ABC managing director David Anderson has told a Senate estimates hearing the content deals will allow the broadcaster to make “new and significant investments in regional services”.

COVID-19 cases visited the MCG and RMIT while infectious as the list of exposure sites grows to include a country pub and hair salon.

The boss of the nation’s largest private hospital operator says “the planets have aligned” on an acquisition target that it has watched for 10 years.

The NSW Premier has promoted two MPs to her frontbench, including one female, filling vacancies created after two of her ministers were forced to quit amid scandals.

A federal Labor MP who criticised the party’s calls for Harvey Norman to repay $22 million in JobKeeper subsidies during a party meeting is the wife of a franchisee in the company.

China offered the island the German-made shots to fight its outbreak via a Chinese company as more than 600 new cases were recorded overnight.

Sunnyfield Disability Services chief executive Caroline Cuddihy told the commission the termination attempt was not made because of any fault of the client.

NSW Farmers says the state government needs to offer immediate assistance to plague-affected communities.

From May 2017 to March 2020, Gavin Fineff took funds from 12 people meant for shares holdings and diverted them to his own bank account, court documents allege.

The Waratahs have conceded an average of 40 points a game in 2021 and are clinging on to hope of a miracle win over New Zealand’s most feared outfit on Saturday.

The AFL and Department of Health have confirmed that a person with COVID-19 attended the Sunday twilight match between Essendon and North Melbourne at Marvel Stadium.

A contested Senate report has called for the Prime Minister to apologise to ex-Australia Post boss Christine Holgate over the Cartier watches saga.

A talented three-year-old returning for his first run as a gelding is set to steal the show at Thursday’s feature Gosford meeting.

Plenty of interest on offer at a seven-race card for the Central Coast meeting.

The imprisoned Australian pro-democracy writer will face court in Beijing on Thursday.

“Sometimes I don’t even realise I’m doing it until I’ve gone too far and parts of my fingers are raw or bleeding,” says one woman, amid a rise in the behaviour during the pandemic.

A post-mortem examination has been completed of the remains of missing Dover Heights fraudster Melissa Caddick, a Federal Court hearing has heard.

It remains unclear how effectively antibodies from the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines will neutralise the coronavirus variant known as B.1.617.1. But in a hopeful sign, both are effective against a closely related variant.

Crown Resorts wanted to limit a forensic audit of its bank accounts for evidence of money laundering to from seven to just three years.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground has been listed as an exposure site as part of Melbourne’s COVID-19 outbreak, NSW Opposition Leader Jodi McKay insists she won’t stand down and more than half of adults in the US are now vaccinated.

Two-time premiership winning Tigers forward Tom Lynch is set to have knee surgery and will be sidelined for the “medium term”.

Australia’s chef de mission Ian Chesterman said there had been a surge in vaccinations in recent weeks and that the vast majority of athletes would be vaccinated before they arrived in Tokyo.

Heavy rain and a high tide lashed parts of India’s eastern coast as a cyclone pushed ashore in a region already struck by a devastating coronavirus surge.

The Australian Taxation Office is warning the nation’s 4.2 million small businesses to expect more policing of tax returns this year following a reprieve at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Hawks could swoop on a Sam Mitchell protege after he nominated a four-year term in the mid-season draft, while Carlton favourite son Kade Simpson has opted against attempting to continue his career.

Canberra, Adelaide and Perth have all put their hands up to host in the event the match needs to be relocated as Victorian officials continue to debate restrictions. 

Brisbane’s lord mayor says the first work to reshape Brisbane’s Victoria Park would see the bunkers on the 45-hectare golf course filled in.

Convicted fraudster Samantha Azzopardi says she wants to stay with a relative in NSW after release from jail but has refused to reveal an address or other contact details.

The executive now responsible for the highly anticipated CHESS replacement system says it would take a major crisis for it to miss its 2023 deadline

A light plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Collaroy Beach after an engine failure.

A smoke haze hanging over Brisbane’s CBD on Wednesday evening was the result of two planned burns in the region. 

The QRL announced on Wednesday it would approve Folau’s bid to return to grassroots rugby league on the proviso he obtains a release from Catalans Dragons.

This latest cluster is a crucial reminder that the freedoms we have in Victoria and in Australia are built on precarious foundations and can change quickly.

A young couple spent 13 hours trapped in an ocean cave, waist-deep in freezing cold water and repeatedly smashed into rocks, only to be found by rescuers because of a social media post in the moments before a freak wave crashed onto them on a cliff.

The Victorian royal commission doesn’t paint a picture of true reformation at Crown, rather a company that has undertaken a paint job to avoid regulators looking too hard at its structural and cultural bones.

The trove will be auctioned as part of what Sotheby’s is billing as the sale of a legendary “lost library” of British literature treasures.

Rugby Australia is keeping the door open for a domestic competition next year but the chief executive of New Zealand’s most successful team wants a fully-fledged trans-Tasman tournament.

As lines blur between living and working, the head of the Productivity Commission says planning laws need to keep up, but he warns of more “cleansing” effects of the recession.

Barrett faced trial in the NSW Supreme Court accused of attempting to blackmail the masterminds of the Plutus Payroll tax fraud syndicate.

Government sources confirm a lockdown is one option being discussed after the Melbourne cluster grew to 15 cases and the number of exposure sites ballooned to more than 50, including some in regional areas.

Brendan McCartney says the Bulldogs are playing smarter footy than in their premiership year, and the Demons have fixed their missing link. Bring on Friday night.

Trevor Gillmeister was one of the most fearsome defenders in his day. And he says the NRL must provide more incentive for low tackles if they persist with the high contact crackdown.

Jermell Charlo, the man Tim Tszyu most wants to fight, has ridiculed the chances of the two ever stepping into the ring. But Tszyu has other ideas.

The new Sydney-filmed comedy The Unusual Suspects is part Desperate Housewives, part Ocean’s Eight, but somehow better than both of them.

As lead actress Laura Donnelly explains, it’s best to not believe everything that’s been said of this fantasy-cum-sci-fi series.

Victoria Wharfe McIntyre’s ambitious debut feature, The Flood, makes much of the abuses Australian governments have inflicted on First Nations people.

The eroticisation of violence against women has serious real-world consequences.

Sofia Sapega was detained by Minsk “in connection with the suspicion of having committed...offences”.

NSW residents have been encouraged to reconsider travel to Melbourne after the city’s coronavirus cluster grew to 15 cases on Wednesday.

State records six new local COVID-19 cases as exposure sites listed in Bendigo, Axedale; restrictions reintroduced