Deciding how you fall is an age-old concern.

New research shows Australia is in the top-10 countries in handling the pandemic and disproved a claim authoritarian regimes had an advantage.

Pedestrians were forced to flee as the car drove at high speeds through Bourke Street Mall, with the driver managing to evade police.

The comments follow calls for answers from the community and online petitions after the parents-to-be were struck by an allegedly stolen vehicle.

Nicola O’Brien was “vexed” about her adolescents’ use of technology. So she enlisted their help to develop a family tech agreement

A man is facing a string of firearms and police assault charges after allegedly shooting at a St Kilda backpackers hostel owned by underworld associate Danielle McGuire.

Department of Fire and Emergency Services crews from the surrounding districts and St John Ambulance teams rushed to the scene at the Narrogin Aerodrome on Thursday.

Margaret Court’s Australia Day honours upgrade to a Companion of the Order of Australia generated some heated reader debate.

A spokesperson for the National Australia Day Council said it had been “concerned about betting on the Australian of the Year Awards for a number of years and spoken to authorities about having these markets shut down.”

We don’t need the additional 1000 megawatts of gas-fired electricity capacity that the federal government plans to build. 

Doug Anthony, who led the National Party for 13 years, is farewelled as a political giant at a state memorial in Tweed Heads.

Tony Hardy pleaded guilty over the murder of his landlord David Graves in January 2018. But conflicting assessments of his mental state at the time have led his sentencing to be postponed.

There were tears and smiles - from parents, too - when Victorian children went back to school.

The state’s first COVID-19 vaccination sites have been revealed, showing health authorities will run 11 vaccine hubs concentrated across the largest hospitals in NSW.

Firefighting authorities will get new four new state of the art drones in their arsenal this year to better respond to natural disasters and industrial fires.

A police investigation is under way into the alleged incident on January 3.

Professor Ian Jacobs, the vice-chancellor of the University of New South Wales, has resigned but will stay in the job for the next year while a new boss is found.

About 16 fire trucks and 75 firefighters worked to contain the factory blaze that sent smoke spewing over Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs and raised concerns given its proximity to Moorabbin Airport.

Leif Courtney, 13, who has autism and is non-verbal was last seen at his home in Mooney Mooney about 7.30pm on Wednesday, sparking a major search.

It is in our own interest to share the limited supply of vaccines fairly and rationally.

Mongols bikie boss Toby Mitchell acted like an ‘enforcer’ when he assaulted one man and was ‘out for blood’ when he punched another, a police prosecutor has told a court.

The 44-year-old had been swimming near Cairns on Thursday afternoon when he felt the sudden impact and pulled himself free, but has insisted he will be back in the water soon.

Readers’ claims The Age was part of a conspiracy protecting the Catholic Church and George Pell were a factor in the newspaper’s decision to publish its initial article about the cardinal’s conviction on child sex abuse charges, a trial has hea...

Australia must deal with the hate groups before their toxic ideology spreads.

New Zealanders living in Australia have missed Christmas with family and have been unable to farewell parents and grandparents due to a mandatory two-week quarantine for all travellers.

The Queensland Criminal Code includes offences for killing an unborn child but they are usually used in cases of domestic violence.

Each state and territory has its own system for determining which travellers will be allowed to cross the border. This is the current state of play.

With overnight CBD foot traffic down by two-thirds, council has proposed calling in a group of creatives and hospitality leaders to devise a plan to rejuvenate Melbourne night-time economy.

Brisbane City Council has released a list of suburbs with the most potholes. They’re encouraging drivers and passersby to report potholes.

Henric Nicholas QC would regularly host drinks in his chambers affectionately called “The Tavern”.

The trio on the vessel were last seen about 8.30am at a reef off Green Island, where they appeared to be having engine trouble.

The magistrate is a long-time campaigner for improving the justice system’s understanding of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

Assistant Commissioner Brian Codd said autopsy results would be returned to police on Thursday, with drug and alcohol testing of the 17-year-old charged over the incident also under way.

An hour before she was shot, the victim was playing with her dog and watching the sunlight fade over the ocean at Burleigh Beach.

A new online calculator allows parents to work out how much they’ll spend if they send their children to private schools.

Thirteen years after fleeing Melbourne over sex abuse allegations, accused paedophile Malka Leifer has appeared before court and her three accusers.

The breakthrough arrest came just hours after members of the public responded to police pleas to locate Dinh Lam Nguyen’s car.

Victoria will almost double its cap on international arrivals next month, with Police Minister Lisa Neville saying it was ‘possible’ the state could take even more.

Queensland researchers have found a way to experiment with various brewing techniques using just a fraction of the water and grain previously used.

Stomping on a teenage boy’s head, the violent group can be heard in a video shouting “run that s--t ... get it, get it, get his wallet ... I got his phone”. 

“If there is anything more to strengthen our laws, we absolutely will,” Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said about the horrific crash.

The government hasn’t finished enshrining the regulations to be placed on the fledgling fracking industry in WA, but resource companies are ready to go.

Works at the derelict site could begin as early as next year but details of the agreement between the government and billionaires Kerry Stokes and Andrew Forrest remain shrouded in secrecy.

A blog post by Andrea Tokaji on conservative website Caldron Pool pushed discredited theories that major pandemics were related to radio wave technologies.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the border will reopen to all of NSW on Monday after it closed because of mystery cases emerging in Greater Sydney.

Thousands of extra cars and trucks are flooding onto arterial roads in Sydney’s south since a new toll was imposed on the M5 East Motorway, internal government documents reveal.

Whiplash injuries from small car accidents may affect people for longer than once thought, with women more likely to suffer long-lasting impacts.

Coronavirus has showed we can all work together to tackle a problem. We must do that now with climate change.

How ironic Margaret Court was given her AC because of gender. This is the person who has waged a bitter campaign against gender and sexuality for many years.

Sydney is the most expensive city in Australia for an independent and government education, but Catholic schooling is more expensive in Brisbane and Melbourne.