News photographic coverage in The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper

Melbourne’s CBD was bustling once again as people flocked back to the city on the final days of the comedy festival, NGV Triennial and school holidays. 

Women’s sanitary products could be available free in some CBD public bathrooms to alleviate “period poverty” for women, including teens and the homeless.

A group who saved a little boy from a dingo attack on Saturday could hold vital clues to prevent a repeat attack, however they’ve already left Fraser Island.

Three major Victorian vaccination centres will be open to bookings and walk-ins from Wednesday for people in phase 1a or 1b of the rollout.

The systematic devaluing of girls’ voices happened at my high school and at every high school in Australia.

Australia’s controversial literacy and numeracy test is back this term, with some changes, after a pause during COVID.

The charities commission is not happy with the Married At First Sight star.

190 years after it was first published, we revisit the principles that have made the Sydney Morning Herald Australia’s longest-running newspaper.

The Premier is “making slow and steady progress” in his recovery from a fall in March, but will not return to work until after the May budget.

The 27-year-old man from NSW allegedly drove over the 47-year-old multiple times during a rampage north of Brisbane on Saturday night.

COVID-19 has given us the opportunity to strengthen our approach to international education and to ensure our universities are delivering for Australian students.

A new study shows 93 per cent of Victorians in high-risk cohorts have skipped testing on at least one occasion when they had ailments such as sore throat, runny nose and cough.

Two boys have died after the car they were in - carrying seven teenagers, including two in the boot - crashed into a tree near Busselton on Saturday night. 

A man arrested in relation to the disappearance of Brunswick woman Maryam Hamka has been charged over the alleged assault of a woman last year.

A family who tested positive for COVID-19 inside a Sydney quarantine hotel have been reclassified at locally acquired cases.

ANZAC Day services and marches can proceed next Sunday without any COVID restrictions, Deputy Premier Steven Miles announced on Sunday.

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

Researchers say the Morrison government’s new respectful relationships package, The Good Society, leaves the topic of consent way too late, introducing it at year 10.

A 24-year-old man suffered life-threatening head injuries after a group of people bashed him with baseball bats in Inala on Saturday night.

An Ola ride-share driver is in hospital after being knocked unconscious during an alleged confrontation with a passenger in north-west Sydney early on Sunday morning.

Although diabetics are at increased risk of some types of blood clots, experts said the blood clots which have been experienced in rare instances following the AstraZeneca vaccination were very different.

The 87-year-old died in hospital after being hit by a car while crossing a road on Brisbane’s bayside.

The 24-year-old was charged after a manhunt following the shooting of two men, aged 23 and 37, at a unit in Caboolture on Saturday evening.

Professor James Kennedy used to read the Herald on the train to Newcastle. He now uses it to keep up with a Sydney that can seem “unrecognisable” from the one he left a decade ago.

I found out I was pregnant the day before I had my exam on the laws of kosher, writes female Orthodox rabbi Ellyse Borghi.

Critics say synthetic grass overheats and leaches plastic and rubber into Melbourne’s waterways, but they offer councils an easy solution to the sporting needs of a growing population.

Total meltdown or death by a thousand hacks – how bad could a cyberwar get? And where is the line between espionage and all-out attack?

In eight months he applied for more than 250 jobs, and says although he could see employers going to LinkedIn to check him out they never called.

From the ascension of Queen Victoria in 1837 to the fires, floods and a pandemic of recent times, the Herald has been at the forefront of breaking news.

For 180 years, it was a steady line of men who were responsible for running the country’s oldest newspaper. But during the last 10 years, three women have held the top job at The Sydney Morning Herald.

In Year 11, I enrolled in a journalism class just to fill out my timetable. I expected the class to be boring and pointless but by the end of the term, I had discovered my passion.

We asked our readers what the Herald meant to them as the masthead reaches 190 years of continuous publication.

Cabramatta West nurse Srey Kang realised her Khmer community was missing out on coronavirus information in their language.

Tracy Norman, a scion of one of the founders of the Harvey Norman retail empire, will run as an independent in the Upper Hunter.

The Prime Minister launched a Kirribilli charm offensive to persuade the former premier into the race.

I am not a monarchist but for us oldies this death is like the end of an era.

Local indigenous groups say the area is an important historic site that was the likely staging ground for a massacre.

The Australian government’s program to help stranded Australians in financial distress has provided $29 million worth of funds to 3900 people, despite nearly 5000 people being assessed as vulnerable.

The state government plans to sell half of Hurlstone Agricultural School’s 160 hectares of farmland to developers.

The Inner West Council fixes about 9000 potholes a year, but road users say roads in Waverley and Burwood councils are the worst in Sydney.

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

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today's interactive superquiz and target.

If you want to create more jobs, the next set of opportunities lies not with more overpasses and tunnels, but with investment in culture and the knowledge economy.

The national discourse around sexual assault has caused a spike in sexual assault reports, but a key reporting mechanism has shut down.

The research looked at data from 21 countries and found no increase in suicides over the first few months of the pandemic when lockdowns were widespread.

The coronial inquest into the deaths of Ricky Maddison and Senior Constable Brett Forte will continue next week in Toowoomba.

There is much at stake at the Federal byelection in the Upper Hunter valley on May 22nd.

Australia’s GPs quietly reached a significant milestone this week, and there are growing calls to more heavily involve them in the future Pfizer rollout.

Mothers - and partners - say being able to lift their own baby from the the womb if they need caesarean sections is extremely empowering and should be offered more widely.