With both the Prime Minister and Premier otherwise engaged on Sunday evening it was only natural that wannabe prime minister Anthony Albanese set out for maximum exposure.

More than 300 current and former McDonald’s workers are taking action against the fast food giant over rest breaks, in the biggest claim of its kind. 

The bodies of two men were discovered late on Saturday night inside a Redfern boarding house.

Returning students want to prioritise their mental health and hope for a year of uninterrupted face-to-face leaning after two years in and out of lockdown.

For a nation starved of feel-good moments, the Australian Open had them in abundance.

For a nation starved of feelgood moments the Australian Open had them in abundance. But is that it?

A 20-year tracking project of more than 3800 predictions made by 207 Australian psychics found just 11 per cent were unambiguously correct – an accuracy rate worse than random guesses.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says it is just a matter of time before federal health agencies change the definition of “fully vaccinated” to mean three COVID-19 doses instead of two.

The Hillsong founder and global senior pastor told the faithful he was stepping down to prepare to defend court charges that he concealed information about allegations of his father’s sexual abuse.

Beer cans, a “grog for sale” sign and a dunny are among the relics in a new exhibition marking half a century since the first Sunbury rock festival.

If there is one thing that the pandemic has taught us – nothing is a given. And as challenging as it was to learn that lesson over and over again; it allowed us to grow as people.

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Queensland police charged a man after a couple were found dead in a house fire but five hours later they released him when new information came to light.

Schools hope the recently opened border and the abolition of two weeks’ hotel quarantine for fully vaccinated travellers will revive the state’s biggest export sector.

Matt Ebden, one half of the duo that faced off against Kokkinakis and Kyrgios last night, says he wouldn’t have played the grand slam if he knew he’d have to quarantine on return to WA.

Case numbers in children are expected to rise as the virus spreads in schools, but Royal Children’s Hospital coronavirus clinical director Sarah McNab is confident the health service will cope.

Indika Gunathilaka, and his son Kohan, 6, and daughter Lily, 4, were discovered lifeless inside their home by another family member around 6.30pm.

Reports of mistreatment have prompted the meat industry to back RSPCA calls for new national standards.

Just as Queensland appears to be passing its Omicron peak, a new sub-variant has been detected that’s said to be even more contagious.

‘It was horrible watching Cora become sick and knowing that it was my fault,’ says Chardai Page said of unintentionally infecting her daughter.

Premier Mark McGowan says it’s not time yet to put enhanced public health measures in place and he won’t shut down nightclubs after another eight cases were linked to The Library.

Queensland’s newly announced schools plan includes RATs for sick students and teachers, while workers have been urged to return to the office.

More than 700 people have died since the start of 2022 with authorities warning that deaths will remain high and boosters are key to bringing the rate down.

Becoming a clown means offering to play deeply and reverently with people wherever they are, inviting them to explore imaginatively and with curiosity.

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

Novak Djokovic’s sudden arrival at the Park Hotel in Melbourne threw a spotlight on the refugees still held in detention around Australia. How does the system work today? And how does our hard border stack up internationally?

COVID-19 parenting has been very tough, and the new school year will have its own challenges. But we must persevere for the sake of children’s mental health, and our own.

A new report from developers’ lobby group Urban Taskforce finds tall residential towers are the most sustainable. Plans to build residential towers usually meet stiff opposition.

Actor, recording artist, New York nightclub owner. One-time Abbotsleigh girl Nell Campbell’s done it all.

The Sydney Festival ends on Sunday under a cloud caused by the boycott over Israeli embassy sponsorship. Another Sydney festival demonstrates a better approach.

Some teenagers are approaching six months since their second shot. If they were a few years older they would be long overdue for a booster, but will be returning to school this week without one.

The NSW government is warning consumers against buying from the reseller that it claims has sold fake tickets, failed to supply tickets that were purchased and sold tickets at more than 10 times their retail value. 

Hundreds of bank branches have closed in the past four years as digital banking takes over. The new era isn’t as accessible for everyone, and advocates warn already disadvantaged people are losing out.

In their eagerness to get us to like them, our leaders state and federal have turned to flattery, “the food of fools” according to Swift.

When the state’s new council of student representatives met last year to brainstorm how education could be improved, their Google document quickly ballooned to 15-plus pages.

Some aged care residents have been forced to go without showers and meals and their wounds undressed as Victoria’s nursing homes face unprecedented staff absenteeism due to the Omicron outbreak.

This year promises a welcome change from 2020 and 2021 as celebrations for Lunar New Year return after two years of COVID cancellations and postponements.

Pared back celebrations are bringing mixed fortunes for Sydney shop and restaurant owners, who were getting back to normal when Omicron cases surged.

Ollie Henretty treads water like a jellyfish, but his mum hopes a modified Nippers program builds her son’s confidence out of the water as well.

Young women drivers involved in car crashes in NSW are hospitalised at a higher rate than men, despite the latter group being twice as likely to experience one.

Children across NSW return to school over the first two weeks of February, but seven-year-old Naomi Baumgartner won’t be among them.

The average waiting time for a child assessment in the public system has blown out beyond two years at several services across Greater Sydney, while some have slashed waiting lists by changing criteria.

Branches are closing as banking moves online. That’s one thing in the city, but the regional Australians who don’t have another bank down the road are growing angry; 575 regional branches closed between June 2017 and June 2021.

The show has called Summer Bay home since 1988, but now faces a revolt from the residents of real-life Palm Beach who claim a local park has been turned into “a giant film set”.

With many primary schools having more than 1000 students isn’t it being overly optimistic to presume all parents will test their children twice a week?

When the Russians arrived at the gates of Auschwitz and Birkenau, they found evil on a catastrophic scale. The world must never, ever forget – and yet one in four Australians know little to nothing about the Holocaust.

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Employers are waiting for the “green light” allowing workers to return to the office, with expectations the state government will announce plans to lift its work-from-home advice once children go back to school.

A man’s late night phone call with his wife saved his life on Friday night after a black Suburu crashed into his Glenmore Park bedroom late on Friday.

With kids going back to school, parents and health authorities brace for increase case numbers but say they’re ready for children to return to the classroom.