Marrickville Library is among five finalists announced for the International Public Library of the Year Award 2021, with the winner to be announced in August.

The four-time Hawthorn premiership great will not be coaching the Magpies.

Regina Arthurell was “hounded out” of her western Sydney accommodation and dropped by her GP after her violent past was revealed.

In a new ABC series, women across the political spectrum describe being ignored, harassed and sometimes assaulted.

The milder weather has caused concerns at ski fields as they prepare for school holiday crowds.

Brisbane Magistrate Paul Byrne dismissed the application on Monday after reviewing the evidence provided.

Furious St George Illawarra chief executive Ryan Webb has lashed his players as “arrogant and ignorant” after they lied about the house party.

“I see evidence of misconduct or unacceptable behaviour from people high-up and low down and in-between,” Commissioner Ray Finkelstein said.

The AFL’s best choice to replace Steve Hocking as league head of football is not obvious. Who are the top candidates?

The Prime Minister’s plan sets out an aspiration for exit that is appropriately cautious, staged and – crucially – based on epidemiological milestones, not dates.

A man has been charged over a non-fatal Chapel Street shooting that left a teenager in hospital last year.

Associate Professor O’Brien has been Victoria’s deputy chief health officer responsible for outbreaks and contact tracing, and was pivotal in helping contain the Port Melbourne and, more recently, Sandringham coronavirus clusters.

Australian Test skipper Tim Paine has called on match referees to show more consistency when imposing points penalties for slow over rates, and described missing the World Test Championship final because of such a deduction as a “bitter pill to swa...

Emergency services are treating a man attacked by a shark at Crescent Head, north of Port Macquarie.

Victoria’s Nationals leader says South Australia would probably be “salivating” at any chance to take the event back to Adelaide, where it was held until 1996.

Remorseless started his racing career in the Snowden camp and debuted as an early two-year-old with a solid run at Eagle Farm.

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NSW Health lists new exposure sites for Sydney, Brisbane residents are waking up to their first weekday out of lockdown and a group of NRL players have been handed fines for breaching COVID-19 restrictions.

Unions representing the sector’s low-paid workers are seeking wage rises of 25 per cent, which would raise the pay of a personal care worker to about $29 an hour.

The plan would help ease a tight global supply of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, particularly in Asia.

After an early-season scoring spree and then only a small flattening from that starting burst through most of the first half of the season, scoring in the AFL has dipped sharply in recent weeks, statistics show.

This week on the Real Footy podcast, Michael Gleeson, Caroline Wilson and Peter Ryan discuss the Demons, slumping Tigers, and whether this marks the end of an era at West Coast.

In a move that would spur some workers to return to the CBD, Victoria’s health team met on Monday to discuss removing masks in offices as well as rules around AFL crowds.

New sites listed on Monday now include the popular Indooroopilly and Garden City shopping centres, along with stores in Forest Lake, New Farm, Kangaroo Point, Woolloongabba and South Brisbane.

The country’s largest super fund returned 20.43 per cent this financial year. But its chief investment officer says the stellar returns will not last long as governments act to slow rapid growth.

Australia will get its first grid-scale battery built without government support by the end of 2022, marking what its proponent says is a tipping point in the electricity sector as storage prices tumble. 

The fears that Indonesia was heading down the same path as India are beginning to come to pass in devastating fashion.

Are we moving to the country or just holidaying more in the regions? ABS data shows regional supermarket revenue soaring, leaving economists to speculate why.

The NRL is dealing with another COVID scare after a Roosters forward attended a supermarket listed as an exposure site.

The RBA has thrown record low interest rates and hundreds of billions of cheap dollars at the economy. Now it is time to start winding the support back.

The AFL is on the hunt for a new football operations boss after Steve Hocking’s shock move back to Geelong to replace veteran administrator Brian Cook as the Cats’ CEO.

The letter from ANF WA secretary Mark Olson to Health Minister Roger Cook called for permanent positions for nurses on short-term contracts and reserving places in hotel quarantine for overseas nurses.

Despite exploring rich subject matter, the latest production at 45 Downstairs is shapeless and earnest.

Jakob Opacic, 28, died in a motorbike crash on Friday. His brother is Parramatta Eels’ centre and ex-Brisbane Bronco Tom Opacic.

Resurgent St Kilda midfielder Luke Dunstan insists he holds no grudges against the Saints’ coaching staff despite admitting he felt somewhat hard done after being consistently being bypassed at the selection table in the opening half of the season.

Rob Penney, who helped recruit Israel Folau to the Japanese club where he is now director of rugby, believes the controversial star will be embraced in Japan.

Shares in Lumos Diagnostics rose as much as 20 per cent on its first day on the ASX but its boss says Australia needs to look at its approach to medical testing.

Following a $22b takeover bid for Sydney Airport, key shareholder UniSuper said there was an “in-principle” case to convert the airport to an unlisted company.

The AFL is hopeful Victorian health authorities will raise its crowd limit ahead of the upcoming round of football.

The head of Australia’s Olympic team has encouraged Nick Kyrgios to compete at the Tokyo Games after the tennis star expressed reservations about competing in the green and gold in Japan.

The final fate of the bid lobbed by a consortium of super heavyweights rests on Sydney Airport shareholders taking a punt on the length of COVID’s tail and its earnings sting.

Putin signs a new law forcing French producers to relabel hallowed brands as “sparkling wine”.

Once upon a time television’s golden age gave us The Sopranos, The Crown and Game of Thrones. But has it gone from cordon bleu to microwave TV dinners?

The Reds star has always been a valuable member of the Wallabies, but all too rarely does he take the game by the scruff of the neck. Perhaps now is his time.

Today on Please Explain, senior economics correspondent Shane Wright joins Tory Maguire to discuss how a decrease in smokers is leaving a big hole in the federal budget.

Employees may have well-founded fears of being fired, having their wages cut or even being harassed by employers if they dare to question their conditions.

Premier Mark McGowan said the man became very unwell on Sunday and could not be evacuated to a Perth hospital by air due to the rough weather conditions.

Sydneysiders are comfort-eating cakes and pastries and bringing some much needed economic relief to bakers as they enter a second week of lockdown.

Jesse Leigh Green is charged with the 2018 murder of 22-year-old mother Teah Luckwell, who was found in a pool of blood near the front door of her Tamworth home.  

Neighbours heard raised voices shortly before the man, 37, was shot in the leg on Sunday night and taken to hospital for emergency surgery.