A Strathpine man hosted 25 people at his house while waiting for his test results, which came back positive. It comes as authorities say the next two days will be “critical”.

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Pleas fail and Bhutto hangs, Australia bans whaling and drink advertising ban urged.

The fashion designer was attending the opening night of La Traviata at Mrs Macquaries Point on Friday night when she fell on the bottom two steps of a staircase.

A man has been rushed to a medical post after being bitten in the leg by a shark at a holiday spot in Western Australia’s north-west. 

The NSW government has been urged to relax capacity restrictions on bars and clubs to meet “pent-up demand”.

The extended border restrictions come after Queensland recorded one case of coronavirus in the community linked to a Brisbane landscaper who tested positive for the virus on Thursday.

Homicide squad detectives are investigating a suspected ‘targeted’ attack after a man was shot dead moments after road crash.

Brisbane Lions players and officials are among more than 15,000 people in Victoria who have been ordered to get coronavirus tests after a second case of locally acquired coronavirus was discovered in Queensland.

Losing her brother left Eliza Robbins-Brown inconsolable. A first-time funding arrangement from the Transport Accident Commission helped her heal.

A piano tutor at The Conservatorium High School in Sydney has been charged with sexually abusing a schoolgirl when he was at the university a decade ago.

Queensland Health has extended its list of Brisbane venues visited by the two friends.

Premier Palaszczuk says lockdown is not being considered at the moment, despite six new cases being recorded on Saturday, one with a direct link to the landscaper from north Brisbane.

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

A 20-year-old Australian Army member has died in hospital after collapsing during a physical training session in Darwin.

The two-storey home – which features five spacious bedrooms, three bathrooms, a jacuzzi and multiple living spaces – has been advertised for $2.9 million, more than four times what Court paid for the property in 1996.

Victorian tourism operators are set for a bumper Easter, but there are fears some will struggle to survive the end of the federal government’s JobKeeper wage subsidy.

Millions have been spent on men’s behaviour change programs after the Royal Commission into Family Violence called for an increased focus on abusers. But do they work?

An IT consultant claims he was ordered to inflate budget figures while working at the CFA and was dismissed after raising concerns that the organisation had falsely claimed it was compliant with the state’s data protection regulations.

Liberal staffer Nathan Winn deserved to be sacked for masturbating on his boss’s desk but he is not Canberra’s big problem.

The stark reality of failure has brought the Liberal Party to consider quotas.

Morrison, as is well understood by now, bristles at the very idea of scrutiny.

Two police officers were directed to intimidate a solicitor after he refused a request for police to give court evidence via video link, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission found.

The three school sectors have signed a pledge to do more to address sexual assault. But some principals think it’s political and pointless without the involvement of parents.

The old White Bay power station is a rare opportunity to do something great for Sydney. The Planning Minister’s vision sounds less than great. Here’s a thought: move the MCA there and surround it with a Hyde Park-sized jewel of harbour-front spac...

Secret recruiting tapes made by international radical right-wing group The Base show the threat lurking in Australian suburbs - and the banality of evil.

Political pressure is mounting on the government and Transport Minister Andrew Constance over stark discrepancies in tolls across Sydney’s motorways and higher-than-inflation increases on some.

Apsley, a village in Victoria’s western Wimmera, was dying. But the community bought the pub and saved the town. Now the Border Inn is for sale again.

Climate modes, scientists and the insurance industry agree Australia will be hit by more disasters, prompting debate over how and where we live.

The Prime Minister said he was listening, so we asked women to tell us their stories. And they have - in the hundreds. It’s over to you now, PM.

The Age’s Nick McKenzie has won the 2020 Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the year award in a bumper night for the masthead at the Quill Awards.

Anyone who has entered Victoria from the City of Brisbane and Moreton Bay area since March 12 must immediately self-isolate, the health department says.

Australian Jessi Miley-Dyer, recently named second-in-charge at the World Surf League, says surfing is at the forefront of sporting equality.

Clearer skies appear over Sydney and Mid North Coast but flood risk continues.

Michael Junkovic appeared in court via video link, charged with one count of sexual assault and one of an indecent act involving intentionally sexually touching a 16-year-old child who was in his care.

Anyone who went to a “close contact venue” in Queensland visited by the positive COVID-19 case, a 26-year-old landscaper, is prohibited from entering NSW.

Authorities were scrambling to find how a man was infected with COVID-19. However a possible lockdown still looms.

What lies ahead for the WA Liberal Party can either be a road to redemption, or recrimination.

Mandatory face masks are no longer required while shopping in Victoria with restrictions being lifted at 6pm on Friday.

Olympic silver medallist Nathan Baggaley, 45, and his brother Dru Anthony Baggaley, 39, were allegedly involved in a failed plot to import 650 kilograms of cocaine in 2018.

In a greater number than we could have imagined. We received hundreds of letters from women across the country, many revealing for the first time their stories of sexual assault, harassment and trauma.

The ceremony was attended by two veterans of Bomber Command in World War II who are almost as old as the air force itself.

A court hearing for Russell Street bomber Craig Minogue had to be suspended on Friday after the accused rapist repeatedly threatened to sack his lawyer.

Environmental watchdog lays 118 charges against the alleged owner of illegal chemical dumps in Melbourne and regional Victoria, claiming he had created a serious risk to public health.

Traffic continues to build as multiple crashes clog the traffic in Brisbane’s south on Friday.

A pensioner was moments from death as his car was swallowed by floodwater - until someone heard his cries in the darkness.

A Victorian woman accused of inciting people to protest against the coronavirus lockdown will challenge the lawfulness of a police search on her home.

Queensland’s Chief Health Officer has provided an updated list of the locations the man, a 26-year-old landscaper, visited in the past week.

At 17, Lech Blaine was in a car accident in which three of his friends died, and one was left with a permanent brain injury. He walked away, physically unharmed. Mentally however, it was a different story.

The Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation is at the centre of fresh controversy over its planned divestment of a key Aboriginal hub in Redfern.