While Maverick, Goose, ScoMo and Viper reach for the skies.

Professor Dominic Dwyer said there were some “heated” disagreements between Chinese and WHO officials.

A seven-week holiday road-safety operation found an increase in risky driving behaviour.

A former head of Victoria’s gambling watchdog says the agency regulating Crown may have lost focus on policing the casino, and Premier Daniel Andrews flagged reform to the agency.

Health experts are demanding Victoria’s hotel quarantine workers get personal protective equipment on a par with staff in high-risk COVID hospital wards.

The North Fort Plotting Room at Manly Head monitored shipping in the 1940s to protect Sydney from enemy vessels.

DOVES, the new state-wide council of NSW student representatives, will have a direct line to the Education Minister on policy matters involving students.

Universities had to quickly move courses online in a crisis situation during the pandemic, which has led to a rethink about the role of technology in supporting education.

Australia could be down to just one refinery producing petrol, diesel, jet fuel and other petroleum products for the local market by the middle of the year.

The 30-year-old from Keilor Downs was taken into police custody after being released from a hospital in Fitzroy.

Two more cases of COVID-19 have been linked to the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel outbreak, bringing the total number of infected people to eight.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian says NSW will bring in an extra $300 million a month when restrictions ease on Friday, after she called out other states for failing to provide timely information to health authorities.

Police allege another woman attempted to intervene and was hit by Karl Howard with a weapon believed to be a samurai sword.

Rex, Qantas and Virgin are in a fierce fight as they attempt to lure nervous travellers back to the skies.

WA Labor announced on Sunday it would spend $14.3 million on turning the YHA Perth hostel into a transitional and crisis accommodation facility.

A “paucity of facts” in the Crown case against former politician Eddie Obeid meant the judge could not be satisfied of his guilt, court hears.

Eddie McGuire flew high, but failing to discern his most serious blind spot, brought himself low.

The City of Yarra is anticipating an operating deficit of more than $12 million, having lost millions of dollars in parking revenue during lockdown.

Police officer Harry Little is on trial in the NSW District Court accused of dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm, after he crashed into Gai Vieira.

Security guards can get a hard rap. But you can’t help feeling that in Sydney, they often deserve it.

Bada Bing Cafe owner Nathan Sharp admitted he had made cannabis brownies in the past, but denied ever taking them into his shopfront, instead claiming they were thrown out.

The facility in Coorparoo houses 29 kitchens, purpose-built for existing and new restaurants to cater for food delivery apps.

Eddie McGuire stood before the media for the last time as president on Tuesday, and said goodbye.

It’s been a key feature of Altona’s skyline for more than 70 years. But the Mobil fuel refinery, a symbol of Melbourne’s working class western suburbs, will soon be no more.

The Victorian regulator, the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation, must be the subject of intense and forensic scrutiny.

WA Police Deputy Commissioner Col Blanch has praised the good detective work that has caused an ‘organised crime fiasco’ in recent months.

How would a gambling card work? And why are we talking about it now?

In today’s episode of Please Explain Daily, national editor Tory Maguire and business journalist Patrick Hatch discuss the future of Australia’s biggest casino giant after the findings of the Crown inquiry report.

The Andrews government is being urged to “consider all options” to get international school students back into the country, including using charter flights.

Jennifer Board, 22, was killed when an alleged vigilante lost control of a vehicle and crashed into her motorbike last week.

Two CFMEU officials who were allegedly bashed at a Hawthorn East construction site in June last year have refused to co-operate with Victoria Police and WorkSafe investigators.

No new community cases of COVID-19 have been identified for yet another day in WA as the end of the state’s “transition out of lockdown” looms.

Some of Australia’s leading media groups have said sorry after pleading guilty to contempt of court over the way they first reported Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on child sexual abuse charges.

According to Shelley Berger, who booked out Motown acts, “it was understood the Supremes’ audience was white”.

Eastwood man Chan Han Choi pleaded guilty to two charges relating to breaching sanctions in brokering deals for North Korea.

For far too long gambling industry players have been given a free pass to operate as they please in Australia, with minimal oversight from the governments which license them.

Olivia Winnie Muranga, 20, and Diana Lasu, 21, have active criminal cases in Queensland and New South Wales.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott’s sister took to social media to reveal she would not stand for preselection so as to focus on her job as a media adviser for a petroleum company.

Emergency services were called to a home in Annandale about 5am on Monday following reports two women were injured.

The trial was so successful the researchers ended it early so they could get the results out sooner.

Australia’s highest court rules an order to extend the detention of convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika at the end of his jail sentence was constitutional.

Clean your house, but don’t eat porridge. Everything you need to know ahead of Lunar New Year on Friday.

The tech giant will be the loser if it attempts to bully the Australian government - and ultimately it’s Google that has the most to lose.

The protesters blocked the Turbot Street off-ramp about 8am and it created eight kilometres of traffic congestion.

A NSW report found Crown is not a suitable company to hold the licence for its glittering new casino in Sydney – so how can the same company run a casino here in Perth?

New twists in the coronavirus pandemic have placed major challenges in front of Australia’s “ace in the hole” vaccine.

Sydney’s lord mayor and Labor say a metro train station is critical given the area’s soaring population.

The Berejiklian government, by shamelessly preferencing Coalition electorates with grants and funding, is no longer governing for all of us.

There’s a strong case to supplement our current testing arrangements with rapid antigen testing in key risk areas, detecting and isolating COVID-19 infections even earlier in the process.

Let’s create meaningful financial support for Australia’s 100 or so small-to-medium news publishers.