Toys in isolation and vindication for Bob.

University chiefs are concerned that generous IB marking gave private school students an ATAR advantage after more than one in 20 achieved the highest possible rank.

Don’t fall for the traditional wisdom that state byelections have no implications for federal elections. While the Liberals will retain Willoughby, the huge swing against them is a sign of the damage that strong independents can do in the party’s...

Nine pop-up vaccination centres for vulnerable and disadvantaged kids have opened at venues including the Melbourne Zoo, Scienceworks and Healesville Sanctuary.

Australian scientists believe they have taken a key step towards building a silicon quantum computer – a device that could finally take the technology into mainstream use.

The new Geelong fast rail will be so slow it doesn’t qualify as fast, and the rest of Victoria’s regional populations shouldn’t expect their own version any time soon.

In 1960s Melbourne, gays and lesbians were publicly vilified and often bashed, including by the cops. They could be fired for being gay. Francesca Curtis was having none of it.

Annastacia Palaszczuk was grilled by journalists over fresh claims involving the outgoing Integrity Commissioner.

Spectators thronged to St Albans Lunar New Year Festival, which was hot, and on ‘in real life’ for the first time in two years.

The festival offered the thousands of attendees a much-needed taste of normal life after two years of pandemic restrictions

Strathfield byelection Labor candidate Jason Yat-sen Li, who will most likely be elected, has had to call out racism during the campaign. And it’s not the first time.

The federal government is forging ahead with its plan to amend the country’s defamation laws despite widespread criticism from legal experts.

A second aged care facility has reported a COVID-19 outbreak with the two residents testing positive.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Barry Humphries were among guests at the party.

The number of hospital patients with COVID on Sunday fell below 500 for the first time since the peak of 928 just 19 days ago.

Tony Briffa features on a mural and interactive project in Fitzroy that maps important moments in history for Victoria’s LGBTIQ+ communities.

More than 160 trials have been aborted in Victoria in the past five years due to some form of misconduct, error, problem or interference with a jury.

The new cases come as “fatigued and diminished” nurses and midwives across NSW plan to walk off the job on Tuesday to protest their pay and conditions.

Firefighters were stretched to the limit after tackling 68 fire incidents arising over just two hours on Friday due to an intense lightning belt sweeping the southern parts of WA.

The family of Carmel Mullally, who lived in the last vestige of historic residential buildings in the port since the 1950s, sold the house to the port authority which infamously tried to push her out many years ago.

Neither Russia nor the US wants to risk World War III over Ukraine. But, as history shows us, armed conflict can escalate with a momentum of its own that is difficult to stop.

The Harvard Law Review essay contest has been opened for the first time to foreign students. And the winner is a young student from Paddington.

Data compiled by The Sunday Age shows the number of QR code scans in Victoria dropped from 45.6 million in the final week of November to a weekly average of 20.3 million in February.

The man, believed to be in his 50s, was flown to a Brisbane hospital after coming down at Dalby Airport early on Sunday.

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

The public has softened its stance on drugs over the past decade, but particularly for cannabis. Advocates hope the shift will see drug users spared from a criminal stigma that can get in the way of positive change.

While a Christian, my first duty as a teacher is to respect my students by showing them that my knowledge of Islam is in keeping with what they believe.

Falling compliance has halved the number of check-ins in Victoria since the start of December, but the state government is resisting calls to wind back QR codes.

We are spending billions each year on incarceration – and it is not working. It’s time for a radical re-imagining of the justice system.

The hardest part of my job as royal commissioner is asking people to recall the most painful experiences of their lives and helping provide a voice for their loved ones when they can no longer speak. Their stories will help others.

The distressing scenes at the United States Capitol last year were an ominous warning to democracies around the world of the dangers of misinformation.

The Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide will this week hear allegations from army nurses that standards of mental and physical healthcare have declined since Bupa won the ADF health services contract in 2019.

More than 15,000 Australian soldiers were captured after the surrender to Japan. Of these, more than 7000 would die as prisoners of war and there is thought to be only one surviving veteran today.

For more than a hundred years, the Montague Street bridge has stood in the path of trucks, vans and buses. Despite being hit hundreds of times, there has been no action to increase the gap between asphalt and overpass. 

Parents are being urged to focus on water safety after a national report found 294 people drowned in 2020-21, with an estimated 674 people involved in non-fatal water incidents.

There were more than 4000 microplastics per square metre on average at the most poorly rated of Sydney’s harbour beaches, data collected by citizen scientists shows. Use our interactive map to check your local waterways.

If you had asked her a year ago where she might find herself in 2022, Ash Jackson would have said in a concentration camp or an armed insurrection.

The best photos from the international wires at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games in China.

In this age of the smartphone the internecine warring in the Coalition shows that texting is potentially a weapon of MP’s destruction.

People over the age of 55 make up half the losses reported to Scamwatch and almost three in five victims were women, often targeted through social networking sites.

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

A St Kilda man is set to apply for access to body-worn camera footage from an arrest he claims was unlawful and heavy-handed in the first known civil test case of its kind in Victoria, following a law change late last year.

Byelections have been held in the NSW seats of Bega, Monaro, Willoughby and Strathfield on Super Saturday.

Thousands of people continue to protest in Canberra against vaccine mandates.

Police allege the cyclist was riding along the Great Alpine Road near Cobungra when he was hit by a car.

A crowd of almost 2000 revellers armed with sunnies, hats, picnic blankets and a few with coldies gathered on South Beach Reserve for the last weekend of the St Kilda Festival on Saturday.

The Australian Electoral Commission is increasingly assertive at correcting misinformation online, responding to public posts amid growing fears about foreign interference and homegrown conspiracy theories.

Fishing has traditionally been considered a male sport. But things are changing at Albert Park’s Yachting and Angling Club.

A rolled-up piece of carpet is pulled from the earth. Could the puzzling items hidden inside explain what really happened to a loving Queensland mum who vanished after a troubling phone call?