The Royal Children’s Hospital, kids’ safety body KidSafe and a grieving mother are pleading for a renewed focus on home safety as Victoria’s lockdown rolls on.

Australia’s vaccine back up deal with Pfizer came too late and it was too small. Eventually Scott Morrison and Greg Hunt will have to account for the deals they might have done.

All the ins and outs for the 2021 AFL preliminary finals and how the experts are tipping the weekend.

Geelong star Patrick Dangerfield said the team that executes their skills best under the heat of the spotlight will win Friday night’s preliminary final.

A Sydney Liberal MP leading the Commonwealth’s inquiry into housing affordability has equated social housing with “housing commission” and criticised affordable schemes as rent fixing that drive up prices and limit supply elsewhere.

The chief executive of EISS has resigned following allegations the $6 billion super fund’s workplace had become toxic.

Two Wallabies legends say they’d love to see the mercurial star make his international return against South Africa this weekend.

Thousands of casual staff at the University of Sydney have had their requests for conversion to permanent employment rejected.

Close to 180 bus drivers have walked off the job at a western Sydney depot after one of their colleagues tested positive to COVID-19, and say they will not return until rapid antigen testing is introduced.

The NSW government has provided the right incentives to the vaccinated. A freer state does not mean we will “let it rip”, but there are some restrictions we could lift immediately - such as hotel quarantine for fully vaccinated and extremely low-...

The gaming industry spent $271.3 million on advertising last year, up from $89.7 million in 2011, and the CEO of Tabcorp says more restrictions are needed.

The Chats, Elton John and Miley Cyrus are just some of the artists to make it onto The Metallica Blacklist, a tribute album celebrating the 30th anniversary of Metallica’s biggest success.

Labor says emails show Pfizer was explicitly telling Australia other countries were moving quickly to get deals, but the Prime Minister says the company’s focus was on countries struggling with high case numbers and deaths.

Adrian Bott has watched Converge develop from the time he arrived in Australia in his mother Conversely’s belly at Evergreen Stud.

Just how good 2021 has been for Richard and Michael Freedman is summed by the number of No.1s they will saddle at Kembla Grange on Saturday.

Big Parade is ready to prove himself a possible Everest Contender in the Theo Marks Stakes at Kembla Grange on Saturday.

A Bayside real estate agent has pleaded guilty to child exploitation charges after he and another man filmed themselves having sex with a 16-year-old girl before circulating video footage.

New Zealand Rugby has announced a number of variations to be trialled at the school and community level.

Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac are terrific, but this reworking of Ingmar Bergman’s 1973 series never quite reaches the height to which it aspires.

A NSW truck driver who has tested positive for COVID-19 was infectious in south-east Queensland for two days this week, including spending time at a Westfield shopping centre in Brisbane.

Counsel for former Labor minister Eddie Obeid tells court he should receive no more than a two-year sentence, to be served at home.

Geelong star Patrick Dangerfield says he has a strong personal view that vaccinations are the way forward.

Indonesian troops could also begin training with Australian military in Australia soon as defence links between the neighbouring countries grow.

Everything you need to know to find a winner on Tuncurry Cup day.

He might be on the other side of the world, but there is good reason Kristian Woolf will watch week one of the finals with huge interest.

The federal government is defending the nation’s coal industry and climate policies as pressure from international scientists and diplomats mounts on Australia.

For any footballer to reinvent themselves is no mean feat - there are distinct challenges that not every player can overcome. But at Melbourne, this is a new Ben Brown - and one who has barely been acknowledged.

One of the men accused of raping a woman he lured into a Scarborough beach public toilet by pretending to be gay and offering cocaine has been released to home detention.

A state government decision to stop native logging in the South West has been labelled short-sighted by those who know how environmentally friendly and sustainable local jarrah and karri production should be.

All the exams are to go ahead, with an accidentally leaked preliminary timetable showing they will finish on December 3.

Triple premiership Hawk Andy Collins has been appointed as Hawthorn’s new head of development alongside coach Sam Mitchell.

Public health experts have expressed concern about NSW’s road map to reopening its economy, which they say appears to have been driven by industry.

The communities of Tweed Heads and Byron Bay hope the NSW plan to reopen doesn’t prolong the Queensland border closure.

Les Bridge believes everyone will know how well Classique Legend is going after his barrier trial at Randwick on Friday.

Australia’s inaugural Test match against Afghanistan is as good as cancelled after Cricket Australia stated it “would have no alternative” but to scupper the game given the Taliban’s stance on women’s sport.

A collection of state infrastructure projects worth a combined $2.6 billion will be delayed to ease the pressure on Western Australia’s booming construction industry.

The mining state posted a $5.6 billion surplus for the 2020-21 financial year, which was $2.5 billion more than anticipated by Treasury officials in February thanks to $11.3 billion in royalties paid by its iron ore sector.

Backed by Malcolm Turnbull and with ties to Mike Cannon-Brookes, 5B planning a big expansion of sales of its novel solar panels.

A video posted on social media showed a Taliban fighter whipping one of the demonstrators as several women screamed and hurried away.

Crime victims often say the court process they have to go through for ‘justice’ turns out to be more traumatic than the crime itself. Victoria’s Victims of Crime Commissioner is launching an inquiry.

Shareholders should be outraged by the casino gaint’s remuneration policy. Not only have they not received any dividends, the board has allowed failed executives to make out like bandits.

Are “breakthrough infections” as scary as they sound? What are COVID symptoms like if you’ve been double-jabbed? And what do these cases mean for reopening?

New show Impeachment, which premiered on September 8 on Binge, is the most personal – and arguably the most prominent – chapter in Lewinsky’s rehabilitation. 

Jelena Dokic can empathise with Naomi Osaka, who this week tearfully announced she would take an indefinite break from tennis following her third-round exit from the US Open.

Unlike the other three finals contests, Friday night’s Melbourne versus Manly match is an “anything could happen” clash.

In a heated parliamentary committee exchange, National Australia Bank’s boss Ross McEwan said the bank was taking its anti-money laundering obligations very seriously.

The University of Melbourne has apologised to casual staff for years of underpayment. But workers and the union say the university is not doing enough to address ongoing insecure working conditions.

The proposed acquisition of the Minerva in Potts Point would anchor the downtrodden strip’s transformation as a theatre district and halt plans by its recent buyers to turn it into a hotel.

Pub workers are looking forward to returning to work and getting paid from next month but are uncertain about how restrictions will be managed.

With birthday parties banned, playgrounds intermittently roped off, play dates cancelled and visits with family forbidden, life for the smallest members of society has changed. What is life like as a child in the COVID-19 pandemic?