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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Department of Families, Fairness and Housing secretary Sandy Pitcher sent a message to her department saying January 26 signified “invasion, associated violence and dispossession of Country” for many people, and that public service rules allowed ...

The peak was on March 29 when 9754 cases were recorded, Chief Health Officer Dr Andy Robertson has confirmed.

For the first time there is real contest for the blue ribbon Liberal seat of Goldstein. Scott Morrison’s comments on a federal ICAC highlights one key difference.

The bonus is for staff who work every rostered shift in the next two weeks. But missing a shift for any reason would make workers ineligible.

Gerard Vamadevan, 53, has been charged with almost 30 telecommunications offences after allegedly making the calls to a number of men and women. 

While Pusey still has four charges before the courts, the allegations he assaulted police officers and spread cat poo around a man’s home were withdrawn.

The missing little boy’s father has also been charged with one count of intimidation.

Strange flavours? Go for it. There is one thing about hot cross buns I cannot abide, though.

Greens leader Adam Bandt said the fund would reduce the nation’s dependence on coal and allow his party to shelve the 114 Australian coal and gas projects in the investment pipeline and send workers into less polluting resources jobs.

Queues stretched out the door at Sydney Domestic Airport before 7.30am on Thursday as 82,000 passengers are expected before the start of the long weekend.

CBD cafes, restaurants and bars look forward to weekend business but are finding last-minute cancellations are on the increase.

We can finally bring you a resolution to the bitter court battle between former Chaser member Julian Morrow and prolific TV producer Nick Murray.

Labor and the coalition’s refusal to raise JobSeeker is galling given the proven benefits of increasing it during the lockdowns.

The idea that education is a public good and should be fairly funded and free is long gone.

Naturally-occurring climate change influenced human evolution, and exposed gaps in our knowledge of early human history.

Now we know why Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese doesn’t know the unemployment rate. The Labor Party doesn’t care about those less fortunate

Engaging culturally diverse communities, as well as Aboriginal people and those from disadvantaged backgrounds, in screening and education programs will be a key component of NSW’s cancer strategy over the next five years.

Satchmo blows in again, buying blankets a tussle, and 2000 forged £5 notes

A beach patrol crashed into the scrub at Harbord, narrowly missing children playing nearby.

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

Of pens and swords, and some things unlikely to be seen.

Researchers have managed to reduce the loss of signal on quantum communication channels, in work they say brings us a step closer to a “quantum internet”.

Four men were charged with a combined 160 offences stemming from the attack on two 15-year-old girls.

“It could quite possibly be they looked left and not right,” acting chief superintendent said of the four Korean nationals.

A Victoria-first pilot program in which young school students attend a children’s university and graduate is showing that learning doesn’t only have to happen inside a classroom.

Staff at the University of Melbourne are pushing for the right to ignore Australia Day as a public holiday, and to take up to 30 days of gender transition leave.

Four activists who lit flares and glued themselves to the road will face court on Thursday after police laid numerous charges and refused bail.

A dozen staff were furloughed and emergency cubicles were at capacity on the day a man died after waiting more than three hours in the emergency department of a hospital in East Gippsland.

Melbourne Airport had its busiest day in two years last Friday, and Thursday is expected to come a close second. The rush has sparked chaotic scenes at baggage carousels and security check-ins.

The award for a report on a controversial AFL training camp was reinstated after an independent panel found the decision to strip him of the honour was flawed.

In 2020, Victoria’s fertility rate fell to just 1.43 babies per woman. Not only was it a record low for the state, it was the lowest rate in the nation.

NSW has pushed back a deadline for certain aged care and disability service workers to have their third COVID-19 vaccine over fears it would slash even more staff from the sector.

Foreign workers will be needed to meet the prime minister’s 1.3 million jobs target, Labor is promising to roll out urgent care clinics and the Greens want Medicare expanded to cover going to the dentist.

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

Western Australia recorded 7426 new cases overnight, there are now 215 people in hospital and four are in intensive care.

Highway police will be targeting speeding and fatigue as warm weather across most of the state lures thousands of Melburnians to the regions for Easter.

Police allege the 48-year-old man from Meadow Heights tested positive for methamphetamine after the collision.