A 29-year-old Aboriginal woman who was fatally shot by a Western Australian police officer accused of murder foreshadowed that she was going to die that day, a Supreme Court jury has heard.

Corrections Victoria says 39 prisoners and 15 staff at five prisons across the state have COVID-19.

Dominic Perrottet won a ballot at a party room meeting of Liberal MPs on Tuesday morning, following Gladys Berejiklian’s resignation as premier on Friday.

The roll-out of vaccine boosters raises moral as well as medical questions.

In the unlikely event England’s players go through with threats to pull out of this summer’s Ashes tour, it would do serious damage to Australian cricket at all levels.

Carlton have poached Ashley Hansen, who had been slated to be Luke Beveridge’s senior assistant, to hold the same role under new senior coach Michael Voss.

Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore said the City sought no health advice from the government before cancelling the 9pm New Year’s Eve fireworks, but she spoke to two experts afterwards, including ABC journalist Dr Norman Swan.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has played down the need to travel to Europe for global talks on climate change but former prime minister Kevin Rudd says he must go.

 Premiers Melbourne are looking at handing an AFL career lifeline to ex-St Kilda midfielder Luke Dunstan.

Premier Dominic Perrottet has promised to elevate more women to the NSW ministry, conceding he needed to do more on gender diversity.

Former Moreton Bay mayor Allan Sutherland was charged in December 2019 by the Crime and Corruption Commission.

School friends, footy and even swimming lessons are out of reach for now, but a spirit of adventure is keeping Aidan in touch with the great outdoors – even if it’s just camping in the backyard.

But in striving for greatness, will he move too far from the story voters are familiar with and deliver an unhappy ending?

Michael Gleeson and Peter Ryan discuss why the Western Bulldogs’ first draft pick could help shape a number of moves.

Country Victoria will play a critical role in the Ashes, as the quarantine haven for partners and families of the England men’s team.

Year 12s are the first students to return to school after months of remote learning.

The NRL transfer market has started to heat up with Aaron Woods, Tyrone Peachey, Jamal Fogarty and Tom Starling among the players landing deals.

Premier Dominic Perrottet and NSW Labor leader Chris Minns have pledged their intentions to target voters in the region in the run-up to the 2023 state election

Australians infected with the coronavirus will be asked to rely on community care at home to get through the illness.

The genius of the Korean series is that we are all implicated, whether we watch in horror or in delight

New Premier Dominic Perrottet has enjoyed a political rocket ride since being elected to Parliament in 2011

The Western Bulldogs’ first-round draft pick is being sought by clubs involved in two different deals as a possible key to unlocking talks for Jordan Dawson and Callum Coleman-Jones.

Several residents told a parliamentary inquiry they were short-changed by Sydney Metro in its acquisition of land for the Western Sydney Airport line.

Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, is set to tell her story publicly on Tuesday in the US. She will testify that the company misled the public and shareholders about the harmful effects of its platforms.

Regional Roads Minister Paul Toole is firming as favourite to replace Barilaro as NSW Nationals leader at a party room ballot on Wednesday.

Two more of Victoria’s big spring-time events were cancelled this week as the events sector pleaded for the state government for a plan to re-open.

NSW Liberals are debating whether Dominic Perrottet is an ultra-conservative, Victoria is preparing to overhaul its contact tracing and Australia will buy hundreds of thousands of experimental COVID treatment pills. 

More than 140,000 WA resources workers will need to have their first COVID vaccination by December 1 and second by January 1 to continue working on mining sites.

Scientific lobby group OzSage says international evidence shows schools without universal mask wearing are 3.5 times more likely to experience a COVID-19 outbreak.

The agreement would allow for the use of hydrogen to make steel and transform the iron ore export industry.

Sports clubs, councils and stadiums are reclaiming venues they had lent out as vaccination hubs and testing sites during the Delta outbreak as the state closes in on its 70 per cent double dose vaccination target.

There’s an air of excitement from trainer Tracey Bartley about emerging three-year-old Kiss Sum as the gelding takes an important step towards the Four Pillars at Rosehill on Wednesday.

A good track is expected for Wednesday when Sydney’s midweekers move back to the city’s west.

Journalist John Lyons’ claim that reporting in Jerusalem is journalism’s toughest assignment is a bit of a stretch.

Follow along as AFL trade period enters day two.

Skilled migrants will have to wait for Australians to be allowed to travel before the government resumes normal immigration to the country.

David Gonski, the businessman and university chancellor who designed Australia’s school funding equity framework, has defended incoming Premier Dominic Perrottet against accusations he is too religiously conservative for the top job.

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce says home quarantine should be a short-lived solution to opening Australia’s international border, and the country should lift all isolation requirements as soon as possible to restart tourism and business travel.

With further evidence that the world’s coral reefs are dying as global warming continues, pressure is mounting for Australia to increase emissions reduction.

If the newly sworn NSW Premier is to become a successful leader, he must make good on his pledge to “serve all the people of our state”.

Dominic Perrottet promised to embark on a “new chapter” for the state and said he would be a “family Premier”.

Three NSW government members are among a cross-parliamentary committee calling for heightened scrutiny of the environmental impacts of the $1 billion-plus project before raising the wall by at least 14 metres.

Cancer outcomes in Australia are among the best in the world, except for those in rural and remote areas, a NSW inquiry has heard.

Young Fremantle star Adam Cerra could be handed an early birthday present as his move to Carlton edges closer.

Early Childhood Management Services, which runs 70 kindergartens and childcare centres across Melbourne, says it has reviewed safety protocols after the Werribee incident in 2019.

A woman who allegedly set fire to a hotel room near Newcastle has also been charged with kidnapping a 14-year-old girl in an unrelated incident almost two months earlier.

The Reserve Bank is sticking by its belief interest rates will not rise until at least 2024, holding official interest rates at 0.1 per cent.

Wallabies playmaker Matt To’omua will take the rest of the year off after suffering a concussion in a trial game against the Western Force last month.

New NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has had his call for an overhaul of GST immediately rejected by WA, the federal government and the Labor Party.

Mystery surrounds Gomeroi man Gordon Copeland’s disappearance after he was last seen entering a river outside a northern NSW town in July.