While homebuyers look to the bright side.

The appearance of the slick 1950s-style fridge is matched by “a 1950s level of performance”, the consumer rights watchdog says.

Ashlee Marie Jackson was last seen about 1.25pm on Sunday near Albany Highway and Leonard Street in Victoria Park.

The River City could get up to 90mm by the end of the weekend, with showers set to begin from late Tuesday or early Wednesday.

The New Zealand travel bubble was suspended late on Sunday following new COVID-19 cases in Auckland. The latest Johns Hopkins University data shows there have been 108.7 million confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic and almost 2.4 million d...

A new tool compares NAPLAN data by suburbs rather than by schools, and shows more money does not always lead to better outcomes.

The city’s tram fleet is ageing and desperately needs an overhaul, Melbourne’s tram operator has warned the Andrews government, while the push to ramp up services is making it difficult to properly maintain the network’s 500 trams.

Infectious diseases experts remain quietly confident Victoria’s snap lockdown could end on Thursday, despite new cases and lingering concerns about contact tracing

Victoria’s second international airport is putting itself forward as a possible site for a ‘walk-in’ quarantine base as the state grapples with the fallout from the Holiday Inn cluster.

Tash Pareskevi started writing slogans such as ‘You Are Loved’ on a Coburg park pavement to lift spirits during the pandemic, but she ended up winning the heart of a stranger.

WA’s Supreme Court Chief Justice has labelled the state’s mental health system a failure as he found an Ellenbrook teenager with schizophrenia not guilty of murdering his family due to unsoundness of mind.

The smash created major congestion on the M1 on Monday afternoon, with only one northbound lane open for several hours.

The department saw no issue with Michael “Mick” Connolly’s close friendship with Crown Casino personnel until probed by 6PR and this masthead.

Developers have lodged plans for the partial demolition of a landmark East Melbourne mansion, built for Young and Jacksons publican Thomas Jackson in 1883, to make way for an apartment tower.

Anti-lockdown protesters have clashed with police during a heated exchange at a popular Melbourne shopping strip during day three of the state’s latest coronavirus restrictions.

The “hubs” - which will have play space, offices, toilets and kitchens - will cater for between 45 and 60 students per session.

Crown case against former ministers Ian Macdonald and Eddie Obeid, along with Obeid’s son Moses, was an affront to justice, court told.

A hot air balloon company threatens legal action against the Bureau of Meteorology over an incorrect weather forecast that led to a crash landing in the Yarra Valley. 

A sea of colour has swept across wide swathes of the Blue Mountains just a year on from the huge bushfires as long-dormant pink flannel flowers spring to life.

The Victoria Tourism Industry Council estimates losses across the state could reach hundreds of millions of dollars.

Thousands of high school students would learn lifesaving skills each year under a plan to build Australia’s first ocean safety centre in Apollo Bay.

A former community support worker sexually assaulted a vulnerable teenage boy weeks after using a state government database to search for information about him.

The government said it thought it had contacted all the people by Saturday, but realised about 50 people had left incorrect details such as phone numbers.

An inquiry failed to engage with the possibility that Kathleen Folbigg was writing about her feelings of guilt, rather than confessing her actual guilt, her lawyer has told a court.

Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass says the case highlights systemic weaknesses in the governance of Victorian state schools while tabling her investigation report.

Queensland’s road toll sits at 32 lives lost this year, compared with 15 deaths at the same point last year.

A man is dead following an explosion north-west of Melbourne.

The five-day lockdown in Melbourne hasn’t deterred everyone from making uninvited visits to our home.

Harry Little is on trial in the NSW Supreme Court accused of dangerous driving, after his highway patrol car crashed into another car in Sydney’s south in 2018.

Wildlife officers have killed a second crocodile in far north Queensland as part of the investigation into the disappearance of a local man.

Australia needs meaningful housing policy reform – including mandatory building laws for accessible homes – that future-proofs the country from health and disability challenges.

From mansions with multiple living quarters, to private Swan River access, it seems the pandemic did not deter Perth’s wealthiest from snatching up the city’s most luxurious homes.

Media organisations applied to hear proceedings in the Brisbane Children’s Court on Monday, but magistrate Rosemary Gilbert rejected them.

The Queen Victoria Market is being deep cleaned and stallholders are isolating after a woman who later tested positive for COVID-19 visited the market’s fruit and vegetable section last Thursday.

It is illegal to drive over the speed limit on Australian roads. At open race track nights at Eastern Creek, drivers with a taste for speed can drive as fast as they like.

The Queensland hospital that cared for Tom Hanks while he recovered from COVID-19 will be the first in the state to receive the coronavirus vaccine.

Xie was ordered to serve five life sentences for brutally killing five members of the Lin family at their North Epping home in July 2009.

Victoria’s Holiday Inn coronavirus cluster has grown to 17 cases as another woman tested positive after attending a family function with an infected hotel quarantine worker.

Australia’s first “big” battery worked so well there are now more than 40 built or planned across the country. How do these batteries work?

How good is Australia? Only as good as it is deaf to its First Nations people.

A process to radically change the way governments work with Indigenous people is getting results.

At the announcement of Trump’s second impeachment acquittal, a groan could be heard around the world at the unashamed corruption of the Republican Party.

A group of doctors has sounded a warning over increasingly elaborate genetic tests being offered to expectant mothers.

The government has blocked a proposal to change planning rules to clear the way for 3200 homes and buildings up to 126 metres tall on the contaminated site.

An audit of the University of Sydney has revealed that its library staff have been underpaid for many years.

40 years ago, the Herald accompanied Senator Don Chipp on a five-day rafting trip in Tasmania’s south-west wilderness, then threatened by hydro development.

In theory, the law of defamation allows people to express honest opinions on matters of public interest. In practice, there are catches.

NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall is a fan of fancy dress. Who knew?

The Commonwealth and the states must think of moving quarantine out of the cities to the safety of remote Australia.

Extending men’s access to paid parental leave could help to solve a gendered health crisis that has been building for many years.