Nine year 12 students reflect on finishing school during a global pandemic – and the longings they never thought they’d have.

One of Hillary Clinton’s key staffers, Huma Abedin was on top of the world. Then her US congressman husband, Anthony Weiner, dropped a bombshell.

The man at the centre of the Cleo Smith case has been charged with child stealing and another charge, Victoria and NSW open their borders to each other and Katherine in the NT has entered a snap lockdown.

Major attractions are reopening this weekend after lockdown, see where you can go.

Little girl found: a town rejoices but now the healing begins for little Cleo

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has returned to Australia after a dramatic week in Europe to attend the G20 conference in Rome and the COP26 climate change summit Glasgow.

He was accused of fighting with Stephen Lane, a former independent political candidate, outside a restaurant on July 30.

The High Court decision means the injured women in the class action can start making claims for compensation, years after the court process began.

Parts of WA would be shut off from other parts of the state and country if their vaccination rates don’t hit 90 per cent.

COVID outbreak modelling conducted by the WA government suggests that a 90 per cent vaccination rate would save about 200 lives compared to an 80 per cent rate.

The severity of cracks in all 12 trams that operate on the line has forced the government to decommission the line for up to 18 months.

Andrew John Cobby, 59, allegedly murdered his estranged wife Kym Cobby on the Gold Coast on November 12, 2017.

Premier Mark McGowan has decided to put the freedom of movement of 2.7 million West Australians in the hands of 250,000 people who so far – whatever the reasons – have declined the abundant opportunity to be vaccinated.

A police bid to close the Men’s Gallery on Lonsdale Street over allegations of operating an unlicensed brothel has failed after prosecutors withdrew their case.

Elena Galiabovitch is an Australian Olympic pistol-shooting champion; her dad, Vladimir, is her coach. Together, they’re gunning for excellence.

The actor discusses growing up in poverty, how sexual desire can outweigh performance at his age, and why there’s nothing he envies of his TV foil.

Halloween, Christmas, Easter – these all provide an occasion to mark the ceaseless passage of time, no matter where you live.

Almost 500 people have used Victoria’s assisted dying laws since they were introduced, but the system is being plagued by multiple challenges.

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The political strategy firm’s former chief financial officer will face trial next year accused of stealing money by transferring it to himself.

Wearing a white long-sleeved shirt and dark shorts, Terence Darrell Kelly was marched barefoot in chains onto the tarmac on a guarded flight.

Workers including nurses and other healthcare professionals, teachers, emergency services responders and construction workers are among 132 plaintiffs who are challenging Victoria’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the Supreme Court.

Just as COVID-19 restrictions were lifted, wild weather has delayed the start of the camping season for weeks.

The lawyer for three police officers accused of breaking a man’s neck and rendering him quadriplegic during an arrest want to explore the possibility that the injuries had another cause.

As state border closures paused travel around the country and organ donations fell by up to 30 per cent, doctors had to curb the pandemic’s disruption on essential transplant operations.

Premier Dominic Perrottet tried to find a way to liberate students from masks, but the risks to older supervisors and potential to disrupt exams were too great

Former Marist brother O’Brien has been jailed for a minimum of five years for abusing “vulnerable” boarders under his care at the Hunters Hill school in the 1960s.

The mayor of Moree, where another 15 COVID-19 cases were recorded on Friday, says the town feels like it has been abandoned by the state government.

The week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial review photographers.

The Victoria Racing Club said both individuals were fully vaccinated and the two cases were not linked.

The former NSW deputy premier has settled his case against Jordan Shanks, the face of the Friendlyjordies channel, but his case against Google will continue.

Today on Please Explain, chief political correspondent David Crowe joins Nathanael Cooper to unpack a dramatic week in foreign relations.

Mr McGowan released the government’s ‘transition plan’ to loosen international and domestic borders and allow COVID into the state on Friday, making the state the last in the country to do so.

Border communities such as the Gold Coast have been placed on alert by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, who admonished the lower levels of vaccination in the region, warning the current COVID-19 cluster in the south-western town of Goondiwindi could ha...

Some Victorians in need of hospital care will be treated at home in a bid to free up dozens of beds in the state’s strained healthcare system under a new $307 million health package.

The incident, which infected 26 patients at Nepean Hospital, resulted in the introduction of rapid antigen testing for mental health inpatients.

In this subscriber-exclusive Q&A, columnist Niki Savva speaks candidly about joining The Sydney Morning Herald, how COVID-19 has changed Australian politics and her time working with former prime minister John Howard and former treasurer Peter Costel...

Australians are among the highest consumers of cosmetic procedures per capita in the world, yet the regulation of this multibillion-dollar industry has been described as the Wild West without the sheriffs.

Queensland has recorded no new cases of COVID-19. However, the state is watching Moree’s cases closely as the township’s cluster grew by 15 overnight.

Tim Smith failed to live up to the spiritual example of the ultimate conservative hard nut, former Victorian premier Sir Henry Bolte: Deny everything.

Police believe the alleged cocaine dealer Mostafa Baluch - on the run since last month - is “feeling the pressure” of an intense manhunt and still hiding in NSW.

The man who was wrongfully accused by a Seven West publication has said he will be suing over the mistake, which saw him face threats from others on Facebook.

The giant contradiction at the heart of climate politics is that it is a collection of national leaders pursuing national interests while trying to solve a borderless, global problem.

It sure has been a good quarter for Nine deputy chairman Nick Falloon

Some principals worry about students suffering another disappointment due to a change in rules on the eve of their HSC.

It seems Australian politicians are losing their nerve for gutsy economic reform. This one was holding some promise - so don’t let it go, Dominic Perrottet.

Doctors say coronavirus patients lingering in hospital - including some of the most gravely ill - are not included in official figures, as government dismisses those no longer in isolation wards.

Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner held a late-night press conference to announce the first case of COVID-19 community transmission and a lockdown for Katherine.

Scott Morrison struts the world stage like a bully in the school playground, believing he is untouchable. His idea of international diplomacy is to roll up for a soccer game and play thugby league.