Companies that force workers to create complicated passwords could actually be weakening their data security, Queensland researchers have found.

The offender, who committed 23 “disgusting” sexual offences against girls as young as six over 20 years, was told his sentence was neither unreasonable nor unjust.

A unique collaboration between a Miles Franklin award-winning author and an academic is helping more people understand how aged care residents experience ‘the worst bloody feeling in the world’.

A company controlled by Sheikh Mubarak al-Sabah has lodged fresh plans for a 10-storey apartment development in a prime position next to the Port Melbourne beach.

His extensive knowledge and expertise made him one of the most respected dealers in Australia. After so many years in the game it’s no surprise his legacy includes the repatriation of over 1000 important paintings.

The media needs to report on the pandemic without inciting blame and encouraging condemnation.

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

Caulfield Grammar School has had a full uniform overhaul focused on student choice and gender-neutrality.

An alleged Islamic State recruiter faced court in Melbourne today after being deported from Turkey where he had been jailed for links to the terrorist group.

With 65 per cent of the nation’s total residential use, Victoria is unique in Australia for its reliance on gas as a fuel source. Now there are clouds on the horizon for what ad-men once called “stored sunshine”.

A coastal village in NSW is split by a fight to save a car park, hailed as a “sacrosanct gathering place for surfers”, but described in a report commissioned by the local council as obscuring “prime views”.

Our school calendars do not reflect our societal acknowledgement of Eid, and this is particularly clear in the scheduling of NAPLAN during Eid-ul-Fitr this year.

Calls are mounting for increased mental health support for children after bushfires, floods and the coronavirus pandemic.

The cultural authority that the Anglican Church once held has been eroded.

Social restrictions imposed in Greater Sydney in the wake of two locally acquired cases of COVID-19 will be extended by a week.

The trio will face court after police found steroids, cocaine and other drugs during raids in Brisbane and Bundaberg.

With many single-sex schools looking to move into the co-educational field we look at the pros and cons.

Public criticism is dismissed as partisan, brushed aside because of who said it – regardless of whether it is accurate. The problem bedevils state and federal governments, whoever is in power.

Clearly shaken, Slater told me he meant no disrespect.

It’s horrifying to see the ease with which leaders propose sending Australians to Christmas Island to quarantine at a detention centre so awful it’s meant to deter asylum seekers.

Experts call for focus on airborne virus spread, with one saying ‘you could be washing your hands until the cows come home and you could still get COVID-19’.

Until Australia has a wide vaccine coverage, it won’t leave COVID-19 behind so let’s try linking cash to the jab.

Pop-up bike lanes planned at the height of COVID-19 to accommodate a huge increase in cycling have been ripped up or stalled in Melbourne’s inner-north, due to internal council politics and construction delays.

Within these state heritage-listed walls, Ethel Turner penned what was to become Australia’s most popular children’s book, Seven Little Australians.

Culturally sensitive midwifery care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women is helping them feel safe in an institution which has not always been able to.

The diversity of interests among Sydneysiders is what makes this city a vibrant one and we must collectively and individually find ways to plan for it and accommodate it.

Is it OK to criticise a PM’s spouse? It depends on what is being criticised.

One of the saddest bits of news this week, for me, was the announcement that Bill and Melinda Gates are separating after 27 years.

Families don’t just need help fleeing violence, advocates say. They need affordable homes too.

In the general population, people over 50 will be eligible to be vaccinated at the Olympic Park hub from May 24.

“You can’t pay for early access to the vaccine or to skip the queue, that’s just not how it works here.”

The first non-European in the role, Kanishka Raffel was raised Buddhist but converted to Christianity after reading the Gospel of John at university.

Motherless Daughters Australia says Mother’s Day can be a difficult day for women who have lost their mothers.

Law professor Nicolas Suzor is one of 20 global experts who decide whether the social media giant’s content decisions are right or not.

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

The Parramatta diocese of the Catholic church has yielded to a backlash from parents and priests over its opposition to a bill that would ban the discussion of gender diversity in schools.

Researchers are spotlighting tiny particles called POMs, whose special properties could mean they will have a huge impact on clean energy technology in the near future.

Robin Friday bought in Box Hill for less than $30,000. When developers came circling, he sold for a huge profit and is helping house family violence survivors.

Three young brothers walked away unharmed from the wreckage, in what was hailed as an extraodinary escape by emergency services.

Blunt lockdown comparisons can be misleading, so The Sunday Age turned to the University of Oxford to put Melbourne and Australia in context.

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.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

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.

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