Rob Priestly is the latest in a line of independent candidates seeking to oust sitting government MPs at the next federal election; in this case, the Nationals’ Damian Drum.

Three men have appeared before a Melbourne court after allegedly helming one of Australia’s biggest money laundering syndicates, with one of them denied bail.

The NSW Department of Education will provide “limited” home-schooling resources to parents who refuse to send their children to school for the rest of the term, according to the new back-to-school guidelines.

A WA Police spokesman said authorities were alerted to the emergency when one of the boat’s occupants made it to shore and raised the alarm.

A tornado has torn roofs off homes and damaged properties across Armidale in northern NSW, and has become the second tornado to hit the state in two weeks. The “unprecedented weather event” hit the regional city at about 10pm on Thursday, State E...

Footage shows police raiding a rural property in south-east Queensland seizing an estimated $25 million in cannabis plants. Four men have been charged.

Police arrested a 23-year-old man, who had been detained by security staff at The Golden Sheaf, but released him pending further inquiries.

As coronavirus cases in the Hunter area outstrip those in some of the city’s hardest-hit hotspots this week, businesses in regional NSW are scrambling to cancel bookings and postpone events after travel was blocked until November 1. 

With witnesses spread across the country, as well as in Afghanistan, the case brought by the former SAS soldier has been hampered by the pandemic.

Kenyan police are investigating an Australian charity that claims to save vulnerable children from human trafficking.

Justice Robert Beech-Jones found that restrictions on movement according to vaccination status “are the very type of restrictions that the Public Health Act clearly authorises”.

The significant easing of Victoria’s border permit system was revealed soon after NSW announced that fully vaccinated international arrivals won’t need to quarantine from next month.

The week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial review photographers.

Jailed at 14 and eventually bunking with a child killer, Sandie Jessamine escaped three times. Nearly 50 years on, she recalls the traumatic years that shaped her future.

Police raiding a drug boat found a growing fire on board that threatened to ignite a cache of fireworks and fuel cans packed alongside the largest ever cocaine haul seized in Australia.

International experience has shown children often struggle to readjust to school after extended lockdowns.

An eight-year-old boy and his 53-year-old father were rushed to hospital on Thursday evening after a man driving a Porsche Cayenne lost control, driving onto a sports field and hitting the pair who had been attending cricket training.

Distressed arrivals from war-torn countries found a friend in the founder of Bridge for Asylum Seekers.

One of Melbourne’s most significant street art laneways will be destroyed under a proposal for a 41-storey development near the Queen Victoria Market.

In this episode, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins discusses the costs of blanket non-disclosure agreements to harassment victims – and society.

Victoria’s coastal tourism operators brace for a hectic summer as demand for accommodation surges, prices climb and staff members prove hard to find. They’re asking holidaymakers to be patient and kind.

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A Melbourne retiree is making personalised pens to thank nurses and emergency workers.

As dangerous storms lashed Sydney on Thursday, meteorologists watched as the storm cell started to form a hook over Sydney’s west. It was a warning sign a tornado could hit.

Today on Please Explain, economics correspondent Jennifer Duke joins Nathanael Cooper to break down the push for tax reform.

The gender-reveal stunt circulated widely on social media, and police launched a public appeal to try to identify the driver.

Anti-vaxxers are finding more devious ways to sneak around Victoria’s jab mandate. Here’s how to tell if a certificate is a fake.

NSW is preparing to hit its 80 per cent double-dose vaccination target, Victoria’s restrictions are on track to ease late next week despite record high case numbers and COVID-19 self-testing kits have been approved for use in Australia come Novembe...

Christian Porter will appeal against a decision that prevented his barrister from acting for him in his defamation case against the ABC, even though that case was settled.

The Bureau of Meteorology expects conditions to clear throughout Friday and remain warm and sunny during the weekend.

In 2005, then NSW Opposition Leader John Brogden nearly ended his life. He’s now Lifeline chair, while wife Lucy is National Mental Health Commission chair.

Police have 47 different proposals before the government to adapt and introduce laws for the new world.

Queensland recorded its 11th straight day of no new local cases on Friday as it wrestled with the ramifications of NSW announcing it would throw open its borders from November 1.

Researchers have discovered structural differences in the brains of people who attempted suicide compared to those who did not, suggesting a biological factor in some cases of suicidal action.

Quarantine will no longer be required for double-vaccinated people entering NSW, including those coming from overseas, from November 1.

A Margaret River event that focuses on natural and organic wines from producers whose cellar doors are seldom open.

The Armidale tornado tore roofs off homes and damaged properties, following a similar weather event in Bathurst two weeks ago.

A man has been arrested and is assisting with police inquiries. No charges have been laid yet.

Kritchikorn Rattanajurathaporn had only been in Australia for four months when he was brutally murdered at Mackenzies Point.

Hail blanketed select streets in Melbourne, there was flash flooding in Traralgon and a tornado has hit Armidale, north of Sydney.

People in NSW can now add their digital vaccination certificate to their Service NSW app, as the state approaches its second stage of reopening.

For epidemiologists advising politicians and debating control measures in the public arena: excess haste, over-simplification and exaggeration will lead us into dangerous waters.

Anti-vaxxer Monica Smit and alt-right activist Avi Yemini have applied for an intervention order against a video blogger.

Who will fill the chair Tim Wilson left behind on the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics?

This week, amid the heat of COVID, my colleagues and I discovered how common it is for us to be harassed and vilified for doing our jobs.

A top police officer has described the size of Australian organised crime as “stunning” as a new alleged crime ring is broken open at Sydney airport.

Our democracy is broken. A clear majority of Australians want urgent action on climate change, and it appears most of our parliamentarians also support that. Yet Parliament cannot agree on the net-zero-by-2050 target to which much of the world has co...

An anti-lockdown protester accused of lighting a 5G phone tower on fire allegedly told police he dug a large hole in his backyard to imprison Premier Daniel Andrews.

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

Dinosaur footprints stolen, police may get extra powers, and Paralympic logo launched