Collingwood and Carlton face off at the MCG to begin round two of the 2021 season.

It’s a grand final rematch. Melbourne are without Papenhuyzen. The Panthers are without Cleary. They also haven’t conceded a point in two games. This could be anything - join us from 7.40pm.

The North Sydney Bears were in crisis after their chairman was overthrown. Order has been restored a week later after he was given his job back.

The superstar winger is almost certain to take a multi-million dollar offer in Japan at the end of this year.

Twelve months after her World Cup dream was cruelled by injury, Ellyse Perry is set to make her return to the national side for the Twenty20 series in New Zealand starting Sunday.

St George Illawarra’s coach has pledged to be patient filling the last spots on the Dragons’ roster. But his captain is a big fan of the out-of-favour Shark.

World Rugby has offered a $2.16 million package over an initial three-year period to support Fijian Drua and Moana Pasifika’s likely entry into Super Rugby in 2022.

All the ins and outs for round two of the 2021 season as they drop throughout the week, plus our experts’ tips. Geelong have made four changes for Friday’s clash against the Lions.

Scott Morrison thanked former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins as he also declared he would keep Christian Porter and Linda Reynolds in his cabinet.

In a year when sexual assault allegations have engulfed federal and state politics, and thousands of women marched on federal parliament and around the nation to protest sexism and gendered violence, the online threats against female journalists have...

The Liberal Party organisational wing insists more women are winning seats in Parliaments without the need for quotas.

AMP says Francesco De Ferrari remains as chief executive despite an AFR report claiming he was set to resign by the end of Thursday.

Farmers up and down the NSW coast are waiting to see if their oysters have survived an onslaught of freshwater and “foreign material” in the floods.

Fraud squad detectives have arrested and interviewed Milad El-Halabi, a Labor councillor who was elected to Moreland council last year amid a vote-tampering scandal.

Multi award-winning artist Euan Macleod has won the Dobell Drawing Prize.

It was last Sydney spring where Haut Brion Her showed she can match with the guns of sprinting.

As the Cats unveiled four changes, the Lions insist they have no fears about playing in Geelong but a former AFL coach has raised claims they are a “flat-track bully”.

A Queensland MP speaks during a consent debate about being raped by a friend, saying schoolboys need to be better educated about sex.

If his future is in doubt, Francesco De Ferrari seems to have fallen victim to an egregious case of bait and switch.

Researchers in Bordeaux are analysing a dozen bottles of the precious liquid that returned to Earth in January after a sojourn aboard the International Space Station.

In a move that will amplify pressure on halfback Luke Brooks, the Wests Tigers have reached out to Jackson Hastings to join the club.

The young player said he was grateful for the court’s decision and looked forward to flying back to Melbourne and training with his Richmond teammates.

As India halts vaccine exports to tackle its own rising infections, medical authorities are urging Australia to rush a million local doses north.

Proposed rules will unfairly allow energy network companies to address declining revenue at the expense of customers generating solar power, experts say.

International flights into Melbourne will resume on April 8 after a new strain of COVID-19 leaked from hotel quarantine and forced the government to halt overseas arrivals in mid-February.

While Volkswagen describes Australia as “an automotive Third World”, the US, Britain, Europe and China are seizing the opportunities of the electric vehicle revolution.

LNP member Michelle Landry said she’s been subject to abuse and threats on social media after expressing sympathy for a staffer sacked over a lewd video.

Riaz Behi said he admitted to his wife he had consensual sexual contact with a patient after he was charged with sexually assaulting the woman.

Kulwinder Singh is on trial in the NSW Supreme Court accused of murdering his wife by lighting her on fire. He has pleaded not guilty.

Queensland Health has warned for anyone with symptoms to get tested.

Even if Manly notch their first win of the season against the Dragons on Friday, it will struggle to top the news that Tom Trbojevic is almost back.

It’s taken an extra week but it’s Golden Slipper day again and five group 1s are up for grabs.

The Golden Slipper is the race where stallions are made and stallions make their legacy, and the two have come together in this year’s edition.

Addeybb continues to please the William Haggas team and another week in Sydney has lifted their confidence for the Ranvet Stakes.

Many said flaws in the scheme were obvious from the outset, and called on companies who made a profit to pay back taxpayer money. Others were more forgiving.

For its cast and creators, the level of scrutiny around the anticipated production is astounding.

Everything you need to know to find a winner on cup day.

NSW detectives will speak with suspended Nationals MP Michael Johnsen on Friday over allegations he raped a sex worker

Modelling predicts 50,000 Queenslanders will lose their jobs at the end of the week.

A parliamentary inquiry will be launched into the military coup in Myanmar as concern grows about the violent crackdown on pro-democracy activists in the country.

Sam Clipperton knows he is on a group 1 performer in Star Of The Seas in tomorrow’s George Ryder Stakes but just for once he wants to come back and not have to say to his owners “next time”.

North Korea has a history of testing new US administrations with missile launches aimed at forcing the Americans back to the negotiating table.

Jean Van Overmeire will ride in the world’s richest two-year-old race for the second time as an apprentice. But he’s had to travel far and wide in the build-up.

Two brothers from Pakistan are accused of running a large counterfeit scheme from their Melbourne unit and selling packages of fake postage stamps to people across Australia.

The Ever Given, a ship belonging to Taiwan-based shipping company Evergreen Marine, is still blocking the crucial waterway blocking oil, gas and grain supplies.

Greg Hunt stresses Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination program is free after reports some pensioners have been charged $70 for “pre-vaccination” appointments.

Even after 18 months out of the game, Sydney veteran Buddy Franklin roams almost in a stratosphere of his own.

Gihan Kerollos was stabbed to death by her husband as she left work at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital in May 2019.

Ten years ago the Coalition was flying high in NSW. Now it no longer has a majority of seats thanks to numerous scandals and crises. 

The decision comes after the AFL and AFLPA made applications for coroner Simon McGregor to step aside from the inquest due to him being the brother of an AFLPA staff member, who had referred Tuck to psychological services.