Catharine Lumby, who advised the game during the Peter Beattie era, criticised the NRL and V’landys for their lack of action when it came to player’s attitudes towards women.

Three more mass vaccination sites will open in Heidelberg, Sunshine and Ballarat from Friday, as Victorians over 50 are given the green light to get the AstraZeneca vaccine from next month.

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

Concerns about the safety in custody of a man charged with murdering underworld figure Daniel O’Shea two years ago lead to court suppressing his identity.

Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson are set to sign a new free trade deal at the upcoming G7 summit despite a diplomatic brawl.

The review will look into the horrific killing of mother-of-three Kelly Wilkinson, as police admit they failed to protect her.

CCTV released by police shows three hooded men - armed with a golf club, knife and baseball bat - attack the victim in broad daylight in the city’s south-west.

“There is nothing that is preventing them from sending those one million doses to PNG,” Trade Minister Dan Tehan said. “The ball is clearly in AstraZeneca’s court.”

Performance artist Georgia Banks is staging a provocative new work where members of the public are invited to ‘audition’ to curate her eventual funeral.

A South Australian father is suspected of intentionally taking his baby daughter’s life when he jumped off a dam wall in South Australia on Wednesday.

A new Queensland Veterans’ Council will be set up to oversee the square for the state government under new legislation.

Foreign Minister Marise Payne and her New Zealand counterpart Nanaia Mahuta have sought to ease tensions between the two countries over the future role of the Five Eyes spy network.

Lizzie Jelfs and Annabel Neasham will be cheering together for Queen Of Wizardry in Saturday’s Champagne Stakes but it is a bond that so much deeper.

Cricket Australia is monitoring the coronavirus situation in India after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced fresh travel restrictions amid skyrocketing coronavirus numbers.

Health Minister Brad Hazzard said it was challenging to maintain vaccination numbers over the past couple of weeks, claiming 70 to 80 per cent of health staff who were booked to receive the AstraZeneca shot had not attended their appointments in rece...

China has warned Australia to reverse a decision to rip up Victoria’s Belt and Road Initiative deal, but the federal government is ready to wear any retaliation from the Asian nation.

Report findings spark calls for a shake-up of how grants are handed out amid continued concern about the sector’s financial sustainability and governance.

Everything you need to know to find a winner on the last day of the autumn carnival.

Masked Crusader is finally putting it together and is ready to finish the autumn on a high in the All Aged Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

John O’Shea has been patient and the rewards are beginning to flow from his Randwick stable at the right time of year.

Neville Layt won the first Highway Handicap and his final runner Redicon will look to complete the circle at Randwick on Saturday.

Many readers were taken aback by the survey results which showed Scott Morrison as preferred prime minister. However, others believed the numbers “were right on the money”.

Three people are dead after a crash near the Central West NSW town of Cowra.

A small red swastika on the back window of a dusty Nissan Patrol has again sparked calls to ban the Nazi symbol in Victoria.

The state government is ploughing ahead with a policy that experts argue will negatively impact on the uptake of electric vehicles.

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

A drug “freelancer” who was a significant player in a syndicate that smuggled heroin into Australia on commercial flights from Malaysia has been jailed for more than 13 years.

In his third day in the ICAC witness box Drummoyne MP John Sidoti was asked if he had suffered an illness or virus that had caused him to lose his memory, as he struggled to answer questions.

All states and territories have agreed to bring forward the vaccination start date for Australians aged over 50.

The vitamins brand seems unfazed by the prospect of rising trade tensions between Australia and China, with border closures a bigger hit to sales.

China’s ambassador was staying at a hotel in south-west Pakistan that was bombed, but was not present when it was hit, Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad said.

The AFL has released rounds nine and 10 of the 2021 fixture and has received a final decision on crowd limits for the Anzac Day clash.

The construction union, which has been penalised by courts more than 170 times, and three of its top NSW officials were fined more than $1 million for picketing a crane company.

The closure of TAB retail outlets due to COVID-19 has accelerated the transition to online betting, with digital wagering making up 86.5 per cent of Victorian racing turnover.

India’s total of 312,731 new infections in a 24-hour period eclipsed the previous single-day high of 300,669 cases, set in the United States on January 8.

One-off tax relief for low and middle-income earners is on the cards but there are worrying signs about the jobs market with almost 250,000 long term unemployed.

Nathan Buckley says Jordan De Goey is still dealing with concussion symptoms while Chris Mayne must prove his fitness to face Essendon on Sunday.

Michael Haddad, the son of a convicted drug dealer and Mr Ibrahim’s sister, was violently abducted last year by a group of men who allegedly demanded a ransom.

Australia’s draw alongside Argentina, Spain and Egypt has been dubbed “the group of dreams” as the Olyroos will face some of the best emerging stars.

The 20-year-old was charged with 10 offences after police searched a Robina property and allegedly found weapons, ammunition, cash and drugs.

A manager at a restaurant where the woman worked said the alleged victim told her she didn’t want to report what had happened because she didn’t want the media to know.

Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says he would hire ousted Australia Post chief executive Christine Holgate if he was the boss of a private company, describing her as a good and very decent person.

Supermarket giant Woolworths has made a multimillion-dollar investment in Melbourne startup Marketplacer as part of plans to compete with the likes of Amazon.

Meg O’Neill, who started as the interim chief executive at Woodside Petroleum this week, has wasted little time in putting her stamp on the company.

Francis Spufford has followed up his acclaimed Golden Hill with the imagined lives that five children might have lived had they not been caught in a wartime air raid.

While Toby Greene is clearly respected, he probably doesn’t enjoy the same amount of love from the many opposition players and fans he’s antagonised over the years.

Opposition Leader Michael O’Brien says no Victorian should be waiting in an ambulance for hours when they require care for acute conditions.

It will have the capacity to administer up to 30,000 vaccinations a week when it opens its doors in mid-May, which is more than the state achieved across all of its hospital hubs in the past two weeks.

Brett Redman’s abrupt exit as chief executive smacks of a disagreement with the board.

“The analogy would be if John F Kennedy had announced in 1961 that we were going to go to the moon and we are going to let NASA take its own sweet time figuring out how to get there.”