And an old trend that took guts.

The number of postal votes rejected by the Electoral Commission of Queensland in October's state election has sparked a call for better voter education nationwide.

Health authorities in NSW say thousands of customers who visited a Sydney bottle shop may have been exposed to COVID-19.

Key Melbourne Victory attacker Marco Rojas is only expected to miss one game after injuring his hamstring on the weekend.

As the teams arrived in Sydney, Nick Hockley was confident the series would not be impacted by any misgivings from the tourists about tighter restrictions.

More controversial umpiring decisions in the BBL have not stopped the Melbourne Stars snapping a three-game losing streak and beating the Hobart Hurricanes.

Management of The Westin Melbourne held crisis talks with several penthouse owners on Monday afternoon in a bid to head off a court challenge that threatens to derail a plan by Tennis Australia to convert the exclusive hotel into a quarantine facilit...

NSW reported no local cases during the 24 hours to 8pm on Sunday, however two linked to the growing Berala cluster were identified after the reporting period.

What should be a milestone of celebration is one of uncertainty as the countdown again reaches 200 days, with countless questions surrounding the 2021 Games.

Police said the man in his 20s was pulled from the water but died at the scene.

A fire that has been raging since Saturday in the Shire of Gingin has escaped containment lines and is now threatening lives and homes.

The grind of having to quarantine at home for 14 days is starting to grate on the thousands of Victorians who were forced to cut their holidays short and rush home from NSW.

The Melbourne photographer doesn't provide any detail about his subjects, except the name of the suburb in which they were shot.

Victorians who stayed in NSW after the state government slammed the border to its neighbour shut will have to remain until at least the end of the month.

Australia has resubmitted its Paris climate goal, modifying its target as "a floor" that can be met without using credits from the previous accord, but omitting any indication it will join other nations in raising its ambition.

After two years as President Donald Trump's most outspoken antagonist, Pelosi will now be responsible for trying to shepherd through Congress as much of President-elect Joe Biden's agenda as possible.

A large swath of eastern NSW including most of the Sydney region is in for a stormy Monday afternoon, as a large thunderstorm cell swept eastwards bringing the potential for flash floods.

The 29-year-old semi-professional basketballer stands accused of murdering his 30-year-old girlfriend and has displayed signs of psychosis.

The SCG will only have about 10,000 people on the first day of the Sydney Test.

A communications group commonly described as a "cult" claims it has no reason to join a scheme that compensates victims of child sex abuse, despite several claims against it.

Even in the final days of his chaotic administration, Donald Trump seems prepared to torch the rules and conventions that have made America a great democracy.

It's a bumper program on Tuesday with nine races programmed in the upper Hunter.

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Experts have given Victoria’s testing and contact tracing regime their tick of approval –  some high-profile mistakes notwithstanding –  as the state battles its first COVID-19 outbreak in months.

The share registry services provider will pursue a demerger or trade sale of its crown jewel PEXA as its first bidder remains unmoved by the departure of its rival.

Form students will have a ball tracking the form out of a class 1 that is dripping in potential.

A man has faced court charged with murdering a counsellor who came to visit him at a North Melbourne unit and with seriously injuring a friend.

With a total of five new cases recorded across both NSW and Victoria on Monday, linked to existing clusters, Dr Young has also held firm on existing interstate travel restrictions.

Liberal MP Gladys Liu says allegations against a Chinese businessman who aligned himself with the Hong Kong-born Australian politician are concerning and should be thoroughly investigated.

Halfback will need to explain himself to his teammates, says Knights general manager of football Danny Buderus.

Martin Lee, the Chinese businessman who bought the Newcastle Jets in 2016, has had his club licence terminated by Football Australia.

“Back in March, April, May we flattened the curve then we crushed the curve and I want to keep the curve crushed,” Mr McGowan said.

TC Imogen, which was due to weaken to a tropical low later on Monday, generated 105km/h wind gusts and more than 200 millimetres of rain.

A new production of Burn This is the culmination of years of work for Melbourne actor and director Mark Diaco.

Television success is up for grabs in 2021. Here are the shows we believe are likely to become the new audience favourites.

New exposure sites include a juice bar in Chadstone Shopping Centre, Puffing Billy and a Sikh temple.

About 80 firefighters attended the blaze on Fitzgerald Road in Laverton North just after midnight on Monday and found a large pile of metal and debris ablaze.

Earlier than scheduled rollout of Astra Zeneca's COVID-19 vaccine unlikely to happen as regulator waits for further data to land later this month.

The relationship has entangled another AFL club since the woman had been in a relationship with a staffer from another Melbourne-based team.

Frank Henderson hit an unbeaten 416 for Leeton and held the record for the most runs by a player in NSW in any form of cricket - for less than a week.

Only the most committed fornicators would have gone about their business unhindered amid lockdowns and warnings to socially distance.

Melbourne Renegades coach Michael Klinger, soon to be off-contract, is fighting to retain his job in a season where his side is on a six-match losing skid.

The tourists reportedly do not want to be subjected to hotel restrictions when they arrive in Sydney on Monday afternoon on a charter flight with the Australian team.

Police attended the reception venue and estimated there were double the number of guests permitted under the COVIDSafe plan the operator is required to put in place.

Even before remote learning took off last year, Erin Shackcloth had enrolled with Virtual School Victoria to study dance. She says it made her more inventive.

All 10 living former secretaries of defence, including senior Republicans Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld warned the US was at risk of moving into “dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory”.

David McCredie, a pioneer in the treatment of children’s kidney disease in Australia, began his medical career in the early 1950s, at a time when chronic renal failure in children was almost invariably fatal.

Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll says Mr Shelton has been cleared of any wrongdoing, but the tweet was "disappointing".

Ruslan Shaveddinov was one of Russia's most promising opposition politicians when security agents in black masks broke down his door and took him to a leaky hut on a desolate archipelago.

Bankruptcy protections have now finished, but the looming JobKeeper deadline could be the trigger for many companies.