

Extreme weather disasters cost Queensland $18 billion, more than half of the national loss of $35 billion from 2010-19.

US President Joe Biden has announced one of the most diverse cabinets in US history. Scott Morrison’s government is way behind.

The search engine giant’s threat to pull the plug on Australian audiences is a chance to look at alternatives and ask are you happy with the amount of your data they gather.

Australia’s solar power capacity grew 33 per cent to 20 gigawatts, according to solar consultant SunWiz.

Bicentennial celebrations, fiddlesticks on the harbour and oh no, not you again.

Is Bill Shorten consciously uncoupling from Labor’s media machine?

A federal election may be on the cards, but Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese are both constrained and compromised by their party’s recent past.

We need to work together to better educate the community about the lessons of the past and prevent future crimes against humanity.

Every time we look like making progress on emissions, we are told we can have jobs or a healthy environment but not both.

A former special forces captain’s bid to unseat veteran MP is on a knife-edge in a contest that will test Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s authority.