It is alleged that as the victim attempted to stop the robbery, the girls, aged 13 and 14, stabbed her in her chest and back with her newborn also in the car.

Researchers have been studying deaths involving fire - arson-homicide - for years in Australia.

Brisbane’s Boggo Road Prison is a storytellers’ salve and an integral part of the city’s history. It is about to start a new chapter.

Can the Demons go back to back? Who will win the Brownlow? Will Alastair Clarkson coach again? Explore our interactive, team-by-team guide to the 2022 season, expert predictions and answers to all the burning questions.

A game of cat and mouse will play out in Saturday’s time-honoured Newmarket Handicap, if Kembla Grange trainer Luke Price’s race-winning plan for Count De Rupee goes to script.

Greater Western Sydney’s power forward Cora Staunton has made a late bid to win the league’s goal kicking award, booting four majors in her side’s 18-point win over Geelong.

First-season head coach Craig Fitzgibbon would have ridden a rollercoaster of emotions from his living room as his Cronulla Sharks almost pinched victory against Canberra.

All the spending on tax concessions for the rich tends to be ignored until someone decides to play around with a few of them.

Trot out your “kiss of death” lines. I don’t care, do you hear me? I just don’t care.

The A-League is on the cusp of securing a high-profile friendly featuring Barcelona against an Australian All Stars team in late May.

Follow live updates of Friday night’s NRL match between the Brisbane Broncos and South Sydney Rabbitohs at Suncorp Stadium.

West Coast star Jack Darling has returned to the club to continue his career after meeting the conditions of the AFL’s vaccination policy.

The Kremlin says it will look into the bombing of a maternity hospital in Ukraine following previous denials, Australian experts are calling for the federal government to establish a natural disaster insurance scheme and politicians are mourning the ...

Doctors say the passing of Shane Warne and ALP senator Kimberley Kitching have shone a light on the prevalence of heart disease, as a study reveals COVID-19 may increase the risk of one the nation’s biggest killers.

The jury in the Northern Territory Supreme Court trial has cleared Rolfe over the 2019 shooting death.

Rising fuel prices will have a knock-on effect on the cost of fresh food, with economists warning inflation could rise to its highest level in decades.

An AFL investigation found Jordan De Goey was guilty of conduct unbecoming for becoming involved in an altercation in a New York nightclub.

Capturing the rich and famous was a lot of fun for London photographer Dave Benett – but then he joined the one club no one wants to join.

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

Australians who are close household contacts of a positive COVID-19 case may no longer have to isolate under a new system being considered by national cabinet, as political leaders prepare for an expected winter flu and coronavirus spike.

A full train timetable will resume on Wednesday and on-street parking is free this month.

More than 1300 people have died in the 10-day siege of the port city, said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.

Everything you need to know to find a winner on Coolmore Classic day.

Businessman David Gonski said he was disappointed that many schools were not receiving all the needs-based per student funding that his report had intended.

Communities are again lashing out at the federal government after another natural disaster.

Will Harrison has been recalled to the Waratahs starting side at fullback and its hoped his skill set - and left boot - will be useful weapons on Sunday.

After finishing fourth in the 800m at the Tokyo Olympics and capturing Australia’s hearts, Peter Bol is determined to stand on the podium at the world titles this year.

Maintenance supervisor Troy Adam Hausler thought his colleagues were with spy agency ASIO and communicating with him telepathically when he killed a fellow worker on a Pilbara mine site.

Angela Surtees doused husband Daniel in fuel and set him alight, and a judge found she showed more self-pity than remorse for her “horrific” crime.

There’s the obligatory tennis court and swimming pool, but this grand country estate also boasts somewhere to practise soccer or golf – plus a steam room to relax.

From the continued Russian attacks on Ukraine to the celebration of International Women's Day, these are the best photos from around the world in the past week, as chosen by The Age's photo editors.

Thousands of food delivery riders potentially eligible for significant backpay face a blow to their chances with Deliveroo using a landmark court decision to try to overturn an unfair dismissal case.

WA president Mark Duncan-Smith said knowledge was power, and the state government’s refusal to release the most recent modelling was part of the “power game of the government”.

The delay in the NRL finalising its new judiciary code has proved extremely costly for the Dragons forward, who would have served a much reduced ban from the trial matches.

The first peer-reviewed global estimate of excess deaths says more than 18 million people have died during the pandemic.

Fewer than half of eligible Queenslanders have had a third dose of COVID vaccine with authorities concerned the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron could cause case rises heading into winter.

An updated biography of Australia’s singing cowboy, Smoky Dawson, celebrates an extraordinary life.

Alan Moir, The Sydney Morning Herald's political cartoonist, sketches the political unreality.

Sydneysiders have been urged to reconsider travel across the Blue Mountains this weekend due to the rail line closure and road damage.

After closing its borders to the rest of the nation for the better part of two years, Queensland wants to lure Australia’s tradies to help rebuild after recent floods.

Angry, defiant and sometimes tearful, people whose lives were upended by the opioid crisis finally had their long-awaited chance on to confront in court the company they blame for fuelling it.

The late senator was parachuted into Parliament at the request of then-leader Bill Shorten. But his election loss in 2018 and factional upheaval in Victoria left her on the outer.

The best four-year-old in Australia, Bondi Lockdown, will look to break King Of Swing’s unbeaten reign over the Menangle mile in Saturday’s Miracle Mile.

Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein has revealed he was assaulted at the age of 16 by a schoolteacher.

Angus Glover is set to make his 50th appearance despite surgeons urging him to retire at 20.

Some of the nation’s most conservative voices have joined Labor parliamentarians in paying tribute to senator Kimberley Kitching, who suffered a fatal heart attack on Thursday.

The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.

Harry Little was driving along The Kingsway in Cronulla in September 2018 when he crashed into another car at high speed, without his lights or sirens on.

An unprovoked attack in Scarborough has left two women in their 20s with serious injuries.

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