Investigations by IBAC over several years have uncovered ongoing corruption and misconduct risks across the corrections sector.

ICAC says lobbyists should be banned from giving gifts to public officials and an expanded register should be kept to monitor those who go from government to lobbying.

The eastern suburbs cluster nearly doubled in size on Tuesday after 10 new cases were recorded.

Melbourne gym and dance studio owners say more than a year of rolling lockdowns has caused uncertainty and hurt demand, as well as their mental health.

Water-safety advocates say the scheme could mean a generation of children from disadvantaged backgrounds will be formally taught to swim for the first time.

Melburnians have been warned to book their place in the sun during school holidays as demand soars.

Barnaby Joyce has been sworn in as deputy prime minister, the NSW government is handing down its budget and Victoria’s travel bubble with New Zealand is on track to resume.

The university’s interim vice-chancellor, Professor John Germov, said an external review of the university’s governance had uncovered a historical case of fraud that police were investigating.

Emergency services were called to Lithgow Correction Centre, on the Great Western Highway in Marrangaroo, about 1.10pm on Tuesday.

The mayor of Kingston says locals are concerned about safety at Moorabbin Airport after a light plane crashed in a suburban area near the airstrip.

The state government will spend $120 billion on NSW Health over the next four years, with hospital upgrades and ambulance jets flagged in the 2021-22 budget,

Errors in management of the register are causing some predators to be wrongly left off the register while others were incorrectly monitored and imprisoned.

Kerri-Ann Conley’s matter was referred to the Supreme Court on Tuesday after her two toddlers died in 2019 inside a black car in Beenleigh.

James Richard Finch told a journalist how he and others set Brisbane’s Whiskey Au Go Go alight in 1973, killing 15 people.

Boys at a northern beaches Anglican school were told to choose the qualities they looked for in a girl from a list that allocated more points for virginity, looks, and strong Christian values than for generosity and adventurousness. In another classr...

Wildlife photographer Lucca Amorim sat for 30 minutes in his car with the window opened as the fox came and went towards him before “going off in stealth mode” hunting.

The property, raided by detectives investigating the killing of bikie Shane Bowden, has been linked to the Mongols and two getaway cars used in the shooting.

Acrimony with her stepdaughter resurfaced in 2001 after the discovery of the wreckage of Campbell’s craft.

The cases have resulted in masks now being required to be worn on public transport and in indoor settings across all of Sydney for at least another week.

Today on Please Explain, federal political reporter Rachel Clun joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss what we learned from Monday’s national cabinet meeting.

Hours before former test cricketer Stuart MacGill was taken from outside his lower-north Sydney home in April, two men entered a Bunnings warehouse to allegedly buy items that would be used in the horrifying kidnap ordeal. 

Melburnians will be able to enter Queensland from Friday, just in time for the school holidays.

Nicola Annabel Teo was due to face trial in Downing Centre District Court on Tuesday before the case against her was withdrawn and dismissed.

The Chief Health Officer says it was possible a staff member from the quarantine hotel unwittingly transmitted the virus to a flight crew member.

The body of an 84-year-old Timboon woman who went missing nearly a fortnight ago has been found next to a burnt-out car almost 100 kilometres from her home.

A veteran of global construction giant Multiplex has criticised continuing investment in Perth’s east, at the expense of new life for the struggling centre.

The 58-year-old Dover Heights man was charged on Friday with 11 counts of sexually touching a child under 10.

Bowden, a Mongols bikie who had defected to the Finks, flew from Victoria and was gunned down in a hail of bullets at Pimpama on the Gold Coast in October 2020.

Targeting charities is a tried and true political tactic deployed by autocratic and authoritarian regimes to quash dissent and gag critics.

Almost all the extra new supply will be for the state’s GPs, with little increase in the number of doses flowing to the mass vaccination clinics run by the Victorian government.

The sell-out crowd at the Hawks versus Bombers game furthers the case for Tassie to get its own team.

The NSW Government is being criticised from within its own ranks about a bill to help monitor suspicious donations to council candidates as being too little too late, with the Liberal Party in disarray over the upcoming local government elections.

The re-emergence of Barnaby Joyce as a political leader will impair meaningful action on climate change by the Coalition.

Many more women and children are coming forward to report rapes and sexual assaults, but they are still dropping out through the legal process, the Sentencing Advisory Council finds.

Mob storms oil company, suburban stoush and snow in Sydney?

The scissors flew, hair dryers blew and the air reeked of gel as 300 hairdressers battled it out for a chance to compete at the International Beauty Show, New York.

As former Sony boss Denis Handlin absorbs the reality of his sacking and retreats home the key question is - which home?

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz and target.

Liberal MP James Newbury used parliamentary privilege to name an Labor MP who allegedly had sex in his Spring Street office.

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.

The Gold Logie winner was awake, talking but still recovering, sister Hilde Hinton said in a post published on the Love Your Sister charity Facebook page.

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.

Taking sides with the lateral thinker.

A 40-year-old man has died following a two-vehicle traffic crash in the Redlands, south-east of Brisbane, this afternoon.

The former international cricketer has broken his silence about the kidnapping, revealing the heavy toll the incident has token on his work, family and friends. 

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.

Pakenham pensioner Geoff O’Brien, whose childhood polio symptoms have viciously returned, is warning hesitant people to get their coronavirus shots and “protect yourself, family and friends and the community”.

Victorian motorists have been offered electric vehicle subsidies worth less than one-third of those available across the border, prompting calls for more intervention to close the gap.

Australian James Turbitt flew into Melbourne from Belgium to be with his dying mother in Perth but says his mercy dash was thwarted by the “impossible” bureaucracy of hotel quarantine.