The latest landmark climate science report goes much further than previous ones to provide estimates of how bad things might go as the planet heats up.

A major staffing crisis is looming at a western Sydney hospital after a COVID-19 cluster in a mental health unit grew to nine cases on Wednesday.

Federal Court Justice Michael Wigney described the campaign waged by former patient Catherine Cruse against Dr Warwick Nettle as “full of falsehoods”.

There’s a term for the sense of grief and shock we feel about the unfolding global warming crisis: climate distress. And ordinary Australians are finding ways to turn sadness into action.

The call comes after patients were turned away from emergency departments at Sunshine and Footscray hospitals on Tuesday when more than 220 staff were forced into isolation.

The Nationals are pushing for rural compensation for stronger action on climate change, setting up a negotiation in federal cabinet on a more ambitious policy.

Police have been sent to a developing situation at Acacia Prison in Wooroloo after reports prisoners had barricaded themselves in a room.

NSW is in lockdown limbo, Melbourne’s coronavirus restrictions are unlikely to ease tomorrow and Brisbane’s first mass vaccination hub is opening today.

The exact nature of the taunt which made Kane Evans see red and throw punches at the veteran centre hasn’t been disclosed, but the Warriors coach has ruled out one slur.

Australia was due to host China at Sydney’s Bankwest Stadium on September 2, but even players such as Mat Ryan have no idea where the crucial final round of World Cup qualifiers will begin.

The Roosters coach says he no longer knows what the judiciary considers a crusher tackle after Angus Crichton’s hefty sanction.

Melbourne’s lockdown has been extended for another seven days as authorities scramble to investigate the source of five mystery cases among Wednesday’s 20 new cases.

Opinion is divided on parent and kid-built structures in parks. Are they exciting play spaces or illegal accident traps? 

St Kevin’s College has withdrawn from a multi-school study of boys’ attitudes on masculinity after parents and students objected to a confronting survey.

Everything you need to know to find a winner at the equine capital of Australia.

Trainer Kody Nestor could unveil a major Country Championships hopeful in lightly raced mare Artie’s Aura at Scone on Thursday.

The Nationals have the whip hand over the federal government’s ability to sign up to international climate goals. The question is, what’s their price?

The federal government’s car park fund is facing new criticism from a Melbourne council that was given ‘unsolicited’ money to build parking at two train stations.

Tens of thousands of Sydney construction workers began returning to building sites on Wednesday after the NSW government eased restrictions.

The plea comes after the Sydney Roosters released a video which showed three stars encouraging fans to get the vaccine.

The arts organisation has appointed its first female chief executive, Sydney-born Fiona Allan.

Gregory Richard Douglas has been jailed for a maximum of nine years over a string of sexual and indecent assaults involving five young women who volunteered on his farm.

The Australian Olympic Committee has lashed the South Australian government for imposing an additional 14 days’ quarantine on a group of athletes returning to that state from Tokyo via Sydney. 

Zoran Radovanovic, 52, who is being treated in Lismore Base Hospital, is believed to have travelled to the area to look at real estate.

Collingwood defender Jeremy Howe will miss the Magpies’ game against Brisbane this week because his wife is due to give birth.

A 50-year-old man has been charged with common assault and breaching health orders after he was arrested at a home in the city’s west on Wednesday.

The COVID-19 pandemic has robbed hundreds of promising footballers of valuable game time. Now Phil Gould has come up with a radical solution to the problem.

Commonwealth Bank boss Matt Comyn is betting on a strong economic rebound from lockdowns in the final quarter of 2021, stressing the importance of vaccines.

A cancelled tri-series means David Warner, Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell and other Australian players will return to play in the postponed IPL.

WA billionaire Andrew Forrest’s investment company Tattarang has spent $43 million this week to increase its Huon stake to 18.5 per cent in a move that complicates the $550 million JBS takeover.

The former minister says Australia will continue to be diminished unless it confronts its troubled past and faces the injustices it has inflicted on Indigenous Australians.

Billionaire retailer Solomon Lew has threatened to take legal action against the board of Myer if the company decides to pursue a capital raising.

Melbourne’s extended lockdown has thrown more doubt on whether the AFL finals series, including the showpiece grand final, can go ahead at the MCG or will need to be shifted interstate.

Carlton shapes as Adam Cerra’s likely home if the midfielder leaves the Dockers, with Richmond not pursuing him.

The Reverend Faaimata (Mata) Havea Hiliau, originally from Tonga, has been elected as the next Moderator for the Uniting Church.

Anyone who has had a swab up their nose can attest to the care of our healthcare workers. But to see them in action close up, is another thing entirely.

As their home record will attest, no team has been harder hit by the relocation to Queensland than the Parramatta Eels.

The Planning Minister’s plans for a major overhaul of levies to help pay for infrastructure projects has been dealt a setback.

These days the crimson Cassandra is rare. This 75-year-old plant has been recognised by the International Camellia Research Society.

In 2030 – the year our planet is on track to tip over the crucial 1.5-degree global warming threshold – I will be 26.

The program, which requires parents of small children to participate in activities such as swimming lessons and playgroups or risk having welfare payments cut off, also had a disproportionate impact on Indigenous Australians.

Swiss biologist Wilson Edwards was widely quoted in China for his fierce criticism of the World Health Organisation. But the embassy thinks he is ‘fake news’.

On this episode of Please Explain, state political reporter Lucy Cormack joins Tory Maguire to discuss the possibility of NSW lifting restrictions at the end of August.

Iron ore baron tuned environment crusader Andrew Forrest’s company, Tattarang, has beefed up its stake in salmon farmer Huon to block a takeover by Brazilian food giant JBS.

Westpac has stepped up its claim for damages for Mr Papas’ overseas assets, expanding it to a Greek company that received $16 million allegedly defrauded from the bank.

From a Facebook spat involving a French bulldog breeder to court wars over negative Google reviews, defamation cases in Victorian courts shot up last year.

A protester accused of striking a police horse during a Sydney anti-lockdown march has been granted bail.

Robert Crichton-Brown (known as “Ant”), businessman, pastoralist, and sporting hero, has died of coronavirus in London in January, aged 77. He was the younger of two children and the only son of Sir Robert Crichton-Brown, who was best known as th...

An emotional Eddie Betts has broken down in a live cross on AFL 360 discussing Taylor Walker’s racist saga and recent abuse against WA-raised Demons star Kysaiah Pickett in Perth.

An elderly woman has admitted hitting her son with an axe and then suffocating him in the home they shared, court documents reveal.