Biden demanded bipartisan support before signing the AUKUS pact but Labor was not told for months. Anthony Albanese has promised almost $1 billion in new Medicare funding ahead of the election.

Under a cloud of burning rubber, reckless hoons have risked lives during a brazen stunt on the streets of Bendigo in Victoria's north.

QUT researchers have found raised or lowered levels of certain blood proteins likely contribute to migraines, pointing the way to potential treatments.

Gympie has been cut off by floodwaters for the third time in five months, while SEQ beaches remain closed and all ferries are cancelled in Brisbane.

Three Indigenous names have been shortlisted for the council’s new title, including one meaning “rocky country”.

Two prominent real estate agents are in court waging a defamation battle after a company’s boss sent a negative all-staff email about another manager.

A man has been charged with assault after a fracas over political signage in the knife-edge outer Sydney seat of Macquarie turned violent last week, with a grandfather allegedly punched in the head and threatened with death.

At age 49, Jaci Hicken, has started work as a cadet journalist, one of the brave souls trying a totally new career later in life.

Thamer Alkhammat found himself suddenly living in Melbourne without the right to work. But an article in The Sunday Age helped to turn things around.

Rami Iskander, 24, is dead and police are investigating after the second fatal shooting in Sydney’s south-west this week.

Police have arrested 54 people as part of a major police operation over four nights targeting the state’s worst street gangs.

Book lovers will be distracted from the Sydney Writers’ Festival next weekend - by the insensitively timed call of voters to the polls.

Gympie residents are bracing for another round of flooding, as heavy rain continues to affect multiple parts of Queensland on Saturday.

Not up for some nailbiting off-roading in your sedan? Then read this before you head down south.

There are concerns the WA budget handed down on Thursday does little to address the rental crisis, particularly in the short term.

A Melbourne University student intends to launch legal action against the student union, demanding they rescind a controversial motion that called for the university to boycott Israel.

A man has been shot dead in Sydney’s south-west this morning.

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

Leaders are ramping up their campaigns just a week before the federal election.

People rarely talked about umpires in sport – until the abuse started ratcheting up. Now they’re the story, as the AFL and other codes grapple with how best to protect not only those governing the game, but the game itself.