While popular mountain resorts remain open, and national parks are being inspected, work continues on badly damaged roads.

Sporting clubs, emerging from two years of pandemic disruption, face even more challenges after last weekend’s devastating downpour.

Across the state, hundreds of Defence personnel been deployed to Gympie, Ipswich and the Lockyer region, while more troops were expected to move in on Friday and Saturday.

Live coverage of events as they unfold in Ukraine, plus the latest details on the flood situation closer to home.

The police officer accused of murdering Kumanjayi Walker rejected allegations he fabricated testimony.

Many office workers don’t want to show up on Mondays and Fridays and that’s going to have consequences.

Swinburne University is moving to remove grades from some core sections of its design degree, saying a focus on high marks was stifling the creative process.

Sydney dodged a bullet as the much-feared “rain bomb” spared the city but the crisis continues to unfold for some communities in the state’s north.

No trains are running on Monday across greater Sydney and the NSW TrainLink intercity services network as negotiations continue between the state government and union.

A Perth mapping company has collated images from space, captured during a brief moment of clear sky in areas otherwise blanketed by cloud for the past 10 days.

Sydney severe weather

Ben Roberts-Smith checked whether a Defence Force drone had captured specific events on camera on the same day that he was allegedly involved in two unlawful killings, a serving SAS soldier has told the Federal Court.

As I said in my first subscriber note back in February, I want to take you into my thinking. That also means being upfront with you when I get things wrong.

Director-General Dr John Wakefield will step down after working for Queensland Health for 32 years.

Australia’s acting chief medical officer has declared a communicable disease incident of national significance following the spread of Japanese encephalitis across multiple states.

The 72-year-old was sentenced on Friday to a maximum three years and 10 months’ imprisonment for the crash that killed respected scientist Tony Greenfield.

WA’s Chief Health Officer says the state was on track to hit the predicted peak of 10,000 COVID-19 cases per day in March.

It was the first show in nine months for Genesis Owusu, but within two songs the gig was over as the floor of Sydney’s oldest and longest running live theatre began to cave in.

Mehdi Ali and Adnan Choopani were just 15 and 16 when they sought safety and protection in Australia. Instead, they were detained for nearly nine years - more than one-third of their young lives.

Local, state and federal authorities are working together to try to head off an outbreak in Australia, with residents urged to take simple steps to avoid infection.

After a year plagued by lockdowns, COVID-19 and the religious discrimination bill, almost 50,000 spectators will make their way to the SCG on Saturday to celebrate diversity and queerness at the 44th Sydney Mardi Gras parade.

As the weather system appeared to settle on Friday, authorities confirmed the death toll from the SEQ floods had risen to 10.

Police believe two men who were shot, one fatally, in Sydney’s west on Thursday night might have been victims of an ambush.

An Australian woman who has been living in Ukraine for more than 30 years has finally fled the city of Kharkiv after a rocket fell two doors down from her home where she had been sheltering in the basement with her family.

All-day reading-fests. Cups of tea, delivered couch-side. Broccoli cancelled. Being helpless after falling does have its benefits.

When executive director of The Australia Institute, Ben Oquist, asked Greens senator, Sarah Hanson-Young, if she would marry him, the answer was clear.

The South Sudanese-Australian lawyer and writer talks about losing her sister, racism, and when she had to choose between buying food or a party dress.

Truth be told, travelling with small children belies the cliché about the journey being as important as the destination.

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Despite the warning, the NSW Transport Minister says he decided to wait until he woke the next morning to find out what it “would look like”.

Thornhill was a founding member of the Australian Directors Guild.

The man will spend at least five years and three months behind bars for the “protracted and degrading” assault that happened inside the victim’s Footscray home.

Thousands were evacuated after the floor collapsed during a gig by rapper Genesis Owusu but tonight’s show by DJ Young Franco will go ahead as planned, the theatre says.

As inflation rises, and the conflict in Ukraine intensifies, consumers are trying to get their hands on gold, a traditionally safe asset.

When the taskforce was honoured with the Victoria Police Mick Miller Outstanding Team Award, there was no celebration. It was not that sort of investigation.

The woman has worked under a number of aliases in a range of secretarial and paralegal roles for some of Melbourne’s most prestigious law firms, and now faces 225 charges.

Rodney William Marsh MBE will be remembered as an acrobatic wicketkeeper whose lower-order batting rescued Australia from many mid-innings crises.

Former footballer Jarryd Hayne will face a third trial in the NSW District Court on two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.

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

The term “caught Marsh bowled Lillee” became folklore in Australia, and for good reason.

It’s the end of the exhibition for Belgian street artist ROA’s numbat mural, which will be lost when the building it is painted on is demolished.

When a politician speaks of a 1000-year flood, it makes little sense, particularly in a time of climate change.

A former deputy director general of the NSW State Emergency responds to the Deputy Premier, who told opponents of raising Warragamba Dam to “get out of the way”.

We’re talking about the opening night of Opening Night. Not a typo!

There are calls for an end to floodplain development as insurers brace for one of the biggest flood claim events in Australian history.

Real estate listings, like dating profiles, must be treated with caution, but this could be handy: swipe left if you don’t like or swipe right if you do.

The aged care sector wants the federal government to temporarily scrap a requirement for it to advertise locally before recruiting overseas workers.

So often we click “I agree” to digital companies’ privacy agreements, but it would take us an hour and 13 minutes a day to read the fine print. There is a better way.

No other state has imposed so many taxes on specific groups, and no other state has been so willing to use taxation to pay for specific social policy objectives.

It’s day seven of the Russian invasion and Ukrainians have spent yet another sleepless night in bunkers, basements and bomb shelters as their cities were attacked. Follow our live coverage.