A key witness in the looming Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial has said that a photographer who followed him for two days this week made him feel intimidated.

Former Powderfinger bassist and co-owner of the Fortitude Music Hall and the Triffid John Collins has been joined by Brisbane’s lord mayor in calls for an easing of live venue limits.

Queensland’s Industrial Relations Commission has thrown out an attempt by former Logan council chief executive Sharon Kelsey to have her high-profile 2018 sacking overturned.

Two arrivals from Papua New Guinea were in the green zone for almost two hours after arriving in a red zone flight.

Residents voice concerns over fresh community COVID-19 outbreaks after the government’s announcement of its preferred site for alternative quarantine accommodation.

The Health Department has contacted hundreds of Victorians and urged them to undergo a coronavirus test after fragments of COVID-19 were detected in wastewater catchments.

Stacks of $50 and $100 notes totalling about $1.2 million, drugs worth $12 million - including blocks of cocaine stamped with the word “Dior” - and gold-coloured firearms were seized on Wednesday. 

Western Sydney Airport CEO Simon Hickey said the segment defied predictions after September 11 and other crises and will do so again.

Emergency services worked to extract the driver for about 30 minutes and took him to St Vincent’s Hospital in a stable condition.

A revised Australian curriculum will give greater weight to First Nations people and to the nation’s growing cultural diversity, while an emphasis on “Christian heritage” will be removed.

TGA head John Skerritt said the cases were still under investigation but cautioned against coming to conclusions about whether the vaccine was the cause.

Peta Hickey had an anaphylactic reaction to contrast dye injected as part of a CT scan of her heart in May 2019. She died eight days later.

The decision by News Corp to fold most of its regional websites into two of its capital city mastheads has been roundly criticised by media experts.

Seven reporter Josh Massoud left an 18-year-old social media producer in tears after the producer mistakenly ran part of an exclusive NRL story before the 6pm news.

A charity boss has warned families that are out of work or on low incomes have been priced out of the rent market, saying “if you’re not the ideal tenant, you just don’t get in.”

A prosecutor has told a jury footballer Jack de Belin believed he could do whatever he wanted on the night a woman was allegedly assaulted in December 2018.

Victorians who paid deposits for holidays and weddings that were scuppered by the pandemic are taking their grievances to VCAT.

Today on Please Explain, senior economics reporter Shane Wright and host Nathanael Cooper look at the federal government’s major shift in rhetoric and budget policy.

The new quarantine hub would be designed with portable cabins and be able to accommodate 500 passengers at any one time, with the ability to scale up to 3000 beds.

Brisbane father and husband Daniel Suliman has been remembered as an “amazing person” who “everybody loved”.

Collins wrote: “I have seen the ultimate black of infinity in a stillness undisturbed by any living thing.”

The law is slow to catch up with expectations: women deserve to get the same as men when they do the same as men.

Stephen Grant, an IT worker for valuation firm LandMark White, has been cleared of 20 charges. A jury has not yet reached a verdict on two remaining counts.

A man sexually abused as a boy more than 50 years ago at a Geelong orphanage has told a court how thankful he is at being believed after decades of trauma.

Both men charged over the fatal firebombing have now died, after James Richard Finch passed away earlier this year.

The former special forces soldier told his ex-wife he would sue her if she disclosed to lawyers acting against him in a defamation case any information she had agreed to keep confidential, a court has heard.

A jury has found Barbara Eckersley not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of her mother Dr Mary White in the NSW Southern Highlands in August 2018.

Four roads leading into Sydney’s CBD would be re-shaped to encourage people to linger, walk and cycle, under an idea being considered by the city’s council.

Leila Abdallah, the mother of Antony, Angelina and Sienna who were killed 14 months ago, was at home on Wednesday with a friend when they found the man inside.

The changes being considered to the NDIS by the Morrison government are a real concern to anyone living with a disability or caring for someone with a disability.

Police are searching for a man who escaped custody while he was being escorted from the court to the watch house south-west of Brisbane.

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan expects he will be able to provide details about any plan to  ease COVID-19 restrictions from Saturday after a disaster council meeting later on Thursday.

The upper house’s joint standing committee on electoral matters, the majority of whom are Coalition members, recommended the government consider changing electoral funding laws to allow party subscriptions to be used for campaigning purposes follo...

GRAPHIC IMAGE: The father pleaded guilty to animal cruelty, having first denied shooting the plover.

Retiring maternal nurse Margaret Hazelton said struggling mothers often only needed these simple words of encouragement to thrive: “You’re doing a good job.”

Veterans charity Legacy Queensland has been forced to sell its Brisbane headquarters because the COVID-19 pandemic stopped people donating money to the group. Now it needs $4 million to help shift.

WA Police have charged a 56-year-old woman after she allegedly refused to wear a face mask twice in three days.

School students will be taught for the first time that First Nations Australians experienced European colonisation as an invasion under proposed changes to the national curriculum.

A young man has been injured after a bus tyre fell on his lower body while he was changing it a depot on the Central Coast.

Sarah, who did not want to use her real name, was walking south on Sydney Road between Albert Road and Glenlyon Road in Brunswick about 6.20am on February 7 when an man she didn’t know began to follow her.

Getting the right retail mix at Perth’s string of high-profile CBD shopping precincts should be determined by consumers and vendors as high-end businesses continue to be poached with free rent and fit-outs.

Lawyers for Australia’s wealthiest woman, Gina Rinehart, have argued that if her daughter Bianca succeeds in her claim to dynasty founder Lang Hancock’s iron ore tenements, she will effectively dismantle a $20 billion equity-rich mining company.

Christina Lackmann, an aspiring cancer researcher, died in her Caulfield North home last week after feeling dizzy and lightheaded. Her brother wants to know why it took hours for her to receive care.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian is set to renew her government’s commitment on Thursday to faster rail to regional centres.

UQ will join the frontline push to create new mRNA vaccines thanks to a federal funding injection to establish a custom facility to create and test new vaccines.

Dominic Perrottet says such a tax would only happen after a substantial take-up of the technology and would be part of a “holistic” tax plan.

All Australians aged 50 and over will be eligible for the AstraZeneca vaccine at state-run vaccination clinics and Commonwealth GP-led respiratory clinics from May 3, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced last week.

The proposal to waive vaccine patents has been opposed or delayed by some of the world’s largest economies including the European Union and the United States.

For a two-hour period on Monday, NSW Ambulance received more than 400 triple zero calls, with the network in “status three” mode for 30 minutes.

Fines being collected by the NSW government have skyrocketed by up to 30 per cent since 2019, totalling a record $81 million in December last year.