The new coronial inquest into the 1973 firebombing that claimed 15 lives at the Brisbane nightclub starts on Monday, despite the recent deaths of two key witnesses.

The Kangaroos chase an upset win over the Giants before rivals Richmond and West Coast face off in WA.

Jack Chen, 60, has been remembered by his hiking group leader as “a good person” after a bushwalk through rugged terrain near Wentworth Falls ended in tragedy.

Greater Western Sydney did not leave Hobart a loser on the scoreboard but their finals hopes were dealt a brutal blow.

Immigration Minister Alex Hawke is close to a final decision on whether to intervene in a long-running court dispute over the family’s claims, with Liberals and Nationals asking him to let them rejoin the community.

Tired of having spent much of the last year cooped up at home, customers are buying high-end items as they emerge from lockdown.

Mitchell Moses walked out on the Tigers and has been walking over his old club ever since as the Eels inched closer to the top of the NRL ladder.

One body was found on Saturday and the second on Sunday afternoon, but officials were yet to determine their identities or how the blaze began.

Naftali Bennett, the head of a small ultranationalist party, will take over as prime minister. But if he wants to keep the job, he will have to maintain an unwieldy coalition of parties from the political right, left and centre.

All you need to know to back a winner at Warwick Farm on Monday.

Converge’s JJ Atkins victory was a proud for Tony and Adrian Bott and it could be the beginning of a tale that might lead to a Hong Kong Derby.

In a survey the Rugby League Players’ Association forbade their members from answering, the Herald polled 100 players from across the NRL to get their responses about a range of topics.

Hawks president Jeff Kennett said on Sunday that the club was waiting to hear back from the state government on how many people they could have at the MCG for the clash with Essendon, as Victoria emerges from a two-week lockdown. 

Under the trial, women seeking the morning-after pill or abortion drug RU486 would be offered counselling by pharmacists about long-term contraceptive options.

Jason Hetherington has delivered a passionate defence of his son, Broncos rookie Kobe, after the NRL was accused of its most inconsistent weekend yet.

I am an intensive care nurse but I have been helping out a friend lately by working in their map shop. It’s been an eye-opening experience.

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Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson will thrash out the final terms over a lavish dinner at Downing Street.

A Brisbane man who has spent years sending letters espousing offensive views about immigration and multiculturalism has been using the electoral roll to obtain recipients’ home addresses. 

Western Australia will be largely free of single-use plastics by the end of next year, a schedule making it a national and global leader in this space.

Hunter Clark will miss most of the rest of the season after undergoing surgery to repair multiple jaw fractures after a hit from Adelaide’s David Mackay on Saturday night.

The heavy sentence comes amid a continuing flurry of incidents and arrests at places like banks and polling places across the US over masks.

Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy says Ryan Papenhuyzen is feeling anxiety over his slow progress back from a head knock, while the Storm’s Cameron Munster is in hot water again. 

WA’s most senior health bureaucrat has written to the federal government passing on the advice from the doctors treating the four-year-old asylum seeker.

With the finale of Scott Ryan’s black comedy series looming, don’t under-estimate what an achievement it is.

Tigsti’s mother walked for 12 days to get her famished newborn to a clinic in Tigray. The UN says this is the world’s worst famine conditions in a decade.

The council funding, announced on Sunday, will see a $16 million sports park built at Nudgee, as well as upgrades to existing facilities across the city.

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

Ed Kuepper opted to hide his nuance and sophistication behind a wall of sound in this collaboration.

What does an Amy Shark fan look like? Some of the most die-hard fans were not who you’d expect to have seen at Qudos Bank Arena.

St Kilda players have taken to Instagram to condemn a racist Twitter post directed at ruckman Paddy Ryder in the wake of the Saints’ loss to Adelaide on Saturday night.

Problems in South Africa represent the latest challenge for the $185 billion miner, as it seeks to ensure safe operations across its sprawling global business.

It took a disqualification and a withdrawal but Mack Horton has made the 200m freestyle final as he fights for a place on the relay and the plane to Tokyo.

Lalakai Foketi, Andrew Kellaway and Michael Wells are the bolters in a 38-man Wallabies squad for next month’s three-Test series against France.

About fifty young people were taken to hospital, and 200 people were treated on the spot, as 20,000 hysterical fans waited outside the Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne to greet the Beatles. Barricades were overrun and fights broke out as 300 policem...

Trainer Gary Portelli will give his promising youngster a chance at a spring campaign if he can knock over older horses at Warwick Farm on Monday.

Stories of race, racism and colonialism in the US swept the Pulitzer Prizes for the arts.

There was one new case of COVID-19 reported in Victoria this morning, with the person already in quarantine during their infectious period.

The Olympic champion said Swimming Australia need to investigate Maddie Groves’ claims thoroughly to ensure women and girls are safe in the sport.

A kids’ show single-handedly inspired my passion for home decorating. But I had to hide it for most of my adult life.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said he could count on police officers “whatever happens,” as the far-right former army captain dubbed the country’s state military police “my army”.

Queensland’s Coordinator-General has allowed soil from the underground Cross River Rail project to be driven through the CBD on Sundays, despite Brisbane City Council’s objections.

Almost 40,000 homes remain without power and emergency services say they still don’t know the full scale of destruction from Wednesday’s wild weather after phone and internet outages left people unable to call for help.

ID cards and other possessions from people long disappeared were found at the junk-filled home, suggesting the trail of killings may go back years.

A £5 coin minted in Melbourne in 1921 and a George V Sovereign minted in Sydney in 1920 sold in a Monaco auction for about $1.5m each.

The Russian leader bristled when a US reporter named specific opponents of Putin’s who have been killed in recent years.

The company’s first flight into space is scheduled for July 20, the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Star Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen fell to the ground, received medical treatment and was carried from the pitch in traumatic scenes. Finland won after the game was later re-started.

Devastated by his side relinquishing a six-goal lead to the Crows, St Kilda coach Brett Ratten concedes it would be an “unbelievable result” should the Saints recover to make the finals this season.

Although derided by outer Melburnians (and those in the city’s west), there is no doubt that the psychological barrier of the Yarra River is alive and well.