Year 12 student leaders across Sydney want the class of 2021 to be given the choice of sitting their final exams or receiving an estimate.

Former Western Bulldogs’ skipper Bob Murphy says he will be “all in” at Fremantle as soon as he starts as their new head of football and high performance later this year.

Netball chiefs on Tuesday revealed a seven percent increase in viewership over the season - but the audience for the grand final was down sharply on last year.

While news of Matthew Guy’s Liberal leadership victory had some Labor campaigners dusting off their lobster suits, wiser heads were rethinking their strategy.

Twilight Payment, Sir Dragonet and Verry Elleegant are all due to return down under to defend their Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate crowns.

Thanks to some determined sleuthing, a little luck and even some divine intervention, a long-lost interview with Led Zeppelin has resurfaced in Australia.

Labour movement leaders have lashed anti-vaxxers targeting their members. But the question of when to support mandatory jabs is proving much thornier.

Two brothers and a friend who planned to shoot and kill innocent members of the public in Melbourne have each been jailed for 10 years.

Grace Tame will push for all states laws to include the same definitions for consent and grooming to make sure there aren’t “knowledge gaps” that enable perpetrators.

It’s no coincidence Margie Bee produces her best on tighter tracks and trainer Kristen Buchanan hopes a short break and a return to a compact circuit can do the trick.

Sydney’s metropolitan midweek meeting heads north to the Central Coast with six races programmed.

As the national election campaign enters its final weeks, the Prime Minister had attacked his main rival, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, for pandering towards “anti-vaxxers”.

An additional 1500 workers will arrive to fill shortages on farms, but the agriculture lobby says a long-term quarantine plan is needed and huge workforce gaps remain.

Greg Holmes was hoping to attend Wallabies training sessions to assist with his transition in scrum coaching. Dave Rennie had other plans for the 38-year-old prop.

The buy now, pay later darling says cryptocurrencies could wipe out a range of fees charged by banks and card schemes.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he will continue flying between Sydney and Canberra, arguing he must be able to cross the border to do his job.

The fire that killed Robert and Patrick Salway ripped the roller door from their shed and uprooted established trees.

The central bank will pump billions of dollars more into buying government debt amid warnings of a short-term hit to the nation’s jobs market.

British energy giant BP and Macquarie Capital are assessing plans to transform the former site of Australia’s largest oil refinery into a clean-energy hub.

A Frankston police station custody officer has been fined $20,000 for sending footage of vulnerable people in the cells to his friends and laughing about it.

Alexander Page has been ordered to pay Sydney Seaplanes’ costs after the operator of the aircraft that crashed on New Year’s Eve in 2017, killing all six people on board, won an appeal against his lawsuit.

For years it was the stuff of rumours and tall tales. Now the super-sized swamp yabby has been formally named as a new species.

It is an outstanding feat for WAtoday to achieve this many media award nominations in Western Australia, let alone dominate two whole categories.

Police have blocked laneways around a Ripponlea synagogue, where more than 100 worshippers are marking Jewish New Year in what appears to be a breach of COVID-19 restrictions. 

Police say Daniel Gordon Benson had been refused a working with children’s check in 2016. He was granted bail on Tuesday under strict conditions.

Matt Rendell takes a look at each team’s season in 2021 and what they need to do with their lists over the off-season.

The former treasurer’s appointment to chair super fund Cbus has exposed a deepening rift within the labour movement.

The widely read editorial in this masthead about lockdowns was a recognition of a change in sentiment in Victoria, but it should have been more measured.

In trying to be everything to everyone, Guy Sebastian has plumbed a low not seen since his bad juggling in his Elevator Love video.

Jayden Hunt trained fully on Tuesday, adding a further selection headache for Melbourne, whose captain Max Gawn declared it would be a “massive call” for the Demons to make a change ahead of Friday night’s preliminary final against Geelong in P...

The NSW Audit Office has released a scathing report on the preparations of the government to cope with the effects of a heating climate, finding critical assets and services had yet to conduct risk assessments such as for the state’s $50 billion pu...

We are being indoctrinated into believing that the increasing COVID-19 death toll is confined to the infirm. It’s a cynical fiction, and a dangerous one.

The Australian filmmaker directed the actor, who was found dead on Tuesday, in his 2016 Hollywood movie, Assassin’s Creed.

The federal Health Minister has rebuffed criticism from Victoria’s Premier, say the state had received a higher per capita vaccine allocation than NSW.

The Victorian Student Representative Council’s call for year 12s to immediately return to face-to-face lessons has been backed by new Opposition Leader Matthew Guy.

The Foreign and Defence ministers will do a whirlwind visit to four countries next week to talk about security issues as well as trade opportunities.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino wants the World Cup to be played every second year, instead of every fourth - an idea that has already enraged some of football’s most powerful factions.

The returned Opposition Leader had a controversial track record as planning minister between 2010 and 2014. These are some of his decisions.

He lent his credentials to Crown to enhance the casino group’s damaged governance reputation. But it has cost the former chief executive of Telstra and Optus dearly.

The PolAir helicopter was running low on fuel as it came over the tree canopy during the search for missing three-year-old Anthony “AJ” Elfalak. But a small movement captured the crew’s attention.

At the Swans alone, Tom Mitchell, Toby Nankervis, Shane Biggs and now Aliir Aliir are perfect examples of players enjoying great success after they have moved on.

Groundbreaking animator Anne Jolliffe said, that as a woman in the business, “she had to work twice as hard as the men, be twice as good, and to fight”.

Telstra is downgrading its 100/40Mbps plan but won’t pass on the savings from the NBN to the affected customers.

Mr Guy, who led the party to defeat at the 2018 election, was elected unopposed after Michael O’Brien decided not to contest the leadership.

Today on Please Explain, senior writer Wendy Tuohy joins Bianca Hall to talk about the national women’s safety summit and why young women are leading the way.

Donald Westlake could launch a sequence of breath-taking pyrotechnics that few other clarinet players could match.

Vietnam jailed a man for five years for breaking strict COVID-19 quarantine rules and spreading the virus to others, state media reported.

The AFL has announced the first bounce in this year’s grand final will take place at 5.15pm in Perth on Saturday September 25, meaning the season decider will be broadcast at nighttime in Victoria for the second year in a row.

It is alleged the woman breached the self-quarantine direction four times from Friday to Monday by visiting family members in the Fremantle area as well as a pawnbroker in Perth.

Between Australia’s success in skateboarding at the Olympics and exercise restricted to outdoors because of COVID-19, councils are investing in new facilities as Sydneysiders embrace the sport.