More than 1500 casual outside-school care workers have lost their jobs and dozens of services face closure as the sector struggles under continuous coronavirus lockdowns.

The man said he couldn’t sleep after he checked the winning numbers on his Powerball lottery ticket late on Thursday night.

NSW will tighten the rules around the singles bubble and people exercising, a popular market in Melbourne’s inner south is a venue of concern and vaccine hesitancy has fallen in Queensland.

Daily life in Sydney as NSW reported 390 new local COVID-19 cases, the highest daily case total since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Carlton’s board lacks football expertise as they consider the independent football review incoming president Luke Sayers commissioned and David Teague’s future at the helm.

Ahead of the Swifts’ major semi-final, coach Briony Akle has spoken about how Super Netball’s COVID tour to keep the season alive physically divided her family.

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

The bone has been collected for pathology testing, which will determine whether it is from a human body. 

They say behind every great man is a great woman. The same goes for rugby league bosses Peter V’landys and Andrew Abdo.

The canned food giant received a number of threats after announcing it would mandate COVID-19 vaccinations, but is confident its products are safe.

Sir John Kirwan said New Zealand were poor in the opening game and the bad news for Australia is the All Blacks don’t play badly two games in a row.

The metropolitan racing spotlight shines on the Illawarra region on Saturday.

Scott Morrison has suggested state safe work authorities issue statements making clear that employers that left vaccination decisions up to their staff were not breaching health and safety rules.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says restrictions on unvaccinated people travelling interstate should only last while lockdowns are used to suppress COVID-19.

A friend of Mr Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife is expected to give evidence for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald in his defamation case against them.

Rumours has a similar message to Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off but with a hell of a lot more attitude and profanity.

The company was convicted for 19 breaches at its Maules Creek coal mine in northern NSW, although the fines fell far short of the maximum penalties it faced.

It’s an all-Sydney affair - played in Brisbane - to kick us off tonight before the Roosters look to return to the top four against the lowly Broncos.

The Eels head into Saturday’s match against Manly knowing a loss could push them out of the top five for the first time this season.

Federal education minister Alan Tudge has backed a code designed to ensure more transparency around university chiefs’ pay.

A golf driving range approved for Balnarring has come to symbolise the debate over Melbourne’s green wedges, which are now under review.

WA Premier Mark McGowan has fired off a salvo at the federal government after Labor found it had spent $1 million intervening on the High Court border challenge launched by the billionaire.

Police continue searching for clues as to what led to a violent daylight stabbing death of a man in Sydney’s inner west on Friday. 

More education will solve footy racism, everyone declares. But Taylor Walker was educated. Did he fail his education, or did the education system fail?

CBA’s retail banking services group executive Angus Sullivan says the next front in the battle with fintechs will be in mortgages.

Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt has backed high-profile forest scientist David Lindenmayer after the Press Council found his treatment by News Corp was “unfair and misleading”.

A young man who narrowly missed hitting a police officer, pedestrians and cyclists as he sped a car through central Melbourne will be released after nine months in jail.

This match ebbed and flowed all day and always threatened to deliver the upset result. The lead changed seven times in the first half, six in the second before the Lions snuck home for their second consecutive premiership.

Hundreds of businesses took out a loan repayment holiday in the past month compared to hundreds of thousands last year.

The basketball club has confirmed that Forum stopped being a sponsor at the end of the season in June.

His passion has been impossible to miss in the Wests Tigers documentary, now Adam Doueihi has declared his ambition to one day captain the club.

Samsung leader Lee Jae-yong walked out of prison a year early in a parole decision highlighting the company’s outsized influence as well as leniency for corrupt bosses.

Lachlan Swinton was sent off the last time he played the All Blacks, but the Wallabies won’t tell him to tone down his aggression ahead of a must-win Bledisloe clash.

Bennett, who is being pursued as a head coach for a 17th club in Queensland, believes the NRL should not be listening to the club bosses arguing to delay expansion.

A globally successful pop star by 16, this Kiwi singer taught the masters of the music business how to do things differently – and continues to go her own way.

Once a faceless bureaucrat, China’s foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian is delivering a different kind of aggression from his chosen battleground: Twitter.

Tiger Of Malay will carry a big weight in Saturday’s Up And Coming Stakes - as well as group 1 hopes for later in the spring.

While the Taliban have said they’re open to “political solutions” in the peace talks, they have captured at least 13 provincial capitals in little over a week.

The film director has reinvented himself as a novelist, albeit with a little help from his own movie.

What is the appeal of monarchies, and why do they still survive, wonders Dennis Altman.

The ABC broadcaster has turned his attention to wellbeing with his new book, which is a woo-woo-free zone.

Our pick of events at the Melbourne Writers Festival, which begins on September 3.

Allee Richards’ debut novel delves into the complications that can arise as young adults negotiate their lives.

Kerryn Goldsworthy and Fiona Capp have cast their eyes over a batch of recently released fiction and non-fiction books. Here, they share their recaps and reviews.

Groves sent swimming tumbling into crisis ahead of the Tokyo Games by slamming its culture. She now lifts the lid on the fallout and the future.

Maxine Funke’s Seance, Daniel Rojas’s Bliss of Heaven, Music of the World, Ron S Peno and the Superstitions’ Do the Understanding and Frances Shelley’s Songs of Possibility.

The AFL chose the Women In League round to announce the expansion of its women’s competition to a full slate of 18 teams.

The Andrews government has announced a two-year legislative overhaul, starting with the removal of offences and criminal penalties for consensual sex work.

Two group 3s, a group 2 and a listed make this weekend’s Caulfield meeting a real starting point for the spring.

Mexican-American superstar Selena was murdered in 1995; J-Lo played her in a biopic. Now there’s a podcast that explores the personal and political aspects of her death.