The move to formally enter a guilty plea paves the way for the former spy to be sentenced within weeks.

It’s the final night of what’s been an enthralling week in South Australia and the action doesn’t stop with Cody Simpson in the 100m butterfly final and the Campbell sisters tackling the 50m freestyle.

Epidemiologists have stressed the importance of vaccinating everyone connected to the hotel quarantine system against COVID-19 after a driver transmitted the virus to at least two people.

Health experts say getting a second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe, but doctors say patients are cancelling their appointments following changing health advice.

NSW has recorded its first two local cases in 40 days, Melburnians are waking up to their last day of their fourth lockdown and Ben Roberts-Smith is due to be cross-examined in court today.

Online banking services have resumed after an hour-long outage hit most major lenders and disrupted other websites, including the RBA and Virgin Australia.

All the ins and outs for round 14 of the 2021 AFL premiership season, and how the experts tipped.

With experts guiding the way, this five-week plan will kickstart your running journey or if you’re already running, take it a step further.

Crime statistics released on Thursday also showed overall crime down but a record number of reported family violence-related incidents.

Barrister Nicholas Owens, SC, is recognised as being among the most skilled in his field, a gentleman interrogator and expert in the parsing of truth and lies. Former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has been trained in resistance to interrogation. And ...

The push for an extraordinary general meeting at Collingwood is set to proceed despite the movement’s frontman walking away from the bid.

St Kilda’s players have begun to look internally at how their effort is costing them games, with the club’s head of football David Rath telling members that fitness is not to blame for their 5-8 record so far this season.

The high-flying Panthers could play their final season at their traditional home ground next year, with construction on a new stadium earmarked to begin in December 2022.

Strong jobs figures suggest the economy is performing better than expected and could force the RBA to lift interest rates much earlier than expected.

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

Joel Selwood is in the same category of great leaders as Stephen Kernahan, Michael Voss and Paul Kelly. If he can add another premiership to his collection – this time as skipper – that will elevate him into a league of his own.

Wicklow and No Compromise will put spring credentials on show at Rosehill on Saturday.

Brad Fittler is a huge fan of Angus Crichton who will watch up to seven Origin hopefuls from the warmth of a TV commentary box on Friday night.

James McDonald returns to Sydney on Saturday after earning a holiday with a mid-week blitz in the past couple of months.

With renewed focus on PM Scott Morrison’s friendship with QAnon follower Tim Stewart this week, readers shared how they managed such relationships in fraught times.

Prominent senior officer Stuart Bateson has taken to the witness box to accuse Victoria Police’s sexual misconduct taskforce of wrongly targeting a female officer.

Sydney is setting itself up for major challenges in housing supply unless more apartments are built, with NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes saying he is concerned that the rate of construction will not keep up with new migrants expected to arrive.

Bribie Island finally gets its own satellite hospital at Bongaree, after retirees raised concerns during the October 2020 state election.

The English striker’s decision to pick Blackburn over Manchester United in 2003 set off a chain of events that led him to Macarthur FC, and put him on the cusp of an unlikely A-League title.

The Essendon midfielder has signed a new six-year deal worth more than $800,000 per season.

The Commonwealth has disputed the state’s claims, while the Victorian government has maintained it cannot keep up with the rate of demand at the current level of supply. So what is really going on? 

An overhaul of the $3.2 trillion superannuation system will begin in a fortnight after a messy passage through the Senate.

Ten has positioned itself as the safest place for advertisers wishing to avoid the storm of social media backlash.

Countries that did nothing about travel early on made the pandemic impossible to stop, former NZ PM and the investigation into the virus said.

Rose Byrne dons a leotard to play a tortured woman on a quest for self discovery in Physical, a new streaming comedy.

Australia’s top miner BHP expects to make a call on the go-ahead for a giant new mine in Canada within months as it confronts simmering concerns.

The government will soon decide the fate of the Archives’ disintegrating records, but one filmmaker suggests its audiovisual records would be better off elsewhere.

Samed Eriklioglu was confused and naive, and his brother Ertunc “didn’t have the bottle” to carry out a terror attack, their lawyers said in the County Court.

The former special forces soldier has denied he was involved in the unlawful killing of an Afghan man in Darwan in 2012.

Executive director Patrick McIntyre said 2021 had started positively for STC, with seven new productions opening to critical acclaim and strong box office demand.

Former federal Labor MP Emma Husar is expected to give a damning account of the ALP’s handling of criminal allegations she made about a former staffer to an inquiry.

Budgeted at $16.8 billion by the NSW government, the additional costs suggest the true price of WestConnex would be close to $21 billion.

Advice recommending 50 to 59-year-olds get the Pfizer vaccine instead of the AstraZeneca jab has prompted changes to WA’s rollout.

A nurse who contracted COVID-19 after working with coronavirus patients at one hospital, then worked at another hospital while infectious, has potentially exposed other healthcare workers to the virus.

Bombers defender Aaron Francis has been granted personal leave to return to South Australia for a week, meaning he will miss Sunday’s match against Hawthorn

Melburnians will be able to go outside without masks from 11.59pm tonight, have two guests in their home and say goodbye to the 25-kilometre travel limit.

David Mackay was sent straight to the tribunal for his collision with St Kilda’s Hunter Clark last Saturday. Follow for live updates from the hearing.

Beijing’s new Tiangong space station is the latest step in its dream to become a powerful space nation.

Count De Rupee and Verbek will look to finish their campaigns as winners before Luke Price looks to a stakes future with both of them in spring.

Fifty years ago the world’s first green ban took place, and people knew they had the power to say “stop”. Has the multimillion-dollar sale of an apartment in the Sirius building shown us we have lost that power?

My Zoe and Little Joe join a long list of films in which science slips its ethical leash.

Apple Daily’s reporters live-streamed police storming their office for the second time in 12 months on the second anniversary of the city’s biggest protests.

The Atlanta Hawks have rallied from a 26-point, second-half deficit to stun Ben Simmons and the 76ers 109-106 in Philadelphia and take a 3-2 series lead in the eastern conference semi-finals.

The supermarket operator has little choice other than spending big on technology or risk being left on the shelf past its use-by date.

Samu Kerevi thought he had played his last game in an Australian jersey at the 2019 World Cup. Later this month, he will have three days to prove he deserves a ticket to the Tokyo Olympics.