Collingwood have appointed a former international cyclist and senior state government official, Dr Bridie O’Donnell, to the club board, replacing the longest-serving board member Alex Waislitz.

India’s total virus cases swept past 25 million on Tuesday as the country registered more than 260,000 new cases and a record 4,329 deaths in the past 24 hours.

A colleague of Mohinder Singh, the truck driver who killed four police officers on the Eastern Freeway last year, says he told their supervisor that Singh should not be driving.

Tuesday night’s Brisbane City Council meting heard tributes from both sides of Parliament to former councillor Ian Brusasco, who served 14 years, before becoming an influential business, football and ALP identity for Queensland.

Scott Morrison’s adviser Brendan Pearson told South Korean business leaders there was “a big risk if it becomes natural for countries to dictate” carbon taxes.

Parking fines and rate collection could be suspended in Melbourne if city council workers vote on Wednesday to take industrial action over a long-running pay dispute.

NSW and Victoria are moving to pick up the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations, the international community is working to broker a truce in Gaza, and the Victorian royal commission into Crown’s Melbourne casino licence enters its second day today.

The leisure tourism and staycation trend driving a rebound in Australia’s accommodation sector is supporting property values and revenue across the industry, according to the country’s largest hotel operator.

Australia’s star attack did not specifically name Michael Clarke but their choice words left little doubt as to whom their missive was directed.

Not often does the market get excited about one returning off a near 15-month break, but a talented Godolphin mare is ready to tackle that theory head-on at Wednesday’s feature Kensington meeting at Randwick.

Craig Fitzgibbon has given Nick Politis and Trent Robinson his word that he will not raid the club for talent when he takes over the Cronulla job next season.

Everything you need to know to find a winner at Randwick’s Kensington track on Wednesday.

Cricket Australia’s interim chief executive Nick Hockley has confirmed the Indian board is paying for Australian players’ quarantine period in Sydney.

The head of a leading Queensland medical research institute is calling for researchers to be freed from red tape by setting up a national approval body for clinical trials.

An inquiry has heard extraordinary evidence that kitchen staff are stepping in to care for patients due critical staffing shortages at NSW hospitals.

The TV adaptation of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is one of seven new original Australian productions announced by Amazon Prime Video on Tuesday.

The mission to raise Indonesia’s Nanggala submarine wreck from the seabed near Bali has found two life rafts but there’s no sign of the 53 men onboard.

Former Geelong president Colin Carter will meet Tasmanian premier Peter Gutwein week as part of his review into the business case for a team in Tasmania from 2025.

Two tagged great white sharks were detected within hours about two kilometres south of the beach where the man, aged 59, was attacked on Tuesday.

One of Amazon’s most senior Australian executives has declared the tech behemoth will explore all options in the quest for original content

Pictures of Gold Coast Bulletin stories were published on Twitter showing articles on the Gold Coast Suns allegedly written by club staff.

The new Aboriginal Affairs Minister has flagged that the four-year process of reforming the state’s archaic Indigenous heritage laws will soon conclude.

Footage shows a cassowary approaching the group, coming within a metre of the walkers, before following them for seven minutes along a walking track in north Queensland.

But the former Defence chief and governor-general says Australia’s hardened rhetoric towards China will not lead to a war although the deteriorating relationship could continue to create commercial and social difficulties.

Early-career writers have dominated the $60,000 Australian literary prize.

Russell Street bomber Craig Minogue has been committed to stand trial on allegations he and another man raped two young women more than 30 years ago.

If a student brings any kind of knife to school, principals have been told to call their parents rather than search them or demand they surrender it.

Investors have predicted a class action lawsuit over the controversial float of technology stock Nuix, lead by investment bank Macquarie Group.

Sacred cultural objects are beginning to be returned to country. But elders say it is a race against time before the knowledge of how they were once used, and where they belong, is gone forever.

The US top military chief General Mark Milley warned the conflict could spread “and you risk a whole series of negative consequences if the fighting continues”.

The family of Govind Kant, who flew to India last month for his mother’s funeral, say he was desperately trying to get back to Australia in the weeks before his death.

Only three years ago, the national cricket team was accused of a “culture of arrogance” but now it’s flown into another public relations storm.

Gregory Douglas, 68, is accused of sexual and indecent assaults against the six women between 2014 and 2019.

Sam Walker cannot wait to take on the Brisbane Broncos for the first time since they let him slip through their fingers to join the Sydney Roosters.

There were no short-seller sirens wailing when Nuix shares bolted from the blocks at its debut and no bold headlined reports explaining investor danger.

Queensland’s Police Commissioner has defended how her officers dealt with an alleged domestic violence incident in Wooloowin on the weekend.

Ruckman Tim English has missed the past three games after suffering a concussion in the Bulldogs’ win over the Giants on Friday April 23, some 25 days ago.

New rules are expected to recommend or require that N95 masks, goggles, gowns and gloves be used in interactions with COVID-19 patients, rather than just a surgical mask and eyewear.

Following the release of a heartbreaking report into Aishwarya’s death this week, Mark Olson said one nurse who had worked in the emergency department the day Aishwarya died had been told to take unpaid leave, while others had been moved out of the...

Kateryna’s son doesn’t recognise his grandmother. She had cared for him for a year but left Australia just before the pandemic. Now a bureaucratic definition is keeping them apart.

We should all be moving towards prosperity for everyone, and business remains at the heart of that and as the key driver.

Flaky television reception has seen my family switch from recording broadcasts to streaming catch-up, and we’re not in a rush to switch back.

A man and woman have been charged with murder following the horrific death of long-time personal trainer and volunteer firefighter Mark Carson on the Fraser Coast.

Jesse Williams, who grew up on Brisbane’s southside, has teamed up with Queensland police.

Queensland Police are already working with 30 men after a report from the corruption watchdog found they were discriminated against due to a 50 per cent gender policy.

The Duke implied in a podcast he had been failed not only by his father, but also by the Queen and Prince Philip through association.

Should the world meet the Paris target of keeping warming as close to 1.5 degrees as possible, renewable energy uptake would continue to surge so quickly that vast swathes of Australia’s energy infrastructure would be rendered obsolete in the immed...

Pride March is a defiant display of the parts of the community that aren’t waxed buff dudes and perfectly quaffed drag queens.

A new climate change roadmap calls on advanced economies to phase out dirty coal-fired power plants by 2030 - a decade ahead of developing nations.

WA Health Minister Roger Cook has been accused of political game-playing in trying to rebrand a system change he first suggested years ago after Malakei Paraone’s death but never finalised.