Based on eyewitness accounts and video footage, experts believe that a white shark was likely responsible.

Researchers have discovered how a bacteria which lives in the nose can travel through nerve pathways into the brain, highlighting a possible cause of Alzheimer’s.

Won’t someone think of the Aussie mania for sporting dominance?

Queensland’s Child Death Review Board, established in 2020 after the death of Mason Jet Lee, has tabled its review into the recent deaths of 55 children.

The Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger jet, will reappear in Brisbane’s skies next month as demand continues to rise.

It is the first step towards allowing the Prime Minister and the federal party to install preferred candidates and sitting members in key seats ahead of the election.

Rapid antigen tests will be supplied free to students until the end of term 1, but the government is yet to commit to ending the mask-wearing rule for students in year 3 and above.

When bystanders removed the keys from the ignition, the driver punched a Good Samaritan in the jaw and tried to restart his car.

Contrasting interpretations of the Immediate Response Team’s mission on the night Kumanjayi Walker was shot dead in Yuendumu has been a central element in the opening nine days of Constable Zachary Rolfe’s trial for murder.

The man who was fatally bitten by a shark in Sydney’s east on Wednesday has been identified as diving instructor Simon Nellist.

The former Cricket Tasmania staffer who was sent lewd text messages by then Australian captain Tim Paine alleges she raised complaints of sexual harassment by colleagues with five managers at the organisation but nothing was done.

The NSW government is grappling with how it will pay for the multibillion-dollar cost of building the Western Harbour Tunnel.

The sea at Little Bay was as “white as a meringue” on Wednesday afternoon, chopping and churning with a large school of fish, eyewitness Claire Marie said.

Labor has backed down from its opposition to the federal government’s plans to tighten deportation laws, Sydney has recorded its first fatal shark attack in almost 60 years and the Victorian regional city of Ballarat is looking likely to host the a...

The record daily case number comes as the state’s peak doctors’ lobby estimated WA would be recording 9000 cases by April at its peak.

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

Premier Mark McGowan is among those who visited one of the venues, however, a spokesperson said he did not meet the criteria to require him to quarantine for seven days.

Despite Omicron hitting the state, new figures have revealed Victoria’s unemployment rate is at its lowest level since Countdown first aired on TV.

The noted conservationist and filmmaker says sharks do not swim around thinking they want to bite humans. We intrude into their world.

Police allege Girum Mekonnen was fatally stabbed in the Zillmere park, while others were attacked with baseball bats.

Organisers called off the event, which raises funds for disabled children, out of respect for the deceased man’s family and community trepidation.

After operating with minimal staff for the past two years, Queensland’s quarantine hotels need a hiring surge to be fully operational for the return of international travellers.

Density limits are about to be scrapped and dance floors will fire up again, but Victorians still need to wear a mask indoors, for now.

Olympic equestrian hopeful Callum Buczak was scheduled to front a rape trial in the County Court next week, but he has revealed on social media that the charge has been dropped.

Today on Please Explain, award-winning political commentator and author Niki Savva joins Nathanael Cooper to look at the likelihood of a leadership spill.

A serving SAS soldier said Ben Roberts-Smith bullied him including by spitting on the ground in front of him and slamming doors in his face.

Stacks of cash, wrapped in rubber bands or hidden in boxes, that the man carried into Queensland and NSW casinos were his undoing.

Another major project in the CBD has been delayed, with Queen’s Wharf Brisbane not set to open until later next year.

Plotters at Collingwood Children’s Farm community gardens have vowed to keep fighting until they reclaim their allotments on the space, even as earth-movers roll in.

Jaylen Priest, 16 months old, was found in a critical condition with his mother and other children in a north Brisbane home.

Elective surgery waiting lists have blown out at two major Melbourne hospitals, forcing patients to wait beyond their clinically recommended times for surgery.

Without a thriving city centre, the state’s economic trajectory is uncertain.

Peter Vickery, QC, has been named as the retired Supreme Court judge who allegedly sexually harassed two young female associates.

The Victorian government has eased the state’s COVID-19 rules and restrictions. These are the rules that are about to change in Victoria.

The deaths are now being reported after Queensland health reconciled its lists against official records, authorities say, with 5665 new cases recorded in the past 24 hours.

The changing of the close contact definition and a reduction in broadly publicised COVID-19 exposure sites has led to West Australians using social media to keep each other informed.

The population has plummeted 80 per cent in 15 years, births last year were the second-lowest on record and scientists are warning against further disturbance.

If the Quad is serious about its agenda, its members need to respond much more strongly to the region’s most ugly current violation of democracy and human rights.

Ten years after the Gonski review offered a solution to school funding in Australia, we have utterly failed to implement it, laments a former director-general of the NSW Education Department.

Is this what the Emperor’s crew looked like during the last days of Rome?

Confidential documents show the government was warned that the Western Harbour Tunnel would not be viable unless tolls on other motorways were boosted.

A Victorian Supreme Court judge sexually harassed two young associates over several years, including kissing them and putting his hand between one woman’s thighs in the back seat of a car, two internal reports have found.

The organisers of many of the private Facebook groups co-ordinating these convoys have fake accounts, run from overseas. The groups themselves may have also lived many lives, with name changes to suit the crisis of the day.

Finger-pointing at Zali Steggall is hypocritical, and independent Helen Haines is on the money in challenging all sides of Parliament to reveal every donor who contributes more than $1000 to campaigns.

Policeman “kills a snake”, maiden trip for DC6 and rare coins bring £1000.

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

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A local councillor says the proposed demolition of Suttons Beach Pavilion is a “line in the sand” for residents.

Constable James Kirstenfeldt was asked whether he was trying to “help” his colleague by failing to recall in evidence crucial details of the “so-called arrest plan” for Kumanjayi Walker.

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