Search efforts around the Blowholes campsite where Cleo Smith disappeared from on Western Australia’s remote and rugged Coral Coast were wound back on Friday.

Welcome to Freedom Friday. When the clock struck 11.59pm on Thursday and Victoria’s lockdown lifted, the dormant city of Melbourne sprung to life.

A WA Police officer who fatally shot a Geraldton woman while on duty has been found not guilty of murder.

The woman who became the subject of memes after her husband gifted her a yellow Lamborghini was defamed by a Seven News report that suggested her charity was dodgy, the Federal Court has ruled.

Psychologists are urging us to get out and reconnect with dear friends and family in real life - but with a couple of conditions.

Cricketers across Melbourne will return to training this week, as the countdown begins for Victoria to hit the 80 per cent double-dose vaccination target and their season to start.

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Fresh enquiries by police come after Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said the Gold Coast ride-share driver was likely to need intensive care, but no new community cases had emerged.

The actor is suing the ABC and The Sydney Morning Herald for defamation, with the case due to go to trial in May next year.

A man in his 20s was killed after he was trapped under the bus following a crash in Woodpark, near to Smithfield, in the city’s west.

The department faces a large fine after admitting to workplace safety breaches at its youth detention centres, where a guard was bashed with a guitar and another officer had hot water thrown in his face.

The Premier’s phone rang throughout the night, with constant threats to himself and his family to the point where he was forced to turn it off.

Melbourne’s sixth citywide lockdown has come to an end, the WA government has offered a $1 million reward for information on missing girl Cleo Smith and NSW’s ICAC inquiry into Gladys Berejiklian continues.

The chance to lead this great masthead was - and remains - an extraordinary honour.

More than $60 million will be refunded to motorists as the NSW government moves to phase out its $40 E-Toll deposit system.

Ms Dweh, 36, was just weeks away from giving birth to her fourth child when she was bludgeoned to death inside her Dayton home, north of Perth, on October 3. 

Steven Mellody has pleaded guilty to committing more than 50 sex offences against two students from the school he taught at.

During lockdown, Marty Filipowski had to get creative about where he could swim. On several occasions, that meant slipping into the water behind the Andrew Boy Charlton Pool and swimming around to the Sydney Opera House.

John Reginald Wright, 78, appeared in Bunbury Court in WA on Thursday and was extradited to Queensland overnight. 

Police have arrested an alleged high-ranking gang member and made 70 extra officers available, vowing to intensify their crackdown on a violent gangland rivalry.

For some of us, the joy surrounding Melbourne opening up is tempered with feelings of hesitancy and inertia. We’re pleased, but too spent to star jump.

Post-lockdown is the time to look at ways to ensure we don’t emerge from this pandemic more car-dependent than we went in.

As more people eye off life outside the capital cities, three publications are putting rural Australia on the media map. And there’s not a lace doily in sight.

The Olympic gold medallist and former Labor senator discusses politics, intergenerational trauma and the statue she hopes will inspire Indigenous children.

We did it longer and harder in Melbourne. Just because it’s over, it doesn’t mean our resentment is.

A District Court judge instructed the jury to acquit Superintendent Michelle Stenner of three counts of perjury on Friday.

Washoe the chimp would look through magazines and catalogues, and developed a particular fascination for shoes.

The last of Mattioli’s score or so of screen appearances came in Bikini Pericolosi (“Dangerous Bikinis”) in 1963.

A $90 million hot springs development is set to open on the Mornington Peninsula next year, directly across the road from the existing Peninsula Hot Springs.

Police had argued two videos concerning the arrest of Kristo Langker should be removed from YouTube before the case is heard next year.

Romance might be in the air for some, but for many people, a retreat to the country is all about learning how to live more sustainably.

Fresh additions to Australia’s most-wanted list: the latest in clever, covetable design.

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Premier Daniel Andrews said he expected to announce the removal of more restrictions when the state hit its next major vaccination milestone ‘quite soon’.

Can I go trick-or-treating this year? Do people under 16 need to be vaccinated to attend a restaurant? Find answers to the questions readers have about the road map out of lockdown.

After 16 weeks, life was finally returning to normal. But shortly after the final school bell on Wednesday, parents received the email they dreaded; there had been a positive case.

Brooke Lucas attempted to poison her son, William, in December 2018 by pouring 30 millilitres of Exit Mould into his milk bag because she wanted the 13-month-old to go to sleep.

The sites relate to a Victorian truck driver who tested positive to the virus after spending two days in the Queensland community.

Police Minister David Elliott will give the NSW Crime Commission additional powers if needed as it reviews its investigation into the Obeid family’s proceeds of crime.

Melbourne emerges as the city which endured the more days in lockdown than anywhere else in the world. Finally, it's time for some freedom!

Natasha Darcy’s “extreme” culpability in planning and carrying out the murder of her partner can only be met by a life sentence, a Sydney court has been told.

Victoria’s Health Department wants more detail from WorkSafe about the 58 charges it faces over the failed hotel quarantine system.

Flights will be delayed and a Brisbane Airport spokeswoman said teams were assessing what damage had taken place.

About a third of NSW cases were located outside the Greater Sydney area, with high numbers continuing to be recorded in the Hunter and Murrumbidgee regions.

Dr Syme pushed for voluntary assisted dying after an epiphany in 1974 when he was unable to relieve the pain of a patient with cancer of the spine and was haunted by her screams.

After two decades, three police strike forces and a coronial inquest, the trail has gone cold in the hunt for Janine Vaughan’s killer. Now startling revelations from new witnesses raise fresh questions.

Woods warned in 2013 that Australia would be embarrassed by a ruling that sending asylum seekers to PNG amounted to an illegal deprivation of liberty.

The case of Jon Seccull and Michelle Skewes is a graphic example of how family violence is rarely a public eruption and so often a private erosion.

Regional schools opened to all students on Friday morning for the first time since early August.

The federal senator tells what she learnt when her teenage daughter picked up the virus at drama class – and when her double-vaccinated partner fell ill.