In a year when sexual assault allegations have engulfed federal and state politics, and thousands of women marched on federal parliament and around the nation to protest sexism and gendered violence, the online threats against female journalists have...

Farmers up and down the NSW coast are waiting to see if their oysters have survived an onslaught of freshwater and “foreign material” in the floods.

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The young player said he was grateful for the court’s decision and looked forward to flying back to Melbourne and training with his Richmond teammates.

International flights into Melbourne will resume on April 8 after a new strain of COVID-19 leaked from hotel quarantine and forced the government to halt overseas arrivals in mid-February.

Australia has been left at the starting line in the race to adopt EV technology.

Riaz Behi said he admitted to his wife he had consensual sexual contact with a patient after he was charged with sexually assaulting the woman.

Kulwinder Singh is on trial in the NSW Supreme Court accused of murdering his wife by lighting her on fire. He has pleaded not guilty.

Queensland Health has warned for anyone with symptoms to get tested.

Two brothers from Pakistan are accused of running a large counterfeit scheme from their Melbourne unit and selling packages of fake postage stamps to people across Australia.

Gihan Kerollos was stabbed to death by her husband as she left work at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital in May 2019.

Top doctors have sounded the alarm over the state of WA’s health system for months, but Health Minister Roger Cook was surprisingly unprepared to explain how our hospitals could find themselves in such dire straits.

‘They don’t last under extreme conditions’: rescue operation underway in bid to save oysters.

Victoria has recorded no new coronavirus cases for the 27th consecutive day, as the Victorian government gets ready to welcome international flights and resume hotel quarantine within the next fortnight.

Clearer skies appear over Sydney and Mid North Coast but flood risk continues.

Researchers have identified the city’s worst public transport bottlenecks and put forward fixes that they say could shave thousands of hours off people’s commutes.

Piara Waters woman Michelle Brown watched helplessly as an elderly man who struggled to breathe in a crowded emergency department in Perth’s east was kept in a corridor and told the hospital had no beds available.

Enough excuses, the life of women in the workplace has to change and, just like in politics, quotas are a good place to start.

Floodwaters are finally draining away, leaving behind a muddy mess in Sydney’s north-west as some residents question when government help will arrive.

The AMA says the fact WA hospitals are routinely overcrowded means there are hundreds of deaths a year in our health system from a preventable cause.

Today on Please Explain Nathanael Cooper and culture reporter Broede Carmody look at the controversy around a new commission for Dark Mofo and the decision to cancel it.

The Opposition Leader says the government isn’t listening to residents after the Acting Premier defended the operation of a safe injecting room next to a primary school.

Norman Tulloh achieved international recognition in agricultural research and education, particularly in the field of animal production and spent most of his career as a leading academic at the University of Melbourne.

Upper Hunter MP Michael Johnsen’s political career hangs in the balance after he was forced to out himself as the politician facing accusations of raping a sex worker.

Thousands of people have been allowed to return to their homes as weather conditions ease, although authorities have urged people not to be complacent around water following the death of a man in Sydney’s north-west.

The man had been missing overnight after his boat with his dog inside was found circling off the coast north of Perth.

The chef made up multiple false stories in a bid to escape conviction for the gang rape of a teenage girl in the back of his restaurant.

Ayaz Younus, from Pakistan, was a software engineering graduate, but was very excited to start his dream job as a truck driver, his housemate said.

A freedom-of-information request reveals Home Affairs is using 17 “alternative places of detention”, including hotels and mental health inpatient facilities.

A teenage girl was allegedly forced into bushland and sexually assaulted on Wednesday afternoon after walking home from school on Macleay Island.

Of the 83,000 high-risk workers allocated to phase 1a of the vaccine rollout in Victoria, fewer than 60,000 had received their first vaccination by Monday night.

In a major hit to the NSW government, the Coaltion has lost its majority after Michael Johnsen agreed to sit on the crossbench following a call from party leader John Barilaro.

WA Health Minister Roger Cook claims the only crisis in the health system was a lack of GPs and lingering patients after two major hospitals declared internal emergencies this week.

Police and QFES staff pulled an overturned ute from the swollen Canungra Creek when the body of David Hornman was recovered.

Office workers will be able to take a plunge in a rooftop pool with views of Elizabeth Quay, Kings Park and the Swan River if a bid to build a futuristic skyscraper at the city’s premier waterfront precinct gets the green light. 

If apartment developments are anything to go by, Perth is growing very fast. But in other ways, especially in industry circles, it remains a small town indeed.

Three million birds were found dead on Australia’s east coast in 2013 with pumice in their stomachs. Now, researchers have discovered what really happened.

Police said they found a loaded speargun in the man’s car.

A Molotov cocktail was thrown at Clairvaux MacKillop College in the early hours of Thursday morning, sparking a fire.

The NSW government is facing pressure from western Sydney’s inundated communities to prioritise a new freeway to act as a major flood evacuation route after infrastructure officials admitted in 2019 there weren’t enough roads to escape.

New research suggests people working the night shift are at nearly double the risk of contracting COVID-19 than those who work during the day.

Yes Prime Minister, you have listened and can now recite a checklist of concerns to the media. But hearing is not understanding and you still don’t get it.

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A massive flood recovery operation will launch on the NSW Mid North Coast on Thursday, after the formation of a clean-up strike force comprising the Australian Defence Force, the Rural Fire Service and Fire and Rescue.

On their first official tour, the Prince and Princess of Wales met Prime Minister Bob Hawke - an avowed republican - who had been elected just two weeks prior to their arrival.

Women to act on abortion law, bid to re-open cross-continent rail link and Australia cool over nuclear-free Pacific.

Kate Jenkins will be a getting a lot of feedback as she probes workplace culture issues in Parliament.

The federal government has not been working proactively with GPs to ensure a smooth and efficient rollout of the vaccine.

A 2016 feasibility study for an ‘active transport bridge’ from Bulimba to Teneriffe, sought by the council amid efforts to find a fifth green bridge site, found more work needed to assess its cost.