After the verdict, the 50-year-old’s lawyer said it was disgraceful that she was locked up for “this outrageous complaint”.

The planet’s temperature is just one of its interesting features, but it is also giving astronomers vital clues about how similar planets formed.

There’s something a bit odd about the COVID-19 vaccines. Good-odd... But odd.

Callan Sinclair told his mum that the complainant was “hanging around us like a bad smell” on the night he allegedly raped her. Jack De Belin said he didn’t know her “from a bar of soap”.

Australian universities have been the hardest hit, compared to those in Canada, the US and UK, according to an international report which says the sector may resort to cannibalisation by lowering standards and poaching students from each other.

Corrective Services NSW said the man was found unresponsive in his cell at about 10am before he was pronounced dead at 11.15am.

WA’s Department of Health was warned in March, in a report it had commissioned, that hotel quarantine guests 19 should be moved away from neighbouring rooms where returned travellers had tested positive.

A young girl has been hospitalised with a back injury after the camel she was riding during a Broome sunset tour bucked her off when it was spooked by an unleashed dog.

Lawyers acting for a refugee advocate being sued by Defence Minister Peter Dutton say the case raises questions about whether defamation law is stifling public debate.

The ACT Health Minister accused those who received the vaccine of skipping the queue after a booking hotline for frontline workers was widely distributed.

A man helping his friend move items around her inner-city home allegedly sexually assaulted her after she suffered from a medical condition and blacked out.

Melbourne University’s international chief has urged a wary federal Education Minister to approve a plan for students put forward by Victoria as coronavirus rages overseas.

A woman who went to work on Gregory Douglas’ horse stud when she was 18 has told a Sydney court he made sexual comments and gave her unwanted massages.

Cabaret comes alive at Melbourne’s Arts Centre in an unexpected way.

The Prime Minister’s Queensland representative on the 2032 Olympics bid says a joint infrastructure body will run the ruler closely over any plans before approving them.

Brisbane Youth Service had 1324 new requests from young people in the March quarter this year, representing a 336 per cent jump from same period in 2020.

Mr Sutherland was charged with two counts of misconduct in relation to public office in December 2019.

Premier Mark McGowan offered no solace to Australian residents stranded in India after again questioning why they travelled to the COVID-19 hotspot in the first place.

Enid Borschmann was a highly respected teacher and principal. To many, Enid was a breaker of glass ceilings and a pioneer educator, but to her it was a matter of doing a job to the best of her ability and enjoying the experience.

Police raided three properties in Brisbane and found drugs, mobile phones and more than $100,000 in cash.

Today on Please Explain, rugby league reporter Christian Nicolussi joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss the racism faced by NRL players in Australia.

The public health expert who led a review of WA’s hotel quarantine earlier this year says all federal and state facilities should be assessed for use in Australia’s COVID-19 quarantine system.

Pressure is mounting on the Berejiklian government to make good on its promise to extinguish fossil fuel extraction rights on the rich farmlands of the Liverpool Plains with two bills set to go before the NSW upper house.

Four of the 78 people who arrived on the Perth-bound flight on Saturday have already tested positive for the virus.

The former rugby league reporter is suing five media outlets for defamation over reports on his exit from Channel Seven in 2018.

A supermoon began rising on Tuesday night as April’s full moon reached the closest part of its orbit.

Judge criticises authorities’ handling of Porsche driver Richard Pusey’s case amid calls for him to serve no further jail time for filming four dying police officers after horror Eastern Freeway crash.

The 43-year-old Coomera man was charged over the incident at the Gold Coast, when petrol was allegedly poured throughout a home on O’Reilly Drive, forcing police to declare an emergency.

The person was staying at the Mercure on George Street earlier this month when they tested positive to the B.1351 variant of the virus.

It is unknown when two Brisbane hospitals and several aged care facilities will have their systems restored after a cyber attack on Sunday crippled Uniting Care, forcing staff to use manual processes.

Smoke from a number of hazard reduction burns has settled across Sydney, the Illawarra and Southern Highlands.

Australia’s rail company will rethink a contentious plan for road overpasses at two towns in north-east Victoria, but will proceed with one near the site of the Ned Kelly siege. 

Queensland Health will treat infected crew members on board a ship after 12 people tested positive, including a man whose body washed ashore in Vanuatu.

Querying if there is an alternative to a snap lockdown in response to a community case does not translate to implying we should throw open the international border and just let the virus run rampant. It’s a legitimate question, and here’s why.

Defence Minister Peter Dutton has indicated an important shift in Australia’s defence posture.

As the US shifts its military might from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific, our Defence Minister says nobody wants to see conflict between China and Taiwan, but he warns: “I don’t think it should be discounted.”

Stephen Grant was driven by an urge to discredit a computer program used by valuation firm LandMark White so his program could be used instead, a jury has been told.

Most newly eligible over-50s will struggle to book in for a COVID-19 vaccine next week, as NSW focuses on frontline workers and vulnerable people.

Traditional baskets made of grass from Jennine Armistead’s backyard are part of a new Melbourne Museum online exhibition recording how people adapted in 2020.

Aviation experts say plans to relocate up to half of Sydney’s air traffic controllers to Melbourne is a taste of things to come.

Australia should look to the UK to reverse two decades of decline in reading, maths and science, says federal minister Alan Tudge.

In order for a country to progress, we constantly need to refer to our past to light our path.

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

40 years ago, pedestrians were celebrating the State Government’s decision to keep the Sydney Harbour Bridge’s eastern walkway.

It’s been five minutes since Mike Tod landed at CBA to head its corporate affairs arm. Now his boss Priscilla Brown has headed for the exit.

As lockdowns continue to shut down capital cities around the country, it should be clear to every Australian that our hotel quarantine system is just not fit for purpose.

Avalon Airport has for months been considered the front-runner to host returned travellers, but the government is favouring other options as it prepares to announce the location.

And reports of flying spaghetti monsters.

The latest outbreak from hotel quarantine in Western Australia has triggered further debate over the adequacy of this program and who is responsible for it.

The victim Michael James McCabe (pictured) is believed to have died when a large rock was dropped onto his head.