’Tis the season of muzakal torture.

The Strikers cruised past the Sydney Sixers in Adelaide.

The novelist and playwright was honoured for his substantial body of work and said his writing had been built on the sacrifices of his migrant parents.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: “We need to pull out all the stops if we’re going to keep 1.5C within our grasp”.

Australian Clinical Labs’ profits have topped $100 million since the pandemic started, but the pathology group pocketed more than $12 million in JobKeeper payments from the Morrison government.

Carlton defender Liam Jones is in constant dialogue with the Blues as he remains reluctant to adhere to the AFL’s vaccination policy, which requires all players to be vaccinated to train and play next season. 

One of Australia’s opponents in their Twenty20 World Cup semi-final, Haris Rauf, can thank opportunities in Sydney grade cricket and the BBL for his rapid rise.

The 25 or so holdouts in the NRL need a few simple questions put to them. I’m not sure they have the answers.

A legal challenge to lockdown and vaccine mandates has serious deficiencies and should be struck out, a lawyer representing the state of Victoria has told the Federal Court.

Cricket Australia remains committed to keeping the fifth Test in Perth, but that has not stopped Tasmania from ramping up the pressure on Western Australia.

As long as they continue to reap the profits, manufacturers will prefer to sell gas guzzlers instead of efficient vehicles.

Michael Battistella’s mother is about to undergo a second round of chemotherapy, but his family’s hopes of going to Adelaide to support her are being thwarted by South Australia’s border policy.

One of the nation’s biggest civil trials over lucrative iron ore mining rights in Western Australia’s Pilbara has been derailed due to an appeal being brought by Gina Rinehart and her company Hancock Prospecting.

A Queensland police officer knocked on the side of the suspicious white container. Mostafa Baluch knocked back.

Shopping mall giant Vicinity Centres is suing key department store tenant Myer over unpaid rent at its flagship Bourke Street Melbourne store.

The Bureau of Meteorology said parts of the state could record more rain in the next three days than their November averages.

In the same week Tim Sheens returned from England to begin his duties as Wests Tigers director of football, his protégé has also signed to return home.

These are defining days for Australia’s white ball captain Aaron Finch, and not only for what his team can achieve this week.

Labor thinks it’s on to a winner with its efforts to tell voters Scott Morrison cannot be trusted, but scare campaigns are what Albanese will need to counter.

Australia’s hopes of a miracle at Twickenham are fading with two props in danger of missing the England clash.

A three-metre shark of an unknown species has been reported swimming offshore at Port Beach, just days after a fatal attack in the same spot.

Rodd Staples, who was fired without cause late last year, has been summoned to appear at an inquiry into NSW’s controversial $40 billion rail corporation.

More than 90 per cent of NSW residents aged 16 and over are now fully vaccinated, a former Victorian minister has told an anti-corruption inquiry that some of his actions should be condemned and the Prime Minister’s electric vehicle plan is in the ...

Less than 48 hours after saying it would suspend joint maritime patrols, Jakarta is planning to resume them.

Homebuyers could be competing at property auctions against organised criminal gangs using Australia to launder billions, according to law enforcement agencies.

With heavy falls expected on the Mid-North Coast in the lead-up, the landscape looks right for another paling to be added to the four-year-old’s “picket fence”.

Everything you need to know to pick a winner on an eight-race card.

Tommy Berry thought Bandersnatch was a nice ride in The Hunter, but a barrier trial on Monday has him believing he could be on the winner of the $1 million feature.

Scott Morrison is backing ‘can-do capitalism’ to drive down climate emissions but Anthony Albanese is warning lockdown-weary voters not to get sucked into a “nonsense” debate.

Hawthorn player Finn Maginness and a Carlton AFLW program member have both tested positive for COVID-19.

The corruption watchdog is looking into claims a photo of Dani Laidley was shared by Victoria Police officers and that transphobic comments were made about it.

Rob Stokes said the state government wants the Spanish company that made Sydney’s cracked inner west trams to pay for their rectification.

Keating always spoke in pictures. Consider his 1990 self-portrait as Placido Domingo. Here he was back at the press club, his canvas now the entire world.

The chairman of oil and gas producer Beach Energy has insisted ex-CEO Matt Kay ‘wasn’t pushed’ from the job when he suddenly resigned last week.

Racing Victoria’s chief executive Giles Thompson said he’d be shocked to think the increased prizemoney for Sydney’s Golden Eagle was simply to overtake the stakes on offer in the Melbourne Cup.

A TV news crew spoke to the suspect at his house, which was bugged, and the crew was there to later film his arrest.

The decision to let accused drug kingpin Mostafa Baluch out of custody is one incident that has prompted concerns about bail laws.

The partial reopening of economies is leading to a surge in people getting back to work. But some parts of our major cities have a long way to recover.

As Qld reaches the 80 per cent single-dose jab rate, masks are no longer mandated.

Wilder oversaw the publication of several ground-breaking titles including Collen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds.

It’s been a long time since the Socceroos played in Australia, but it’s been a lot longer since they lost a live World Cup qualifying match on home soil.

Bayswater man Timmy Rakei, 44, was working as a traffic controller at a roadworks site in Carrum Downs when a car ploughed into him on Tuesday morning. He died at the scene.

Much of the world’s most creative music is ignored in the rush to shroud ourselves in bubbles of the reassuringly familiar.

Essendon’s young group returned to pre-season training on Wednesday with a former champion Tiger taking to the track to help them out.

The power pendulum has clearly swung post-pandemic from employers towards employees - a recipe for wage inflation.

The night before the NRL grand final, Ofahiki Ogden was busted with cocaine. Now he must comply with the terms of a court order after the charges were dismissed.

Escapism and happy endings were once the golden rule of TV. That is no longer the case.

Hannah Bent and Sophie Overett have both won awards for their first novels.

There are 2 trillion galaxies ‘in the piece of the universe we can see’, says the award-winning physicist. But we can’t presume there is life anywhere else.

The third instalment of American Crime Story revisits the impeachment of President Clinton after his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky; but front and centre of this incendiary telling are the women who became tools in the careers of Great Men.