Seroja is accelerating towards the coast, and will begin impacting communities within hours. It has intensified to Severe Category 3, but is likely to weaken to Category 2 before making landfall.

Sports wagering and online betting firms’ winnings soared by hundreds of millions of during the months of Melbourne’s lockdown.

The most powerful computer in the Southern Hemisphere will be used to help the NSW government solve Sydney’s public transport problems.

A two-week coronial inquest will delve into the deaths of Queensland Senior Constable Brett Forte and his killer, Ricky Charles Maddison.

A Melbourne health company that planned to list on the Australian stock exchange and expand into China with the help of former Liberal trade minister Andrew Robb has collapsed owing more than $11 million to creditors.

The Victorian Legal Services Board wrote to solicitor Serene Teffaha in March to provide her with a “notice of proposed cancellation of practising certificate”.

Police are appealing for a thief to return an urn containing the ashes of a deceased mother after the theft in Melbourne’s inner-east.

‘A shell went right through him’: Morris Milliken kept a diary before he died at Gallipoli in World War I - and his family are reading it for the first time.

A promise to build a transport hub at Sunshine station and fuel an economic boom in the suburb is feared to have been iced, putting the Andrews government on a collision course with Brimbank Council.

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

A leadership shakeup of the electrical union in NSW could contribute to a shift in the balance between the left and right factions of the NSW ALP.

Locals are sandbagging their vital food source, dragging rental kayaks as far from surging water as possible and sandbagging homes as they wait for Seroja.

Two teenagers have been arrested following the killing of 16-year-old Yannis Leulusoo in Brisbane’s CBD on Thursday night.

Multiple police and 70 SES personnel on Sunday searched through bushland, waterways and neighbourhoods in Brisbane’s bayside in a bid to find a Cleveland man missing since last month.

A person has died after being pulled from the surf by lifeguards at a Sunshine Coast beach.

A young man who died while rock climbing on Saturday in the Glasshouse Mountains on the Sunshine Coast has been remembered for his effervescent and joyful personality.

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said he was also pleased with vaccination numbers over the weekend and expressed confidence additional Pfizer doses would be delivered.

St Andrew’s Cathedral in Sydney was at capacity on Sunday as the congregation paid tribute to the life of Prince Philip who died on Friday and prayed for a more united world.

Damaging winds and heavy rainfall are expected in Perth and parts of the south-east of Western Australia into Monday, a severe weather alert warns.

Authorities hope to get through the weekend without loss of life but have warned homes in the middle of the state aren’t built to withstand expected winds.

Flying politicians and dignitaries around the country on VIP jets cost taxpayers almost $20 million in two years up to June 2020.

More travel voucher schemes could be on the cards for people to visit battered Queensland regions in a bid to revive the tourism sector. 

Queensland Health is investigating the positive case, however said there was no risk to the community as the person had been isolating since the party in late March.

Edward was a guy I knew in uni, and without exaggerating in any way, I believe he may have served up the coldest dish of gazpacho-vengeance in history.

NSW Police believe the body is that of a woman who went missing from the state’s mid north coast during severe floods last month.

“Few other Australians have had such a profound impact on the Catholic Church on the international stage,” the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Anthony Fisher, said.

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

Two teenage boys have been charged after a man was allegedly stabbed with a box cutter knife in Brisbane’s CBD on Saturday night. It was one of three stabbings across the south-east.

MPs on Spring Street have started succession planning should Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ injuries prevent him from returning to Treasury Place.

While the situation is evolving, Australia has to take a safe and cautious approach.

There will be more to be said about his role but today is not the day.

We were thrown into delicious social panic. My mother and sister bought new dresses and hats. The big day came and, groomed to within an inch of our lives, we had this wonderful 20 minutes of family time with Prince Philip ...

I have long known that prayer and music have something profoundly important in common because both deal with the ineffable, the inexpressible, matters that words cannot fully capture.

The temporary introduction of judge-only trials is drawing to an end in Victoria, but the state’s major legal bodies say it should remain an option.

Hard rubbish season is upon us and, for the savvy bargain hunter, there are steals to be had. But there’s a risk that anything not reclaimed will be crushed for landfill.

Many of the nation’s GPs are refusing to offer AstraZeneca’s vaccine to people under 50 until the federal government clarifies legal liability if patients suffer serious or fatal side effects.

It’s the social enterprise that for two decades has fed the disadvantaged and let customers pay whatever they feel a meal is worth, but now it needs a lifeline of its own.

It was on a visit in March 2002, Prince Philip turned to Indigenous leader Ivan Brim and asked what was to become known as ‘the spears gaffe’ reported around the world.

We need to maintain the rage if women are to be treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.

Sydney academic Jake Olivier is worried sick that his mother in New Orleans will die before he and his son get to say goodbye.

This is the most important policy in generations. Australia is relying on the federal government to get the population vaccinated as quickly as possible.

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NDIS Minister Linda Reynolds says no one will be excluded from the National Disability Insurance Scheme on the basis of a diagnosis.

Researchers at the University of Sydney say drivers can have the intoxicating component of cannabis in their body and still be competent to drive.

NSW Police officer turnover is on the rise, while more than 500 formal complaints about bullying and harassment were made by police colleagues in 2019 and 2020.

Female councillors say the toxic culture in federal and state politics is replicated in local government.

There’s one thing money can’t buy on Vaucluse Road: a moment’s peace from the clangs of construction.

Drinkers in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and the CBD pay more for the same brands of beer as patrons in the inner west and western Sydney.

The list of heritage items in NSW includes public toilets, park benches, bus shelters and plenty of sewers.

The Premier might be at home watching the US Masters, but no doubt he would rather be taking on his opponents.