Flamboyant Australian businessman Geoffrey Edelsten has been found dead in his Melbourne home.

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Hundreds of students from Bondi Beach Public School will be accommodated at Bellevue Hill Public School after fire caused extensive damage to one of its buildings.

She was eventually cut free by the man who allegedly left her there, who then made her walk on a dirt track for about 1.5 kilometres.

A man’s body has been found after a home was destroyed by fire west of Brisbane. 

Hornsby mayor and Liberal Party elder Philip Ruddock has apologised to a woman after telling her to “get back on your leash” during a council discussion about dog walking.

Emergency services are telling people in the Traralgon Creek to evacuate before nightfall after the body of a second person was found in floodwaters.

The week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial review photographers.

As the city reopened on Friday with the easing of restrictions, Pellegrini’s Espresso Bar owner David Malaspina said one more lockdown could ruin his business. “They’re killing us.”

A child was swimming about 75 metres offshore at Five Fingers Reef when he was attacked by a bronze whaler.

As the state emerges from another lockdown, questions are being asked about whether we can avoid another while still fighting the virus.

NSW appears to have embraced a whole-of-government decarbonisation strategy in keeping with global best practice, says a leading Australian energy expert.

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Sisters Bronte and Cate Campbell, 26 and 28, will swim against each other in this week’s Australian Swimming Trials. The pair may have forged a deep bond in the water but, out of the pool, they insist on running their own races.

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Convicted paedophile and former Christian Brother pleads guilty to abusing 19 children in the 1970s and 1980s, bringing to 50 his total number of confirmed victims.

Victorian prosecutors have lost their bid to have the man who murdered international student Aiia Maasarwe kept in prison for the rest of his life.

More than 900 coronavirus tests were completed at clinics at Moree on Thursday, where the couple stayed overnight and visited a number of venues.

Schools, retail outlets, cafes and restaurants across Melbourne reopen today. But home gatherings are still banned and masks remain mandatory. Follow our free, live coronavirus coverage.

Traralgon residents near the swollen Traralgon Creek are on edge again as they brace for another flood, with evacuation notices issued for the area on Friday afternoon.

Victoria Police has lost a protracted court battle against an officer who was sacked over allegations he exposed himself to a beauty therapist as she waxed his “speedo line”.

Andrew Derbidge woke on New Year’s Day with a stabbing feeling in his eye. Five months later he is still feeling the after-effects of one of Australia’s fastest-growing diseases, shingles.

Hugo Jacobs was charged in connection with an investigation into a criminal syndicate suspected of being involved in supplying prohibited drugs across NSW.

Under the dusty red soil of outback Queensland, experts believe an ancient superpredator could be lying in wait.

Victoria’s Chief Health Officer has warned the state to expect more COVID-19 cases to emerge next week, with contract tracers still searching for answers to where and how a Reservoir family caught the virus.

Lars, Vivian, Jessica and Annabelle Falkholt died after a collision on the NSW South Coast on Boxing Day, 2017.

Andy Robertson’s comments come as concerns mount over the use of the Astra Zeneca vaccine following a second death being linked to the jab.

A jury has been discharged after acquitting Lily Ridgeway of murder but being unable to reach a verdict on the lesser charge.

Bye corona: The zero cases tally is likely be fleeting, with 140 infections detected in Perth’s quarantine hotels this year.

Folau hopes to make a rugby league comeback and play with his brothers for the Clive Palmer-backed Southport Tigers.

The social psychologist and researcher discusses changing approaches to sex, why he doesn’t fear death, and his hope that Australia will become a loving country rather than simply a lucky one.

Technical achievements apart, her students knew her as a teacher who missed nothing.

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Today on Please Explain, legal affairs reporter Michaela Whitbourn joins Nathanael Cooper as the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case reaches the end of its first week.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she plans to go to Tokyo to make the final bid to secure the Olympics as long as there isn’t a local virus outbreak.

Residents in Victoria’s east have been told to evacuate as floodwaters rise, Ben Roberts-Smith’s trial concludes its first week, and Scott Morrison’s arrival at the Cornwall meeting of world leaders has been disrupted.

Record numbers of new home builds has forced some builders to increase the cost of their services after contracts have already been signed.

The former special forces soldier told the Federal Court that receiving Australia’s highest military honour for the battle of Tizak “also brought me a lot of misfortune and pain”.

Queensland’s health minister has issued a scathing warning to Melburnians trying to enter the state after five Victorians were found entering the sunshine state recently without an exemption.

When asked whether the couple were essential workers and if that might have explained their travel, Chief Health Officer said that would “be part of the investigation”.

Chronic undersupply and building regulations make property prices prohibitive for young Australians, and yet the evidence shows we can build more densely without compromising neighbourhoods.

Mr Dawson, who is accused of murdering his wife, Lynette, was refused a permanent stay in the Supreme Court last year. On Friday, the Court of Criminal Appeal upheld this decision.

After being embraced as a bro’ by Donald Trump, Scott Morrison will use the G7 to seek to forge a strong personal connection with the US President.

The relatives of people who have gone missing are being asked to provide DNA samples to help locate missing family members.

A Gold Coast man who shot his wife in the head in a shopping centre car park while their children were in the car has been denied an extension of time to appeal his conviction.

A peer-reviewed study on the incubator, published in Fertility and Sterility, found the Geri incubator increased the chance of live birth by 12.2 per cent.

Freshly dug truffle, “shy, like a gazelle” – when it comes to wine talk, where does the analysis end and the poetry begin?

A thick layer of fog flowed into the city from the western suburbs.

The women claim their stillborn babies were cremated at the King Edward Memorial Hospital-based pathology unit without their knowledge, robbing them of their chance to say their final goodbyes.

‘It’s like a used car salesman selling you a car they know isn’t going to run... except there’s heaps of added trauma in the long term.’