Be careful what you wish for part 3,185, 674 - give or take a million.

Firefighters requested police assistance at the scene and a man was found dead inside the home.

Daniel Andrews has dashed hopes of a last-minute plan to fly in thousands of seasonal workers and salvage what the agricultural sector says is a harvest season verging on crisis.

Residents in the North West have been told to start preparing for destructive winds and heavy rain from Friday, with a cyclone predicted to form by Thursday.

A Melbourne man stranded in Thailand claims he has been abandoned by the Australian government after it cancelled his ticket for a flight home and cut him off from further financial support.

The samples were taken last week from wastewater treatment plants at the Gold Coast, Cairns and the Whitsundays.

The volunteers behind a homelessness camp set up in Fremantle on Boxing Day have drawn the ire of WA Premier Mark McGowan, who labelled them "professional protesters" tied to groups like Extinction Rebellion.

A day after celebrating her 50th birthday with those closest to her, Leonie Jackson died saving her son from a rip on Sunday along the South Coast.

Victorian couple John and Jayne Stewart are offering their home in south-west France rent free to a family stranded by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health authorities are continuing to search for the sources of coronavirus infections recorded in western and northern Sydney over the past month.

A four-year-old Doveton child who was pulled unconscious from a lake last Wednesday in Melbourne's east has died, police confirmed.

Slain underworld lawyer Joseph “Pino” Acquaro had been providing information to police about former clients but was never registered as a police informer despite twice being assessed for recruitment.

Police allege Theodoros Tsalkos raped two sex workers, then aged 15 and 16, in Elwood and Balaclava after picking them up in St Kilda.

The threat of further severe storms after Monday's wet and wild weather has also eased, according to the weather bureau.

Neglected for years, Callan Park will have a $14 million makeover that will focus on its waterfront area.

About 70 pedestrian crossings in the CBD will remain automated but many others now require a button press to operate.

Emergency services were called to a home in Katoomba at 10am following reports of a concern for welfare.

Victoria recorded no new community transmission cases in the most recent reporting period, but concerns remain over the opening grand slam tennis tournament to be held in Melbourne.

A man has appeared before court charged with murdering his older brother during a family dispute on the Mornington Peninsula.

Melissa Caddick’s world came crashing down on November 11 when the Australian Federal Police raided her Dover Heights home on behalf of the corporate regulator.

DFES' Greg Muir says firefighters are entering the worst fire weather in recent days and can't risk sending people home.

One man was taken to Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in a critical condition and the other went to Gold Coast University Hospital in a serious condition.

NSW has reported no new local coronavirus cases for the second day in a row, as testing numbers remain below the state's target.

Three more COVID cases have been detected among Australian Open participants, but several infections will be reclassified as viral 'shedding' by Victorian health authorities, which could ease strict hotel quarantine conditions for some players.

A flood watch remains and the Bureau of Meteorology will monitor far north Queensland as a renewed burst of a monsoon is expected to return.

Australia’s richest man said he caught the disease from a Russian interpreter during a four-month globe-trotting tour in search of renewable energy projects.

WA's paying more for Friday night fish 'n' chips than any other state, but there's good news too: we've got more sustainable options... if you know how to ask.

There's one central spot you'd be kicking yourself if you have invested in – especially when it comes to apartment living.

SES received several calls for help after people were stuck in floodwaters and experienced leaking roofs.

Heavy rainfall has taken the place of the much-anticipated Cyclone Kimi, which has weakened into a tropical low off the north Queensland coast.

Plans to redevelop the Gladesville Bridge Marina have attracted the ire of residents, local councils, waterway users and a senior NSW government minister.

Universities around Sydney are welcoming students back on campus for classes this year and some will require masks to be worn.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Treasurer Dominic Perrottet are urging other states to scrap domestic coronavirus travel restrictions.

The Perich family are among about a dozen landowners to have avoided losing their land after the government decided to tunnel under farmland.

Maybe those overpaid and self-entitled tennis stars whining about being in lockdown should contemplate the relative COVID rates in Australia and their home countries.

The absurdity of a pair of poisoned underpants is a symbol of autocratic tendencies putting democracy at risk.

Locking people in quarantine rooms without access to fresh air is not just bad to their mental health – it may make them more vulnerable to COVID-19.

State League soccer club Avala is believed to be the code's first Sydney club to have a woman president.

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

The social media ban on President Donald Trump is consistent with the principle of preventing harm to others.

A year into the pandemic, there still isn’t any clear labelling or regulations around the selling of masks.

If it seems Djokovic is acting like he runs the sport of tennis, it is only because he does.

From 2021 onwards, do all you can to change community attitudes towards domestic and family violence because lives depend on it.

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects has called for a rethink on how public spaces are managed and developed.

A tree in millimetres, still hoping for apples.

In Alexandra Hills in Redland City, east of Brisbane, almost 155 millimetres fell in three hours on Monday evening.

The National Tertiary Education Union has given the Federal Court notice of an appeal against an earlier decision which upheld the sacking of a university lecturer.

Now that Joe the pigeon is no longer on death row, his new best friend, Kevin Celli-Bird, of Officer in Melbourne's south-east, says he can hang around as long as he wants.

A forensic officer investigating the rapes of two teenage girls 33 years ago matched a DNA sample to another man besides the alleged offender, a court has heard.

The partner of a Melbourne science teacher who drowned at a Gippsland beach says she should be remembered for her rich and complex life and not just her last heroic act.