’Tis the season of muzakal torture.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Inquiry will play an important role in helping understand what happened and answer questions about past injustices.

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.

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.

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.

A leading environmental allergist says the forecast for stormy weather and compromised immune systems after the COVID-19 pandemic could result in a severe thunderstorm asthma season this spring.

A High Court ruling narrows the way the “good faith” defence may be applied over the 2019 death of Indigenous man Kumanjayi Walker.

Residents living above the $3.9 billion Rozelle interchange complained of “unbearable” noise as machines dig tunnels for the underground spaghetti junction.

Today on Please Explain, chief political correspondent David Crowe joins Rachel Clun to discuss whether a federal corruption commission will get off the ground.

Under the plan, two new offences would be created that would each add up to three years to the prison sentence for offenders who caused the loss of a pregnancy.

Councils, taxi companies and other fleet operators will be able to bid to defray the cost of electric vehicles over fuel-driven cars.

The expansion and enhancement of automatic number plate recognition systems across WA is tipped to help police solve crimes more efficiently.

Health Minister Yvette D’Ath says the thousands stuck interstate due to COVID-19 hotspots will have enough clarity to start booking flights home from today.

A West Australian teenager has been arrested after allegedly speeding through a border checkpoint following multiple failed attempts to be granted approval to return home from New South Wales.

Attendees at a Melbourne Cup victory party were also told to isolate after being identified as close contacts of three partygoers who later tested positive for coronavirus.

The 33-year-old has been on the run since allegedly skipping bail on October 25 when he removed his ankle monitor.

Ray Wyeth, 65, a highly respected midwife in central Queensland, and an 87-year-old man were killed after the ambulance they were in was rear-ended by a truck.

Former Ipswich mayor Andrew Antoniolli was charged by the Crime and Corruption Commission in 2018 with 13 offences.

The Premier says a man living at Pacific Pines on the Gold Coast had tested positive after being potentially infectious in the community for six days.

WA Police still believe the alleged abductor of Cleo Smith acted alone, despite detectives returning to Carnarvon to explore whether another person could have been involved.

The billionaire mining magnate says he will launch legal action against the government over its plans to bar those without the jab from a range of venues as the state opens up.

Just as sales are taking off, it seems Ahmed Abdelwahed’s hopes have been grounded after his visa application was turned down.

Following a long investigation, detectives from the missing persons squad charged 33-year-old Sale man Sam Blake with murder after taking him into custody early on Wednesday.

The report detailing the failures that led to Aishwarya Aswath’s death at Perth Children’s Hospital must be the start of some soul-searching as we wonder how our health system got to such a strained point.

Mark Olson said while conditions had improved at Perth Children’s Hospital since Aishwarya’s death, the same situations identified in the report could be seen across the health system.

The rider was rushed to hospital on Tuesday afternoon after a crash with a car.

Police believe underworld gangs could be behind a spate of luxury car thefts in Sydney’s north over the past three weeks.

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

Alan Jones is already onto the next big thing – buying a share in a young racehorse.

Emails reveal Dominic Perrottet attended a high-level meeting in September last year that sealed the fate of the rail corporation.

The former AFL coach expressed her frustration at the image – which she has permitted The Age to publish – being circulated via text message with transphobic comments by several members of Victoria Police.

As Australians rush to book their summer getaways, there are concerns more needs to be done to protect travellers at a national level.

I’m worried about research indicating many young people aren’t sold on the relative merits of democracy. What I’m not sold on is Education Minister Alan Tudge’s solution.

A private investment group wants to build apartments, green spaces, restaurants, a school and a TAFE on top of the rail lines between Flinders Street and South Yarra stations.

Gerard Obeid was touting the development potential of a beachfront street years before a man known to his family bought up next door.

Australia’s top immunisation advisers will wait on safety data from several hundred thousand young children in the US before giving the go-ahead for the jab for 5-11-year-olds.

Lawyers representing the man wrongfully identified by Seven Network as Cleo Smith’s accused abductor say it’s the worst defamation case of its kind they had seen.

Sadly, it appears that moving forward into a cleaner and responsible driving future is not really “the Australian way”.

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