An Australian spy agency was involved in Solomon Islands draft security pact leak in a last-ditch effort to stop the deal, as the US warns it will fast track a new embassy in the Pacific nation.

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Service with a smile returned to Melbourne as hospitality and retail workers enjoy a rare mask-free shift.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese covered a lot of ground during the second week of the federal election campaign. There will be plenty more photo opportunities in the weeks to come before Australia chooses its next...

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“I’m sorry I ever heard of Melbourne,” declared architect William Butterfield at the height of his exasperation over the construction of St Paul’s Cathedral.

LNP Senator Paul Scarr’s office had contracted Australia Post to deliver the postal vote applications at a cost of $13,000. 

There are 248 people with COVID-19 in hospital and seven are in intensive care. The updated numbers come after it was announced one of Premier Mark McGowan’s children was hospitalised after testing positive.

Punters in NSW have two more days to indulge in the Anzac Day tradition, after the state legalised it for the entire long weekend in recognition of the years lost to the pandemic.

Talks will be held with the cruise industry over how it could use the state’s quarantine facilities, as uncertainty continues over how they will be used now quarantine has been scrapped.

At least 10 Greek Orthodox churches in Melbourne’s city and suburbs were allegedly targeted over the Easter long weekend.

The 59-year-old man allegedly thought he was communicating with the mother of a child. Instead, police say he was speaking to a detective.

While confirming he will recontest his mayoral position in 2024, Tom Tate has urged federal candidates to support three major Gold Coast projects “for all of Queensland”.

A teenager will remain behind bars until June after he allegedly violently sexually assaulted a girl he met on social media.

The murder trial and acquittal of police constable Zachary Rolfe for the death of Aboriginal teenager Kumanjayi Walker highlighted long-lasting societal issues.

On the PM’s watch, Australia has acquired the biggest load of debt since the 1950s and suffered a foreign policy blunder of historic proportions.

Characters like Katherine Deves should remind us how important it is to have respectful conversations.

Whoever forms the next government will be confronted with a structural deficit that cannot be willed away with incantations about Australia’s world-beating recovery.

The revitalisation of the area on the city side of the Balmain peninsula will be the most significant reshaping of the Sydney’s harbour since Barangaroo.

Navigating intimate relationships at work has proven to be a minefield. Some experts recommend avoiding them, but others still believe it is possible and worth the risk.

Researchers have sequenced the genome of a wild-born dingo pup and revealed that pure dingoes are an “intermediary” between wolves and domestic dog breeds.

Household contacts of COVID-19 cases will be able to attend school, but must wear a mask and take rapid antigen tests for five days.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says he will not allow his government to be intimidated amid an intensifying debate over transgender people in sport.

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One of Mark McGowan’s children has been hospitalised with COVID-19. The premier has also tested positive to the virus.

Australia knew about a secret draft security pact between China and Solomon Islands weeks before it was leaked, as the federal election continues and opposition leader Anthony Albanese is forced to campaign from home after testing positive for COVID-...

The Victorian RSL is losing members and branches are looking to turn that around.

The Returned Service League has an ageing membership and needs to recruit younger veterans who have served as peacekeepers, the organisation says.

The week in photos from the award-winning SMH and AFR photographers.

With the NDIS funding for her 25-year-old severely disabled son cut, as with so many other families, this mother is fearful the NDIS will be destroyed if the Coalition is returned for another term.

It’s been a long time coming. As the clock strikes midnight on Friday, hospitality workers will finally be able to remove their masks after many months of COVID-19 restrictions.

The Herald has a long history of exposing corruption and supporting agencies that help with that task – particularly the NSW ICAC.

A Melbourne school teacher charged with historic child sex abuse offences allegedly committed her crimes in both public places and at primary schools across Melbourne.

Alex Raichman managed to escape through an unsecured window in April 2018 because locks had not been installed as requested.

Lachlan James Griffiths, 35, was reported missing by his family on January 26. His body has not been found, but his disappearance has been linked to the body-in-concrete case.

Moving to a new place involves an inevitable stocktake – not just of your goods, but of your emotional life.

War, COVID-19, climate change: highlights from the 2022 World Press Photo Contest.

A sexy hot mess of a city, the NSW capital dares those from interstate to move in with her. And when they do, it’s often fireworks all round.

The Booker Prize-winning writer discusses overcoming childhood cancer, failed attempts at novels, and when he’d sleep with someone who doesn’t own books.

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MJ Docking and Associates director Adam Docking was arrested and interviewed on Tuesday as part of an investigation into the theft of signs that are believed to belong to other real estate agencies.

When soldiers and veterans, families and bystanders attend Anzac Day services throughout the land on Monday, they will hear, and recite - some quietly in contemplation, others more loudly - words that rose from the battlefields.

Donkey voters will be numbering “teal” independent Zoe Daniel above Wilson, the incumbent Liberal, after the official draw of the ballot on Friday. Now, let the preference negotiations commence.

Petero Baleinapuka stabbed mother-of-two Angela O’Donnell to death in Woonona on New Year’s Eve 2019 and then fled the scene.

The man, whose name is suppressed, allegedly committed the 424 offences between 2015 and 2021.

A friend of war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has denied colluding with the decorated former soldier and three other former comrades about their evidence in his defamation case.

The state government will ease rules for large productions to allow preparations to begin for a return to the stage.

The easing in quarantine requirements “clearly changes the need” for the Wellcamp and Pinkenba hubs, the acting premier says.

Will cases of coronavirus soar again this winter? Will there be a new, more virulent variant, and what is “flurona”? Winter is coming, so we asked infectious disease experts to look at what’s in store.

Dominic Perrottet will meet crossbench MP Alex Greenwich and trans advocates next week after the key independent threatened to withdraw support for government supply and confidence.