First beetles, duelling wits and forgetting koels.

Tim Smith’s federal colleagues assumed his career would take a hit, but that Opposition Leader Matthew Guy would stand by him. That’s how it would have played out at the federal level.

We see the world through a thick lens generated by our brains, and it changes the way we view sport.

Police had pleaded with the alleged gunmen to hand himself in on Saturday.

Sydney University will triple its Welcome Week budget in February to revive the campus activity that has been dormant for almost two years.

Detectives have released images of two men they believe were involved in a hit-and-run that left one person dead and another with life-threatening injuries in Melbourne’s south-east.

The former state minister’s evidence pondered some big questions – what is corruption, really, and is conduct corrupt if someone else is doing more of it? – before his questioners lost patience.

Officers conducted CPR on the 45-year-old until paramedics arrived at a home in Seven Hills, but he could not be revived.

Parts of NSW and Queensland could see up to 150 millimetres of rain this week, the bureau has warned. 

There are times when politicians use cosmetic financial tricks to make the budget look better than it is.

HSC exams begin today, Victoria’s anti-corruption hearings continue and the federal government is set to announce a policy to boost the take-up of electric vehicles.

Cracks in the inner west trams are so extensive they have been seen to open and close even while travelling on straight sections of the network, a transport official has revealed.

Unvaccinated shoppers have just two weeks left before non-essential outlets close their doors to them as Victoria prepares to reach the 90 per cent immunisation target.

Federal government data released on Tuesday afternoon showed 90.12 per cent of people aged 16 and over were double-dosed.

After COVID-19 severely restricted last year’s Remembrance Day commemorations, the RSL is hoping it can get back to pre-coronavirus levels of support on Thursday.

Former Victorian government minister Adem Somyurek admitted he “lost all perspective” in his factional war, and that the attitude at the time was the end justified the means.

The strike force will seek to identify individuals who fraudulently sought grants after anomalies were detected in some applications in late October. 

The McGowan government’s support for Woodside’s $1 billion hydrogen plant is “confusing” and incompatible with achieving net zero emissions by 2050, according to a senior Fortescue executive.

Caitlin Cruz, 3, died at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in 2016. Her parents have called for changes to be made so such a death does not happen again.

The parkland and 430m boardwalk, which opened on Tuesday and links Mooloolaba to Alexandra Headland, consigns a beachside caravan park to the history books.

The Queensland government has announced a range of changes for the vaccinated population, as police plan to make changes to border crossings.

Details about enforcing vaccination rules for pubs and cafes have been revealed, while brides and grooms who want unlimited guests will need to uninvite anyone who refuses to be jabbed.

A police employee who lodged a claim for compensation for discrimination after she was allegedly raped by an officer two years ago has been fighting the police ever since.

Perth Children’s Court heard a PCH doctor ruled out any mental illness that would make the girl unfit to plead to the charges or seek supervised bail.

Pigeons will be released from the Shrine to mark Remembrance Day for the first time since it was opened in 1934.

Perth’s battle of the breakfast radio timeslot has continued to see airwaves once dominated by ABC talkback replaced by Nova mainstays Nathan, Nat and Shaun. 

A lawyer for underworld figure Tony Mokbel has labelled delays in his Victorian appeal as unacceptably slow, as the 55-year-old grapples with “unbelievably difficult conditions”.

Car manufacturers have questioned the government’s strategy to increase electric cars on the road by 2030.

It was four weeks late and students had to wear masks for more than two hours, but this year’s HSC group have completed their first exam.

In interviews with hospital management and clinical staff, emergency department staff were described as “exhausted, demoralised and relatively isolated” as they struggled to cope with an increasing workload and staffing disruptions due to COVID-1...

Police allege David Pye ordered the killing of Mr Martin. The fellow bikie was once a close associate of Mr Martin’s before he defected to another club.

Commuters forced to catch replacement buses for the suspended inner west light rail will receive half-price fares after the government backed down on charging passengers in full.

Today on Please Explain, health reporter Melissa Cunningham joins Bianca Hall to shed light on the intensive care wards caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients.

News With The Sydney Morning Herald allows you to get the most important news of the day on your smart speaker or phone.

Leading disease modeller Margaret Hellard answers questions from Age readers about what we know and don’t know about the Victorian outbreak, and the future of the pandemic.

The lead detective in the Cleo Smith abduction case has returned to Carnarvon to determine if anyone else is suspected of being involved in snatching the four-year-old and holding her captive for 18 days. 

People will have to be double-vaccinated to attend the footy, while hospitals will be off-limits to unvaccinated visitors.

Investors and taxpayers need more transparency from oil and gas companies about offshore cleanup liabilities to understand if they are at risk, a Senate committee heard.

Scott Morrison said federal modelling that informed the national COVID transition plan backed opening state borders at 80 per cent, and to do so any later would do “more harm than good” to the state’s economy.

Four people have been charged over the brawl, but police believe more people were involved.

The state will no longer require masks to be worn once Queensland reaches 80 per cent of first doses.

A man has been charged after his passenger was killed when a ute collided with a truck in Sydney’s north-west on Monday.

The NSW government’s finances were thrown into chaos on Monday night after claims that senior Treasury officials tried to cover up a report warning of a $10 billion hole in the state budget.

Already, there’s a field of well-qualified contenders vying to replace Australian Strategic Policy Institute executive director Peter Jennings

Jessy Jayakumaran was a Mormon churchgoer when she was recruited to work for Liberal MP Kevin Andrews. Much of her time was spent on work for his and Michael Sukkar’s conservative faction.

Victorian teachers will banish Andrews government MPs from visiting schools and refuse to help shift NAPLAN online as they ramp up their fight for a better pay deal.

Further revelations about an MPs alleged wrongdoing only strengthens the need for an effective national integrity body.

And the vast majority with the virus are young: 90 per cent are under 40, and 43 per cent are under 20.

Our liberal democracy needs citizens engaged in civil society - and that also goes for Chinese-Australians and their community organisations.

The litany of international procurement disasters plaguing NSW Transport should spark a rethink about building our own trams, trains, ferries and cars in Australia.