And today’s that day.

John Millman has bounced back from a trouncing at the hands of Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta to defeat Greece’s Michail Pervolarakis and get Australia off to the perfect start in their second ATP Cup tie.

A 51-year-old Beaconsfield man and 46-year-old Bunbury man were both charged in separate incidents after declining to wear a free face mask offered by police.

Queensland’s youth justice system has been in sharp focus after a number of recent high-profile incidents, with the LNP calling for immediate action when Parliament returns.

A war of words with a chair umpire saw Nick Kyrgios refuse to play at a critical point of his second round win.

John Hollingsworth is taking on club president Mark LoGiudice and has slammed the Carlton board for the repeated “hiring and firing” of coaches in a lengthy period of “instability” and “under-performance”. 

The number of homes destroyed by the fire keeps growing as firefighters assess the devastation caused by the massive blaze in Perth’s north-eastern suburbs.

Skipton farmer Alistair Gabb, a suicide attempt survivor, hopes the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System will result in more help for rural areas.

The WA Premier went to Government House on Wednesday to ask for the writs to be sent out, thus kicking off the 2021 state election – despite no official campaigning.

Lawyers for the AFL and ASADA have agreed to share Essendon doping investigation correspondence to Bruce Francis, who is seeking exoneration for Bombers players who were suspended for breaching the WADA code.

Catholic and private schools in Victoria will share in more than $286 million as they switch to a new funding model, but several warn they will be worse off.

Players are asking questions as to why Peter Jackson’s review into the Indigenous Advisory Group is yet to be acted upon after Collingwood’s “Do Better” report was released.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday afternoon, AMA WA President Andrew Miller said the world had known about airborne transmission since March 2020.

The sheer number of quarantine and frontline healthcare workers in NSW makes allocating the lion’s share of vaccine doses to the state a simple equation, several state and federal public health and policy staff told The Sydney Morning Herald.

Israel Folau’s NRL comeback could be over before it began after the Dragons pulled out of their pursuit of the controversial star.

Bradley Edwards had until 4pm Wednesday to lodge an appeal over Justice Stephen Hall’s decision to find him guilty of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon’s murders.

John Barilaro has repeatedly said he would reveal his plans for his future in the first quarter of this year.

Queensland MP disappointed by High Court decision warns contractors will start laying off staff and children will be pulled out of schools as workers move out of the region.

Broadmeadows MP Frank McGuire has urged his party to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14 to keep children as young as 10 out of prison.

A televised clash forced Scott Morrison to reprimand Craig Kelly, but there are doubts about whether it will stop the MP airing disputed claims about COVID-19.

The Health Minister says nine COVID-19 vaccination hubs will be established in some of Victoria’s major hospitals as the state marked four weeks without community transmission.

The 77-year-old has decided to call rugby league again for the broadcaster.

Sydney’s underused Macquarie Street should be revitalised into a world-class cultural destination comparable with precincts in New York and London, showcasing the city’s journey from its Indigenous foundation to global city.

A woman who was stabbed multiple times has been found in the boot of a car after police received reports of a hand waving from its tail light section on the Hume Highway.

Perth residents in north eastern fringe suburb of Bullsbrook have braced themselves for a horror night, with a looming bushfire stretching 100 kilometres wide and raining embers bearing down on their eastern housing estates on Wednesday afternoon.

Labor MPS and three crossbenchers voted down extra scrutiny on funding for the Ombudsman and IBAC, who have both recently complained about a lack of resources.

A parliamentary committee has been given less than two months to issue its first report as border closures block business recruitment.

Chan Han Choi would tell people he was connected to Kim Jong-Un, called North Korea his “motherland”, and communicated in code in a bid to sell North Korean missiles and other materials, the NSW Supreme Court has been told.

The Brisbane Bombers and Ipswich Jets have agreed in principle to form a united bid as the NRL’s expansion race heats up.

It was a replay of a scene Melbourne has long tried to forget – the day in 1986 when a bomb tore a hole in the heart of the city. But this time it was just make-believe.

One of the pair captured lighting the fire on CCTV, released by police, can be seen running from the blaze appearing to shake flames from their hand and foot.

Birdonawinningpost has taken big strides since debuting at Gosford last spring, winning two of her past three in the country, both by dominant margins.

Everything you need to know to pick a winner on an eight-race card.

A hub in South Africa is deemed too much of a risk for Australia”s cricketers, but a hub in India is likely to get a tick.

Job cuts in the public service are on the way as the NSW government tightens its belt.

Housing approvals hit a record high at the end of 2020 as home builders rushed to take full advantage of historic low interest rates and the federal government’s grant for home builders. 

A trial run by the Mater Hospital in Brisbane is hoped to prove the efficacy of a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, which disproportionately affects babies.

Philip Lowe says a permanent increase in the JobSeeker payment is justified on fairness grounds while revealing a more optimistic economic outlook.

A viral video of an international student being slapped on Tuesday draws attention to a much wider problem of exploitation - and that will hurt Australian universities already suffering from the pandemic.

Secret jailhouse letters traded between a convicted terrorist and a Melbourne woman accused of recruiting for Islamic State have been read aloud in court.

The big four accounting firm could face criminal prosecution as part of the ATO’s efforts to stamp out illegitimate use of legal privilege in tax matters.

Westpac has lost a High Court appeal over a breach of financial advice laws, after running a telephone campaign encouraging customers to roll over their superannuation savings.

A British tennis podcast has flamed debate about the name of one of Melbourne Park’s main show courts by declaring it will refer to Margaret Court Arena as Evonne Goolagong Arena instead.

Australian senators have accused the Chinese Communist Party of “unspeakable human rights abuses” after the BBC aired accounts of systematic rape and torture. Warning: graphic content.

The fire is travelling towards a Queensland state forest and firefighters warn they might not be able to save every property.

The bigger issue for the likes of our homegrown BNPL giant, Afterpay, is the regulatory geographic domino effect.

The WA government is working on the hypothesis that the security guard who sparked the WA lockdown became infected with COVID-19 without interacting directly with the guest who gave it to him.

IFM head of global infrastructure Kyle Mangini says there is a tremendous shift towards renewable energy while announcing a $2.9b acquisition of a low energy provider in Canada.

Western Australia is dealing with twin emergencies – a coronavirus lockdown and raging bushfires – as Perth residents enter their third day of a five-day hard lockdown.

AstraZeneca says it is awaiting fresh data on its vaccine’s ability to combat a new COVID-19 variant after clinical trials for rival inoculations showed reduced effectiveness against the emerging South African strain.