A 32-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the shooting of a woman in Docklands earlier this month, after a lengthy stand-off with police in Point Cook.

Ten thousand people aged under 40 have come forward for AstraZeneca jab in NSW in the past week, as the state government moves to allow them to access to the vaccine without a GP appointment.

Osaka struggled from the outset. For long stretches of the first set, she battled to keep the ball in play. “It’s so much pressure I can’t imagine,” her opponent said.

The path to a medal for Stewart McSweyn has opened up with a key rival pulling out of the Olympics.

Australia’s competition watchdog will appeal a recent court decision over the NSW government’s controversial deal to privatise Newcastle Port.

Kaylee McKeown is Australia’s newest Olympic champion. She won the 100m backstroke final and broke the Olympic record in the process.

A games like no other, as the world comes together for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Police responded to reports of a disturbance at a home in North Booval about 5pm on Tuesday after a man was shot.

Victoria’s border bubble changes, which involve excluding four NSW council areas, are set to cause headaches for businesses that have workers spread across both states.

Victorian schools are set to re-open, Sydney will give the green light to walk-in AstraZeneca jabs at mass vaccination clinics and there are now more than 50 high-risk exposure sites in Queensland.

New exposure sites have been listed after a number of people infected with COVID-19 were out in the community this month.

Who did it better? Laurie Lawrence in 1988 or Dean Boxall in 2021? Forget the celebrations, Lawrence says Ariarne Titmus dethroning Katie Ledecky was nothing short of spectacular.

Struggling small businesses are expected to get some relief on Wednesday in measures underwritten by the Victorian and federal governments.

The story of the Games have inspired, terrified and unified. In a pandemic world, perhaps we all need a distraction – and something to cheer on.

The pandemic has disrupted the natural order of world swimming. The American team that has emerged from it in Tokyo is not the dominant force it was.

The 2GB host is waging war on his former colleague over what Hadley says are “scurrilous, contemptible and undignified” comments to his viewers on Sky News.

Tokyo is staring at a typhoon, searing heat and a record number of daily infections. Its Prime Minister is facing a different storm.

All 10 local cases were in quarantine for their infectious periods as the state prepares for eased restrictions from 11.59pm Tuesday, although home visits will still be off-limits for at least two weeks.

Aware Super, formerly known as First State, is beating targets it set a year ago to shift its portfolio away rom fossil fuels in line with Paris targets.

The Wests Tigers centre allegedly breached a Queensland Health directive to keep balcony doors shut at a hotel where NRL families and some players are quarantining.

Ever heard of ‘The Anaconda’? ‘The Defentist’? Welcome to the magical world of table tennis.

Queensland police have fined two people behind one of the state’s latest COVID-19 scares after authorities reported no new cases but new details of quarantine hotel transmission on Tuesday.

A seven-race card on the Kenso track is scheduled for Sydney’s midweeker on Wednesday.

Mid-season player movement is set to reach unprecedented levels when the NRL brings back the loan system.

Working up to 14-hour days in his job as deputy head of props for Opera Australia, Adamson has long been bothered by a hidden problem.

Australia’s first ever Olympic surfing medallist has revealed how the sport’s inclusion at Tokyo 2020 changed his life and helped him recover from a traumatic concussion he suffered six years ago.

Tong Lim, who has been held without bail for almost a year, pleaded not guilty after he drove a motorcycle into a group of police officers at a protest in 2020.

The England squad will discuss the COVID situation in Australia with their board this week amid fears that some players could withdraw from this summer’s Ashes tour if they can’t be joined by their families.

“Brave, strong and determined” was how Kaylee McKeown described her dad. She was the embodiment of all of those values in the final of the 100m backstroke.

Laboratories have performed 2.2 million tests since Sydney’s outbreak began six weeks ago and private pathology companies receive a Medicare subsidy of $85 per test.

The Parramatta-based school contacted police about a teacher who attended Saturday’s lockdown protest then confessed to it on a social media post seen by students.

An Afghan villager agreed during the war veteran’s defamation trial on Tuesday that people killed by foreign soldiers were martyrs.

Former world champion kayaker Nathan Baggaley and brother Dru have been sentenced over a failed drug-smuggling plan.

Victoria’s fifth period of remote learning was far from the longest, but for many families it was the hardest, with parents struggling to keep their children’s spirits up.

A Flinders Lane building occupied by one of Melbourne’s top restaurants, Chris Lucas’ Kisume, and owned by philanthropist Helen Sykes has reportedly sold for more than $25 million.

Gordon Copeland has been missing for more than two weeks. His family, including his heavily pregnant partner and three-year-old son, are desperate to find him.

Judge Kimberly Daniels is already attracting attention for having transitioned to a woman since the Rio Olympics. Now she judges her daughter’s comp.

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The breach is the third time this year that the transfer of patients from ships in WA ports to hospitals has resulted in hospital staff having to isolate.

CBA’s chief has sounded a warning over Apple’s growing dominance in digital wallets, accusing the technology giant of choking off competition.

Adriana Takara’s death from COVID-19 at just 38 should remind us that the best way to achieve “freedom” is to stay home and get vaccinated.

The actions of the federal government will determine the extent to which the next generation of Cate Blanchetts, Thelma Plums and Warwick Thorntons is made or lost.

The latest book by Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with the Amber Eyes, is a homage to a collector and the collector’s urge.

With 45 streaming channels, there’s no shortage of options with Seven’s Olympics coverage. Finding the thing you want to watch, however, can be tricky.

Treasurer Cameron Dick has hit out over possible job losses if West End factories are closed under the LNP lord mayor’s plan to make way for a Games broadcasting centre.

Retailers want a new JobKeeper package, emergency cash payments and the reinstatement of a fresh leasing code of conduct to ease retail rental stress.

The Australian crews will also take flags with them which will be placed around field camps to remind the personnel of home.

The end of a lockdown can still feel daunting, but there’s light there too, and pride, and more than a little joy. It’s the little freedoms that mean so much.

This year’s Olympic Games were always going to be different, but they’re having an unusual effect on our psyche.

Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside won his first barrier trial back at Randwick on Tuesday, but he had to do it after having slipped to his knees.