The most convincing first step Prime Minister Scott Morrison could take would be to deal decisively with his Attorney-General, Christian Porter.

Women are angry. And we’re not going away. An NRL adviser on gender equity reflects on Jarryd Hayne’s conviction for sexual assault and yet another scandal involving the federal government’s parliamentary staff.

The entire NSW coast from Tweed Heads to the Victorian border has been warned to brace for damaging winds, heavy rainfall and wild surf as a weather system that has brought the worst flooding in decades continues to expand.

Operation Vest encourages sexual assault victims to informally report their experiences using an online form, which does not launch a criminal investigation but keeps complaints on record.

The council’s decision will form part of the formal bid to host the games, to be presented to the International Olympic Committee next month. A decision could come as soon as July.

All eyes turn to the final witness, Ian Seeley, who will testify on Wednesday - the final day of the inquest into the disappearance of Ms Phillips.

After seven days and six nights of biblical torrents, the rain stopped on Tuesday afternoon, leaving thousands displaced, roads blocked, houses flooded, large parts of the state submerged and a multimillion-dollar clean-up job set to begin.

Professor Brendan Crabb says obsessing about the rollout’s speed “’is blinding us to the much bigger issue of large amounts of circulating virus in the region.

Muddy water stretching for kilometres covered the new Windsor Bridge, inundated homes and blocked roads near the Hawkesbury River in north-west Sydney.

A decision on whether to throw out election results in part of Moreland City Council is still months away, despite allegations of voter fraud.

Firefighters rescuing a family-of-six as the Hastings River rose towards their home had to pull snakes out of life rafts before their paddle back to safety.

The two giant machines -  Else and Merle - are digging from Woolloongabba to Roma Street to build the city’s multibillion-dollar metro railway.

A driver charged with giving false details to police during lockdown wants the case against her thrown out, partly because officers incorrectly listed her gender as male.

Each year, just as the AFL Women’s competition grows, so too does the debate about whether to call the men’s football league the AFLM.

Ipswich woman Sharron Phillips, 20, was last seen in Wacol in Brisbane’s south-west on May 8, 1986. Join us as Brisbane Times provides live coverage of the inquest into her disappearance.

Major flood warnings remained in place across Queensland’s south-east on Tuesday afternoon, with the bureau forecasting storms and showers.

Mario Fenech’s neighbours took the Herald on a boat tour around his property, which is many metres under floodwaters in Sydney’s north-west.

The prosecution says the evidence is “very strong” that the woman was too intoxicated to consent, and she was “so affected she leaned on a pole for 17 minutes”.

The man, 29, continued abusing the teen after learning his real age. After being caught, he urged the boy to tell police ‘what they needed to hear’ so their stories matched.

Bureau of Meteorology updates severe weather warning to include entire NSW coast.

The bird’s-eye view shows the spread of the inundation by comparing the regions between early March and March 19.

Dr Geoff Davidson was a leading paediatric gastroenterologist of his generation. He cared deeply for his patients and their families, completed world-class research and was a skilled teacher of his successors.

It is not only the rate of income support that is inhumane – the process through which to access this essential support is both illogical and cruel for young Australians.

The Bureau of Meteorology has warned that, even after the rain clears, the flood risk will continue for weeks as the extra water makes its way through the river system.

The CCTV video shows a man being bundled into a van by a group of assailants as a woman screams out his name.

A man fed up with sitting in a traffic jam caused by Extinction Rebellion protesters in the Perth CBD jumped from his car and ran at the activists before being stopped by police.

Today on Please Explain, Nathanael Cooper is joined by Environment Editor Peter Hannam to look at the terrible weather most of the country is experiencing and what impact climate change has had on it.

A number of COVID-19 restrictions will be eased in Victoria on Friday, with masks no longer mandatory in stores and companies no longer required to permit employees to work from home.

Victoria now has no active cases of coronavirus across the state, as the Andrews government introduces a new flexible work policy that requires public servants to return to the office at least three days a week.

A national review of aged care skills training has proposed a new qualification that will allow students, for the first time, to specialise in both aged care and disability support.

Robina Asti was in the process of establishing a Guinness world record as the world’s oldest active pilot and oldest flight instructor.

Emergency services are bracing for flash flooding and landslides in East Gippsland where bushfires devastated the landscape just over a year ago.

More people were being treated for COVID-19 in Queensland on Tuesday than at any other time, as the number of infections in PNG tripled in the past month.

Police are targeting Comanchero figures Ali Bazzi and Tarek Zahed and Bandido-linked Mohammad Hijazi as part of a broader push against organised crime. 

Days before he was charged with sexually assaulting a woman, Jarryd Hayne claimed she was a “weirdo” and urged Mitchell Pearce to ask around.

The Prince of Darkness will put out the lights.

While everyone’s worried about the effect of the end of JobKeeper, there is another economic twist that could lead to a surprise ending.

Homes have been evacuated and more than a dozen Queensland schools have been closed on as “extreme weather” continues to lash the south-east on Tuesday.

A helicopter and boat rescue operation is under way to extract up to 500 trapped people from 200 homes near the Colo River on the Central Tablelands.

Cockatoo Island Mining says it is owned by a single ‘astute’ investor and its sole intention is to bring the mine back into production.

West Australian Attorney General John Quigley’s office says people cannot stay locked up forever after a court decision to release a serial rapist from prison into same complex of units as female victims of sexual assault.

Rainfall totals are forecast to increase on Tuesday with severe weather predicted, as parts of SEQ were battered by more than 200 millimetres since Monday.

A 30-year-old man has been charged with murder after the discovery of a man’s body in Melton last week.

Hawthorn insiders say Jeff Kennett could harm the club if he were to also lead the Victorian Liberal Party while the Hawks are seeking millions from the state government.

The Commonwealth government needs to lift its game to ensure people will be vaccinated against COVID as promised.

The recent weather has highlighted the challenges of developing Sydney’s most expensive swamp.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the new maths and literacy syllabus for kindergarten to year 2 focuses on basic skills and leaves no room for misinterpretation.

Doctors are being warned not to prescribe medicinal cannabis for their chronic pain patients unless they are part of a formal clinical trial.

It’s an ambitious plan, and perhaps the only certainty is the expectation of more than a little blow-back along the way, but according to Rob Stokes, “it has to be done”.

Questions are being raised about whether schools have failed mandatory reporting requirements by not escalating allegations of sexual assaults against students.