It’s a cultural and religious extravaganza in Melbourne this weekend, with celebrations across the city to mark important dates in the calendar of several faiths and ethnic groups.

Police are searching for three men after Jenny Elhassan allegedly had acid thrown in her face while live-streaming in Haymarket on Friday night.

Melbourne turned on some egg-cellent weather for about 4000 egg-cited children and parents at Rippon Lea Estate’s annual egg and spoon race on Easter Saturday.

Taxpayers have funded $55.6 billion in federal grants over less than four years sparking federal ICAC calls, while the Australian Christian Lobby has begun targeting Liberal MPs who crossed the floor on the religious discrimination bill.

On Saturday morning a member of the public called police and reported a plane crash landing between the river and the airport in Kununurra.

Sydney Ferries urged travellers to “consider alternative travel options” as services were cancelled due to staff shortages on Saturday.

Brian Corless, elder son of Daisy and Arthur Corless, was destined go far in drama and the creative arts.

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The daily number has dropped significantly and testing figures are also down as the Easter long weekend begins.

The number of people with COVID in Queensland hospitals has dropped for a third day, as authorities stand firm against calls from business groups to ease close contact isolation rules for workers.

Police have released a facial reconstruction of an unidentified man whose severed head was discovered by fishermen in 1997.

From the street, nobody would guess what lies behind an old worker’s cottage in Chippendale and a terrace in Oxford Street. They’re like Pandora’s boxes, says architect Erik Rudolfsson.

The high-profile sexologist on the growing sex-positive movement, life with Dylan Alcott – and how to inject more fun into fooling around.

Lawyers who have devoted years to representing gay-bashing victims will not be readily assured that a judicial inquiry will, at last, deliver all the answers.

Ross Powell, 71, and his 32-year-old son Andrew died after their boat flipped while they attempted to save a tourist in rough seas off Sherbrook beach, near the Twelve Apostles on Victoria’s south-west coast, on Easter Sunday in 2019.

With religious leaders set to celebrate Easter, Passover and Ramadan, their overarching message is to not give up hope.

Councils are facing a “massive backlog” of potholes to repair on Sydney’s roads. The NRMA says extra funding – and more sunshine – is needed to fix them.

The Coalition fits the “daddy” template and Labor the “mummy” formula. Labor, in particular, needs to campaign as both.

In the seat of Warringah, there is a peculiar pall of frustration in the air. But it’s got nothing to do with transgender issues.

Melbourne is battling an increase in rubbish on the streets and graffiti tagging, with the amount of graffiti cleaned every month up by more than 60 per cent since the start of the pandemic. 

Six health experts, from a former chief medical officer to an emergency doctor, shared their vision on how governments should fix Victoria’s buckling healthcare system.

He’d spent 17 years as a Buddhist monk. When told of his incurable disease, Björn Natthiko Lindeblad was forced to face a core belief: that life is impermanent.

A severe shortage of hospital beds for unwell Victorians can be traced back to successive federal governments’ failures to adequately invest in aged care and disability services, say leading health experts.

Scott Morrison has effectively ditched his commitment to establish a national anti-corruption watchdog even if re-elected. No one should be surprised.

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Ned O’Neill was simply another soldier returned from the First World War, struggling to survive. A century on, his name will help cancer patients survive.

Some criminal partnerships last the test of time, but plenty end badly. Sly compiles his list of the dynamic duos of Australian crime.

Before its Queensland launch pad was approved, a space tech company was asked to resolve issues with the neighbours – including sea turtles in the Great Barrier Reef.

Syndal Baptist Church’s senior pastor says Scott Morrison put his phone away and was focused on the service, but joked he would “cop it in the neck” from his parishioners of opposing political stripes come Sunday.

Since 2008, the Street University movement that began in western Sydney has been improving kids’ lives by helping them find a voice.

International cities are seizing on the licence to experiment afforded by the pandemic, introducing four-day working weeks, autonomous vehicles and new economic models.

The blue-ribbon Liberal seat of Goldstein has a substantial Jewish population, but incumbent MP Tim Wilson says the independent candidate’s apology is a “cynical electoral ploy” and criticised her for keeping her signature on an “avowedly ant...

Harris Park is home to a large Indian Australian community.

The PM can justifiably claim to have put forward a “detailed proposal” for a federal anti-corruption commission, but he is not entitled to suggest he honoured his promises or to blame Labor for his failure to deliver.

Two tradies said the adrenaline of knowing a train was approaching helped give them the strength to lift the unconscious man from the vehicle wedged on the Craigieburn line.

Moderate Liberals will face integrity campaigners after Prime Minister Scott Morrison abandoned a pledge to set up a corruption watchdog, while a health union wants isolation rules for COVID close contacts scrapped.

While we all love chocolate, behind nearly every bite is a story of exploitation. Now, a growing number of artisan manufacturers are calling for change.

Queensland police confirmed the 30-year-old male motorcycle rider died after suffering critical injuries south of Brisbane.

From Eden Monaro to the seat of Reid, from Bennelong to Macquarie and Wentworth to Warringah, the Herald's photographic team is there to cover the federal election campaign.

Police are encouraging visitors to Queensland’s national parks to upload videos and photos as evidence of hooning.

The Malaysian actor discusses why she doesn’t see herself as a sex symbol, her admiration for Aung San Suu Kyi, and the way she’d like to die.

Australia’s large and rapidly growing Indian diaspora could play a crucial role in the upcoming federal election. And both major parties are taking notice.

For Yalçın Adal and Stavros Tziortzis, walking from one end of Cyprus to the other helped uncover a greater connection to their homelands – and each other.

Are home stays worse than when they first started?

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Humans are now destroying a football field’s worth of rainforest every 1.2 seconds, according to WWF. Some groups are trying to hold this trend at bay.

There are now 197 people with COVID-19 in hospital, four in intensive care and 40,731 active cases across the state. 

At least two Queensland government departments have paused new plans for staff COVID vaccination rules amid a public-service-wide review of internal pandemic measures.

Double demerits have been in place since Wednesday, and police plan to increase random breath and drug testing during the weekend.