Everything is tickety-boo.

The Socceroos are back on home turf for the first time in more than two years and can take a giant step towards a fifth-straight World Cup berth against the red-hot Saudis.

Sue and Lloyd Clarke, parents of murdered daughter Hannah Clarke, 31, who was doused in petrol and set alight with her three young children, have been honoured for their work in preventing domestic violence.

A man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly assaulting, choking and cutting a woman’s throat with a knife in Brisbane’s south. 

Despair, celebration, beauty and fragmentation are themes in this year’s $30,000 Bowness Prize, reflecting our very different realities in the past year.

Melbourne is at 4 per cent of its pre-COVID office occupancy levels and City of Melbourne data shows foot traffic has been down 80 per cent during the pandemic.

Parts of NSW have already received more than a month’s rain in one day while a campground was evacuated in the middle of the night due to rising floodwaters.

Adem Somyurek deleted text messages in which he discussed forging signatures, pleading “temporary insanity” during the fierce factional battle for control of Labor Party branches in Melbourne’s south-east.

Six weeks after losing the party leadership, the Malvern MP is facing another challenge, this time from a councillor aligned with former attorney-general Tim Smith.

Multiple sources expressed extreme doubt that players would accept quarantine conditions in West Australia that fly in the face of how the majority of Australia and large parts of the world are handling the virus.

Carlton defender Liam Jones remains adamant he will not receive a COVID vaccination despite the fact he will not be allowed to play under the AFL’s vaccination policy.

Advocates and medical practitioners have stressed the need for better support for palliative care, as the voluntary assisted dying (VAD) bill re-enters state Parliament on Friday.

BHP chairman Ken MacKenzie has not ruled out shutting down its Mount Arthur coal mine in NSW if no buyer can be found for the mining giant’s last thermal coal mine.

As Adem Somyurek faced his most uncomfortable day in the IBAC witness box, the agency’s commissioner addressed calls to compel Premier Daniel Andrews to give evidence.

Parts of NSW and Queensland are bracing for more wild weather, Victoria’s opposition is preparing to fight the state government’s new pandemic laws and international climate talks are continuing in Glasgow.

Hundreds of health workers opposed to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination risk losing their jobs in coming weeks.

Mr Baluch was discovered hiding inside a truck crossing the Queensland border. The driver of the truck and his company are now under scrutiny.

Parramatta imposed a deadline on three of their off-contract stars to agree to new deals earlier this week. At the 11th hour, they changed their mind.

Much as a sportsperson might want to assert an individual right to refuse vaccination, public health is a team sport.

The head of pathology at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine has autopsied dozens of patients with COVID-19. On her table, she says, the signs of the virus are clear.

Shared Ambition wasn’t the horse Chris Waller was looking for in Ireland three years ago, but he has proven a shrewd buy.

A man who police say attended the September protest at Richmond and Hawthorn that left ten police injured has been charged with 20 offences, including assaulting officers.

Aquinas College, one of Melbourne’s largest Catholic schools, is yet to rectify the unpaid superannuation it owes to hundreds of staff members, past and present.

The comments are in stark contrast to former prime minister Paul Keating, who has argued that the US can no longer be a dominant military force in Asia.

Three-year-olds Harvey’s Way and Contributingfactor have arrived at the right time for Newcastle trainer David Atkins after a tough couple of years.

George Bailey says Victoria’s Marcus Harris will be given an extended run as David Warner’s opening partner in the Ashes.

Victorians are being told to prepare for heavy rain, damaging winds, further possible power outages and widespread flooding, as a low-pressure system sweeps in from the north.

The body of a man, aged in his 60s, was recovered from the Manning River on NSW’s Mid North Coast after he was seen entering the water earlier on Thursday.

Everything you need to know to find a winner at the city meeting.

Australia’s biggest commercial explosives maker is projecting strong mining activity to persist into 2022 as the sector rebounds from a torrid year.

As crowds including the Prime Minister, Premier and lord mayor made their way back at the shrine, the solemn occasion began, for the first time, with a Welcome to Country.

Australia needs to act now to embrace the cost benefits of green investment according to executives of some of Australia’s biggest employers.

Outside court, the family of the baby’s mother said they wanted to dish out a traditional punishment - impaling the convicted killer with a spear.

Motorists could be slugged new tolls on Sydney’s Harbour Bridge and Tunnel.

The upcoming exhibition, “Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto” celebrates the designer instead of the legend, whose reputation has been clouded since her death 50 years ago.

Reported measles cases fell by more than 80 per cent last year compared with 2019, but many children missed their vaccine doses leaves them vulnerable.

Former Labor powerbroker is back before the anti-corruption commission inquiry into branch stacking and misuse of taxpayer money for a third day of evidence.

The unemployment rate lifted by 0.6 percentage points in October, just ahead of the reopening of the NSW and Victorian economies.

A 30-year-old man of no fixed address was arrested about 2pm on Thursday, while another 25-year-old was arrested about 3pm after he attended Frankston police station.

The banking regulator says it could impose limits on higher-risk loans if they raised risks for the financial system.

The Liberal chairman of the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security responds to former prime minister Paul Keating.

The Law Institute of Victoria says the controversial new pandemic bill should be delayed, even if it means there are no pandemic powers for a brief period, to seize the opportunity to get it right.

One of the Victorian Liberal Party’s most senior figures, long-serving MP David Davis, has emerged as a potential star candidate for the seat of Kew.

John O’Shea is looking for a winning finish to Lost And Running’s spring campaign in The Hunter on Saturday.

Ro Allen survived four men trying to “exorcise” their queerness at 16. Now, as Victoria’s Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner, they have an opportunity to protect others.

The state’s peak welfare lobby says 200,000 Victorians are still relying on federal government COVID-19 payments, due to be cut off next week.

Cloud accounting platform Xero is leaning into machine learning and the app economy to drive growth and value among its small business customers.

Consumers could soon be shelling out much more for their coffee, burger or bowl of pasta, with hospitality businesses struggling in the face of rising costs.

The commuter car park fund, running over budget and set to deliver fewer car parks than promised, has been labelled a “corrupt” process by integrity experts.

South-east Queensland was expected to be battered by heavy rainfall that could lead to flash flooding as severe thunderstorms move towards the coast.