Richmond will be bolstered by the return of triple-premiership defender Nick Vlastuin for their clash with the Crows at Adelaide Oval on Saturday while Joel Selwood and Tom Stewart return for Geelong

Follow along for all the major moments and post-game reactions as the Lions and Magpies square off.

Geelong residents have launched a battle against a planned subdivision, which some fear will destroy historical links to Phar Lap and other champions.

Canterbury like to pride themselves on the “bred not bought” mantra, but Good Friday rivals South Sydney are really embracing the motto.

One lane of the Pacific Motorway has re-opened after police closed all northbound lanes and established two crime scenes earlier in the day.

Farzam Mehrabi has been granted home detention bail with strict conditions after he faced another 17 charges related to drugging and sexually assaulting multiple women he met on dating apps on Thursday.

The NSWRL has told its members it will head to court if the ARLC continues to freeze funds for ‘contrived political reasons’.

Scott Morrison will campaign in Tasmania today, Labor is defending its decision to temporarily shelve changes to JobSeeker payments and the Greens continue to call for an expansion of Medicare.

Young people care about the world we’re going to inherit, and now it’s time for us to do something that can’t be ignored nor belittled.

Katherine Deves’ views on LGBTQ issues have come under the spotlight as she contests the seat of Warringah.

After his first real brush with footballing mortality last summer, Sam Reid is back in red and white and ready to play an important role in the absence of Lance Franklin.

Britain will adopt Australia’s Pacific solution by shipping those trying to cross from France more than 9000 kilometres offshore to process their claims.

The Deputy Prime Minister is among several Coalition MPs critical of their government’s treatment of the Tamil family amid a lengthy push, and widespread support, for their return to the Queensland town.

A former Star compliance manager says he would have altered his advice about money laundering risks if he had not been kept in the dark about a junket operator’s alleged criminal links.

Dan Repacholi is a triple Commonwealth Games gold medallist and Olympian. He now carries the weight of Labor history and hopes in the Hunter.

Essendon’s AFLW team has attracted another established star with Western Bulldogs premiership player Bonnie Toogood informing her club she wants to play for the Bombers.

One senior government source said officials were discussing whether to open hospitality and entertainment venues to unvaccinated people at the end of this month or wait until around July 12 when the pandemic declaration expires.

Despite the barrage of questions about a national integrity commission, Scott Morrison appeared relaxed campaigning alongside Liberal MP Bridget Archer.

The data was published on day four of the election campaign, with both major parties focused on the cost of living as inflation rises and the official cash rate set to increase within weeks.

Disguising a relationship drama as a spy thriller is a long tradition – but the personal story doesn’t always blend smoothly with the big picture.

Dale Palmer faced a sentence hearing on Thursday after drunkenly running over her daughter with a car and dragging her 150 metres down a road in Sydney’s south last year.

At the 75th anniversary celebration of the club, Eels stars mingled with the greats of their past in the 1980s. The message was clear: now is the time to create your own history.

Just 0.01 per cent stood between an official jobless rate below 4 per cent and the official result in April. But how real the number is will soon be apparent.

Rachelle Miller, who had an affair with Tudge, took legal action over allegations of bullying, harassment and discrimination while she was working for him.

Sub-variants being detected in Africa and Europe may be a cause for greater concern when mandatory tests for international arrivals are scrapped next week.

The university’s NTEU branch president Dr Nick Riemer said members had vowed to strike again later in the month if sufficient progress at bargaining was not made.

Muscular dystrophy led comedian Alistair Baldwin to create a “weird multiverse sliding-door reflection on disability” for his debut solo set.

With four days left to enrol, school holidays and an Easter long weekend – will enough young people sign up to vote?

Four police officers providing security for Prime Minister Scott Morrison were injured in a car accident in northern Tasmania.

The Bulldogs star might be entrenched in the halves at his new club. But he’s adamant the experience of playing centre during Penrith’s premiership last year is enough to stamp his NSW credentials.

Many supermarkets and shopping centres will close on Friday and Sunday, while bottle shops are not allowed to operate on Good Friday.

Democracies have imposed an array of sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. Displays of wealth by the Russian elite have drawn intense scrutiny. 

Damien Oliver will look for a second group 1 in seven days on Nimalee in the All Aged Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

Comedy festival shows feel like they sprang direct from the brains of the jokers on stage. But behind the scenes, sometimes there’s an invisible guiding hand.

Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction.

Former publisher of Griffith Review Professor Julianne Schultz asks timely questions about our national identity.

Women’s crime fiction has come a long way from its kick-ass heroine origins, with a new focus on morally challenging feminist revenge thrillers.

In a new book, political commentator Paul Kelly focuses on Morrison’s mission and motives – but it suffers from muddled thinking.

Jennifer Egan’s new novel mines the shifting online connections that have fed off the collective consciousness for 20 years.

The Sydney Morning Herald’s new podcast Liar, Liar: Melissa Caddick and the Missing Millions has topped the charts in Australia.

Johann Hari’s latest book tackles the question of why our powers of concentration are weakening.

Melburnians are escaping the city for the holidays after a series of lockdowns, but are keeping it local and outdoors.

In a week when Musk-centric disclosure issues have dominated corporate news in the US, a fake bid for a lithium company isn’t the most important, but it is emblematic of disclosure dysfunction.

Three years and one pandemic since Wesfarmers spent $230 million to acquire it, online marketplace Catch’s growth story has had its fair share of hiccups.

The cast will compete for a $200,000 prize in a new season of the popular reality competition.

The Chinese President is about as far away from Shanghai’s lockdown complaints as a leader can get.

Warriors player Marcelo Montoya was rubbed out for four matches for dropping a homophobic word in the heat of battle.

The NBL is looking to use its success in Tasmania as a formula for a potential return to Canberra but only if a stadium deal can be reached, while Ben Simmons remains in doubt for the play-offs and the Boomers will play in Melbourne in late June.

The company was launched by a Perth socialite couple in August 2020 in the middle of the pandemic with a promise to build homes with a guaranteed 20-week build time.

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