The biggest day of the year is finally here with South Sydney chasing a record-extending 22nd title and Penrith a first premiership in almost two decades.

The NRL grand final is expected to go ahead today, pending Queensland COVID-19 case numbers. In Victoria, cases may rise for another month, while NSW could have a new Premier with Dominic Perrottet tipped to take the job after the shock resignation o...

Dominic Perrottet is expected to announce his intention to run for the Liberal leadership.

It was an unexpected moment of raw emotion during Sunday’s coronavirus press conference, encapsulating the tragedy of the pandemic better than any politician ever could.

Voters have backed a radical proposal to nationalise big landlords, in a bid to bring rents under control.

In an anonymous building on the edge of the Melbourne CBD, one of the state’s most powerful law enforcement agencies runs a court-like office extracting information from Melbourne’s underworld.

Of the 1220 coronavirus cases reported on Sunday, 236 were in the south-east, which now also holds the state’s highest effective reproduction number.

“If there is any community spread ... [a lockdown] could happen,” the Premier said on Sunday as Queensland’s tally hit four local COVID cases over the past three days.

Staff and students return to classrooms for Term 4 on Tuesday, with mask rules firmly in place.

Premier Daniel Andrews says further details of the mandatory vaccination scheme allowing entry to a range of hospitality venues and businesses will be announced in coming weeks.

NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance has quit State Parliament for a tilt at federal politics but is distancing himself from the support of Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Women’s Test cricket is a rare and clearly underfunded format, so greater investment by administrators is urgently needed for players to thrive.

James Kennedy will decide on which sprinter will be in his slot in $15 million showcase in the next 48 hours.

Ciaron Maher and David Eustace hope their stayer can follow in the footsteps of Almandin to Melbourne Cup, while they try to saddle as many as four in the Caulfield Cup.

‘Yes’, the electorate nodded furiously in October last year, ‘we all have had a Daryl’. This award-winning performance from the premier will be used in media training circles for decades to come.

QPS confirmed on Sunday that Senior Constable Neil Glen Punchard had resigned, following the successful appeal against his sentence for computer hacking.

Never Been Kissed will attempt to emulate Montefilia by completing the Flight Stakes and Spring Champion Stakes double at Randwick on Saturday.

Everything you need to know to find a winner at the public holiday meeting.

Heza Gentleman recorded back-to-back wins in August in the Dubbo Cup Prelude and a Benchmark 72 race at Kensington and has been freshened up since his last start eighth in the Dubbo Cup.

Some migrant women on temporary visas are experiencing servitude and physical and sexual abuse, and the need for specialised services to support them continue to rise.

Samu Kerevi’s ankle injury isn’t as bad as first thought. Meanwhile, the RA chairman says the Wallabies coach is “everything that we could have hoped for”.

Top Sydney trainer David Payne anxiously awaiting Caulfield Cup penalty for his mare Montefilia after she took out the Metropolitan as rivals queue for Incentivise.

Just two years ago, Ofahiki Ogden spoke about his desire to join the police force. Now he’s been charged with drug possession.

Facebook has been accused of making mistakes following the failed election bid of Donald Trump, which ultimately led it to be used in the storming of the US Capitol.

Fully vaccinated Australians have the chance to win a $1 million prize in a lottery set up by a group of companies and philanthropists who hope to drive up COVID-19 jab rates.

Over the past 18 months, schools have followed multiple messages, from multiple stakeholders, ofttimes conflicting and sometimes downright absurd. And we have seen first-hand the effect of pandemic decisions on families.

All the latest drama and insight ahead of the NRL grand final, including Russell Crowe’s $200,000 insurance policy and what the NRL has planned for the 2022 season draw.

Melbourne’s schools will welcome year 12 students back to classrooms this week in the first step of a staggered return to on-site learning, as COVID-19 cases are expected to rise during term four.

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

Chris Thomas, one of Australia’s most distinguished scientists and a respected research fellow into the psycho-social aspects of disease, has died in Melbourne following a six-year battle with brain cancer.

Reductions in list sizes and the salary cap are the major factors behind why this year’s player movement window is poised to be somnolence-inducing.

Prince Andrew’s ex-wife has been linked to his sex abuse case due to the Duke’s alibi that he was at a Pizza Express with family members at the time of the alleged offence.

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

Health Minister Brad Hazzard has questioned whether the state’s corruption watchdog should conduct inquiries in public.

Though rendered illegal under the broad restrictions made under public health orders, protests have occurred - from the organised Black Lives Matter demonstration, to the chaotic anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine roving protests in Melbourne.

Terry Butcher, the former England captain, has called for heading to be phased out of football to end the dementia crisis that is devastating so many former professionals.

The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption has become the James Comey of Australian politics – announcing an investigation into alleged historical misconduct at the worst possible time, thereby forcing the exit of a powerful female leader th...

NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance has resigned from state politics and will nominate for preselection for the federal seat of Gilmore.

A health program in Melbourne is helping hundreds of Afghan refugees obtain medical assessments, trauma counselling and COVID vaccinations as they await permanent housing after fleeing the Taliban.

A group of older female surfers has spent every day in September out in the water, riding out the waves of lockdown – literally and metaphorically.

The economists’ theory of how markets work is grossly oversimplified. In the real world there are lots of problems can’t be solved just by leaving it to market forces.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has issued new guidelines for businesses and pleaded with NSW residents not to “let the side down” as the state reported 667 new local infections.

Since March last year, COVID-19 numbers have dominated our days and shaped every aspect of our lives, like a chart of our emotional ups and downs.

Blotted out words from hundreds-year old letters have been revealed by scientists with groundbreaking new X-ray imaging.

With no new local cases reported, the NRL decider will go ahead with crowds at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday night.

Australia wrapped up an encouraging winter with another victory. But they’ve put also put target on their backs, and can’t afford to be as loose when they meet the European heavyweights.

The milestone is deeply frustrating to doctors, public health officials and the American public, who watched a pandemic that had been easing earlier in the summer take a dark turn.

Michelle Spence, an ICU nurse unit manager from The Royal Melbourne Hospital, became emotional as she described the lonely deaths in ICU for COVID-19 patients, saying it was the nurses who “hold their hands while their families have to be at home�...

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says she plans to attend the match at Suncorp Stadium after just one overseas case was detected in hotel quarantine.

Olympic champion Annemiek van Vleuten suffered a broken pubic bone after crashing in an incident-packed inaugural Paris-Roubaix Femmes