As New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard becomes the first transgender Olympian, more work is needed to balance inclusion and integrity in women’s sport.

Denis Handlin, the CEO and chairman of Sony Music Australia, was fired on Monday as the company investigates the culture at the recording industry behemoth.

Tens of thousands of Sydneysiders are being urged to get tested, Australia’s vaccine rollout will be discussed at a national cabinet meeting today and Barnaby Joyce is leader of the National party after a spill.

Victoria’s travel bubble with New Zealand will resume from midnight Tuesday after the Ministry of Health decided the remaining public health risk to be low.

More than 15,000 pairs of donated socks have passed through the hands of Benjy Orwin in recent years and 800 have now made their way to residents of the storm-battered Dandenong Ranges.

Health experts were warning that big crowds risk fuelling a resurgence in COVID-19 infections.

The popular NRL 360 host will finally be given the chance to make change from within after being appointed as Brisbane’s new head of football.

Abraham Sinai is on trial in the NSW Supreme Court accused of providing assistance to the gunman who walked up to Ho Ledinh in 2018 and shot him dead.

Barnaby Joyce says he’s become a better person in the 40 months since resigning over a sexual harassment allegation, but the political environment has also changed.

The former Nationals leader’s appointment as chancellor was met with significant backlash from staff, students and potential donors.

In June last year, police officers turned up on the doorstep of former Christian pastor Silas Issa and told him two people had been arrested after threats had allegedly been made on his life.

The former special forces soldier has told the Federal Court the two men killed on Easter Sunday, 2009, were enemy combatants who posed a threat. He was asked if this was a “cover story”.

Max Gawn has taken 38 contested marks for the season - the most of any player in the competition and three more than noted aerial stars Aaron Naughton and Harry McKay.

The Nationals leadership spill was so personal and poisonous that some MPs left the room shell-shocked after the sudden restoration of Barnaby Joyce to the leadership.

GPs warned the timing of the change to AstraZeneca eligibility meant it was unlikely NSW would experience a boost in vaccination numbers amid Sydney’s outbreak.

Use our interactive map to find and track the sites identified in NSW as potential COVID-19 exposure sites.

Lord Zoulander comes in off three progressive closing runs, two of which were in provincial company either side of a solid effort against deeper metropolitan opposition on the Kensington track.

Everything you need to know to find a winner on the seven-race card.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of vaccine development forever.

The mouse plague in the state’s central west is causing chaos at a prison.

A man is standing trial accused of sexual violence against six women, including allegations he forced one into his car and raped her and that he handcuffed another and dragged her along a street as he drove.

Grants will be available to sporting clubs, churches and councils that come up with community-based programs to tackle men’s violence against women.

Paul Coffa, who trains current Olympic and world class weightlifters and worked with Hubbard at his Oceania Weightlifting Institute after she had transitioned, said there should be no qualms about Hubbard’s place in the women’s 87kg category in T...

Mia Davies says leadership changes are destabilising and showed the federal party was was focused on internal matters instead of the people of regional Australia.

Richmond are likely to regain triple-premiership pair David Astbury and Dion Prestia for Friday night’s MCG clash against St Kilda as the Tigers seek to keep alive their flagging top-four chances.

Our spy agencies recruit a mix of talent, from computer whizzes to people skilled in cultivating sources. What do our spies do, and who are their bosses?

In the year that has sharpened focus on women in the workplace, the Nationals have re-elected a man whose relationship with a staffer led to a so-called bonk ban.

NZ has 10 million doses of Pfizer on order in 2021, enough for two doses for its entire population.

The country party, run for almost half a century by tough and steady old-fashioned names like Arty Fadden, Black Jack McEwen and Doug Anthony, has a tear-away named Barnaby at the driving wheel - again.

This week on the Real Footy podcast, Michael Gleeson, Caroline Wilson and Jake Niall discuss the issues at Ikon Park.

Juanita Nielsen was an activist who advocated against developers via her community newspaper to preserve the heritage of her inner city community.

Melbourne City have earned the right to host Saturday night’s A-League grand final - but holding the decider in Victoria, rather than Sydney, could cost clubs a significant financial windfall.

Commonwealth Bank has sealed its last major deal to divest non-core businesses, but the price tag was softer than some expected.

More than 120 ADF troops hit the ground in the battered Dandenong Ranges on Monday, distributing generators to hundreds of people still without power.

President Emmanuel Macron’s rival Marine Le Pen had hoped to use the regional elections as a springboard for next year’s national ballot.

The star Australians will go into third grand slam of the year decidedly underdone in terms of their grasscourt preparation, with both having struggled with injuries.

The takeover target needs to figure out how to best reward shareholders without handing control on the cheap to its major stakeholder Kerry Stokes’ Seven Group.

Retired media personality Mike Bailey, who became a household name delivering the nightly weather report for the ABC’s Sydney bulletin over a lengthy career with the public broadcaster, has died.

Ben Simmons has faced criticism from his highest-profile NBA teammate and an all-time great of the sport for his performances in the play-offs. But the star guard will be welcomed into the Australian Boomers’ fold this week.

He’s the veteran American pollster whose advice led to the US government abandoning the term “global warming” and he’s got a new goal.

The police investigation into the allegation Brittany Higgins was raped by a colleague in Parliament House is reaching its final stages.

There’s a moment of reckoning due for children’s literature, writers say: enough with the stereotypes that ignore diversity.

Boral largest shareholder and suitor, Kerry Stokes’s Seven Group, says the company’s management should have pushed for a better price for the asset.

Only once before have I been brave enough to write a column suggesting a player should consider retirement, but the concussion factor is too serious to ignore.

As a former department store employee, I can see the difference in staff levels since online shopping and fast fashion came on the scene.

It’s not easy being green: a globally significant renewables project also represents a risk of continuous and catastrophic spills of a highly toxic ammonia mix.

Brisbane chalkboard artist Neville William Gentry, 52, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of fraud in court on Monday.

Federal health officials say they will step up the availability of the Pfizer vaccine after the decision to recommend the AstraZeneca vaccine for people aged over 60.

“We took note of Chairman Kim’s recent statement, referring to both dialogue and confrontation. We will be prepared for either,” the US envoy said in Seoul.

David Keith Allen had his case proven but dismissed in a Sydney court on Monday, describing it as trivial and obscure.