When it comes to expert scientific opinion, not all experts are created equal.

St Luke’s Catholic College is open almost 12 hours a day, finishes early on Friday, and allows senior high schoolers to sleep in three days a week.

Forty years ago this week I walked into the Sydney Morning Herald newsroom as a cadet journalist. I still feel so lucky that I chose this profession.

The Crown says Constable Zachary Rolfe was acting against his superiors’ plans the night he shot Indigenous teen Kumanjayi Walker dead. The defence says he was protecting himself and his mate.

The best photos from the international wires at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games in China.

Gender diverse students will still be able to be expelled from church schools under the government’s draft religious freedom laws, it’s the first parliamentary sitting day of the year and the ADF will be called in to assist aged care homes tomorr...

A Victorian sightseeing company is preparing to welcome tourists back, but its popular trips visiting Neighbours sets may be coming to a close.

Police are examining images of Coalition MPs – including Opposition Leader Matthew Guy and Nationals leader Peter Walsh – in which they appear to flout COVID rules requiring masks in Parliament.

It is believed the ute was trying to cross a deep inlet to access the island’s northern tip when it became submerged.

The likelihood of a mass nurses strike on February 15 has edged closer after a ballot by the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association has resulted in thousands of nurses and midwives endorsing industrial action.

Albert Cerminara and his father have operated an ice-cream van in Hobsons Bay for 40 years, but they say the council’s proposed food truck rules will leave them unable to trade in the area.

The Australian National Maritime Museum said it confirmed five out of seven criteria to confirm wreckage off Newport Harbour, Rhode Island, in the US is that of the Endeavour.

With an infrastructure building boom on Australia’s east coast, Premier Dominic Perrottet said it was “OK” if costs increased from estimates at the start of projects.

It comes as WA’s new seven-day quarantine rules came into effect for vaccinated returning travellers and those deemed a close contact of a positive coronavirus case.

Detectives say a woman has been arrested and is assisting police after reports another woman was assaulted and had coffee poured over her.

The bill should not be rushed. More time is needed to work out why it is needed and what it is meant to achieve.

What’s it like to live inside the ‘closed loop’? Today on Please Explain, North Asia correspondent Eryk Bagshaw joins Bianca Hall to talk about these unique Winter Olympics.

The most distracting, binge-worthy drama of all has been the tribulations of the British royal family. But it’s time they were cancelled. It’s only fair.

Political firebrand Clive Palmer borrows a classic verbal barb by the former Labor PM as the billionaire businessman claims he is the victim of a long-running prosecution.

The state’s leaders have good reasons to move to new rules, but by their own reasoning they could have done it a week ago and their doublespeak is not helping.

West Australian firefighters are battling in four fire zones across three regions, with out-of-control blazes threatening lives and homes in the Wheatbelt.

The tearful owner said she and her daughter were held in a police cell for hours after allegedly breaching WA’s vaccination rules.

Hanny Papanicolaou told a NSW Supreme Court jury she has no memory of the vicious attack in January 2019 and woke up in a panic holding a bloodied knife.

Streets in Brisbane’s CBD were temporarily closed as thousands of CFMEU protesters marched through the city. 

James Bradley Reynolds, 23, was shot in the leg about 6.30pm on Sunday, and was found bleeding on the floor of his Bondi Crescent home by a friend.

NSW Police have arrested a Sydney man they allege sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl he met on the social media app.

A serving SAS soldier has denied seeking to throw Ben Roberts-Smith “under the bus” as he gave damaging evidence against him in the Federal Court.

Surrounded by children learning to swim on Monday mornings at Melbourne City Baths are a group of adults working on the same skills – blowing bubbles under water and practising kicking with a kickboard.

Health advice triggering the change to seven-day quarantine for close contacts and new arrivals references not only transmission issues but behavioural ones too.

Rather than new school hours, the reality of the policy is more likely to involve more before and after-school options around the existing 9am to 3pm school day.

Citipointe Christian College has been vandalised and its principal has received death threats as the Prime Minister looks to push through an anti-discrimination bill.

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

Feddersen’s work was inspired by the forms and processes of nature.

Queensland has finally officially hit 90 per cent vaccination rate, as the state records 5178 new cases and 12 more deaths on Tuesday.

Victorian children aged three to five will be offered two free rapid tests a week as the state’s back-to-school plan expands to cover childcare and kindergarten students.

The men were arrested in NSW and Queensland over the 2009 killing of Omega Ruston, who was gunned down on the Gold Coast in what was believed to be a road-rage incident.

Kathrine Ferugia is one of hundreds of thousands of immunocompromised Australians, who - now that restrictions have lifted - are living in a self-imposed lockdown.

Four men have fled the scene after their car smashed into a Brisbane home, leaving a woman with critical injuries. 

Cue the music. The Conservative Party’s dancing queen is coming to Emerald City.

The government’s report to UNESCO is a classic case of spin over substance. It makes you wonder: what alternative universe is our federal government living in?

More than three-quarters of a $100 million NSW government gambling revenue grant program has been distributed to Coalition electorates and battleground seats over almost a decade.

Unions for workers along Australia’s embattled supply chain want the major parties to commit to an independent body with greater flexibility to set rights and standards for gig workers.

Until recently, it was rare in Australia for men to feel comfortable taking extended primary carer parental leave. A new report shows the proportion of employers offering both parents paid leave has risen by up to 25 percentage points in some male-do...

If anything signifies an imminent election it is the Liberal Party dealing the old China threat card.

Gary Wills’ new book America: Innocents at Home explains Ronald Reagan’s ability to turn fiction into fact.

It’s worth a shot.

A bushfire warning in Anketell and Oakford has been downgraded to a watch and act.

Experts say a different method should be used to diagnose gestational diabetes, with up to a quarter of women diagnosed with the condition not needing medical intervention.

An accident forced the closure of a vital thoroughfare on Brisbane’s northside but authorities - and motorists - will soon have more room to move.

Kumanjayi Walker was partly pinned to the ground underneath another police officer when Constable Zachary Rolfe fired from point-blank range into his mid-section, a Darwin court has heard.