This week’s conversation is with Marina Go, the current chair of Netball Australia and is the outgoing chair of the Walkley Foundation and is the former editor of Dolly magazine. 

Coronavirus live updates.

An analysis by The Age, based on the current trajectory of vaccine uptake, indicates Victoria could meet the target around September 18, sooner than the government initially anticipated.

Health experts say higher adult and teen vaccination rates will protect under 12s and their more vulnerable relatives.

The All Blacks were seeking revenge after they were belted by the Wallabies at Optus Stadium two years ago. They returned serve with interest.

With New Zealand resting stars and others either injured or sent from the field, the Wallabies should have capitalised. Instead they played their worst game of the three-Test series.

Four-time premiership player Grant Birchall is yet to decide whether he wants to play on in 2022.

Marcus Bontempelli’s knee scare has left the Western Bulldogs facing a potential captaincy conundrum ahead of their preliminary final against Port Adelaide at Adelaide Oval next Saturday night.

Ringwood Secondary College’s many music ensembles must meet online to play together during lockdowns, but playing when schools are open brings its own challenges.

James McDonald feels the power of Nature Strip and a bit of Hartnell in Zaaki as stars make a great start to the spring.

Brisbane have not gone the distance this year, they’ve gone out in straight sets. That they have not won the flag does not fall at Joe Daniher’s feet, but he has played some role.

Rex Patrick has pulled out of negotiations on an overhaul of environmental laws over the government’s refusal to publish data outlining which companies profiteered from JobKeeper payments.

Tough new testing rules mean veteran galloper Prince Of Arran will be retired rather than race in this year’s Melbourne Cup for a fourth time.

Needing to win by 11 points or more, the Gold Coast cruised into the finals at the expense of the Sharks. But that was only half the story as the Warriors lost the plot.

Reading is key to closing the education gap for vulnerable children.

Hospital manager, ex-British colonial police inspector, rugby union tragic and voluntary justice of the peace for 35 years, Garnet Edwards was a “Renaissance man”.

Former Melbourne best and fairest and All-Australian Jeff White says he hopes sentimentality prevails to allow Nathan Jones a spot in the Demons’ team - even as medical substitute - as the club pushes to end its 57-year premiership drought.

A security guard at a Melbourne immigration detention centre has tested positive for COVID-19, but health authorities say the guard had no contact with detained asylum seekers.

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News has formalised a complaint about two Four Corners episodes.

As nations jockey for power, the geopolitical map is being redrawn. Where does Australia fit? And who are our friends in this new world?

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown has accused rich countries of committing a “moral outrage” by stockpiling COVID-19 doses.

Police are investigating whether the death was suspicious.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors

The survival in the wild of the world’s biggest lizard, the Komodo dragon, is looking less certain as its suitable habitat shrinks because of climate change and human pressures outside its protected areas in Indonesia.

Madison de Rozario etched herself into Paralympic folklore on Sunday with victory in the T54 marathon by a single second in front of her coach and mentor Louise Sauvage in the stands.

Australia’s first cricket meeting with the Afghanistan men’s team since the Taliban takeover may be a matter of weeks away

Follow all the action from the final day of the Paralympics, with Madison de Rozario and Jarryd Clifford and Michael Roeger among the athletes going for gold.

Tamara Jubran has been trying to find a job “non-stop” for two months.

A man has died after being bitten by a shark at Shelly Beach on the NSW North Coast on Sunday morning.

Volunteers have delivered more than a thousand food hampers to struggling people in Wilcannia, where a COVID-19 outbreak continues to spread.

Premier Daniel Andrews says he expects authorities will treat those caught on video partying with Nadia Bartel the same as the people who attended an engagement party that breached lockdown.

More good news is needed to crowd out the bad, so that teachers can retain confidence in their competence.

Two Victorian private schools are cutting their fees as students face the prospect of more remote learning in term four.

Ash Barty’s quest for back-to-back major titles came to an end in New York after world no.43 Shelby Rogers staged a dramatic third-set comeback.

The Mount Lindesay Highway at Cedar Vale was closed after Sunday’s crash, which saw three other people suffer serious injuries.

When a known terrorist sympathiser launched a knife attack at an Auckland supermarket, ordinary people jumped into action.

The conservative lobby group is one of a number of industry groups, think tanks and not-for-profits that received the JobKeeper payments even though their revenue surged or held up.

Jane Campion says the #MeToo movement has been like the fall of the Berlin Wall for women working in film.

Some couples have broken up amid the stress of having to constantly rearrange their weddings over the past 20 months. But others are eager to embrace the new wedding rules, even if it means only five guests.

Matt Rendell takes a look at each team’s season in 2021 and what they need to do with their lists over the off-season. Today: Why the Crows need to hold their nerve.

The first shipment of Australia’s biggest vaccine swap is on its way from Heathrow. Here’s the inside story on how 4 million doses of hope were secured.

The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.

New Zealand’s daily COVID-19 numbers continue to provide good news as the nation continues to suppress a Delta outbreak.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has revealed more than 90 per cent of the state’s 183 new cases were aged under 50.

NSW has reported 1485 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday and another three deaths, Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.

Dutch driver Max Verstappen took a brilliant pole position for the Netherlands Grand Prix and sent his Orange Army of fans into raptures on Saturday.

On September 6, 1905, the clipper Loch Vennacher was sighted for the last time, by the SS Yongala, before sinking without trace and with all hands, leaving a spray of wreckage scattered along the coast of Kangaroo Island. The Yongala itself would sin...

Ajla Tomljanovic had no answers for the power serving of Karolina Pliskova and Novak Djokovic continued his charge toward a Grand Slam year.

Queensland Health has named a new exposure site after the truck driver was infectious in the community on Thursday and Friday.

Homicide detectives are investigating the circumstances around the death of a man at a Dandenong South caravan park on Saturday night.