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.

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.

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.

Melbourne authorities are grappling with 4000 close contacts and more than 300 COVID-19 exposure sites, Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the French Open and there are renewed calls for a public inquiry after Christian Porter discontinued his defamation...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Rodney Williams has won an appeal against his conviction over the murder of 16-year-old Tiffany Taylor in 2015.

A man who was a suspended ride-share driver when he preyed on and sexually assaulted two vulnerable women in his car has pleaded guilty to rape and other charges.

Brisbane City Council announced the new e-mobility options on Tuesday, along with its strategy for the sector and plans to replace the failed CityCycle scheme.

A crew member on a ship docked in Kwinana has tested positive to COVID-19.

A judge has told a soldier who is to appear as a witness for Ben Roberts-Smith in a defamation trial that he must hand over documents related to his own involvement in a military inquiry into alleged war crimes.

Two workmen have been injured in a fiery crash on the NSW Central Coast.

Christian Porter’s barrister told the Federal Court on Tuesday that the ABC had agreed that redacted parts of the broadcaster’s defence, which have not been released publicly, should be removed from the court file.

Today on Please Explain, National Affairs editor Rob Harris joins Nathanael Cooper from New Zealand where the annual leaders’ conference has just taken place.

Aged care and disability workers will be able to jump the queue to access a COVID-19 jab at all Victorian vaccination centres.

Is it contact tracing? A more virulent virus? Maybe it’s the colder climate? Perhaps Melbourne is too easy to get around? Or is it just bad luck?

At one open home I attended, the games began before we’d even set foot inside.

Half a dozen protesters have been arrested as a taxpayer-funded weapons expo held in Brisbane is disrupted on Tuesday.

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

Scott Bradshaw’s body was found in a Sydney pond last month. Police believe his death was suspicious.

Glenn Anderson said his instincts as a father kicked in when he kept his daughter - who had a broken leg - afloat for four hours after his yacht sank in big swell off the coast of Western Australia.

The search area has expanded on Tuesday with more resources on the ground, including more vessels, drones and a helicopter.

The girl suffered a head injury while trying to cross the road.

Yarra City councillor and Australian Greens member involved in violent altercation outside Melbourne nightclub faces serious assault and theft charges arising from a separate incident.

Plibersek has cut through, which is more than can be said for the blokes who think they can save the party.

The NSW Productivity Commission has said improving teaching, housing and skills are the best way to lift living standards in NSW. It has also recommended allowing nuclear power generation.

A 24-storey tower nearing completion at Redfern’s The Block is among locations being considered as the state’s first quarantine facility for international students when they return to NSW.

Inconsistent messages from the federal government are bedevilling the vaccine rollout, making it more difficult to achieve herd immunity.

David Holman had a warm-hearted and infectious grasp of meaningful storytelling for children.

Scientists have identified a key way previous studies of stonefish venom were flawed, opening the door to better treatment for people suffering agonising stings.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz and target.

Former federal Labor MP and senator Belinda Neal is turning her attentions to international human rights violators. “President Xi Jinping, don’t you know who I am?“.

Victoria Police are appealing for witnesses after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed on Monday night.

Better make that a million.

Healthcare Australia, which is already contracted to the New South Wales and Victorian governments, recruits and trains medical staff specifically to manage and treat people in hotels.

As the federal government seeks fresh advice on whether to mandate the vaccination of all private nursing home staff, Victoria has toughened its stance on public sector aged care workers.

Brisbane Airport is going to shift towards a single terminal that deals with both domestic and international flights to maximise use of its new parallel runway.

Labor and the Greens have stepped up calls for a public inquiry into Christian Porter’s fitness to remain in office after the federal Liberal minister discontinued his defamation proceedings against the ABC.