There will be only five reasons for Victorians to leave their homes during this snap lockdown. Everyone in the state over 40 will also be eligible for vaccination.

Thursday night AFL teams: How the experts tipped for round 10, and all the ins and outs as they drop across the weekend.

COVID-19 testing clinics are struggling to cope with a surge in patients across Perth.

The hospitality, events and retail sectors were frantically responding to the new rules on Thursday and preparing for the first lockdown without JobKeeper for any business.

An investigation by WA’s top corruption and crime watchdog found Senior Constable Valleenkanthan had used excessive force when restraining the man.

Victoria is plunged into a seven-day lockdown, NSW Premier warns Melburnians not to exploit her state’s good will, and eight students celebrate a partial win in a landmark case brought against the Environment Minister.

It’s unclear how many times a user’s posts have to be flagged before the company starts limiting their reach.

Marcus Bontempelli is the best player in the AFL right now, and has the chance to impact the competition in a way Teddy Whitten would have loved: by sticking it right up ’em.

The eviction notice against a disabled woman is also yet to be withdrawn three years after it was issued, Sunnyfield’s chief executive conceded.

With Anne Hathaway, Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman on board, Amazon’s new sci-fi series goes for maximum star wattage.

Angela Goh explores the boundaries of movement in this stripped-down solo dance work.

A bumper nine-race card in the state’s north wraps up the work week for Racing NSW.

Many readers dismissed Dutton’s directive “petty”, while others said such events were a distraction from Defence’s mission to protect national security.

Well over a million Australians live with the debilitating but ‘very treatable’ condition, which often sends sufferers down a vortex of worry.

Despite a two-way consular pact, Graham Fletcher has been denied access to hear the case of the Australian citizen charged with espionage.

An advisor to Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended a meeting about sacking the staffer who allegedly raped Brittany Higgins, more than a week after she made the accusation.

Victoria’s return to remote learning is overkill given the level of community transmission of the virus, an expert in child mental health argues.

There are currently 26 active COVID-19 cases in Melbourne that were locally acquired. This map shows which postcodes currently have at least one active case.

AMP’s bank and wealth business is headed for a restructure that will shrink its workforce by around 20 per cent over the next year, saving $300 million.

It has laughter, it has tears. It wheels out more surprise appearances than a rerun of This Is Your Life. So, did it live up to the expectations?

Channel Ten and Australian Professional Leagues could be set for a stoush with Football Australia, who control the calendar, over the start date for new A-League season.

Mark Follington arrested Anya Bradford at Liverpool in Sydney’s south-west in May 2019. A magistrate found the officer’s account of the incident was ‘implausible and flimsy’.

The former foreign minister has also suggested Australia could be forced to choose between its largest trading partner, China, and its primary security partner, the US.

Brisbane-based Tritium is on its way to the Nasdaq as it became the first Australian company to reach a deal with a so-called ‘blank cheque’ investment firm.

A series of short term lockdowns to deal with COVID outbreaks shows they have yet to cause lasting economic damage despite immediate pain.

Many Melburnians are seeking refuge from the latest restriction by heading to regional Victoria or bringing forward interstate holiday plans, as those from interstate rush to beat new border rules.

A Gold Coast factory has been gutted by fire on Thursday afternoon, as multiple firefighters responded to calls of an explosion.

The mass redundancies are the latest step in new icare chief executive Richard Harding’s attempt to “reset the organisation” after revelations of mismanagement and widespread underpayment of injured and dying workers.

Federal Court Justice Tom Thawley said there was a risk of misuse of confidential information in ordering that Sue Chrysanthou SC be restrained from acting for the federal Liberal minister.

Two Sydney men have faced court after police allegedly seized five kilograms of cocaine posted into the country.

It is hard to imagine a worse time and place to put an injecting room in the centre of Melbourne.

The crash occurred about 4.10pm on Thursday at the junction of Gillingham and O’Keefe streets in Woolloongabba.

A public servant who allegedly rigged government contracts in return for lavish kickbacks has told a corruption inquiry that he had to use a gun safe to store more than $1 million cash.

The lockdown has closed Melbourne’s huge new winter arts festival, but its directors vow we will see the work that was to have been staged over the next week.

A surge of calls to make appointments for vaccinations caused the state’s coronavirus hotline to temporarily crash.

The AFL is set to push on with the AFLW sign and trade period, due to start on Monday, despite Victoria’s seven-day lockdown.

John Thompson believe he has a stakes mare in More Prophets but he is prepared to wait until the spring.

In this ever-changin’ world in which we’re livin’, as Paul McCartney sang, it’s reassuring that some things remain the same. One of those fixed points is the annual Archibald Prize for portraiture.

The first repatriation flight from India to Melbourne has touched down early, several hours before the Victorian government’s seven-day snap lockdown begins.

A million Australian children will be hospitalised at least once in their life for heat stress and the Great Barrier Reef will die along with the east coast’s eucalyptus forests should climate change not be halted, a federal court judge has said in...

The Queensland Rugby League was prepared to register Israel Folau with two caveats, but that won’t be enough to placate the controversial star’s legal team.

About one third of the intelligence community is leaning towards the idea COVID-19 escaped from a Wuhan lab

The latest Rockhampton rocket to come to Sydney was inspired by the deeds of his predecessor and is looking to match them.

Although Tipping Point has only won an Orange maiden, Will Freedman believes he could prove himself to be a Country Championships horse at Randwick on Saturday.

She said in the lawsuit it wasn’t racism that led her to call police but fear.

The events that rocked three of the world’s largest oil and gas companies this week demonstrate the acceleration of the environmental push.

COVID-19 has stopped Richard Daschbach from attending, but not the judges and legal teams.

After paying Jack de Belin more than a million dollars not to play for them, St George Illawarra have called for the NRL’s ‘no fault’ stand-down policy to be reviewed.

More than 20 years since the band’s breakthrough debut album, the band – now a duo – can still pull a dance-floor crowd.

A Melbourne player has told the club he visited a tier one exposure site, leading to all Demons players and football staff getting COVID-19 tests.