Maureen Joy Robertson alleged the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service breached its duty of care. Three appeal judges thought otherwise.

The government’s response to the Aged Care Royal Commission is a good start, but there are years worth of work ahead.

A woman in Krasnodar on the Black Sea sings along with an Australian accent while she does the washing-up.

The Queensland government has secured the event for next year but faces a fight to keep it in Brisbane for the long term.

A 63-year-old woman’s body was found in a South Yarra apartment block last night, while a 78-year-old woman was found dead in her Chelsea home on Saturday morning.

If Alan Tudge is serious about his aspiration for Australia to be among the top nations in school education by 2030, his focus on initial teacher education is the wrong strategy.

Homicide detectives have called for witnesses after an altercation outside a Bunbury venue left a man in critical condition.

Sister Joan Chittister has warned Australia’s Catholic Church that it faces an inevitable decline unless it undertakes significant reform.

The Sydney international and domestic train station platforms were evacuated for an unspecified precaution.

The 40-year-old skipper, sailing from Tahiti, was processed by immigration officials and escorted by police to a Sydney hotel.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said, on health advice, restrictions would be lifted from 12.01am on Monday.

Five people, including a 15-year-old boy, have been hospitalised after separate stabbings across Sydney’s west on Saturday night.

Alyshia Spain, 12, and her nine-year-old brother Aaron were reported missing on Saturday afternoon but found safe and well on Sunday morning.

The 53-year-old was stabbed in the head and arm when he confronted a burglar trying to break into his Nambour property on Saturday night.

A Perth choir is raising a glass – and their voices – in celebration of 90 years of filling concert halls with song.

It has been more than a decade since the tragic death of Hollywood star Heath Ledger but his father is finding ways for his legacy to carry on in Perth.

When Lucy grabbed the iPad from her 10 year-old son she saw explicit images arriving on Snapchat in real time.

Australians with family or loved ones overseas are increasingly alarmed about the personal toll of being shut off from the rest of the world.

My hope is that truth-telling will move to restore Indigenous culture and identity and empower Indigenous people to take control of their future – financially, economically and socially.

Now the Coalition has embraced big spending, will Labor allow itself to be defined by identity politics?

While we have indeed had many wonderful Indigenous and POC Olympians, they are underrepresented in the Sporting Hall of Fame.

The federal budget predicts the loss of 174,000 people by mid next year as a result of Australia travel bans.

Law reform commission set to recommend sweeping changes to the way justice is offered to survivors of sexual assault, as pressure mounts over the issue of consent laws.

When Julie Heller and her young family moved into their weatherboard home in 2013, they were excited by the prospect of growing their own produce in their sprawling north-facing backyard lined with fruit trees.

“It takes a village to raise a child” is still true. We are all responsible for stepping up with practical help when the need arises in our own neighbourhoods.

A decade since the Paid Parental Leave scheme was introduced, mothers are still assumed to be the carers, fathers are largely locked out and “gender relations have not shifted”.

The Brisbane Lions triple-premiership player explains what gets him out of bed every morning.

An extra $10 a day per person given to nursing homes this week by the Morrison government will not improve food quality in aged care, chefs and experts say.

The majority of the blame for the alarming deterioration in the empathy of a large portion of Australians lies with the idiocy shown by politicians.

Liberal and Labor health ministers from the five mainland states are pleading with the Morrison government to ease the strain on a health system choked by post-2020 ill health.

Once upon a time this troubled young woman would have got a stern reprimand from a magistrate. But under the Andrews government’s tough-on-crime laws, she spent time in prison.

When NSW was under the pump to build more school halls and libraries, it turned to the fast, cheap Binishell. Almost 50 years later, a handful remain.

Photo diaries reveal a huge variation in what returning travellers are served during their 14 days in a hotel room.

Human rights advocates say they were “shouting into the void” trying to curb excessive government COVID interventions.

What does it feel like when your entire neighbourhood is obliterated?

There were 2050 private residential renovations approved in March in NSW valued at a total of $354 million.

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

Meet the Melbourne renters who have upgraded to new digs on the back of the cheapest inner-city rents in more than a decade.

A Queensland teacher has been banned from applying for registration or permission to teach until the end of the year after he was suspended by the College of Teachers for inappropriate sexual messages with several former students.

Augmented reality has slowly become a part of our lives without many realising it. Experts say it is now ready to reach its full potential.

An icon of the city’s entertainment scene, Frankie’s Pizza, will be demolished to make way for the Sydney Metro – a loss that may be mourned on Macquarie Street more than anywhere else.

Thousands of Palestine supporters have rallied to condemn Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Victoria shivered through its coldest day of the year on Saturday, with heavy rainfalls and severe weather warnings for damaging winds plaguing the state’s east.

The Parental Leave Pay scheme, which was introduced a decade ago, is clearly ripe for review,

A cyclist has died after a crash on the Wide Bay Highway about 200 kilometres north of Brisbane on Saturday morning. 

Sunny Joura has been trying to return to Melbourne since June last year. On Friday, hours before his flight was due to leave, he tested positive to coronavirus, leaving him and his mother stranded again.

West Bank erupts in protest amid more Israel-Hamas fighting.

A field of 13 candidates are slugging it out for supremacy in the mining and farming community of the Upper Hunter.

A woman has died and another has suffered serious injuries after a crash near Stanthorpe, south-west of the Gold Coast on Friday night.

The state government has announced funding of $2 million to build fencing around a beach notorious for dingo attacks on Fraser Island.