New research into the nature and extent of violence against people with disability has found they are under-represented or excluded from data collections.

Labor and tenants’ advocates are pushing for the funds to be given to renters and landlords, as coronavirus financial support measures end this month.

Four weeks after Brittany Higgins went public with rape allegations inside Parliament House, she stood outside it and told a crowd of thousands to keep fighting.

Star Australian basketballer Mitch Creek has been charged by police after he allegedly assaulted a woman at her Melbourne home.

On the manicured lawns of Treasury Place there flowed a quiet, powerful and purposeful anger. One for which women and our allies are no longer expected to apologise or hide, tame or explain.

Ali Bazzi and Tarek Zahed are the latest underworld figures to be targeted with serious crime prevention order applications as police target organised crime in Sydney.

“To hell with the patriarchy!” they chant. “Ditch the Dicks,” a sign reads. Why are women so angry? Where do you start?

A scroll with the names of 898 women and children killed by men was unfurled at Melbourne’s March 4 Justice on Monday.

Police estimate the crowd swelled to 10,000, in line with a last minute exemption to the COVID-19 public health order by NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard.

Brisbane City Council will hold its first extraordinary meeting in more than a decade next week to be briefed on confidential details of the 2032 Olympic Games pitch.

Tens of thousands of Australians crowded the streets at 40 rallies today, through major cities and regional towns calling equality for women.

Enforcing scrutiny and compromise in the legislative process provides a level of accountability and transparency that is not possible with only a handful of MPs sitting opposite the government.

An inquest into the 2017 Brighton siege has heard Yacqub Khayre wasn’t considered a person of interest by counter-terrorism police despite his long criminal history, his acquittal on previous terror charges and his internet searches.

Judges have nominated agenda-setting investigations, top quality journalism and stunning pictures from The Age for this year’s awards.

Police officers’ desperate attempts to save two boys who drowned in the Swan River while fleeing authorities have been revealed during a coronial inquest into the teenagers’ deaths.

Financial crimes squad detectives have charged a 54-year-old Department of Justice employee after she allegedly accessed restricted information about herself and three others known to her.

Tens of thousands of Australians hit the streets at 40 rallies today, through major cities and regional towns across Australia calling for a change in federal parliament. They want all politicians to address and put an end to the issues of sexism, mi...

Here’s some advice to the Premier on recovering from a spinal injury.

Thousands who braved the light rain in to add their voices joined a mass performance of a Chilean protest song about rape culture and gender-based hate crime.

In their own words: Angry, impassioned and demanding real change. Here are some of the speakers who addressed the March 4 Justice rallies across the country.

The Attorney-General is seeking, very strategically, to back the ABC into a corner by challenging it to prove he is guilty of a crime.

Women's March 4 Justice at Sydney Town Hall and Canberra Parliament House.

Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguire and deputy federal editor Stephanie Peatling discuss today’s March 4 Justice and how it will affect the government.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has been discharged from hospital, returning home to begin his rehabilitation from a spinal injury.

With many commuters reluctant to take public transport, traffic on Melbourne’s arterial roads is now more congested than it was prior to the coronavirus.

Victorian Liberal leader Michael O’Brien has stared down a looming leadership challenge and says he is the right person to take up the fight to Premier Daniel Andrews at the next election.

Cory Breton, 28, and Iuliana Triscaru, 31, were sunk in a Logan dam in their makeshift coffin - alive and screaming - in 2016.

But, Shelley Hancock asks, if we ban one profession from running and being elected, where does it end?

Victoria has hit 17 days with no new coronavirus cases, but a hotel quarantine leak in Sydney has prompted warnings for residents returning from interstate.

The Premier said NSW has reached its vaccination target, with 37,500 people receiving their first shot in the opening three weeks of the process including 35,000 with the Pfizer vaccine.

Apology to Evatt Tamine

A skydiver has died after his parachute failed to deploy during a jump in Jurien Bay on Sunday afternoon. 

Queensland recorded no new local COVID-19 cases overnight, after the infectious UK strain spread outside a quarantine hotel last week.

A former Hale student has detailed the alarming attitudes of some male students towards girls as calls for better education on consent and attitudes to females gain momentum.

A current student leader and an ‘old boy’ from an elite independent all-boys school in Perth have united to take responsibility for their role in getting rid of sexist and abusive attitudes towards women that exist in society.

Principals from several WA private same-sex secondary schools have come together to work on how to address sexual consent and rape culture.

A man has died after a serious two-vehicle crash on a Townsville road near the Bruce Highway at Garbutt on Monday morning. 

A major law firm that may provide the legal heft behind Victoria’s royal commission into Crown has worked for the casino giant and its second-largest shareholder.

When I saw the PM turn his back on a female journalist, I had a flashback.

What’s needed now is stability, consolidation and good management.

Women are growing increasingly frustrated with advice like “be careful not to go out alone”.

Tasmanian Liberal MP Bridget Archer said that as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse she would attend the march to stand in solidarity.

Kate Ellis remembers the time she was told: ‘The only thing anyone really wants to know ... is how many blokes you had to f--- to get into Parliament.’

The corruption commission has been asked to look into $4 million in missing developer contribution funds from Georges River Council.

Imposing a legal duty on lawyers to report suspected misconduct, including sexual harassment, by colleagues would strengthen public confidence in a profession sometimes viewed as “a club”, a top silk said.

A maintenance worker servicing Opal top-up machines in Sydney stole $5, $10 or $20 notes on their way to the vault at least 15,000 times.

Anoush Bornoush used an elaborate scheme to steal more than $1.6 million over an 11-year period.

There are concerns that not enough Victorians are checking in at businesses due to the inconvenience of having to enter their data into multiple services.

The 16-storey apartment building in Auburn is the latest to be slapped with orders to fix “serious defects” amid a crackdown by the Building Commissioner.

Interest in family history has spiked during the pandemic. Some people are hoping to find a premier or a bushranger in the newly digitised records of orphans from 1850.