After a stroll with a pregnant friend, psychologist Levita D’Souza has been studying how dads have bonded with babies whose heartbeats they didn’t get to hear.

The cases are those police believe are the most solvable. In each case investigators have strong leads and believe the appeal may find the missing information.

Voters were forced to a byelection after former Nationals MP Michael Johnsen quit Parliament amid accusations of raping a sex worker.

A Melbourne Brewery cancelled a promotion to reward people who had had a COVID-19 vaccine due to negative social media comments.

The Department of Health says 13 people have been identified as potential contacts after confusion over the actual store visited by a Wollert man who tested positive for COVID-19.

First residents thought it was manure. Then a dead possum in the roof. Residents in Melbourne’s West have been living amid a toxic stench since 2019 and will be until next year.

A Queensland lawyer says has been involved in an array of recent disputes stemming from working-from-home practices.

Despite a 20 per cent rise in the number of foster carers between 2019 and 2020, the number of children moving into the child protection system has increased during COVID-19.

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A man is in hospital and part of a popular Melbourne restaurant precinct was declared a crime scene after an early morning drive-by shooting.

Under current contract arrangements with the state government, the hospital has to match cost-per-patient figures at other public hospitals across metropolitan Perth.

“It won’t be a big wave that shuts down the hospital for three months,” says Professor Nancy Baxter. “But it doesn’t mean that you won’t get cases.”

Police are searching for a driver who allegedly crashed a car and injured a female passenger before fleeing.

Virgin Australia passengers should expect flight delays and possible cancellations on Saturday as the network  recovers from a major outage that hit airlines around the world on Friday night.

Evangelos Goussis was convicted of the 2004 murder of Lewis Caine. That he didn’t do it is one of Melbourne’s worst-kept gangland secrets.

A crime scene was declared at the property and police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.

With international borders closed, consumer spending will be driven by incomes. And both the federal and Victorian budgets have failed to tackle this adequately.

Evangelos Goussis is seeking to overturn his conviction for murder of crime patriarch Lewis Moran on the basis of evidence concealed from his legal team at the time of his trial.

We are leaving the next generation without the tools to understand their emotional needs and assert them.

NSW has 1800 timber bridges - but for how long?

GPs are urging the federal government to redress uneven supplies of the COVID-19 vaccine, with some doctors still waiting to inoculate some of their most vulnerable patients.

Sydney’s traffic is as bad as it’s ever been, with recent weekend volumes returning to or even exceeding pre-coronavirus levels across the city.

Justin Hemmes plays his cards close to his chest, declining to name the next targets of his acquisition rollout, but the 48-year-old concedes there are more deals brewing.

Moriah College’s board elections are the most heated in more than a decade amid concern about falling HSC results, a $7.3 million fraud and a $25 million bank debt.

A hike of up to 50 per cent in premiums for building work on apartment blocks, terraces and townhouses will start to be passed onto owners from late July.

Scott Morrison has been derided as purely a marketing man. Yet this is not evident in recent events.

A 76-year-old man has been charged with murder after the death of a woman police say was known to him.

Thousands of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses are sitting unused in federal government-run clinic refrigerators in NSW, a truce has been called in the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the national unemployment rate fell in April but 30,600 fewer peop...

Broome man Brett Highlands is in stable condition after being bitten by what authorities believe was a 3-metre tiger shark while diving off a boat north of Willie Creek. 

People who were at an Epping Woolworths during a one-hour period on May 8 need to get tested for COVID-19 and isolate after health authorities admitted they had identified the wrong supermarket as an exposure site.

The new spend will include cash to buy land for a new park in the inner city and follows a surge in the use of public space during the pandemic.

Ecologists say a lack of food in the city and long distances separating grain regions from urban areas mean an urban plague is “highly unlikely”.

Virgin Australia flights are facing delays after the airline’s check-in system crashed.

The legal soap opera was about as salacious as it gets but the courtroom was relatively empty to begin. Days later, a packed public gallery was watching one of Melbourne’s most sensational defamation trials.

A woman’s body has been found at a Geelong West property this afternoon.

The Atlas Coral Project uses a network of small satellites to maintain a real-time watch on the health of coral reefs around the world, keeping a digital eye out for bleaching events.

Thousands of young people marched through the city on Friday as part of nationwide protests demanding climate action from the federal government.

Thousands of Victorian students walked out of classrooms on Friday in Melbourne as part of a mass call for climate action. Across the country, tens of thousands of school students went on strike to demand that the Morrison Government says no to fundi...

Delivering a terminal diagnosis is the job every doctor dreads – and the news no person wants to get. How much truth do patients and their loved ones really want? And what do they actually hear?

Upgrading Australia’s communications network meant our national security experts had to get to grips with tech titan Huawei’s ties to the Chinese government. A ban would infuriate Chinese leaders. The alternative was worse.

Escaping city life for a remote property is an idyllic proposition for those wanting to wrench their kids off their devices. Just be aware other creatures were there before you.

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Thousands have attended the first School Strike 4 Climate rally since the pandemic began, with the event in Brisbane coinciding with dozens more around the country.

Ray and Jennie Kehlet vanished in 2015 while camping in the Mid West. Mr Kehlet’s body was found down an abandoned mine shaft. His wife’s has never been found.

The news outlets being sued by Ben Roberts-Smith have sought the former SAS soldier’s medical records amid a factual dispute over whether he was having an affair when he allegedly punched a woman in the face.

Thousands of NSW students walked out of classrooms on Friday in Sydney as part of a mass call for climate action, defying a demand by the NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell to stay in school.

Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguire speaks to Europe correspondent Bevan Shields about the unprecedented spray Prince William has launched on the way the BBC managed to ‘trick’ his late mother into an interview in 1995.

Ben Ungermann was instead charged with one count of assault on Friday and placed on a diversion program, avoiding a criminal conviction.

In a statement filed in the Federal Court ahead of a three-day hearing starting on Monday, Sue Chrysanthou, SC, says she gave advice for free to the friend of the woman who accused Christian Porter of rape.

The man was taken to Cable Beach by boat to a waiting ambulance. Authorities suspect it was 3-metre tiger shark.