Anthony Albanese has clarified Labor’s border protection policies for the second time in a week, Liberal senator Anne Ruston has defended past comments about Medicare and the Prime Minister is visiting Perth today.

Unbeknown to citizens in the blue-ribbon seat of Goldstein, their postal vote applications from the Liberal incumbent don’t go directly to the AEC.

Cancer surgery is being delayed almost daily at the flagship Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, a scenario surgeons say is happening at every hospital across the state amid ongoing severe staffing and bed shortages.

Tired of the COVID rules and the rain, Sydneysiders flock to the Easter Show, beaches and the CBD to shop and ride free ferries.

For decades, governments and companies have promised gas will bring jobs and growth to regional Australia. But is that the reality? But have those promises met reality? The Age and Sydney Morning Herald travelled 4000 kilometres across Queensland to...

Among the 90 million people to have attended the Royal Easter Show since it began two centuries ago is the Brown family, whose constant involvement has been recognised by the RAS.

The south-east Melbourne airport has been accused of degrading its capacity as a working aerodrome in favour of commercial development.

The election spendathon and the federal budget put into stark relief the financial rip-off that Victoria suffers for our membership of the federation.

Sunshine in Sydney on Easter Monday

Councillors voted to prepare to de-amalgamate after residents voted for the split, but staff are not happy.

The CWA says that its catering committee has decided to close the tearoom which means that the record crowds will have to do without scones with jam and cream.

40 years ago, a Federal Minister’s failure to pay duty on a colour television set - and a subsequent cover-up attempt - threw the Fraser Government into deep crisis.

Three months after Perth Children’s Court president Hylton Quail said Western Australia’s juvenile prison was putting children into lockdowns for so long they were better off in an adult prison, the state government says there will be new staff a...

Jerry Seinfeld called Sheridan the sweetest television mum.

The seven-day average for daily cases in WA had dropped to 6509 on Wednesday but has gone back up to 6705 as of Monday.

Waverley Council took to social media to alert walkers the area in Sydney’s east had been shut off as urgent repairs are made. 

A boy has died in a fire tragedy on Easter Monday, after a house burned before dawn in Clayfield in Brisbane’s north.

Officers tried to pull over a sedan for an RBT in Sutherland about 4.15am today, but the driver failed to stop and the pursuit was called off, police said.

Paul Keating left school at 15 and that didn’t stop him from winning accolades for being an economic reformer.

A new episode of the podcast Liar Liar retraces the fraudster’s suburban childhood to her early criminal endeavours - including deft use of correction fluid.

Political journalism is not, or should not be, like sport reporting.

Until now, the decision to adopt a small-target strategy had seemed cost-free. It wasn’t.

Traditional owners and elders from three language groups have issued a “please explain” to Sussan Ley, saying reburying the ancient remains is treating them like trash.

Teaching staff at Victoria University have gone weeks without getting paid this year after the institution switched to a new payments system.

Eighty critically endangered spotted tree frogs have been released into the wild in the Kosciuszko National Park in the first release of this species since they were severely affected by the unprecedented 2019-20 bushfires.

A federal anti-corruption commission would help to protect the public interest and prevent breaches of public trust.

Seventeen sites have been selected by the public of NSW to celebrate the lives of artists, pioneers, activists and aviators.

The schooner Samuel from New Zealand brought news of a shipwreck at Easy Harbour.

80 years ago, PM John Curtin announced that command of all combat sections of the Australian defence forces had now passed to General Douglas MacArthur.

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

Hundreds of elderly people will be forced to switch carers and more than 60 workers will be made redundant under a Boroondara City Council plan to privatise in-home aged care services.

We really don’t deserve oceans.

Just as many girls don’t see themselves as having a maths brain, boys don’t see themselves as writers.

Emergency services crews responded to reports a group of swimmers was distressed shortly after 2pm.

One of the reasons we have been so successful in navigating the pandemic is that we have listened to the experts in Australia.

Police are hunting two men who allegedly approached the injured pair in a shopping centre car park early on Sunday.

Scott Morrison has confirmed he wants Social Services Minister Anne Ruston to replace Greg Hunt as health minister should the Coalition win another term of government, Labor leader Anthony Albanese is in Queensland today and the PM is in Sydney.

It was standing room only for Melbourne’s largest Easter Catholic mass on Sunday, as the city’s religious leaders used the celebration to reflect on the world’s “moral responsibility” to Ukraine.

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

Buy from the Bush founder Grace Brennan and 12 regional business owners have set up stalls to show the cities the quality of rural retail.

As Ukrainian citizens flee for Poland, the people left behind confront the carnage of war.

Just 7452 PCR tests were conducted on Saturday, with 1587 cases confirmed, while 3525 cases came via self-reported positive rapid antigen tests.

Nearly 4000 licensed venues in Victoria have not renewed their liquor licence in 2022, leading to fears venues are either serving alcohol without a licence in breach of regulations or have closed their doors during the pandemic.

80 years ago, PM John Curtin announced that command of all combat sections of the Australian defence force had passed to US General Douglas MacArthur. Curtin called it “a momentous day for the peoples of the United Nations”.

The 27-year-old man was reported missing on Friday and was seen running into bushland on the NSW Central Coast before the critical incident.

The armed 24-year-old ordered a driving instructor to take him to Inala shopping centre so he could abduct the woman, police allege.

Easter is the paramount Christian celebration, commemorating the core beliefs of the faith about Jesus’ death and resurrection, but its connection to Christianity is relatively recent.

The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique employs 33,000 researchers around the world, counts 12 Nobel Prize laureates and 12 Field Medal winners among its staff, and has just set up in Melbourne.

Otherwise healthy Australians under the age of 65 are unlikely to need a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine before winter.

Experts say uptake of this year’s flu vaccine has so far been promising as a jab-weary public once again roll up their sleeves.