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.

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.

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

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

As the waters recede after the latest disaster, the state government faces a host of challenges.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce told the Herald that residents should not be ordered off the floodplains but assisted to move through subsidies. However, this was the responsibility of state governments only.

A day before Senator Kimberley Kitching’s death on Thursday, Victorian factional leaders indicated the foreign policy hawk was not guaranteed to retain her position as a Labor senator.

Bernie Balmer’s hands were burnt as he rescued a police constable in the moments after the Russell Street bombing. The mental scars remained. His heroism has finally been recognised.

The ex-KGB officer has launched the biggest attack in Europe since World War II. Why did Putin invade Ukraine – and how far could he go?

A coronial inquest into another fire-related domestic violence killing will be held, after the death of a man whose former partner set his house on fire.

Married couple Keenan Mundine and Carly Stanley are co-founders of Deadly Connections, helping First Nations people trapped in cycles of poverty and injustice.

The ABC journalist discusses her relationship with faith, freezing her eggs in her 40s, and why she’s “not really a political person”.

There is no better real-estate story than when a down-at-heel house with an architectural pedigree finds sympathetic buyers.

Against headwinds of chaos on a recent flight, a professional had done his job and done it well, and that was worthy of celebration. 

The former soldier said he doubted whether the war veteran should have been awarded the Victoria Cross as the only witnesses were members of Mr Roberts-Smith’s own team.

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It’s not just consumers making unfair comments — the ACCC says businesses are manipulating reviews and platforms aren’t doing enough to prevent fakes.

It was not his first experience of the Hawkesbury. During his maiden voyage in the floods last year, he travelled more than 60 kilometres to wash up at Spencer, which became his namesake.

Dewald De Klerk, 27, was extradited from Sydney in connection to the alleged murder of Mr Walsh, whose body was found at a Coopers Plains business. 

Lawyer, business entrepreneur, human rights campaigner, union leader, and politician, Kitching was as multifaceted as those monikers imply.

Bill Shorten broke down multiple times during an interview following the death of his close friend Kimberley Kitching, and openly wondered whether she “would’ve been better off never going near politics”.

The antics of CBD’s favourite gruesome twosome, KRudd and MBull are nothing compared to what proponents of the Murdoch Royal Commish have planned.

Some commentators have suggested many young Australians would not be prepared to fight for their country. The deeper question is what might we fight to defend - and I know what that line is.

Ask any pollster and they’ll tell you most voters want more action to tackle climate change, not a suite of policies that voters in the middle might see as environmentally regressive.

The medical records of every Victorian in the public health system could be shared in a central database for the services to access, prompting condemnation from privacy and law experts concerned that patients cannot opt out of the scheme.

Scott Morrison’s actions in Lismore speaks volumes about his real character, and how anyone could think he is fit to lead this country is a sad reflection on the society we live in.

No to Opera House, heavy petting, and 100 miles to row.

The Herald’s intrepid reporter Malcolm Brown and photographer Bruce Miller travel up the Cooks River in a dinghy, and chronicle its sad, polluted state.

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

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned a Russian air strike on a maternity hospital in the port city of Mariupol, Australian flood victims will be given up to $3000 in emergency payments and the Morrison government wants to grow defence...

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Lloyd Clark Fletcher was jailed for life for the murder of Manly schoolgirl Janet Phillips, and was later sentenced to an indefinite sentence for attacking a teenager at Wynnum railway station.

While they are desperately worried about loved ones overseas, members of a Ukrainian dance group have resolved to express their pride in their culture and identity by performing in the Moomba parade on Monday.