Hannah Quinn has avoided jail after she provided assistance to her boyfriend in the days after he fatally struck an armed intruder in the head with a samurai sword in Sydney’s inner west.

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

The $1.86 billion project is now expected to become operational in the first half of 2022, 18 months after its original completion date of December 2020 and 6 months after the revised date of late 2021. 

It has been a bizarre few days after, out of nowhere, a COVID case in a man aged in his 50s was confirmed on Wednesday.

The ABC says it did not defame the former attorney-general but it can prove there were reasonable grounds for suspecting him of raping a woman in the 1980s when he was a teenager.

This comes as the mystery of how an eastern suburbs couple caught a COVID-19 infection brought into hotel quarantine by a US traveller remains unsolved.

WA recorded no new local cases of coronavirus on Friday as it prepared to ease mask and crowd restrictions.

Nine ambulances were waiting to offload patients outside Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on Friday afternoon, with the ED operating beyond capacity.

Four villagers who allege Ben Roberts-Smith was involved in the unlawful death of an Afghan farmer faced the risk of violent repercussions from the Taliban if details about them were disclosed before a coming defamation trial, a court has heard.

Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguire and The Age’s state political editor Annika Smethurst speak about the leaked report on Victoria’s hotel quarantine failures.

To increase production of vaccines, we must work with the patent owners, not against them.

A luxury Australian clothing brand sold in Melbourne boutiques is selling fur labelled as raccoon that has been found to be raccoon dog, an unrelated species which is often mistreated in the international fur trade.

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

Churches are hot property as regional Victoria’s housing market booms but some communities want to keep them for public use.

Former Australian cricket captain Kim Hughes has revealed publicly for the first time his struggles with alcohol and how he was ‘going down the wrong path’.

Prominent Melbourne lawyer Pat Lennon was allegedly found with 11 grams of methamphetamine and almost $6000 when he was apprehended by police last year.

Andrea Shoesmith and Allison Rees have become sisters in the fight to raise awareness of the dangers of button batteries, following the deaths in 2013 and 2015 respectively of their daughters, Summer, 4, and Bella, 14 months.

Under parliamentary privilege, David Scaife blasted Bradley Wright’s actions during a court case, claiming he ignored and evaded the proceedings and continually raised irrelevant matters.

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After a year in hibernation, Opera Australia’s Thursday night premiere of Aida was meant to be a triumph. But there was a technical disaster instead.

“If I look at the homicide cases I have done the cause of death in 99 per cent of the cases has been bleeding obvious.”

Like most anti-immigrant rhetoric, ‘they took our jobs’ is high on fear but low on fact.

John Richards featured as “Mr October” in a calendar of Britain’s dullest men – alongside the head of the Roundabout Appreciation Society.

Driver of a truck which hit five pedestrians in Melbourne’s inner south has reportedly claimed to have been unaware of the incident at the time.

As Australia prepares to confront suicides among military veterans, some of those suffering PTSD and depression sit for Chris Hopkins’ camera and tell their stories.

There’s been a slight jump in COVID-19 testing numbers after an eastern suburbs couple tested positive.

The government has been accused of wasting tens of millions of dollars on unused COVID-19 tests sold to them by WA mining magnate Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest during the early stages of the pandemic.

The ABC’s defence to Christian Porter’s defamation claim was filed in the Federal Court on Tuesday night, but has yet to be released publicly.

A 68-year-old Wilston man is in a critical condition in hospital after the attack, which detectives believe involved a weapon.

In the worst response time results in several years, Ambulances are not reaching the most critically-ill patients within the target time of 15 minutes one-quarter of the time.

Great lagers can be bloody tough to brew, and even tougher to find in a crowded craft beer market.

China suspended diplomatic contact with the Australian government under the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue on Thursday.

A 14-year-old boy has been charged over the schoolyard stabbing of a fellow student in western Sydney.

Family and friends of the missing 26-year-old gather, hearing stories of his life and watching a video of his feats on a skateboard.

Denying errors damages public confidence – and risks sending the state back into lockdown.

More than 10 per cent of people who called an ambulance did not need to go to hospital, contributing unnecessary demand to the already-stretched ambulance service.

The council ordered the popular inner west cafe to tear down the bright signage because the size, location and colour required approval.

Vaccines require hundreds of products to make: Pfizer’s has more than 280 ingredients. But the shortage of specialised plastic bags has become critical. 

Foreign Minister Marise Payne has given the strongest sign yet the controversial ban on flights from India will be lifted after May 15.

What does it mean to be an Australian citizen? Evidently not much.

As Australia prepares to confront suicides among military veterans, some of those suffering PTSD and depression sit for Chris Hopkins’ camera and tell their stories.

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

The first round in South Africa’s painful struggle to talk its way out of racial war ended successfully with a smiling handshake.

In May 1966, a Sydney man with the world’s rarest blood fell ill, sparking an international search for donors.

If suddenly everyone wants a piece of a politician, then it must almost be budget night.

This week, more than any other I can recall, put our contradictory relationship with the world on full display.

Do AI systems dream of etiquette?

A comprehensive study has found a simple change in how a common piece of medical equipment is used could save millions of dollars and improve outcomes for patients.

Queensland’s space industry could be worth $2.7 billion in just 15 years and support 6000 jobs.

A bitter contest for the outer-northern Melbourne seat of Hawke may be delayed after 10 unions went to the Supreme Court to stop the ballot from going ahead on Friday.