The Native Title determination includes areas coveted by developers and close to a resort proposed by billionaire miner Gina Rinehart.

A key health agency has approved the most significant change to hospital funding in a decade, allowing the states to experiment with service delivery.

People hoping to make the drive into Queensland from hotspot areas will have to wait until Monday for further clarity on whether they will be able to make the trip from the end of the week.

Jamie Kah’s hopes of landing a winner on her firs rides back fell flat after she could only manage two second-placed returns on two hot favourites.

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

Regents Park Christian School has been closed for the remainder of the year, while authorities are investigating a possible transmission event at an indoor climbing centre in western Sydney.

A match the new-look Wanderers were predicted to win easily ended in a stalemate as they were held by a disciplined Wellington on Friday.

Victorian hospitals caring for pregnant women and newborns say patients are increasingly concerned about unvaccinated visitors, as midwives report a jump in home births due to virus fears and restrictive hospital rules.

NSW’s Omicron outbreak is expected to grow, Victoria’s new pandemic laws will come into effect in a fortnight and WA has closed its border to South Australians.

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Queensland Health have detected a new case of COVID and listed more than a dozen new exposure sites across the south-east, with authorities to provide more detail on Saturday.

Putting a successful team together is equal parts art and science. Only following the data has led many selection panels down an endless, dark tunnel.

Labor MPs know the party’s new climate target will bring them under attack from both sides for doing too little or too much.

Anthony Albanese is promising to cut electricity prices by 18 per cent within three years along with a pledge to reduce emissions by 43 per cent by 2030.

All Victorian clubs will play in Victoria in the season opener which kicks off Wednesday night with Collingwood to play St Kilda, Geelong to play Essendon and Hawthorn to play North Melbourne.

Macquarie Group executive chairman Peter Warne sold his Mosman home on Friday with the strongest sale in the well-heeled harbourside suburb.

Some 450 researchers around the world have begun work to isolate the highly mutated variant from patient specimens hoping to guide vaccine decisions.

Once viewed as a potential Labor leader, Ms Garrett says she won’t recontest the upper house division of Eastern Victoria at the next state election.

Labor aims to exceed the federal government’s climate plan with more renewable energy and caps on industrial pollution, which big business groups support.

A new marine park, which would be jointly managed with the Nganhurra Thanardi Garrbu Aboriginal Corporation, will also run adjacent to a salt mining proposal by the German chemical company K+S.

Severe thunderstorms were detected to Sydney’s west and south on Friday afternoon, bringing large hail and moving north into the Hunter region.

The ATP has been criticised for failing to back the WTA by suspending tournaments in China, while Tennis Australia is saying nothing at all about the move.

Rookie racer Will Brown produced a sensational lap to top the timesheets heading into Saturday’s Top Ten Shootout at Mount Panorama.

Hundreds of drivers on Sydney’s bus network will strike for 24 hours on Monday and Tuesday over an ongoing pay dispute.

Melbourne are so dissatisfied with their hooker over the way he joined the Roosters for 2023, they shopped him to the Tigers.

When Rob Aitken made his first-grade debut, Bob Hawke had just finished up as the Australian prime minister and Pat Cummins hadn’t been born.

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It was a shock to Ray Whittacre when on Thursday he was told the state government intended to pass laws to prevent his carriage service entering the CBD.

Selectors are opting for the tried and true of Mitchell Starc over new kid on the block Jhye Richardson for the third pace berth to take on England in the first Test, while the No.5 role remains uncertain.

A young athlete who represented Australia at the last Youth Olympics has been charged with rape after allegedly not using a condom during sex when he said he would.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants the Liberal Party to set national targets for female candidates in federal seats, as the NSW division still hopes Gladys Berejiklian will run in Warringah.

Despite years imagining finishing the HSC, Year 12 student Kim Ponluskanapimol says he could not predict how his final year would end up.

The national industrial tribunal ruled BHP had not consulted its workers properly in a ruling that shows other vaccine mandates may be open to challenge.

Writing about a fictional pandemic during a real one was eerie for A Little Life’s Hanya Yanagihara who, in To Paradise, again explores what it is to be alive.

Priscilla Chan is determined to share almost all of Facebook’s wealth through philanthropy. Can that act wash away the sins of the Big Tech giant?

A self-described ‘soldier of Islamic State’ who stabbed another woman in prison has been sentenced for a second terrorist act and had her jail term increased to 48 years.

The proceedings against The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald are scheduled to resume next year after a six-month pause owing to coronavirus restrictions.

The boss of Tabcorp’s lotteries division says making its games more compelling and selling more tickets online will fuel growth as it gets ready to land on the ASX next year.

The policy of “not jacking on your mate” has been a major theme in the first week of royal commission hearings.

SEM Phoenix import Devin Thomas was sent into a 14-day quarantine this week after the misfortune of being on a flight from Doha with two people who were found to have the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

Stuart Broad has been called every name under the burning Gabba sun, but the champion quick can’t wait for the repartee when the first Ashes Test begins.

While he’s definitely not getting any younger, a shoulder infection and new haircut have combined to make Fremantle captain Nat Fyfe resemble the scrawny teenager who debuted for the Dockers back in 2010.

On Thursday, Woolworths shocked the market with its $1.75-a-share offer to acquire Priceline owner API, gazumping longstanding retail rival Wesfarmers. But it may not be smooth sailing getting the deal over the line.

Kosta Barbarouses played for Ange Postecoglou’s all-conquering “Roarcelona” team – and can see similar principles and patterns in the way the Newcastle Jets go about their business.

In the summer of 2018, Steve Simon made a deal. It was to be the biggest one of his career.

A new forensic laboratory will examine hundreds of remains, hoping to identify some of the 2600 missing persons.

A fire late Thursday night on Shell’s Prelude floating LNG vessel off the Kimberley coast caused production at the $24 billion giant to be shut down and left the crew using backup power.

The co-founder of the activewear brand discusses the art of conversation, staying alive in the fashion industry, astrology – and why she can’t talk politics.

They’re a couple who have it all: now, Boris Tosic and his wife, Naomi, explain how they’ve made room for a terminal diagnosis.

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