Friends and family are mourning the loss of a 17-year-old boy who was stabbed at a junior basketball game in Melbourne’s west on Friday night.

Police later told Elizabeth Adams most people don’t run towards cars that are about to explode.

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A Sydney woman said her father died from COVID-19 in India after being “abandoned” by the Australian government.

In all but two local government areas in Victoria, anxiety, depression and other mental health issues among women eclipse those among men “significantly”.

The Australian Veterinary Association says at least 800 more vets are urgently needed to address an acute shortage.

Volunteers who keep Victoria’s collection of vintage trains in working order could be moved on from the rail yard they’ve called home for decades.

Truck driver Frank Rogers, 64 tells court he ‘felt a bump’ during a collision which left two people seriously injured in Southbank on Thursday evening.

About 150 protesters gathered in Cleveland, just metres away from Dr Laming’s office, ahead of his return to Parliament.

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A 15-year-old boy has been released from police custody following the death of another teenager in Melbourne’s western suburbs on Friday night.

NSW recorded no new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 on Friday despite the number of tests surging to more than 22,000.

Six people were treated for smoke inhalation as more than 35 firefighters and eight fire trucks from across Sydney worked to extinguish the blaze.

The Western Harbour Tunnel is needed to avoid traffic delays worsening along Sydney’s key north-south road corridor, the nation’s infrastructure advisor says.

The risk of a disastrous coronavirus outbreak in Australia is now at its highest level since the pandemic began, says epidemiologist and mathematical biologist James McCaw.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is quickly rebuilding a coronavirus-ravaged economy in the short term. But beyond this, his plans are a mystery.

Public primary schools are only given funding for a language teacher if there are a significant number of speakers of a particular language in their local community.

Sydney’s pop-up inner-city cycleways installed to help commuters return to work during the pandemic have become so popular that they occasionally overtake the city’s busiest bike paths, furthering calls to make them a permanent fixture.

Once every three years, on polling day, we are all Australians. For any other day, check with the government.

The escalating coronavirus crisis in India is causing heartbreak for many Australian families.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has picked a fight with proxy advisers, which the government believes need greater regulation given their influence on Australia’s biggest companies.

UQ researchers have uncovered a key component of how scars form, enabling them to develop genetic treatments to reduce their severity.

Police have charged the driver of a truck that hit five pedestrians after it mounted the footpath at a busy intersection in Melbourne’s inner south.

Liberal heavyweight Brian Loughnane brought in to review Michael O’Brien’s office amid concerns about relationship between leader’s staff and the wider party.

The question of how to teach history has stood at the heart of Australia’s national curriculum ever since it was launched more than a decade ago.

The day in 1986 when Garry Lockhart’s team stormed a Sydney jail to rescue three officers taken hostage in a riot was the most violent of his career. Now he’s been awarded for his bravery.

The proportion of people using QR codes to check in has dropped across Victoria, with one government survey showing fewer than half the visitors to hospitality venues reported scanning a code every time in April.

The former “Block” contestant vowed to “start afresh” and savour some “clean air” after 202 days in custody, including a month in solitary.

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 $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.

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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.