Follow our rolling coverage in the wake of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Melbourne University has permanently banned high-profile weightlifting coach Robert Wilks, after investigating alleged sexual harassment of a 22-year-old student.

South-east Queensland is saturated, and the next wave of weather will put thousands of Brisbane properties at risk of flooding on Sunday morning.

“We’re three brothers sharing a business, man, and it’s all down the f---ing drain,” he says. 

UQ researchers have found bull ants have venom that makes echidnas hypersensitive to pain, giving a clue about how to manage chronic pain in humans.

New research from the Doherty Institute has discovered how SARS-CoV-2 mutates in rapid bursts, giving a clue about ways to head off future variants of the virus.

Thousands of First Nations people converged on Shepparton on Saturday for a music festival headed by some of Australia’s most prominent Indigenous performers.

Mosquitoes dramatically increased in number in the weeks following exceptional rainfall in 2020 and the same is predicted for this autumn.

Hundreds of people braved the weather to show support for Ukraine in Sydney, while pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian demonstrators clashed outside Sydney’s Russian consulate.

A book called “Stolen Focus” has hit a chord with distracted Australians, who know how it feels to live in what author Johann Hari has dubbed “the attention crisis”.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors

Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne urges Australians in Ukraine to leave but only if safe to do so.

This Sydney woman spends her spare time baiting scam callers who plague our phones each day. What can we learn from her efforts?

The flood refugees caught whatever sleep they could inside their cars and the food court, where the KFC handed out free chicken packs through the night. 

WA has recorded 1098 new local COVID-19 cases and seven related to travel.

Tributes have poured in from fans, athletes and public figures describing a gentle and humble man of depth, integrity and honour.

The week in photos from award-winning SMH and AFR photographers.

Queensland reported almost 5000 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday and eight more deaths, most in aged care, but the hospitalisation rate continues to fall.

Australia is imposing sanctions on President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and leaving the door open to possible expulsions of Canberra-based Russian diplomats.

Victoria’s COVID-19 restrictions have eased overnight, with masks no longer required in all indoor settings and the ‘work from home’ mandate scrapped.

Recent announcements about coal plant closures might have shocked some, but they’ve been long predicted by experts, who’d still like to see a transition plan.

While the public is transfixed by the headlines coming out of the Ben Roberts-Smith court case, the Commonwealth is watching too - for an entirely different reason.

Australia likes to think of itself as a good international citizen but our overall record has been patchy at best, lamentable at worst, and is presently embarrassingly poor.

Brisbane received 206.2 millimetres of rainfall during the 21 hours to 6am on Saturday, the city’s highest daily rainfall total since 1974 - and Wivenhoe Dam was forced to release water overnight.

Australia’s Asian community has grown significantly and its votes will count. Playing the China card against Labor may not reward the PM if Chinese Australian voters see it as a slight against their own loyalty.

A former prosecutor says Victoria Police knew seven years ago of the confusion over delegation powers, which this week left the force scrambling to swear in more than 1000 police officers who’d been working without formal authority.

Mike Cannon-Brookes is one of the 100 richest people globally, and he wants to speed up Australia’s transition to renewables. But is big money the answer?

The Labor leader is the model of moderation - but if he gets the chance to govern will the mask come off?

From long COVID to Alzheimer’s, all manner of health woes are increasingly thought to have inflammation in common. Now, great medical minds are on the case.

Vladimir Putin’s rhetoric and aggression feel dangerously similar to that of another dictator prior to World War II.

Thomas King had won Victoria’s Young Australian of the Year award by the time he’d finished school. Now, he’s urgently championing alternative proteins.

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

Russia has invaded Ukraine in a long-threatened military attack on its European neighbour. Follow our live coverage.

Investigative reporter Kate McClymont received the print and text news report award for her reporting on the disappearance of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick.

Winning entries span across a range of categories including investigative reporting, headline writing and photography.

The Crime and Corruption Commission has even put a name to the six-month investigation into sensitive government affairs: Operation Workshop.

Old buildings, stairs and foundations - part of the original 1825 convict settlement - were this week excavated in Adelaide Street and will not be returned.

One of the workers argues she was being unfairly treated in comparison to employees who have “allegedly committed a crime and continue to be paid” until their case reaches an outcome.

‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ is an overused expression. But, very occasionally, it really hits the mark. 

Officers shot the 32-year-old Kedron man after he allegedly held a female McDonald’s worker at knifepoint before lunging at police.

Five years after revelations Mark Bailey used private emails for official business, there are still calls for reform.

Lawyers for a detective charged with sharing a photograph and information about former AFL coach Dani Laidley argue he has no case to answer, and say the allegations against him are more ethical than legal.

The author of a new true crime book dubbed a must-read by Victoria’s police chief finds bushranger was a manipulative, violent criminal.

The Sydney solicitor was shot dead as he sat with friends outside the Happy Cup Cafe in Bankstown in January 2018.

Long-awaited hip and knee replacements, hernia repairs and other overnight elective surgeries will be allowed to recommence at public hospitals from Monday.

Harry Little was driving along the Kingsway in Cronulla on September 5, 2018 at high speed, without flashing lights, when he crashed into Gai Vieira’s vehicle.

It’s a new kind of gold rush in the West Australian town after a “pay off your mortgage” syndicate of 250 locals won hundreds of thousands each on Thursday.

Melbourne’s Ukrainian community say their hearts are breaking as they watch their homeland being invaded, with a major rally planned in Melbourne’s CBD this Sunday.

A former Moreland councillor, his wife and their adult daughter are accused of stealing ballot papers from voters and conspiring to fraudulently fill them in to rig an election result.

There were 1043 cases recorded overnight with Omicron modelling predicting as many as 1700 by March 2.