As an Italian immigrant and a single mother forging a career in the 1970s, Carla Zampatti had reason to see herself as an outsider. But she quickly worked to the front and centre of Australian fashion, where she remained for five decades, right up un...

Metro hubs such Monash Health, Western Health, Austin Health and Barwon Health have closed all or some of their vaccination sites over the long weekend.

Police are investigating the death of the 58-year-old man, who succumbed to his injuries after Saturday afternoon’s brawl.

Deputy Chief Medical Officer Michael Kidd says the evidence points to link between the vaccine and the rare clotting condition.

Melbourne has topped 30 degrees on Saturday, with the beaches and pools state-wide busy as Victorians try to cool off.

The accused, charged with more than 50 serious offences, were due to appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Saturday after three teenage girls were allegedly drugged and raped in Toowong.

The designer has been remembered as someone who championed talent and thrived in the cut-throat world of Australian fashion.

Australian fashion designer Carla Zampatti has died at St Vincent’s Hospital, one week after a fall at a gala opera premiere.

Lisa Neville has battled Crohn’s disease for 32 years and will require three months off work as she undergoes surgery.

Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young says the hospital will not be receiving any more COVID-19 patients, while Queensland records three new cases overnight.

Do you understand sexual consent? It's more complex than you might think.

The state government says there is no direct link between the AstraZenaca vaccine and a case of rare blood clots.

Four people, including a young child, have been killed in crashes two days into the long weekend.

The Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority Board allowed US developer Sentinel Real Estate to build double the amount of storeys allowed under local planning laws.

The 23-year-old woman fell from the vehicle on Good Friday in the Western Downs region.

The former bookkeeper of champion surfer Tyler Wright has been charged with embezzling more than $1.5 million over a decade from the World Surfing League professional and her family.

While Labor is yet to formally endorse a candidate, senior sources have indicated former Muswellbrook deputy mayor, coal miner and CFMEU Mining and Energy official Jeff Drayton is emerging as a contender for the byelection.

The famous British leader Winston Churchill won the war but lost the peace when he was dumped out of government. Australia’s Prime Minister is in danger of facing a similar scenario.

The Victorian Opposition and former counsel assisting to NSW’s anti-corruption watchdog has called for an urgent, wide-ranging audit into Victoria’s public transport contracts in the wake of allegations of serious corruption on Melbourne’s rail...

This bland sounding title is a cloak for stuffing as much development as possible into the fragile, treasured and partly world heritage-listed Cumberland Hospital precinct.

The slow pace of the vaccine rollout in Australia is simply a supply problem. Politicians squabbling over who is to blame will solve nothing.

An ambitious NSW-based syndicate made five attempts to smuggle drugs into Australia, but their eventual success was short-lived amid mass arrests.

Melbourne University is bracing for reputational damage as it prepares to cull science subjects in the latest response by the state’s higher education sector to tumbling revenue.

The culture inside parliaments might be a turn-off, but the toxic environment for female politicians begins years before they are elected.

Queensland has managed to get ahead of what seemed to be a looming outbreak of virus cases, but mystery still surrounds how the outbreaks happened in the first place.

Politics, incompetence and obfuscation is infecting the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine. It’s enough to make you sick.

The Wirraway was among the least capable fighter planes built in World War II. But brave, regularly doomed young men flew them in Australia’s defence anyway.

The sharp fall in international students, hits to revenue and an apparently unfriendly government have exacerbated an existential crisis. Whither our universities?

As the federal government gets more involved in disability, aged care and mental health, the tensions between ministers and public servants are likely to increase.

Scientology has deep and troubled roots in Australia and insists it is still growing fast. But the figures tell another story.

The last thing Laura remembers before she left a nightclub in South Yarra in the early hours of Saturday morning was feeling dizzy.

The 68-year-old neuroscientist, electrical engineer and entrepreneur discusses why he is striving for an “electric planet”, being comfortable with no afterlife, and how he feels about his ageing body.

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The Victorian government has been forced to revise their planned increase in repatriations after federal authorities rejected their bid to provide 120 additional places to people trying to return to the state.

New contact-tracing venues across Brisbane, the Gold and Sunshine coasts have been released after a PA Hospital nurse was found to be the missing link in the first of the two latest clusters.

The state’s public health authorities are expecting to see a very small number of adverse reactions, as with any mass immunisation program involving millions of people, the more likely being anaphylaxis.

There are major delays for motorists heading north, south and west of Sydney as the Easter long weekend and school holidays begin.

Australia’s AstraZeneca rollout will continue as planned as the country’s medical authorities monitor the first reported case of a rare clotting disorder following a COVID-19 jab.

While some operators are struggling to attract as many interstate visitors as they would like, Melburnians are flocking to regional destinations.

The president of the union representing NSW public service staff has asked the state industrial commission to investigate the union’s current leadership election.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology said it was unlikely the system would get close enough to hit the WA mainland during the long weekend but urged people in the western Pilbara, and around Exmouth and Carnarvon to keep up to date with forecasts and...

After a long stand-off over repairs, a beloved former Greek milk bar has been boarded up.

Police said the investigation targeted members of outlaw motorcycle gangs attempting to establish a foothold in Logan.

Colonel Young, deputy commander of the Joint Task Group for NSW assigned to the recovery effort, said the relationship between the defence force and state agencies galvanised through the fires and were bedded down by COVID-19. But these were just dre...

Motorists heading to the Sunshine Coast from Brisbane had been hit with about 12 kilometres of congestion around Caboolture.

Federal Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon says the NSW opposition must stick to a script of strongly supporting the coal mining industry if it is to win the Upper Hunter byelection.

Easter is a time to reflect on culture, power, character and conscience and the role we all play in holding our leaders accountable to the pledge they make when assuming office.

Hear her answer you back with more belief her opinion is worth something than you ever had, and be pleased she is part of a cohort that feels entitled to act forcefully.

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