A briefing note sent to state MPs late on Thursday urged them to abandon nationally-agreed changes to Australia’s defamation laws.

The NSW government hopes it can convince the federal government to approve its proposal by demonstrating it can return international students in a way that does not disrupt the return of Australian citizens or overload health and police services.

The founder of a popular electronic bush doof festival told triple zero operators he was getting attacked and was about to get killed, an inquest has heard.

Drummoyne MP John Sidoti called the planning coordinator of his local council to discuss a proposal that had the potential to affect his family’s property interests, the ICAC has heard.

A multi-vehicle collision and rollover on the Eastern Freeway has brought all outbound city traffic to a standstill with traffic departing the city building rapidly. 

Police divers have found the body of Braxton Plant, who went missing from outside his home in northern NSW on Wednesday.

Tapped phone calls played to an IBAC hearing reveal the boss of Transclean instructed his nephew to “contaminate” trials of a new product that risked cutting revenue.

Police charged the woman 11 months after a man died when he was allegedly stabbed and struck by a vehicle.

His younger brother Dru Baggaley was also found guilty of the same offence, related to the same 2018 import attempt.

The SAS veteran is suing three newspapers for defamation, with the case expected to go to trial in June.

The Queensland Tourism Industry Council has renewed calls for governments to address climate change to protect the Great Barrier Reef, which faces destruction.

Quotas are not anathema to the Liberal Party, they are at the core of its existence.

State and federal leaders need to stop squabbling and put their heads together to ensure that a slow start does not morph into a botched vaccination rollout.

Andrew Constance says the state’s new multibillion-dollar intercity trains will be in service within weeks even though the rail union is refusing to staff the fleet.

More than 300 small businesses surveyed by the Queensland Chamber of Commerce estimate they will each lose between $12,000 and $65,000 from Brisbane’s three-day lockdown.

The notorious underworld figure has denied any involvement in the murder of the teenager, who was shot in his sleep.

The Porsche driver who filmed dying police officers in the aftermath of last year’s Eastern Freeway crash was admonished by a magistrate during a court hearing.

People who arrived in Victoria from Brisbane before it was declared a red zone this week can now exit isolation after getting a negative test, as the state moves the Queensland capital back into the orange zone.

Those in quarantine will be allowed out at 6pm and those returning will be free to attend Easter celebrations as long as they isolate until they receive a negative COVID-19 test.

Two crashes on the Pacific Motorway have created delays of almost an hour for drivers heading towards the Gold Coast for the Easter long weekend.

A number of sites across the city’s inner-west bring the total number of locations concerning contact tracers to 129 as the three-day lockdown ended hours early.

New global data clearly show that Australian women are at a significant and entrenched disadvantage compared to men, and that disadvantage is increasing year on year.

Today on Please Explain, Nathanael Cooper is joined by Mary Ward to discuss how Australia is now dealing with the pandemic after vaccine rollout delays and new outbreaks.

The Liberal minister was not named in an ABC article at the centre of his defamation claim but his lawyers say he was identified via other means.

The former corporate titan entered pleas to three charges at Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday, with a number of other charges withdrawn.

Western Australia’s four main universities have lodged their annual budgets and the results were not as catastrophic as once predicted, with two even turning a healthy profit.

The Royal Easter Show opened on Thursday, with the Country Women’s Association Tea Room drawing a queue by 7:30am.

With just one-third of aged care residents vaccinated, restrictions on visits to aged care will continue despite Brisbane’s lockdown lifting.

NSW, Victoria and South Australia say they will forge ahead with introducing defamation changes on July 1 ahead of laggard states and territories, creating two separate defamation regimes in Australia.

New research has found that a growing number of Australians are making a conscious effort to reduce their consumption of meat for health and environmental reasons.

Property prices across Australia increased at their fastest rate in 30 years over March, while Perth house values have risen tens of thousands of dollars in since January.

Australia has become an international haven for the Church of Scientology’s wealth as it shifts tens of millions of dollars into the country.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters she thought people understood the pandemic was an evolving situation and she did not think Bluesfest had been cancelled.

Boydtown on the South Coast of NSW is named after a slave trader. Let’s recognise the amazing Indigenous heritage of this area and rename it and the surrounding national park.

Brisbane’s lockdown will end at noon after Queensland recorded one new locally acquired coronavirus case on Thursday.

The children were found after members of the public saw them and their father near a train station in the city’s west.

Raine Square’s major tenant has issued an expression of interest for commercial leasing properties as it eyes moving its head office from the struggling CBD retail precinct.

I was shocked at how sick patients waiting in the corridor seemed all around me and wondered how they were coping with such isolation, discomfort, and lack of communication about their condition.

A year 11 student on trial over a younger schoolmate’s broken hip says he never placed the boy in a headlock, with a common assault charge hanging on the claim.

We are what we watch, but do the TV ratings accurately record our viewing habits? Here’s some home truths (no, really) about our gogglebox gravitations.

Drivers are urged to stay safe on the roads as Easter holidaymakers leave Brisbane from noon.

Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley has urged the Commonwealth to co-operate with state and territory governments to deliver more COVID-19 vaccines to Australians.

Brisbane detectives investigating allegations against the Liberal MP have determined there is no evidence to indicate a criminal offence.

When Brendan Berne’s term as Australia’s ambassador to France ended last year, CBD assumed he would boomerang back to Canberra for the compulsory desk stint. He’s got other plans.

Following the pandemic shock, many tourism operators are bracing for more economic woes with JobKeeper expired and the holiday season set to end after Easter and the school holidays.

Sean Lander, who invented a false persona to lure an author into a romantic relationship, landed himself in trouble while trying to recover millions from a business associate.

Churches have addressed the pain of women and the need for renewal and a message of hope at Easter.

Staff at the Inner West Council have warned that 14 hectares of tree canopy has been lost, but the mayor says all the trees chopped down are being replaced.

Politicians and their lackeys typically have negligible life experience outside the political system and thus no respect for the ethical guardrails the rest of us live by.

Brendan Berne has quit the diplomatic service for a new life in Burgundy, France, and is planning a new TV show.