Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton's office fast-tracked a one-off $880,000 grant proposal to a retail association days after it made a $1,500 political donation to the Queensland LNP for the purpose of personally suppor...

The coronavirus outbreak linked to the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel at Melbourne Airport grows to eight, with two new infections identified today.

The two new infections linked to the Holiday Inn are a quarantine worker, and a returned traveller who left the hotel on February 7. Follow live.

James Packer's company CPH cuts its ties with Crown's board after terminating its consultancy contract with non-executive board member John Poynton.

Victorian authorities are still investigating how coronavirus spread in a quarantine hotel, but the "working hypothesis" is that both workers and guests were exposed to mist from a nebuliser. Here's what that means. ...

People from the Greater Melbourne area could be barred from entering South Australia from midnight tonight, authorities announce.

The Reffitt family had been expecting a visit from police, but they did not think heavily armed officers would almost break down their door. Jackson Reffitt had tipped off the authorities that his father had been at the ...

After the video of the January 6 riot finished playing in the Senate chamber, the impeachment manager pointed to the screen and said "that's a high crime and misdemeanour".

A teenager accused of breaking into the home of 22-year-old Jennifer Board after she was killed beats the windows of a courtroom dock and yells abuse during his bail hearing, prompting the magistrate to flee. ...

An Indian woman allegedly kept as a slave in a suburban Melbourne home for eight years weighed just 40 kilograms when paramedics discovered her in a pool of her own urine, a court has been told. ...

Eddie McGuire's shift from bullish leader to his resignation from the club he loves in eight days came thanks to a tsunami of pressure from within Collingwood and without, signifying a profound moment for the wider commu...

Bernard Tomic puts up little fight against 11th seed Denis Shapovalov, losing in straight sets on his way to elimination from the Australian Open at the second round.

A malfunctioning automatic throttle may have caused the pilots of a Sriwijaya Air jet to lose control, sending the plane plunging into the Java Sea last month, Indonesian investigators say.

The former head of a remote Northern Territory town's only drug and alcohol rehabilitation service is sentenced to more than five years in jail after admitting to defrauding the organisation of nearly $250,000. ...

A detective admits he failed to properly investigate the death of a woman who he believed killed herself, but maintains the cause of death was suicide, a Perth court hears.

Five Micronesian nations are quitting the Pacific's peak regional organisation, accusing other island countries of treating them with neglect and contempt. Can the Pacific Islands Forum be patched back together? ...

Judge Roy Ferguson opens virtual proceedings of the 394th Judicial District Court in Texas on Zoom this week, but is not expecting to see two lawyers and a kitten.

French nun Lucile Randon, believed to be the second-oldest living person in the world, has recovered after contracting COVID-19 in mid-January, telling a newspaper: "I didn't even realise I had it." ...

Nathan Sharp says he made brownies using cannabis butter about five months before a family became intoxicated after buying brownies from his Bada Bing cafe — but has "no idea" how they could have become ill. ...

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton personally cut millions in grant funding from organisations that were strongly recommended by his department to improve community safety, and used the funds to support his own handpicke...

Petra Kvitová and Bianca Andreescu make early exits at Melbourne Park, while Serena Williams drops just three games on her way to booking a place in the third round.

A man found guilty of entering an Adelaide home and raping a woman twice in her bed apologises, reading a letter to his victim in the District Court.

A prominent Sydney real estate agent is accused of trying to strangle a woman he recently met on a dating app, before stabbing her friend with a samurai sword while the trio were drinking in his multi-million-dollar home...

Face masks will no longer be mandatory in hair and beauty salons, places of worship and gaming rooms in Greater Sydney, the Central Coast, Wollongong and the Blue Mountains from 12:01am this Friday. ...

Concerns are raised over anti-vaxxer leaflets being left in letterboxes in the Macedon Ranges and Hume City council areas, north of Melbourne.

A man has allegedly been caught driving an unregistered and uninsured car, in Adelaide's northern suburbs, with a hand-painted number plate featuring what police described as a "helpful message". ...

A New Zealand Maori leader is ejected from Parliament for refusing to wear a necktie, which he says breaches his rights and is an attempt to suppress Indigenous culture.

You're about to get more superannuation, which sounds like a good thing — but there are drawbacks, writes Peter Martin.

The son of wildlife campaigner Steve Irwin has been recognised for his photography in a global competition.