There are clues as to an election campaign, You’ll soon catch on.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is campaigning on his economic record, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese says Australia needs a better future and military experts say a fresh Russian offensive could hit eastern Ukraine within days.

The Star casino failed to follow tax requirements in 2020 when foreign high-rollers continued playing as non-residents despite living in NSW during the pandemic.

Yigit Can Erdogan, known as John, has pleaded not guilty to detaining 17-year-old Justin Tsang for financial advantage and murdering him in March 2019.

The Silverchair frontman had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.157 when his grey SUV crashed into a van in the NSW Hunter region in March.

Mick Tisbury, Tony Martin and Alan McLean were perplexed by blood tests showing markedly different PFAS levels in their bloodstreams. It prompted them to come up with a theory.

Camera-detected traffic offences will attract larger fines, with seatbelt and mobile phone misuse set to cost drivers more than $1000.

The Go-Betweens drummer recalls her awkward first encounter with The Saints’ singer - and the confession she made to him in recent years.

Another WA building company has gone into liquidation, leaving clients facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs to salvage their dreams.

A former elite soldier has told the Federal Court he felt threatened into co-operating with three newspapers being sued for defamation by war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith.

The independent panel appointed by the club found the decision to strip Age reporter Sam McClure of the award was flawed and should be reversed.

New footage after the shooting of John Lazzaro, 56, who was gunned down in his Rochedale South home in 2012, has been released as police hope to catch his killers.

Up to 70 per cent of bus drivers in some parts of western Sydney and the inner west took part in a 24-hour strike over pay and conditions on Monday.

The 27-year-old had been charged with assault and one count of wilful damage after the fracas in 2021, but the assault charges were dropped in court.

The Queensland Audit Office has laid bare the impact of the Labor government’s last restructure, saying it had “so many repercussions”.

The weekly COVID-19 surveillance report shows while the rate of case numbers appears to be slowing, it is too early to determine if WA has reached its peak. 

The COVID-19 home construction boom has seen vacant lots snapped up over Perth, but in the long-term developers are running out of land for new estates.

A mother said the ride operators failed to secure a harness around her four-year-old son at the festival on Sunday.

Greens leader Adam Bandt says Queensland and Brisbane will be crucial in the federal election, claiming the party could win four seats across the state. 

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

In a synagogue hall in Caulfield, four survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp ate, drank and danced to celebrate their liberation.

It makes one wonder: have any scientists studied whether eating raw onions helps speed up your recovery from the virus?

As a (relatively) young person who can’t afford to offer much over already high rental asking prices, the prospect of finding a new place to live in Perth is exasperating.

That’s the advice from agents who say prospective renters must do what they can to increase their chances of being chosen from a sea of rental applications.

In a new podcast, Liar Liar, hear the Sydney fraudster speaking for the first time as she tries to cajole a potential victim into investing in her massive Ponzi scheme.

Although there are nearly 57,000 embryos stored in Victoria for future IVF treatment, donors are in huge demand. One Melbourne family has shown how the imbalance could be addressed.

The southern NSW cruise industry will be dramatically expanded under a state government proposal to attract some of the world’s largest ships to the Sapphire coast.

Soon after retiring as NSW’s deputy leader - with what he believed was depression - I was diagnosed with the disease that has turned me upside down. On World Parkinson’s Day, I hope this offers some insights.

Two councillors want to excise public space from density calculations as part of their case to lower housing targets.

A police officer has been charged with reckless conduct endangering life for speeding to a job while on duty. He plans to contest the charges.

You can make every pun in the world about toilets, but finding one in time is no joke.

Australia’s dentists have reported a huge increase in the number of patients who’ve damaged their teeth by repeatedly grinding them over two years of COVID-19 lockdowns.

Increased workloads have prompted many Victorian principals to bring retirements forward and younger teachers are reconsidering their leadership ambitions.

No doubt it gave Scott Morrison a sense of authority by conducting his “guessing game” about the date of the election, but the electorate deserves better.

As part of an update to the guide this masthead uses to help our journalists produce engaging, clear and consistent copy, we have decided to do away with honorifics.

25 years ago, Independent MP Pauline Hanson launched One Nation, a party committed to ending immigration and abolishing all forms of native title.

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

Going potty and brassing off the winds.

From Eden Monaro to the seat of Reid, from Bennelong to Macquarie, and Wentworth to Warringah. The 2022 Federal Election is underway as Sydney Morning Herald photographic team's coverage continues.

A new digitisation program of insolvency records from the 19th century offers a glimpse into early colonial life: when one person went broke, the impact rippled through the household, the suburb and local vendors.

The latest federal government data shows there were 3237 fewer permanent and fixed-term contract staff in the state’s universities in 2021 compared to 2020.

Graham Morant was jailed for 10 years in 2018 for coaxing his wife Jennifer Morant into ending her life at their home.

It is not believed officers were responding to a triple-zero call, but rather, they simply came across the body.

Sydney’s private bus operators must not rely on the state government to fix ongoing industrial disputes with their drivers, a senior transport agency official has warned ahead of Monday’s strike action.

Melissa O’Dwyer was surprised to discover that Princess Anne had wanted to meet her for two years since her husband died in the Green Wattle Creek blaze in the December 2019 bushfires.

NSW Police are treating the incident as a possible homicide and have charged three young men from Sydney’s eastern beaches with affray, but are calling for more witnesses to come forward.

The number of COVID-19 cases in WA has dropped by more than 1000, however the number of people in intensive care has increased.

A tycoon, Olympic medallist, academic, pharmacy founder and reconciliation advocate have been named as the final board members of the 2032 Olympics organising team.

No one in the Prime Minister’s camp puts it quite this way, but they are relying on the deeper divisions within the electorate to save the government from itself.

Will being labelled a racist be the final nail in the coffin for the Prime Minister?