The Water Minister’s office has intervened in a stink over a plan to put an odour control unit in the middle of a much-loved Sydney bushwalking track.

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

The Sydney Eastern City Planning Panel on Friday unanimously decided that a planning proposal from Meriton lacked merit and had “unmitigated significant impacts on transport and amenity”.

Mandatory COVID tests may be putting skiers off, some operators fear, as the Victorian season opens after a quiet Queens Birthday weekend.

Ju Zhang, also known as Kelly, was last seen at her home in Epping on the evening of February 1. 

Parts of the destroyed electricity network will be rebuilt underground in the Dandenongs.

Whether it’s a legal marathon or the running kind, we have you covered.

The 49-year-old Moreton Bay man died at the scene while two other workers were taken to hospital with injuries.

A former spy known as Witness K has been handed a three-month suspended sentence for conspiring to reveal classified information about an alleged Australian operation to bug East Timor’s cabinet rooms during sensitive oil and gas treaty negotiation...

Masks are now compulsory on Greater Sydney’s public transport after one new case acquired the virus through “fleeting contact”, Melburnians are waking up to eased coronavirus restrictions and health authorities are encouraging people who have h...

There was one new case in NSW on Friday, a man who attended Bondi Junction Myer at the same time as a man who tested positive earlier this week.

Victoria Police Commander Stuart Bateson denies he ever warned a junior female officer about an anti-corruption commission investigation.

The Victorian government is set to ask the Commonwealth to send more Australian Defence Force members to assist with clearing roads and doorknocking after a deadly storm lashed the state last week.

The former special air services soldier told his defamation trial on Friday that he had made a mistake in his evidence, prompting the barrister for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald to ask if he was being truthful.

The 25-kilometre travel limit has been scrapped and outdoor mask-wearing is no longer mandatory in Melbourne after restrictions were eased at midnight. Follow our live coronavirus coverage.

There is so much to see on a visit to the nation’s capital – just beware the disillusioned politician dreaming of greater glory.

Former Playboy editor Chuck Smeeton became a self-confessed “feminist in training” after meeting his partner, Dr Niki Vincent, Victoria’s first Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner.

The first woman to be directly elected Lord Mayor of Melbourne discusses her post-lockdown city and how cancer made her a better leader.

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Public health authorities have “cautious confidence” as the state eases restrictions and edges closer to bringing Victoria’s COVID-19 outbreaks under control.

Police had warned slain gangster Bilal Hamze about the ongoing threat to his life but their advice was dismissed in the period leading up to the man’s execution-style shooting murder in Sydney’s CBD on Thursday night.

The Federal Court has cleared the way for the cruise giant to be sued in the United States over the disastrous 2019 trip to New Zealand’s White Island, where a volcanic eruption killed 22 people including 14 Australians.

Today on Please Explain, the director of Resolve Strategic, Jim Reed joins Tory Maguire to discuss the latest round of polling from the new Resolve Political Monitor.

Chair Colin Brown said staff at the authority had been going through a “difficult time” since the incident involving John Yovich was revealed.

“We could have a house sitting there for two to three months with just a slab and nothing happening because we are waiting for frames,” said East Gippsland builder Michael Ellett.

Bacchus Marsh Grammar says changes to federal funding for non-government schools will force it to cut back on enrolments in one of Melbourne’s growth regions.

A community campaign has saved Victoria’s last playground rocket from demolition under a redevelopment proposal.

Deputy State Coroner Jane Bentley the killer foster father’s claim that he accidentally suffocated his foster daughter.

Working from rubbings found in the late 19th century from a stone tablet at the tomb of Empress Wu Zetian (624-705 AD), Kane deciphered the script.

A couple who travelled from Victoria sparking a COVID-19 scare after they crossed the Queensland border at Goondiwindi while positive with the virus have been fined $4000 by police.

Hundreds of mechanics’ institutes dating back to the 19th Century still remain in Victoria, some of which will share in state government funding to refurbish their libraries.

An east-west divide exists in ambulance response times across Sydney, as paramedics warn delayed response times are putting patients at risk.

Masks will be compulsory on public transport from 4pm on Friday, while eastern suburbs residents are urged to limit their movements.

It was the G7, not “inner-city types” who last weekend announced a plan to end government support for new coal power plants.

Ironside gives us a rare insight into organised crime and how police must respond – a model that has taken four decades for many in authority to accept.

West Gate Tunnel faces fifth legal challenge, putting even more pressure on one of the Andrews government’s signature infrastructure projects which is already running at least two years late.

Many observers have assumed Scott Morrison’s strategy is to creep towards endorsing the 2050 target of net zero emissions. They may be wrong.

Now the AZ age limit has been raised by 10 years, for those who had hesitations, it would not kill federal authorities to give us the merest hint of an apology.

The country’s most prestigious private schools are worth a massive $8.5 billion and accumulated assets at a greater rate than the property market or the stock exchange between 2015 and 2019.

Welcome to Western Australia’s campuses of the future, if American communications giant Cisco and dwindling Commonwealth funding has anything to do with it.

The Curtin University guild has become a lone voice standing up to how some of the state’s higher education institutes have set a path to do away with traditional face-to-face lectures permanently and alter the course of higher education forever.

An ambitious timber building, estimated at $134 million before COVID-19 and the price of timber hiked up an average 20 to 50 per cent, along with more selective staff promotions continues.

It was the first week back on campus for students at Melbourne University in 2021, and a hateful slogan had just been scrawled on a window of the arts building.

Victoria’s contact-tracing QR code system has processed almost 79 million check-ins, up from 37 million just three weeks ago, but experts say the code is poorly designed.

A NSW hospital has admitted to “failures” after patients were left to find their own way 100 kilometres home through remote countryside.

Two Sydney clinics experienced dozens of AstraZeneca vaccine cancellations on Thursday, including a surprising number for second doses.

Federal and state health authorities should introduce COVID-19 rapid antigen tests for high-risk frontline workers, experts say, following the positive test of an air crew driver on Wednesday.

Deputy Premier John Barilaro and Nationals colleague Steph Cooke are joining their political opponents in demanding a community merged as a result of his own government’s controversial amalgamations be split back in two.

It must surely be blatantly obvious to the Morrison government by now that the longer the saga of Murugappan family drags on, the court of public opinion and its own ranks will put further pressure on it to grant them refugee status?

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