Josh Carr will miss the next two Fremantle games after breaching quarantine rules on return from Queensland while a young defender has been fined for walking his dog. 

High-profile Collingwood fan Jeffrey Corfe has appeared before Melbourne Magistrates Court, charged with two counts of sexual penetration of a child under 16.

Police say the skydiving instructor attempted to cushion the landing for the other man and asked paramedics if he could stand up during the 20 minutes they treated him before he died.

Army troops are being sent into Sydney suburbs to enforce health orders, political leaders are meeting to discuss the country’s path out of lockdown and there’s now some certainty regarding Victoria’s mystery COVID-19 case.

Far from enjoying a break from the crowds during the pandemic, animals at zoos like Sydney's Taronga seem to be missing us.

Three women who allege they were abused by Malka Leifer want to attend court in person. But the former principal wants to watch the five-day hearing from prison, the court has been told.

The NSW Supreme Court judge accepted as a result of Lisa Srsa’s various mental disorders, her capacity to control herself was “substantially impaired”.

The 38 charges against the 25-year-old female constable were the result of a sting involving the Crime and Corruption Commission.

Three new Emerald-class ferries have sailed into Sydney Harbour, but will likely enter service several months late when they finally replace the iconic Freshwater vessels.

A woman has admitted killing her husband after dousing him in petrol and striking a cigarette lighter, even though prosecutors accept she didn’t intend to set him alight.

A Darwan farmer has told the war veteran’s defamation trial that he witnessed a relative being kicked into a dry river bed by a “big soldier”.

The union argued in the Federal Court that Qantas chose to outsource the jobs of more than 2000 ground staff to avoid potential industrial action in the future.

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

The magistrate said loved ones taking financial advantage of vulnerable, elderly people amounted to abuse and wouldn’t be tolerated.

Data shows at least three-in-five of the 114,000-strong workforce are now protected, with the department in the dark on how many more may have actually received a dose.

This week has been turbulent for year 12, from a divisive call to cancel this year’s HSC exams to a promise of a return to school and priority vaccination. But many feel their voices have been lost in the debate.

The time for half measures is over. The whole of Sydney must lock down harder and stay locked down until infection numbers fall.

Today on Please Explain, chief sports writer Andrew Webster joins Tory Maguire to discuss some of the big moments from the first week of this year’s Olympics.

NSW health officials are warning that some Sydneysiders are putting off getting tested for COVID-19, with families only bringing them to hospital when they are very unwell or dead.

If Chantelle Lee Newbery, 44, does not appear in court next week, the arrest warrant will be activated.

Phillip Maisel thought he’d lost his twin sister during the war. Finding her again by sheer chance is just one of the things for which this (nearly) 99-year-old is thankful.

A fortnight in a five-star hotel with 24-hour room service. Easy as, right? So are the best-laid plans of mice and men.

Some men have affairs; others buy red sports cars. Others still buy runabouts – then have to work out how to get rid of them.

The Logie Award-winning actor discusses change coming too slowly for Indigenous mortality rates, representation and diversity and show business, and why he doesn’t view himself as rich.

The man will appear in court on August 24 after electronics allegedly containing child exploitation material were seized from an Alexandra Hills residence.

Mortuary manager Luan Murray found her calling when she first set foot in a funeral home almost 30 years ago. Her daughter, Shawnee Quinn Barker has also become an embalmer. They work together in Wollongong. 

If anyone tells you the kitchen is a relaxing, calming, nourishing place to be, don’t buy it – they are dangerous places.

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

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Good Weekend senior writer Jane Cadzow discusses Attorney-General and Coalition attack dog Michaelia Cash with Shane Wright, chief economics correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Only 65 of the cases were in isolation for their entire infectious period.

Australian Life photography competition is a nation-wide photography competition and exhibition open to professional and amateurs and run by The City of Sydney Council.

Day 4 of my two-week stay in Oz-catraz and I’m already sculpting my bath towels into animal shapes.

Nearly 30 years after he arrived at a crime scene in Springvale, Mick Hughes knows he never really left.

Health Minister Martin Foley has urged Victorians to stick to social distancing rules as Melbourne wastewater detections cause concern.

In Melbourne for 12 days in July you could go through the whole emotional color-wheel in the space of hours, while doing little, physically, else.

The Federal Court has ordered that secret parts of the ABC’s written defence to a defamation suit brought against it by cabinet minister Christian Porter should be removed from its public records.

Restrictions for residents in eight Local Government Areas of concern have been tightened.

What’s the point of actually going to university if there’s no one interesting to learn from, let alone with an international reputation in something like the politics of climate change?

Stuck in our home town with disposable cash to burn, Perth nightowls found solace splashing a little more on food and wine experiences once post-pandemic restrictions lifted last year and going out became a thing again.

Outside WA’s Supreme Court, tearful parents Pamela and Chris Fink pledged not to give up the fight for mentally unwell children in WA schools in the wake of their son’s death.

Indooroopilly State High School has been closed on Friday after a new COVID-19 case has emerged.

Public fury over the slow vaccine rollout presumes that fixing it will deliver us from our troubles, but what if it can’t?

The mayor of Bundaberg, a former Newman-era minister, will become Australia’s first elected leader to formally apologise for the indentured labour trade known as “blackbirding”.

Turns out a committee can be more revealing when they don’t even have a witness to examine.

Mostafa “Moz” Azimitabar, 35, was held in suburban Melbourne hotels for more than a year in makeshift detention which he intends to prove in the Federal Court was unlawful.

A Tenants Victoria survey of 400 renters found that 70 per cent had taken a financial hit during the state’s latest lockdown, losing an average of $1280 in income.

It is well past time for Australia to augment its outbreak response, using new rapid tests, vaccine and isolation incentives and improved cooperation across state borders.

For weeks, thousands of Sydney bus services have had too many passengers to allow for COVID-19 social distancing requirements, including dozens in the epicentre of the outbreak.

A world-first global research institute that aims to develop novel pharmaceutical grade psychedelic medicine to treat mental health disorders launched in Melbourne on Friday.