Words have power and ASIO has determined that attaching the terror threat to subsets of the population could provide cover for nefarious actors.

Major flooding on the Mid North Coast has exceeded the levels of a record flood in 2013.

The NSW State Emergency Service has issued numerous evacuation orders for people in low-lying properties on the NSW North Coast including Port Macquarie and Kempsey.

Today marks Harmony Day, a national observance encouraging us to “celebrate Australian multiculturalism”, but stamping out racism requires more than morning teas and cultural performances.

Min Sook Moon, 49, was last seen walking along Rawson Street in Epping on March 8.

Residents of NSW were on Saturday warned to expect intense rain and potentially life-threatening flooding as rain continued to lash the state.

Heavy and persistent rain means many areas across the Sydney metropolitan area are on flood watch.

Towns along the NSW North Coast were inundated by floodwaters on Saturday, as NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the emergency would continue for several more days.

Search efforts have intensified for Anthony Roper, 69, who went missing in Cleveland on Friday, amid concerns that a medical condition may have left him disoriented.

Swollen by heavy rain, the river’s flooding has resurfaced questions about the suitability of the site.

A 2021 Toyota LandCruiser VX with just 10 kilometres showing on the odometer is listed at $160,000, almost $57,000 more than the recommended retail price of a brand-new example.

Police are searching for witnesses to a collision in Geelong’s north, after a 76-year-old woman was hit by a car and later died at the scene.

Cut off by rising floodwater, a bride and some guests still had everything they needed for the wedding ... except the groom, who is stuck on the other side.

None of the new cases – all in hotel quarantine – are linked to the deteriorating situation in Papua New Guinea.

The sedan, driven by a 25-year-old woman, had been travelling near Childers when it left the road on Friday evening.

We need an immigration amnesty. Only political blinkers prevent the common-sense solution. Only political opportunism negates this humane solution.

On December 12, former Rebels boss Nick Martin was shot dead in front of hundreds at the Perth motorplex. Three months later, police have hunted down the alleged sniper in the biggest bikie crackdown WA has seen for years.

Victoria has clocked up more than three weeks without a new local COVID-19 case but the state won’t say when it will restart its hotel quarantine program.

The Victorian Liberal Party has stuck with its leader and could bring back its best-known figure. But can it change the script?

Better sex education challenges the age-old assumption that sexual pleasure is a man’s domain and any spillover to women is from their giving in to his desire.

The bovver-boys at Transport for NSW are riding roughshod over Central Station.

New allegation against Wesley College surfaces, even as the school apologises to students who had been victims of sexual misconduct and referred some of the complaints to police.

The new claims raise further concerns about the CFA’s entrenched culture of misogyny and discrimination, which has led to renewed calls for the release of a report by the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission.

Suspicious paperwork and a mystery man named “Muzza” are at the centre of Sydney’s latest development furore, raising fresh concerns over defective buildings.

One idea, propelled with passion, can change the world. Professor Graeme Clark knows a bit about that.

The 200-tonne stockpile is owned by the same company whose Melbourne facility went up in flames less than a year ago.

In Australia we call it Harmony Day. When it falls on Sunday, the rest of the world will call it the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. It’s time we confronted the real point: racism.

NSW Police is the only one not to keep records on why a sexual assault allegation does not lead to legal action.

Until this pandemic, the development of public health policy in Australia had never been subordinate to national security processes. It was just one bad sign.

Reports the Coalition wants more migrants to drive the economy are amusing.

The NSW State Emergency Service has issued four evacuation orders for low-lying properties in Kempsey CBD, Port Macquarie, Lower Macleay and select areas of the Mid North Coast.

The Victorian Labor minister Shaun Leane was widely condemned by Coalition MPs over comments relating to Anzac Day.

Raised in a “spiritual understanding” group many have called a cult, a young Sydney woman endured years of sexual abuse by its charismatic leader. When she finally spoke out, it tore her family apart and unleashed further torment.

Dave Hanna was appointed CFMEU Queensland construction and general division president.

To understand how 18 blood clotting cases could happen randomly all at once, Professor Kleinig pointed to Apple’s ‘shuffle’ feature, which the company introduced on early iPods.

Major investigation reveals serious problems with a federal grants program to help communities recover from natural disasters.

The week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial Review photographers

Witnesses reported 48-hour shifts and a Snowy Mountains hospital was left without a doctor for four months at a parliamentary inquiry on Friday.

Battlelines have been drawn in one of the biggest defamation battles in recent history.

Doctors are reporting strong demand for vaccines from people aged over 70 – a group keen to return to a more normal life and get back on the road.

Maura Bannister administered an unprescribed dose of morphine to an elderly family friend who was receiving palliative care at home after a fall.

The findings of a 2018 corruption inquiry that first exposed Daryl Maguire’s alleged attempts to use his position for financial gain will be delivered to Parliament next week.

Police are targeting criminal networks made up of people and companies linked to the cattle business, including musterers, livestock trucking companies, truck drivers, stock agents, abattoirs and feed lots.

Emergency services are on scene of the crash on Friday afternoon.

Chris Murphy, 72, is suing the Telegraph for defamation over a column last year which claimed he was battling “the ravages of age”.

Citywide lockdowns triggered by small outbreaks of more contagious strains of COVID-19 are “absolutely” less likely after a Brisbane’s latest cluster was stamped out in eight days. 

The New South Wales town of Germanton, once known as Ten Mile Creek, was changed to Holbrook after the submarine commander.

Forgiveness was a theme at the sentence hearing for drunk driver Samuel Davidson, but the father of three children he killed said there is “no forgiveness without justice”.

A council worker found the grandmother on the church steps about half an hour after she was attacked. She suffered bleeding on the brain, a fractured pelvis and a broken wrist.

On today’s episode of Please Explain, Tory Maguire and federal political reporter Rachel Clun talk through the national vaccination effort.