It’s been party time in Perth since Melbourne broke a 57-year premiership drought last weekend, but the Demons finally arrived home on Thursday, and have more motivation for next season.

Foxtel announced new strategic goals at its strategy day on Thursday including amassing 5 million subscribers and hitting $3 billion in revenue as it doubled down on its streaming services.

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Sydney’s youngest and oldest school children will return to classrooms from October 18, Victorian healthcare workers are being told to ‘prepare psychologically’ for the next few months and Queensland remains on high alert after new cases of COV...

League legend Cameron Smith ripped into former teammates Cameron Munster and Brandon Smith, as well as the Storm, over the “white powder” scandal.

The Bureau of Meteorology has confirmed a tornado occurred in the NSW Central West region on Thursday afternoon, while hail has landed in Sydney’s north-west.

The broadcaster repaid staff about $12 million last year after casuals complained they were not getting the right pay.

Veteran fund manager and longstanding Myer shareholder Geoff Wilson has sold off a third of his stake in the struggling department store in a profit-taking move.

A slew of new locations across Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Townsville are among more a growing list of exposure sites now linked to Queensland’s growing COVID-19 scare.

Plans for the Sheffield Shield have been thrown into further disarray after New South Wales and Victoria’s trips to South Australia for hotel quarantine were blocked by health authorities.

Proven Thoroughbreds boss Jamie Walter believes Private Eye is his best chance to break his group 1 duck in the Epsom at Randwick on Saturday.

Jonker looks to prove he is back against Everest contenders in the Premiere Stakes.

Robert Heathcote is hoping the third generation of a family which has been the backbone of his stable will be turned into a dynasty in Saturday’s Flight Stakes.

AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan said the coaching and administrative ranks of the game need to be more diverse to reflect the increasingly diverse backgrounds of the players and the community

The VRC is optimistic that its target of crowds of 11,500 at Flemington for Cup day can be reached but acknowledges that numbers could fall.

Major supermarket chains have called on the Victorian government to make changes to the state’s contact-tracing programs to be in line with NSW as closures loom

Justice Robert Bromwich has mused that the case, which centres on allegations broadcaster Erin Molan was racist during an on-air radio segment, would have been “particularly worthy” for a jury to decide.

Aaron Hamill was a key forward at Carlton in the late 1990s and says it is a “privilege” to be back as an assistant coach under new senior coach Michael Voss.

Victoria recorded 1438 new local cases on Thursday, a roughly 50 per cent increase on Wednesday’s numbers.

Mobility data suggests that there was more movement in Melbourne over the Grand final long weekend than at any time during the lockdown.

Fully vaccinated people who visit pubs, restaurants and supermarkets will no longer be identified as close contacts and forced to isolate for two weeks if exposed to COVID-19, under a planned overhaul of the state’s contact tracing methods.

South African-born Andrew Abdo had never witnessed a live game of rugby league in his life until he moved to Sydney in 2012. Now he is CEO of the NRL, the state’s most popular footy game which has its grand final Sunday.

Quade Cooper, Samu Kerevi and Sean McMahon will all play significant parts on the Wallabies’ spring tour.

My endorsement of Free Guy, the latest in a string of movies about false worlds, might be more wholehearted had it starred someone other than Reynolds.

YouTube says its content crackdown is only targeting misinformation regarding the efficacy and side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.

Everything you need to know to find a winner at the South Coast meeting.

Penrith and South Sydney may be required to fly to and from Townsville on grand final day if Queensland’s COVID-19 outbreak forces the grand final to relocate.

From a position of relative comfort just a few short weeks ago, now it seems everyone in Wollongong someone who’s had COVID-19.

The NSW Education Department is also looking to buy about 10,000 air purifiers to help mitigate COVID-19 transmission in classrooms when students return.

Many of the Panthers’ young squad come from migrant families in areas where youth unemployment is greater than 20 per cent. Rugby league is everything.

A group of plaintiffs including aged care workers, a paramedic and a teacher are attempting to challenge vaccine mandates in the NSW Supreme Court.

The biggest deficit in history, and more red ink for the years ahead, requires honesty about the nation’s finances. That honesty is missing.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says he is open to further tax cuts while delivering the largest budget deficit in history.

Mr Buswell was charged on Thursday morning with attempting to pervert the course of justice by investigators from the special crime division and is being held in custody.

First home buyers and low-income earners will find it even more difficult to buy into the Sydney and Melbourne property markets if regulators intervene, experts warn.

A couple of hours of slick marketing didn’t directly address the question of when its two owners - News Corp and Telstra - would hit the button on its IPO.

Hugh Bowman has won Australian 94 group 1s and some of the biggest races in the world, which has him looking for his 100th group 1 win at Randwick on Saturday.

Police arrived to find Byford residents had detained two people suspected of stealing mail from letterboxes on Hinsey Lane.

After more than a decade of talk about an Australia-India trade deal former prime minister Tony Abbott is confident there will be a breakthrough by Christmas.

It can mean the weather’s hot, but could also convey pandemic exhaustion, climate anxiety or the brave face we put on when things get difficult or embarrassing.

Alan Lancaster played the opening notes for Live Aid, the biggest global television event of all time.

At 38 years and 113 days, Holmes will surpass Tony Miller when he plays his first Test in five years on Saturday.

Traditional owners have given the mining giant’s efforts to strengthen ties them a mixed score, as it works to avoid a repeat of last year’s destruction of 46,000-year-old Aboriginal caves.

Three employees from high-profile firm Bosscher Lawyers were charged by the Crime and Corruption Commission in 2017.

Souths chairman Nick Pappas revealed the club only wanted Wayne Bennett if his assistant – and eventual successor – Jason Demetriou followed him to Redfern.

The interview, which focused on Hanson’s life away from politics, drew widespread criticism on social media.

Already making plans for when we’re able to leave our 5km? Harper’s Mansion, located two hours’ south of Sydney, is worth a visit.

Is the Queensland government’s “go hard, go early” mantra softening?

Today on Please Explain, senior culture writer Karl Quinn joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss the film Nitram and whether it should have been made.

Matt Burton took his first grade chance with both hands and never looked back in 2021 to become a key man for the Panthers in the NRL grand final.