And football diplomacy in a warm climate.

President of the Mathematical Association of NSW, Karen McDaid, said teachers’ main issue was around the wordiness of some questions.

The mood at Tuesday’s protest turned as a Kilsyth “wizard” who loves the vibe and people dancing the nutbush gave way to threats of violence and talk of nooses.

The most interesting study I have read on pregnancy and infancy upends our ideas about how we become the humans we are.

The carcass has been towed back out to sea after it floated close to the Thomson Bay ferry jetty.

Religious leaders have combined to condemn moves to stop religious schools from sacking teachers or enrolling students based on gender identity or sexuality.

New cases of COVID-19 in the Northern Territory have led to tougher travel restrictions between the two states.

As upper house MPs debate the bill, the president of the peak body representing legal professionals in Victoria said amendments to the legislation don’t go far enough.

William, aged 3, was last seen playing outside his foster grandmother’s house on the Mid North Coast in September 2014.

Victoria’s political leaders and sharpest legal minds gathered to commemorate the life and prodigious achievements of the state’s former governor.

The Morcombe family’s despair at having to wait to lay Daniel to rest has led to reforms aimed at ensuring the timely release of a victim’s body.

More than $1 million was raised on Saturday night at a packed-out Crown Perth for the Ronald McDonald House Charities WA Ball.

Authorities are warning of flooding along NSW’s Lachlan River, the Victorian government has agreed to amend its controversial pandemic legislation and residents of Katherine in the NT are waking up to their first full day of a snap lockdown.

The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions is resisting the attempts of two women who were wrongly jailed after their tea was misidentified as an illegal drug to sue for costs.

The company responsible for the death of a 17-year-old worker will be sentenced next week after the director failed to appoint a legal team. Its director now also personally faces charges over the incident.

Terrance Flowers has launched defamation proceedings against the media company in the Supreme Court of Western Australia.

Orios Zavros, his wife Lindsey and their children Zoe and Zane ran into trouble when their Mitsubishi Canter became bogged on Friday in remote South Australia during a cross-country holiday. 

South Metropolitan Health Service chief executive Paul Forden said doctors and nurses had been forced to revert to paper records and warned there would be delays. 

James Parr, who is preparing to take to the runway this week, is passionate about the need for fashion to include people of all abilities and backgrounds.

Lawyers for the multimillionaire Ultra Tune boss want to test the authenticity of audio recordings being used to allege he assaulted and stalked his former partner.

The outdoor education industry and music teachers are struggling for financial survival because the NSW Department of Education will not allow public school students to attend overnight camps or play woodwind instruments.

The head of Queensland’s corruption watchdog has called for proposed elements of the 2032 Brisbane Games organising committee, including exemptions for federal MPs, to be scrapped.

Nick Newman was shot dead by two detectives on Australia Day in 2018 after he stabbed an investigator during an attempted arrest.

About 5 per cent of interstate truck drivers have moved on over vaccination mandates while authorities investigate the use of rapid antigen tests.

The state government borrowed $9.5 billion and recorded a $6.8 billion deficit between June and September, figures the opposition says makes for grim reading.

Service station cameras in south-west Qld put the occupants of a stolen Ford Focus within about 150km of where Jeremiah Rivers was last seen.

Child advocates say too many young Australians are being locked up, and it’s time the states got serious about lifting the age of criminal responsibility, not just to 12, but to 14.

When Tony Abbott makes a rousing speech about solidarity with Taiwan, while a former true believer serves up a deficit of empathy, I must admit the heart breaks a little.

Police have increased their presence at a protest on the steps of Parliament House after demonstrators gathered around wooden gallows on Monday night chanting calls for the Premier to go.

A judge has shut down efforts from former Liberal powerbroker Marcus Bastiaan to prevent The Age and Sydney Morning Herald from continuing to report on allegations that senior figures in the party abused public resources.

Xochil O’Neill attacked and killed Maud Steenbeek in her Heidelberg West home last year, when he confronted her while she was on a Skype call to her brother in the Netherlands.

Today on Please Explain, political reporter Lisa Visentin joins Bianca Hall to discuss the Senate inquiry into the ABC, and how it might play out amid the federal election campaign.

Border changes came into effect from 5pm on Monday, meaning people in Australian hotspots can apply online to travel into Queensland and quarantine at home. 

The courtroom is traditionally a serious setting, but after almost two years of remote hearings in Victoria there have been a number of lighter moments, and a few regretful comments made when the mute button should have been on.

The first travellers from interstate hotspots have begun arriving in Queensland after the state hit a crucial vaccine milestone early.

After years of tussles with the local council, the basketball star has sold his Beaumaris property for a suburb record.

The new positive case is a Victorian man who was refused entry to Queensland because of insufficient paperwork. He was tested and placed into hotel quarantine, but was allowed to board a flight to Melbourne - via Hobart - the following day.  

Police have returned to the home from which William Tyrrell disappeared in 2014 with a cadaver dog and are currently digging up the garden.

Earlier this year, the West End site was flagged as the venue for the International Broadcast Centre, with an Olympics report saying the property would offer an “attractive location within walking distance of five venues”.

CBD has learnt that Folau has been considering a tilt at politics at the behest of billionaire Clive Palmer to stand on a ticket for Palmer’s UAP.

No-one has been prosecuted despite it being a year since the Brereton inquiry reported on atrocities committed over the 20 years.

Defence Minister Peter Dutton has all but unilaterally said Australia would join a US-led war against China if Taiwan is attacked. But where’s the public or indeed the parliamentary debate?

Assisted dying legislation takes one kind of death and aims to make it easier. But it also opens the door to new kinds of suffering and abuse, unintended but not unforeseeable.

Even short-term exposure to high levels of air pollution has an impact of how well our brain functions, researchers have discovered.

Andrew Denton’s article points out a lack of rational thought put in to Dominic Perrottet’s address to parliament on the VAD bill.

House of the Kelly gang, Letters to the Editor, and Personal notices.

With the Government contemplating a ban on the industry, crowds rushed trading stamp gift shops to redeem their coupons.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz and target.

Sustainability professor Veena Sahajwalla launched the world’s first e-waste microfactory in 2018 and then a plastics microfactory the following year.

While students mount a campaign.