Cricket officialdom fears another kind of ashes.

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

In the first week of the cameras’ full operation, 1504 drivers were slugged over $1000 for phone offences, while 278 copped $413 fines for seatbelt breaches.

Travellers will not be allowed to use the $10 COVID test to prove they’re virus-free before entering the state, despite its wide use in other parts of the country.

At about 4pm each afternoon, happy hour arrives at Moree Showground. It’s the highlight of the day for a group of otherwise unhappy campers.

Fully selective schools are offering up to nine accelerated HSC courses - where students can sit part of their HSC in year 10 or 11.

Jennifer Holdstock knew she would make waves at Hawthorn Football Club by fighting for a seat on the board, but did not expect the pressure to drop her bid would be this great.

Fixing a blockage: a new campaign is addressing the fact that just 101 of Victoria’s more than 30,000 qualified plumbers are women. 

Sophie Matterson, 32, has undertaken the long walk home - a 5,000km journey - with five camels coast to coast from Australia's western-most point in Shark Bay, Western Australia, to its eastern-most point in Byron Bay, New South Wales. Sophie left h...

Sophie Matterson started her mammoth hike as the pandemic began and “couldn’t have picked a better time to head off into the desert with a bunch of camels”.

Opal machines will be turned off on thousands of bus services across Sydney’s west and inner west on Monday.

From Pakistani fires to Sao Paulo Fashion Week to Charles and Camilla at the Great Pyramids, these are the best photos from around the world in the past week, as chosen by The Sydney Morning Herald photo editors.

It is claimed the university is continuing to underpay workers despite recently agreeing to backpay $8.6 million in unpaid wages and committing to pay correctly.

Hiro Xu just wants to play putt-putt with his grandpa.

The risks of COVID-19 transmission among the fully-vaccinated are greatly reduced. But are they completely risk-free?

The first unrestricted flight between Singapore and Melbourne touched down on Sunday as a two-way travel bubble between Singapore and Australia was launched.

The only thing more interesting than the high-quality content that sometimes bubbles up on social media is how assorted platforms react when their supremacy is challenged.

It was a seemingly typical weekday in a suburban GP’s office in Perth when a doctor was asked to perform an illegal circumcision on a two-week-old baby girl.

Early in Peter Fensham’s life his father Horace’s cabinet-making business became sorely affected by the Depression. These years shaped Peter’s lifelong sense of social justice.

Elijah Buol arrived in Australia as an orphan at the age of 16. Since then, he has built a life as a criminologist, humanitarian and father. He’s even been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia.

COVID-19 and remote learning have led private schools to soften their marketing, ad executives say.

All too often students are left out of key conversations and decisions that directly affect their educational outcomes and futures.

The state’s vaccine rate continues to rise, with 94.4 per cent of people aged over 16 having had one dose of the vaccine and 91.8 per cent of people fully vaccinated.

Another four people - the parents, another man, and an eight-year-old boy - escaped the fire.

The fabric has been taken away for forensic testing as about 30 police operational support officers are replaced by a new team on Sunday morning. 

It comes after thousands attended a rally in Brisbane on Saturday against the Premier, vaccine mandates and the media.

A 54-year-old male worker was declared dead at the Curragh coal mine, 170km west of Rockhampton, on Sunday morning.

The Victorian Premier has renewed hostilities with the Prime Minister in the wake of a large protest in Melbourne on the weekend.

Urban encroachment has been marching towards Serendip Sanctuary for years, but now plans for a fire station have alarmed residents and wildlife lovers.

Workplace safety watchdog investigates at least 50 aged care homes over suspected health and safety breaches during last year’s deadly COVID-19 outbreak.

If Dixon Street is the beating heart of Chinatown, the pulse is faint and erratic.

But he still thinks communist China is more of a threat to the future than climate change.

The United Australia Party’s new political partner shows a worrying tolerance of neo-Nazi sympathisers.

The real action is on the streets, and the parliamentary theatrics – from the protesters, the PM and State Parliament – are but a distraction.

How do you join hands in a circle to worship the full moon and maintain social distancing?

Installed at the helm of the investigation into what happened to William Tyrrell two years ago, Detective Chief Inspector David Laidlaw has spent more than a decade in homicide and has built a reputation as a quiet achiever who gets on with things. 

Sanja Kukic is among about 150 women each year who undergo breast implant removal at reconstructive surgeon Anand Deva’s Sydney practice.

Rockpool Bar & Grill executive chef Corey Costelloe said relatively inexperienced hospitality workers were commanding six-figure wages.

Figures from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research reveal there were no children aged 10 and 11 and four aged 12 and 13 in NSW prisons as of September 30.

Dozens of soccer clubs across Victoria are pushing to reverse a decision not to crown any winners or promote teams due to lockdowns, with one going to court to be crowned premiers.

The 2021 Liveability Census found residents in the inner city and north shore were happier with where they live than people in western Sydney.

Universities are meant to be the domain of free speech, but they are struggling to wrestle with identity politics and the gender-critical feminism debate.

A plan to build “prestige boutique scale” housing for the elderly has provoked a backlash from residents and local Liberal and Labor politicians in one of Sydney’s wealthiest suburbs, amid claims young residents are being forced out of the area...

COVID-19 vaccines save lives and prevent serious illness. So why are a small number of people so determined not to get the jab that they are prepared to give up their jobs?

Scandalously, many members of our defence forces returning home from war find themselves in another battle, this time with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Queensland is just a few weeks away from reopening to travellers from hotspots, but experts say it will look different to reopenings in other states and may have a sting in the tail.

The Global Fishing Index found 49 per cent of the 1465 assessed fish stocks have been overfished, meaning they have less than 40 per cent of their unfished population left.

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

Carrying signs such as “I just love Mark McTwat,” and “coercion is not consent,” thousands of protesters descended on Perth on Saturday to protest COVID-19 mandates.

When the pandemic meant Gavin Clifton could not scale Sydney Tower to raise money for medical research, he turned to his Blue Mountains backyard.