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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Victoria will be able to recycle all of the glass bottles thrown out by consumers following projects jointly supported by the state and federal governments.

The woman from Surry Hills died after she and her 10-year-old son were stuck in a rip and pulled from the sea at Congo Beach, south of Moruya.

Well-known public health expert Novak Djokovic’s ideas for easing the pain of players consigned to lockdown should be taken seriously. Obviously.

There are now more than 70 Australian Open players and dozens more staff in 14-day hotel quarantine after a third charter flight into Melbourne was linked to a positive COVID-19 case.

Spector was the unstable genius behind the Wall of Sound.

Erin Clay was quick to join the program and says Australians need to be better educated about what goes in which bin.

There was more foot traffic in central Melbourne today than on any Monday morning since the first lockdown last year, but pedestrian numbers were still well below pre-pandemic levels.

Orana, 16, was kidnapped from the theme park and released into the wild on Saturday night, with the thief posting vision of the bizarre stunt to Snapchat.

NSW reported no new local coronavirus cases in the 24 hours to 8pm on Sunday, as genome sequencing linked mystery cases in Sydney's west.

Parts of Sydney's 'red zone' will be downgraded to orange on Monday night, allowing more Victorians to return home after weeks stranded in NSW.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has warned far north Queensland to brace themselves ahead of the tropical cyclone making landfall.

The precinct will follow a growing trend among Perth that has seen developers put laneways at the centre of big development projects.

West Australians using an app designed by WA Police to track people in home quarantine have warned the app is plagued with glitches.

A month after the northern beaches cluster plunged Sydney back into lockdown, here's everything we know about patient zero.

The NSW Crime Commission fears Australia could become a safe haven for ill-gotten money following the nation's successful management of the COVID-19 crisis.

Ratepayers in parts of Sydney are frustrated by skyrocketing rates bills, while residents in nearby suburbs will have their rates slashed.

The $900 million proposal includes rooms for almost 500 students and a new office building, but will provide fewer than 100 homes for vulnerable residents.

Adam James Fox, 44, is accused of exploiting impoverished children at his home in south-east Asia under the guise of providing education and care.

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

About 250kg of methamphetamine was allegedly concealed in shipments of kitchen benchtops and chandeliers.

Some children are being forced to isolate alone for up to two weeks in quarantine facilities with adults who have mutant strains of COVID-19.

One year after arriving in Australia, Philomena fell pregnant with triplets. When they were 18 months old, their father died.

A man and his son jumped into the Hunter River at Hexam today to escape a blazing fishing trawler.

The federal minister for supply, Howard Beale, denied that Aboriginal people had been cleared from Maralinga in preparation for atomic tests.

We should view any claims that coal power stations will stay open for decades with healthy scepticism.

Crises have the power to reveal who we are. One of the things this pandemic has done is reveal just how much inequality there is around us.

Social media platforms need to be held to account as publishers. We can make this happen.

The West can learn a lot from Indigenous Australians about how to care for our elders.

Thousands of employees will head back into the city on Monday for the first time since work-from-home orders began in March last year.

In the second part of our series Future Power, we explain why the government wants more gas, and we ask, how clean is natural gas – and what is its future in Australia?

At least 72 players are now in hard lockdown for 14 days after another COVID-19 case was detected on a third plane that flew into Melbourne for the Australian Open.

Hospitals and birthing services have reported a spike in demand for IVF, midwifery and obstetrics as Queenslanders decide to have babies sooner rather than later.

Dozens of Australian Open players will be forced to quarantine for 14 days – without training – after new tournament arrivals tested positive for COVID-19.

A not entirely fruitless endeavour.