The removal of a masterful Australia Post chief executive was an exercise

The former soldier’s barrister told the Federal Court there had been a “concerted effort” by the Herald and The Age to publish material prejudicial to him before the defamation trial.

David Knoff has survived an extended expedition to Antarctica and a fire at sea but setting foot in Fremantle this week he says he is just worried about whether he will get shouted down at the supermarket for not being familiar with COVID-19 protocol...

Crime and Corruption Commission chair Alan MacSporran, QC, said the watchdog accepted the decision to drop fraud charges against a group of former councillors and had acted appropriately at all times.

Queensland Health has been ordered to audit fit-testing of masks used by staff in COVID wards, after the state’s nurses union raised safety concerns.

Crews were searching for a Brisbane man believed to have fallen off the boat in the afternoon.

The 12-year-old was last seen walking to the train station on her way to school on July 27, 1998.

The man is believed to be linked to four separate incidents of sex acts on public transport since February.

Just weeks into the job, Gold Coast City Council chief executive David Edwards has resigned.

Two shovels found on Wednesday have been taken for forensic testing, as a police search focuses on a small area of dense bush adjacent to the Great Alpine Road.

Officers allegedly found cannabis, methylamphetamine, prescription drugs, weapons and electronic devices that will all undergo forensic examination.

Victorian Tourism Industry Council chief executive Felicia Mariani says modelling shows almost 15 per cent of tourism businesses could shut due to the sector’s slowdown.

The group of about 40 activists were surrounded by police as they protested several issues including the government’s response to climate change and its treatment of women.

Seven Network executive and accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has apologised to staff for comments he made in a series of audio recordings.

The LGAQ has called for the head of the state’s corruption watchdog to be stood aside while an independent investigation takes place.

The rugby league players are on trial in the NSW District Court accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman. They have pleaded not guilty.

Police knew John Pozzebon was being treated for mental illness and had suffered a head injury when they permitted him to keep his six guns. Two years later, he fatally shot his nephew.

Critical care paramedics have treated a swimmer after a near drowning in a pool in Main Beach on the Gold Coast.

Kalbarri’s post-cyclone rebuild could take years to complete with the region’s builders already booked up through to 2022 to WA’s booming construction industry.

Immature “horsing around” at a school in Perth’s south-east left a student with a disability with a broken hip and in excruciating pain for up to five hours, a magistrate says.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s decision to hold national cabinet more frequently mirrors the state’s sense of urgency with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

Justice Michael Kirby said of John Slee: “A fine journalist who took an interest in an intricate case that most other rational human beings regarded as boring, irritating and a pain in the bum.”

Vietnamese teenager Alaska Holden recently became a boarder at Toorak College thanks to the Australia-NZ travel bubble. Now Victorian schools are calling for clarity on when other international students can return.

Seven Logan councillors who were suspended after the Crime and Corruption Commission Queensland levelled fraud allegations against them have had their charges dropped in court.

Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguire speaks with federal political reporter Lisa Visentin about the former Australia Post boss’s accusation she was bullied by the Prime Minister.

It took Michelangelo four years to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling and 10 for Gianluigi Colalucci and his small team of restorers to clean it, not including the four years they then spent on The Last Judgment.

Policeman Lachlan McCulloch swung his gun on Nelson and was squeezing the trigger when he heard a bang.

The fisherman who was rescued after he fell overboard has spoken out about the community mission to save him and his tinny.

Locals fear a sea wall planned for construction will worsen beach erosion but the council insists it has no other option.

The QNMU is taking Queensland Health to the industrial relations arbiter over concerns guidelines for masks being used by nurses treating COVID-19 patients are inadequate.

The truck driver who killed four police officers on the Eastern Freeway last year has been jailed for 22 years over offending that a judge labelled “chilling” and said caused an “entirely unnecessary” loss of life.

Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital will have its ward 5D deep-cleaned again after viral fragments were detected following the first clean.

Two men, aged 18 and 31, died when a light plane crashed in a paddock in Sutton, north of the ACT, on Tuesday afternoon.

A fire in the popular seaside town of Apollo Bay has swept through several shops.

Restrictions will be lifted across the state at 6am, after almost a fortnight of zero community-transmission cases.

He was rushed to hospital with a significant hand injury from a workplace at Underwood.

Insurance assessors have begun arrived in cyclone impacted towns but a low volume of claims in the region was put down to a lack of power and phone signal.

Delays in the vaccine rollout will not change border controls, according to a leading WA physician who says it will be at least 2025 before normal travel returns.

The South West tourism sector is enduring a two-speed recovery from COVID-19, as tourists from Perth flock to hotels and watering holes but hold back from spending on tours and attractions.

It has been an increasingly disorienting experience to watch our national reaction to the pandemic and how we treat COVID-19 risk so differently to risk in literally every other area not just of public health but of human endeavour.

A 31-year-old man was killed when his motorcycle collided with a sedan at Alexandra Hills.

Portnoy’s Complaint spoke to me in a way other Jewish novels did not because it dared to ventilate the pathologies tormenting the postwar Jewish psyche.

It’s sad to have to keep making the same arguments on behalf of art and culture to politicians who couldn’t care less.

It was the government’s job to deliver the vaccine and it will be held responsible for failure.

Victoria Police’s top anti-gangland unit will be disbanded under a proposed restructuring of the way the force tackles serious crime.

The almost-total absence of criticism for Australia’s decision to preference Pfizer’s vaccine over AstraZeneca’s for under 50s is remarkable.

Mr Roberts-Smith buried documents marked classified. Metadata on them suggests he transferred some to others and modified them. Unlawful access to classified documents is an offence.

The decision to favour AstraZeneca over other vaccines may be the most consequential decision of Scott Morrison’s prime ministership.

Online content released through the federal government’s “Respect Matters” program comes as the nation’s schools continue to grapple with an outpouring of testimonies about teenage sexual assault within their communities.

The historic venue plans to create a concert space to rival the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, an indoor sports complex and up to seven sporting fields within the perimeter of its racetrack.