Sharpen your pencils for those character sketches.

Parents want the headmaster to be kept on to see through the transition to co-education.

A man clinging to the side of a burning Melbourne apartment has neighbours to thank for using a mattress to save his life.

Detectives are investigating after a father was dropped off at a Sydney Hospital with a deadly stab wound.

More than 4000 South Australian homes and businesses remain without power after another storm swept the state.

Some music fans were forced to sleep in their cars after rain hit a festival at Mt Duneed in Victoria.

Friends insist passion is driving his quest for a third term. Others say he doesn’t want to be defined as the “lockdown premier”. All agree, though, the pandemic has changed him.

Liberal candidate Renee Heath has said she does not support gay conversion therapy and has asked her lawyers to determine if she has grounds for a human rights complaint, after the Liberal Party said she would not sit in the party room if elected.

The Surfers Paradise coastline was packed with school leavers for the first official night of Schoolies week.

A woman has been arrested after a 61-year-old man was allegedly stabbed in Melbourne.

Victoria's election candidates are ramping up their campaigns as the election nears.

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a fresh severe warning for damaging winds and storms after much of the state was battered by wild spring weather on the weekend.

The largest number of Medibank customers yet have had their information exposed.

Increasing wages and reducing power bills are on Anthony Albanese's agenda as the final sitting week of Parliament for the year gets underway.

Emergency crews are trying to get to the body of a climber after he was killed by a falling rock in Leura, NSW.

Valuables and women’s salaries are being demanded by the families of some grooms in the South Asian-Australian community, with brides often left with nowhere to turn after being subjected to threats and withdrawal of their visas.

Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll says “this is one of the best starts we’ve ever had to Schoolies”, with only four teenagers arrested on day one of the week-long party.

The Office of Local Government has raised questions about a trip taken by 10 councillors from Canterbury-Bankstown.

Our city is in desperate need of workers not traditionally favoured in visa program processes.

A woman has been found dead at a hotel on Adelaide Terrace in East Perth on Sunday morning.