The Saints and Tigers kick-off round five with their annual ‘Maddie’s Match’ tonight.

John Morris has broken his silence to reveal he wanted to keep on coaching the Sharks until the end of the season despite the appointment of Craig Fitzgibbon.

A lack of evidence led prosecutors to drop fraud charges against seven former Logan councillors on Thursday, almost two years after the move saw the entire council dismissed.

After winning the toss the Blues never got going on day one at Allan Border Field, slumping to 5-96 before being bowled out for 143.

How the experts tipped for round five, and all the ins and outs as they drop across the weekend.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says there would be at least 1000 coronavirus cases in Australia every week if the international borders were to open, even if people were vaccinated.

Animal welfare advocates have been upset by an Andrews government decision to increase the number and type of ducks that can be killed this hunting season.

Small teams will be sent to villages while stadiums could be used for mass vaccinations as the country attempts to stamp down its raging COVID-19 epidemic.

Police believe Jason Langhans was trying to stop a fight at a 16th birthday party when he was hit by a gatecrasher holding a long, sharp object, believed to be a screwdriver.

Twenty years after joining the United States to wage war in Afghanistan, Australia is finally leaving. But what has been accomplished?

Fanning will make his return to competitive surfing on Friday at the World Surf League Narrabeen Classic, a ten-day event which will see 50 of the world’s best surfers gather on Sydney’s northern beaches.

Lewis was concussed after colliding with the hip of Josh Mansour and was held up by multiple Rabbitohs players - but he wasn’t taken from the field immediately.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has warned the world is at risk of splintering between authoritarian regimes and liberal democracies, saying like-minded countries need to join together to push for freedom.

The acting Premier said Victoria was keen to step up its involvement and lamented Canberra’s failure to take up two state proposals to reinvigorate the struggling vaccine rollout.

The inquest into the Queensland shooting hears from a witness describing a note in the gunman’s glove box indicating “he was not going to survive what was coming”.

A young woman who allegedly incited an altercation that led to a tradie being stabbed to death in Seaford last year has been released on bail.

ANZ provides banking services for fintech Airwallex, despite it being rejected by two major lenders and it onboarding clients that violate an ANZ policy banning remitters.

Woodside chairman Richard Goyder and his board are speaking with ‘quality’ CEO candidates both in Australia and overseas.

A man who allegedly assaulted and tortured another man with a hammer, gas burner and knife on the Gold Coast has been charged. 

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

Jamie Richards was careful to make sure New Zealand Oaks winner Amarelinha was at her best before coming to Randwick for the Australian Oaks.

The head of soon-to-be-acquired Coca-Cola Amatil is confident the company’s new European owners will maintain a significant level of investment in local manufacturing.

Tony Gollan believes he has the right horse in Isotope to win the Arrowfield Sprint and return to hunt the Golden Eagle in the spring.

Jamaea had a berth in the world’s richest two-year-old race before the owners and her co-trainers turned it down in the hope of picking up a rich consolation at Randwick.

The easy thing for Andrew Adkins to do would have been to say he had had enough. Instead, he could be riding to victory on Rondinella in Sydney Cup.

The best middle distance horses in Europe and Australasia will have one final clash this autumn. But only one trainer is fretting over the weather.

The trainer has had a field day in group 1 races in Victoria, but he’s only had limited chances in his home state. And he’s hoping his in-form mare can cause an upset at The Championships.

Many readers agreed with Christine Holgate that the treatment the former Australia Post boss encountered over the watches fiasco, particularly by the Prime Minister, was heavy-handed. Others said to suggest gender played a part was a cop out, and put...

The return of international students to Victoria has stalled over whether they should be included in the cap on returned travellers.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says all Australian troops in Afghanistan will leave the country by September after US President Joe Biden announced an end to the 20-year war.

A NSW parliamentary committee has called for all deaths in custody to be investigated by the state’s independent police watchdog as part of a suite of suggested reforms.

Waratahs co-coach Chris Whitaker has defended the decision to start Ben Donaldson this week and addressed stinging criticism from Eastwood coach Ben Batger.

Heritage experts are pushing for Victoria’s collection of 19th century prefabricated buildings, the most extensive and best-preserved globally, to be given World Heritage status.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will tour the natural disaster zone on Friday as new threats of asbestos exposure and homelessness emerge.

Rural leaders are putting the Nationals on notice in the lead up to international climate talks that farmers won’t pay the bill for climate action again. 

Buses will replace services for the entire trip after a goods train was derailed in the early hours of Thursday in regional NSW.

The horrors they said happened behind closed doors for years will play out in court. Richard Daschbach’s is the first clergy sex case in a country that is solidly Catholic.

A criminal investigation into the infant’s death is ongoing and officers have spoken to her mother, who has since been allowed to leave.

A planner who once represented Drummoyne MP John Sidoti was reprimanded for deliberately obstructing the corruption watchdog as he gave evidence about his dealings with the state MP in an inquiry on Thursday.

The Russian flag is barred from the Olympics in a doping dispute. You wouldn’t know it to look at the Russian uniforms.

Olympic athletes around the world are getting vaccinated ahead of Tokyo but Australia’s team members are just hoping for the best.

The PM met with doctors on Thursday morning and reiterated his confidence in the work of GPs but mass vaccination centres remain an option later in the year.

The outcry raises an uncomfortable question about the type of dance we value as a society and are willing to accept as part of our national identity.

With 10 days to go until the end of Daniel Andrews’ six-week leave after injuring his spine in a fall, the Acting Premier says any return will be on doctor’s advice.

Ahead of the end of the JobKeeper wage subsidy program, the jobless rate fell to 5.6 per cent in March – though full-time employment also fell.

Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn is stepping up the lender’s push for tighter regulation of Afterpay and other buy now, pay later (BNPL) operators.

A renewed push to resolve the long-running tensions over Melbourne’s horse-drawn carriages will come to a head on Tuesday, amid allegations carriage drivers are performing illegal road manoeuvres and putting the public and horses at risk.

Opposition home affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally has booked her own flight to Christmas Island to visit a Tamil family held in immigration detention.

Olivia Muranga, 20, appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday.

The American delegation of former senior officials met with the Taiwanese President on Thursday amid military threats from China.