Barnaby Joyce labelled Scott Morrison a liar and hypocrite in messages sent to Brittany Higgins in March 2021.

A handful of travellers from overseas will touch down, board a bus and become the first to stay at the quarantine hub outside Toowoomba.

Nine accountability bodies collectively keep watch over some of the most sensitive issues in the state. But their functions, and future, are difficult to untangle.

Brian Mulheran of Citipointe Christian College has never shied away from a fight. Gay rights’ campaigners fear the battle for the hearts, minds and souls of students is far from over.

Work has already started, but a Labor win at the federal election will still mean changes for the powerful Olympic organising committee.

At Marrickville High, seven out of 10 students are boys, so the school is piloting a new approach to try to entice more girls into STEM subjects.

The Liberal Party has finally chosen candidates to contest some federal preselections in NSW after long delays threatened the party’s ability to win key seats.

With aged care a political flashpoint that could shape the election outcome, Labor will intensify calls for Aged Care Services Minister Richard Colbeck to resign when Parliament resumes on Tuesday.

Teachers will also receive a 2 per cent annual pay rise under the new agreement with the Victorian government.

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New Sydney AFLW coach Scott Gowans steered North Melbourne to 11 wins from 14 games in 2020 before the season was shut down due to COVID-19 and he was shown the door by the club.

Cricket Australia’s women program has gone from strength to strength in recent years and that will prove a major challenge for England in the coming years. 

Britt Cox made her Olympic debut at 15 and now has the back of a 40-year-old. The four-time Olympian has spent more than a decade punishing her knees flying down mountains, flipping off ramps, and wearing the hit of every mogul like it was her last.

Temperatures have stayed under 25 degrees since Wednesday when a high of 21.3 degrees was recorded. 

Cricket Australia will discuss Justin Langer’s future with the coach in the coming days following a board meeting on Friday.

After shooting one man dead, Norden Wilio bundled his mortally wounded friend into a shopping trolley and pushed him 500 metres to an acquaintance’s house.

The Department of Education says no Victorian schools have closed because of coronavirus outbreaks or staff shortages.

Thanasi Kokkinakis will play his first Davis Cup match since 2015 in Sydney next month. But his great mate Nick Kyrgios won’t be alongside him.

Key moderate Liberals are still refusing to back the government’s religious freedom laws over concerns they will leave LGBTIQ Australians vulnerable to discrimination.

Beijing’s opening ceremony, which starts at 11pm tonight, gives President Xi Jinping his best chance to use the Games to burnish his country’s image.

Two of the accused allegedly almost collided with a police car in a stolen Mazda after forcing their way into a Reservoir home.

There are plans to elevate the study of Western heritage in history, the Australian Maritime Museum insists a United States shipwreck is indeed Captain Cook’s HMB Endeavour and a second SAS witness is set to appear in court today as part of Ben Rob...

Federal Parliament will formally acknowledge staffers who have been bullied and sexually harassed in parliamentary workplaces.

Ambitious plan to build a mountain bike trail network at Warburton has conservationists worried about the critically-endangered Mount Donna Buang wingless stonefly.

CODID-19 has finally hit Australia’s lucrative offshore gas industry with workers forced to isolate on Santos’ Bayu Undan gas platform, 500 kilometres from Darwin.

New exposure sites at Canteen at Trigg Beach and QT Perth on Murray Street were also both confirmed on Friday.

When it comes to the T20 competition, more is more.

Everything you need to know to find a winner on Inglis Millennium day.

Unions are turning up the pressure on Labor and employers to endorse a 25 per cent pay rise for aged care workers after Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese and his health spokesman Mark Butler declined to commit to a specific figure.

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It was never supposed to be Sex and the City, however, (we couldn’t help but etc), was it any good?

The forward pass remains the most contentious part of the game, but that could all change due to a revolutionary technology trial during NRL pre-season and NRLW premiership matches.

Facebook’s user base has shrunk for the first time in its 18-year history and having lost touch with a generation of fans, it’s unclear where the next crop of users is coming from.

I worked in Britain to defeat Margaret Thatcher’s homophobic law. Now I fear it’s all coming back - here in Australia.

Real wages are falling and will continue to drop until well into next year, the RBA has revealed while predicting the nation’s jobless rate could tumble to 3 per cent as the economy recovers strongly from the Omicron outbreak.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday admitted that the Omicron wave of COVID-19 had driven the aged care sector into “crisis”.

Two climbers set out to conquer a Himalayan peak; only one returned. Within three months, the survivor and his friend’s widow were falling in love.

Australia will be without rising star Ezi Magbegor for World Cup qualifying tournament in Serbia with coach Sandy Brondello saying the squad had “learnt valuable lessons from 2021”.

While the coronavirus pandemic may prevent the kissing of babies, Friday’s salon appearance indicates the Prime Minister’s election campaigning is in full swing.

Doomsday prepper James Greer was arrested by police on Friday after a loaded modified rifle was found in his vehicle at the Convoy to Canberra protest.

Star flanker Michael Hooper won’t be back on deck for the Waratahs until late March due to a long off-season break contained in his contract.

The NSW Education Minister said school attendance rates had been strong across the week and, as of yesterday, 86 per cent of students across the state were at school.

The freestyle star will skip the Commonwealth Games but says she will try to become the first Australian swimmer to make a fifth Olympic team at Paris 2024.

When Dinesh had an accident that left him a quadriplegic, he believed his plans to become a doctor were dashed. But his mum has been a secret weapon.

The actor, singer, composer and playwright discusses brutal reviews, balancing projects, the impact of Melbourne’s lockdowns, and his funeral song request.

Decades collide as friends gather, lurid-coloured cocktails in hand, in a COVID-safe plastic dome at the hotel forever linked with the downfall of a president.

Our Gallic friends developed screw-caps for wine but they don’t like to use them – partly because the New World has embraced them so enthusiastically.

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The share price of Facebook’s parent company plummeted this week after it reported flat growth. Australian investors are taking note.

Champion jockey Damien Oliver has been cleared of any neck fractures after he was injured in a barrier incident at the Warrnambool races on Thursday.