About 3am on Tuesday, police attended a home at Jersey Road at Bringelly, following reports a man had been abducted.

A woman who stabbed five men, killing one, in a crazed incident in Brisbane’s west where she told them “we’re all going to die tonight” before the attack, has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.

The four-year-old girl was pulled from the water and taken to John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle where she died.

The Saints will head north to face the Swans on Saturday, but whether the match is held at the SCG or in Cairns remained a point of conjecture as of Tuesday night.

Victoria has recorded another three local cases of coronavirus overnight and two in hotel quarantine. The state’s COVID-19 commander says transmission is occurring between people who may have, for example, only brushed past each other in a shop.

The strain of coronavirus that has sent Victoria into lockdown has been spreading in the community with only fleeting contact.

Natasha Darcy is on trial in the NSW Supreme Court accused of murdering her partner Mathew Dunbar in August 2017.

The disability sector has slammed the slow rollout of COVID-19 jabs, as Health Department officials revealed only about 355 out of more than 22,000 people living in disability accommodation have been fully vaccinated.

Australia’s telcos and TV networks are on a collision course over a government proposal to make the radio-frequency spectrum used for TV services available for 5G.

Superintendent Michelle Stenner is on trial in Brisbane charged with three counts of perjury. She has pleaded not guilty.

Genomic sequencing has found a positive case from May 23 and a second man on May 31 were linked.

Speaker Michelle Roberts says she has a different interpretation of the rules in the lower house which had previously been used to stop members from breastfeeding.

Harten took a screenshot of the message and uploaded it to her social media. 

Only about eight per cent of the NSW aged care workforce have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, with 10,348 having received both doses of the vaccine and 12,346 workers receiving a first dose.

Melbourne authorities are grappling with 4000 close contacts and more than 300 COVID-19 exposure sites, Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the French Open and there are renewed calls for a public inquiry after Christian Porter discontinued his defamation...

Trainer Wayne Seelin concedes an unscheduled seven-week break between runs will leave Invincible Kiss a shade vulnerable as she chases a hat-trick at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

Everything you need to know to find a winner at the midweek Sydney meeting.

Where does Mare of Easttown rate for an actor who has won an Oscar and been nominated six other times?

While stressing the positives that will come with Naomi Osaka’s decision to outline her mental health battles, Jelena Dokic says a media ban at one of the sport’s slams was bad timing.

Australian men are being presented with a “new” way of dressing for summer that reinvents the idea of surfwear - but will they get on board?

Lawyers are fighting a Victorian government move to dismiss two class actions brought on behalf of retrenched workers and business owners affected by the second-wave lockdown.

In an often heated estimates hearing, Aged Care Services Minister Richard Colbeck could not say if the government was responsible for the vaccine rollout in aged care.

Australian Fashion Week is back with runways from some of the country's top brands. We've rounded up our 10 favourite looks from each day.

Now that we have access to vaccines, priority must be given to the vulnerable aged care sector - residents and workers - to avoid catastrophic loss of life.

Alan Piper, 61, was reported missing from the correctional centre near the Mid-Western Highway about 12pm on Tuesday.

The Grattan Institute says reopening schools should be a key priority for the Victorian government, as schools prepare for remote learning to continue into a second week.

Defence Force boss Angus Campbell says violence will continue between the Taliban and Afghanistan’s security forces but the conflict can’t be resolved by foreign military.

House prices continued to grow throughout May as consumer confidence, low interest rates and low supply affected every property market in the country.

Jo Dyer, who succeeded in ousting Mr Porter’s barrister from his defamation case against the ABC, is contemplating her own defamation case against him.

The National Health Commission did not reveal how the man had been infected with the virus.

Investigators are working to determine the cause of a house fire in Hamilton, after a second home was on the same street in two days.

Leonard Albert Gardiner is now behind bars after a NSW District Court judge found he had committed offences while employed as a maths teacher at The Armidale School in the New England area during the 1960s.

The iconic showpiece AFL event, being played in Perth for the first time, has generated significant excitement in WA and will draw big crowds to the 60,000-seat stadium.

Any tackle that drifts high can see players binned or worse under the NRL crackdown. So where does that leave the Origin hitmen as we approach another series?

ASIC’s attempts to address the more aggressive activist short attacks on Australian listed companies is something of a Hail Mary and not much of a concession to the anti-short lobby.

A private family has outbid pub baron Justin Hemmes and movie star Russell Crowe, paying up to $10 million for the well-known Surry Hills watering hole.

“The fact that the US Deputy Secretary of State is visiting speaks volumes to Cambodia’s degree of discomfort at the position it has found itself in, in relation to China.”

The split over future gas developments in the Northern Territory is a new sign of disunity on climate change and whether Australia should phase out fossil fuel.

House values are climbing at their fastest rate since the late 1980s. Somewhere, this magical roundabout has to stop.

Tony Gustavsson won’t be turning back the clock to rediscover the Matildas’ missing magic at Tokyo, which could mean the end of veteran Lisa De Vanna’s storied career.

Before he published has masterwork Principia in 1687 setting out the laws of gravitation and motion, there were revisions. And lots of notes.

In response to the poor or unsolicited behaviour women face on online dating services, operators are stepping up measures to offer protection. But will it work?

Audiences slowly warmed to new lineups at commercial stations Triple M and 96FM, as talkback leader Radio 6PR continued its merry march of ratings glory in the third Perth radio ratings survey of 2021. 

Letting you read and write on a paper-like screen, the Kobo Elipsa could be an ideal paper replacement for doodlers those who mark up documents.

The corporate watchdog has stopped short of issuing actual recommendations and the advice is likely to be unenforceable against offshore groups.

An “open and honest” conversation with coach Chris Fagan earlier this year helped Mitch Robinson turn his season around.

Two impressive interpretations of contemporary works take centre stage.

Including the workers’ family members, some 3000 more Afghans could settle in the UK under the plan.

Only a few days ago, NSW coach Brad Fittler was contemplating picking Blake Ferguson for State of Origin. Now the Eels winger is fighting to save his career.

Jennifer Keeler-Milne has a deep fascination with the colours and textures of autumn leaves.