Senior NSW Health officials met with federal counterparts on Tuesday to discuss the settings that would be required to allow the return of visitors to aged care homes.

New Zealand entrepreneur Emma Lewisham is the latest innovator to make skincare sustainability look good.

Councillors in Melbourne’s east and south-east are wary about letting the state government seize planning control of prime real estate near Suburban Rail Link stations.

It may be daring and original, but Annette commits the biggest crime of all – it doesn’t care if it bores the audience.

NSW’s full lockdown road map has been revealed, Victoria is remaining tight-lipped about when restrictions will ease for the unvaccinated and Queensland’s COVID-free run has come to an end.

Opaque new measures to limit abortion and increase the birth rate have prompted widespread concern among China’s new generation of empowered women.

Jordan Petaia wants to one day wear a gold No.15 jersey at Test level but Burke, one of the country’s greatest ever fullbacks, explains why now might not be the time.

A longstanding family relationship between former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and Pengana boss Russel Pillemer is the subject of a lawsuit involving allegations of lies and deception.

Victoria has overtaken NSW for the most number of daily cases of COVID-19 for the first time since the Delta variant took off in Sydney in June.

The NRL wants to put hair follicle testing for illicit drugs back on the agenda following the latest off-field incidents.

Intent on gaining a regular income, property investors forked out $83.26 million at a super-size online auction.

Marshall said he is yet to make a decision on his future despite comments made by coach Wayne Bennett during his post-game press conference on Saturday. 

In a minority decision, Deputy President Lyndall Dean said public health orders - including those for COVID-19 - had moved “into the realm of depravation”.

South Sydney players knew their season was about to change the moment Latrell Mitchell clattered into Joseph Manu. But the star fullback has become an inspiration behind the scenes.

At the start of the year Ita won a Muswellbrook maiden and was beaten in a couple of benchmark 58s but she’s blossomed in the new season.

Sydney’s midweekers are back at headquarters on Wednesday with seven races programmed for the Kensington track.

Trucking giant Toll has warned Sydney drivers against using toll roads because in most cases the costs outweigh any benefit, according to a briefing note presented to a state government inquiry.

The brutal series, about a group of debt-ridden social dropouts trying to win big cash, is on track to become Netflix’s “biggest show ever”.

Canadian model Jennifer Cole has pleaded guilty to one charge of contempt in the Supreme of Victoria after admitting to circulating an audio recording of her former partner, multi-millionaire businessman Sean Buckley allegedly assaulting and threate...

A Sheffield Shield match has been postponed in Brisbane but the one-off Test against India is still expected to begin on the Gold Coast on Thursday.

Forum Group Financial Services accountant Brandon Chin had a front-row seat to what is alleged to have been one of the biggest frauds in Australian banking history.

Tommy Berry thinks he could ride top weight Mo’unga “ugly” and still win the Epsom at Randwick on Saturday.

Home-testing kits could be on the shelves in little more than a month’s time, the federal government says.

Lockdowns across NSW, the ACT and Victoria have knocked $2 billion from east coast retailers’ cash registers. Their hopes turn on a strong Christmas.

Singer and musician Fem Belling and partner Casey Macrae have converted a Toyota ute into a pop-up jazz club that will entertain Melburnians as lockdown restrictions finally ease.

Melbourne bar and restaurant owner Hayden Burbank and financial planner Mark Babbage have been arrested after allegedly entering WA by falsely claiming to be Darwin residents and attending the AFL grand final.

Of the three large proxy firms that advise BHP’s shareholders, Glass Lewis is the first to have made a call and it’s a controversial vote against shareholders supporting BHP Climate Transition Action Plan.

Hospitality and retail businesses will not be fined for granting entry to unvaccinated people when NSW reopens, while police will only step in to assist when asked.

Rob Stokes has refused to declare the Warragamba Dam wall-raising a critical state project because it impacts a World Heritage area.

The six-part submarine crime thriller was tense and satisfying. But did it rely too much on implausible circumstance?

Victorians isolating at home will be asked to take selfies within five minutes of receiving a text alert as part of a trial for a new app that could help future interstate or international travellers to quarantine at home.    

Peter Kay, the brother-in-law of colourful Sydney construction identity George Alex, is the 14th person to be arrested in relation to the alleged $20 million tax fraud and money laundering scheme run by Mr Alex and jailed crime figure Michael Ibrahim...

There were so many ways to go wrong with this show, but there were also endless opportunities to get things deliciously right.

CSIRO principal senior research scientist Andrew Ross will lead a team that will spend up to two years assessing if the business case for a carbon capture, use and storage hub near Darwin stacks up.

The chairman of WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network says Australia should open extra COVID-care facilities before cases really spike.

Labor’s spokeswoman for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, says vaccination rates must be lifted as a matter of urgency before the country begins to open up.

How does the time change affect people (and cows)? And which way should we wind the clocks this weekend?

Queensland Health has listed a number of new COVID-19 exposure sites across Brisbane after four new local cases were reported on Tuesday.

The Panthers are expected to rule mid-season recruit Tevita Pangai Junior out of Sunday’s clash with South Sydney due to a knee injury.

The Victorian senator says too many federal MPs are worried about being “cool” rather than “the consequences of their decisions”.

The medical journal’s choice of words was meant to be inclusive but merely highlighted how language has become a battleground.

In 2014 he was lying in a pool of his own blood. It’s been a long road back for DJ and composer Jake Blood.

The White House’s program - Build Back Better for the World - aims to win back some of the ground China has gained with its massive foreign policy project.

Mitch Brown has re-signed with Melbourne for another year despite the veteran playing just one AFL match in 2021.

Midfielder Patrick Lipinski has told the club he wants a trade, with Collingwood shaping as his likely destination, while Caleb Daniel will open contract negotiations with the Bulldogs over summer.

A 28-year-old man was on bail for serious charges when he allegedly carjacked a motorist on the Graham Farmer Freeway before engaging in a dramatic chase with police while armed on Monday morning. 

It makes good sense for someone aged 50 or more to pour money into superannuation, to make sure they retire with no mortgage.

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The 40-year-old also tied up another man on the Sunshine Coast, scratched her name into his back, then slit his wrists.

How can you get the most out of your picnic? And how has our love of food sustained us through the extended lockdowns of the past 18 months?