Ambulance Victoria data shows about one quarter of all overdoses in the CBD happened within 250 metres of the intersection of Flinders and Elizabeth streets.

The opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman writes the stakes are too high to get the China relationship wrong.

Israeli attacks have damaged at least 18 hospitals and clinics and destroyed one health facility, the World Health Organisation said. Nearly half of all essential drugs have run out.

Mark Sanguinetti, 59, from Bilgola Plateau was killed by a shark Tuncurry beach on Tuesday.

The construction company’s collapse leaves high-profile projects across the state and country in limbo, and subcontractors owed tens of thousands of dollars.

Webjet’s boss John Guscic says clear frameworks governing when international borders open and close will be essential to give the public confidence to make travel plans. 

A widow accused of killing Walcha grazier Mathew Dunbar offered a high school friend $20,000 to make a false statement in the lead up to her murder trial in a plan that was inspired by an episode of 1990s sitcom Frasier, a court has heard.

Pauline Hanson said the government’s plans to roll back responsible lending laws would leave Australians vulnerable to predatory banks.

The world’s top energy chief says Australia has an obligation to reach net zero emissions earlier than 2050, the Israel-Palestine death toll is rising amid calls for a ceasefire, and an 18-year-old Brisbane nurse has developed blood clots after rec...

The global payments provider has seen more than $800 million wiped off its value after the Irish financial regulator raised concerns about its European operations.

‘We cannot afford to fiddle while Rome burns’: alarm sounded over doctor shortages after spate of patient deaths as relatives and staff speak out at inquiry.

Have two-year-olds ever beaten the older horses in three races at the one meeting?

Everything you need to now to find a winner on the eight-race program.

NRL players go through a range of emotions when their coaches are sacked. But for the Sharks forward, he’s taken it more personal than most because the victim was his own family.

The senior NSW bureaucrat who oversaw the controversial $250 million government fund at the centre of a pork barrelling inquiry has left his job.

The Victoria Cross recipient is suing The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald for defamation over a series of stories published in 2018.

The developments threaten to wedge sponsors of the Olympics teams and the Australian government as the Brisbane Games bid hangs in the balance.

Investments worth trillions of dollars to help protect people and assets in a warming world could be wasted without more powerful computer models to predict exposure to climate change.

Cameron Bancroft tramples through the china shop of Australia’s sensitivities about sandpapergate and the events in South Africa in 2018.

Collingwood sought legal advice to clarify whether new director Dr Bridie O’Donnell was eligible to sit on the Magpies’ board without voting rights, given she has not been a member for long enough to satisfy the club’s constitution.

Labor’s foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong says Prime Minister Scott Morrison has deliberately stoked fears of a conflict with China.

A magistrate rejected Bada Bing cafe owner Nathan Sharp’s explanation for the incident, and deemed him an uncredible witness. 

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Sydney-headquartered Halifax Investments was one of the biggest independent brokers of shares before its November 2018 collapse.

After securing $60 million from the state government for a restoration project, the library’s president went out on a high with a bash at the restored Ian Potter Queen’s Hall.

Australia’s power industry has hit out at the Morrison government’s plan for a taxpayer-funded gas-fired generator as unnecessary market intervention.

Case against former TV contestant accused of sexually touching a teenage girl is to proceed on one charge of common assault rather than the original three counts of sexual assault.

A slight lift in wages growth early this year still leaves annual growth at modest levels even as signs emerge of a tightening jobs market.

Hours before Lily Ridgeway stabbed him in the heart, Jason Adams was kicked out of the home of her friend after persistent unwanted advances, a court has been told.

Mohinder Singh, who killed four police officers on the Eastern Freeway, “didn’t seem right to be operating anything, let alone a truck” in the lead-up to the tragedy, Melbourne Magistrates Court heard.

Collingwood forward Mason Cox was taken to hospital as a precaution on Wednesday after getting hit in the throat at training.

One of Australia’s most respected infectious disease experts says other than harsh and prolonged lockdowns, a highly vaccinated population is the only way to prevent a third wave of coronavirus.

Sunil Khanna, 51, formerly from Sydney’s west, had been living in New Delhi before his death where he cared for his elderly parents who are not Australian citizens.

The wickedly funny We Are Lady Parts reminds us of the diversity of Muslim communities, and of the universality of many experiences and frustrations.

Mutant lab: Australia’s new defence against COVID variants

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.

Mobile phones in schools, consent education and behaviour management were some of the topics students want NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell to consider.

This investment is not needed to maintain reliable electricity in NSW. And it will not lower prices.

A parliamentary inquiry will investigate how to regulate cryptocurrency assets such as bitcoin, as part of a push to strengthen the local fintech sector.

Jamil Hopoate, who is an off-contract NRL player, was charged with large-scale commercial drug supply as part of an investigation into the alleged importation of cocaine with a street value of $154.2 million.

Labor shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers says the opposition could give low and middle earners a permanent tax cut but is grappling with the future of high-income tax cuts.

Four Mongols bikies and an associate of the gang have been arrested by police on the Gold Coast.

Melbourne council staff voted on Wednesday to take industrial action over a long-running pay dispute but parking fines and rates will still be collected.

Cardinal George Pell says strip-searches were the worst part of his time in jail, while he sensed “a whiff of evil” at work during his trials.

There are clear parallels between this overlooked Canadian production and the fondly remembered Gilmore Girls.

This government’s lack of concern for integrity is reflected in the “0” appearing in the allocation for its proposed integrity commission.

Lord Alan Sugar, host of the UK version of The Apprentice for the past 14 years, has been drafted in to revive the Australian version after a six-year lay-off.

The beloved comedienne seemed an unlikely choice to host the revived quiz-cum-game show The Weakest Link, but she’s up to the task to making you feel bad.

Filmed in Northern Ireland, the four-part, James Nesbitt-starring cop thriller is the first drama from Mercurio’s recently formed production company.

The process to pay out retrospective prizemoney to the connections of hundreds of horses beaten by Aquanita’s 72 disqualified runners can officially begin.