A tree in millimetres, still hoping for apples.

In Alexandra Hills in Redland City, east of Brisbane, almost 155 millimetres fell in three hours on Monday evening.

While Kimi was not expected to make landfall, a warning remained in place for 350 kilometres of Queensland coastline between Innisfail and Ayr.

More players and officials landing in Melbourne for the Australian Open are likely to test positive to coronavirus within days after new cases were confirmed among participants arriving for the tennis tournament.

The ARL Commission chairman's stocks are sky high after rescuing the game last year. But there's still a lot of work to do.

Tennis Australia were forced to apologise after logistics dramas prevented Australian Open stars being transported to training courts, leaving them confined to their hotel rooms

The most unlikely of Australian captains has achieved all that could be reasonably asked of him since taking over after the trauma of Cape Town - but the halo has slipped.

The Hollywood star is locked down with his family in the Byron Bay area before filming a new Thor movie.

With tropical weather always likely to interfere with the fourth Test, Australia may have another agenda in mind.

After 16 days of oscillating, absorbing theatre, it has come down to three sessions. Ninety-eight overs. Six-and-a-bit hours of play... weather permitting of course.

The National Tertiary Education Union has given the Federal Court notice of an appeal against a federal court decision which upheld the sacking of a university lecturer.

Tom Brady prevailed in the highly anticipated quarter-backing duel for the ages - or perhaps for the aged - at the Superdome.

Now that Joe the pigeon is not longer on death row, his new best friend, Kevin Celli-Bird, of Officer in Melbourne's south-east, says he can hang around as long as he wants.

Serological tests of a brown fish owl, which died at the National Zoological Park in New Delhi, confirmed that the bird was infected with the H5N8 virus.

A forensic officer investigating the rapes of two teenage girls 33 years ago matched a DNA sample to another man besides the alleged offender, a court has heard.

Hundreds of forestry jobs are at "imminent" risk because of the lack of available timber following last summer's bushfires, the state-owned logging company warned in a letter to the environmental watchdog.

Vanessa Sierra says the pair had been spending 11 hours a day playing World of Warcraft and other games to keep entertained as training sessions continued to be cancelled.

Australian doubles player Ellen Perez planned to board a chartered flight out of Dubai on Friday but reported that she had a runny nose one hour before boarding and wasn't allowed on the plane.

The partner of a Melbourne science teacher who drowned at a Gippsland beach says she should be remembered for her rich and complex life and not just her last heroic act.

Campbell MacCallum has said he would write to police to ask if pursuing the charges against the NRL star would be "in the public interest".

Deputy Commissioner Rick Nugent admitted the wording in a guidance note to officers in December "wasn't ideal and didn't send the right message".

A new warning against overseas travel has sparked calls for billions of dollars in aid for the tourism industry as bans on international border crossings are set to continue throughout 2021.

Five people have been charged over the theft of salmon, worth about $4 million, from a facility in Ingleburn in Sydney's south-west.

The stage is set for an exciting finale to the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series despite rain intervening in Brisbane.

One of the more frustrating sprinters across the Riverina can finally break his "duck" in the opening Maiden Handicap at Wagga on Tuesday.

Win, lose or draw in Brisbane, Indian great Sunil Gavaskar has lavished praise on an Indian squad which has overcome "battered and broken" players.

But scores of others remain stranded in the multibillion-dollar trade dispute between Australia and China.

Homicide squad detectives have arrested a 25-year-old man from Hastings following the death of a 29-year-old man who was found with upper body injuries in the Mornington Peninsula town. 

Category two Tropical Cyclone Kimi is 30 kilometres east-south-east of Cairns and 195 kilometres north of Townsville.

There was an almost 3 per cent drop in the number of people who killed themselves in Victoria last year, despite concerns the state's strict COVID-19 lockdown would lead to more suicides.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has criticised "things that were said" which incited the violent riots on the US Congress without directly naming President Donald Trump.

Gideon Saar, who defected from Netanyahu's ruling Likud party to form the New Hope party last month, shares the Israeli PM's hardline nationalistic ideology.

Some of Australia's largest listed retailers have revealed bright spots after a tough year of COVID trading.

Economists warn businesses will suffer unless the government lifts population growth by moving quarantine facilities outside capital cities and attracting talented migrants.

In scenes captured by veteran war correspondent Luke Mogelson, rioters tell police: "You're outnumbered. We are listening to Trump - your boss."

The find, 3000 to 4000 years old, includes coffins and mummies, the funerary temple of Queen Nearit and a four-metre long papyrus that contains texts of the Book of the Dead.

Selectors are craving stability but Australia will finish the series having axed two of its top six from the first Test and with question marks hovering over two incumbents.

A 20-year-old who stabbed his grandparents before killing a retired police officer with a hammer was in the early stages of schizophrenia, the Supreme Court has heard.

Jimmy Barnes, The Teskey Brothers, Tones and I, Missy Higgins, Gordi and more feature in a series of concerts around Victoria starting on Saturday.

As Trump prepares more than 100 pardons and commutations for the day before Inauguration, he is not expected to pardon himself - because it would make him look guilty.

The massive undertaking reflects the extraordinary security concerns that have gripped Washington.

Police officers who issued fines for breaches of COVID-19 restrictions have been instructed to hand out cautions for unpaid infringements rather than proceed with charges in a move that the police association warns could undermine future enforcement ...

Sydney Swans academy graduate Angus Baker is set to train with Essendon in the coming weeks in a bid to secure a spot on the Bombers' list.

Jack de Belin is no longer training with St George Illawarra's main group and Matt Dufty is still waiting to hear from the club about a potential new deal.

Ahead, the building blocks everyone – man or woman – needs for a wardrobe to suit our "blurred" working lives.

The terms of Mark McInnes' departure include two years' retail industry gardening leave during which Premier will pay him his base pay for both years - a total of $5.4 million.

Shane Fitzsimmons said in an Australia Day awards address for NSW recipients that he had in recent months heard the national anthem sung in a local Aboriginal language.

An updated severe weather warning has been issued for parts of Gympie, as well as the Cherbourg, Redland City, Moreton Bay, Logan, Somerset, Scenic Rim, South Burnett, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Brisbane City council areas.

After Spector's death on Saturday, some have lauded his early contributions to rock music, while others struggled to forgive his volatile past.

Pauline Hanson said the party would field candidates for the upper house but were finding it "extremely hard" to get good candidates for lower house seats.