While the Renaissance provides a steppin’ stone.

A range of groups are now asking Brisbane City Council to reduce the ability of developers - as landholders - to influence the neighbourhood planning phase.

When the federal government boosted payments for unemployed Australians to $1115 a fortnight at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, 27-year-old Melbourne woman Laura Picone was able to keep something most Australians take for granted: her teeth.

The NSW Planning Minister has given an ultimatum to the City of Sydney and the state’s social housing agency.

Melbourne lord mayor Sally Capp said just 31 per cent of city workers had returned to their desks in January and, anecdotally, the city estimates that number had fallen again in February.

Good Samaritans came to the rescue of the woman who was subjected to a degrading and violent sexual assault in January, 2020.

Fifty beds at the Northern Hospital remain closed to new admissions after a mental health worker was tied to the Holiday Inn COVID-19 cluster, putting extra strain on an already ‘broken’ system.

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe storm warning for most of south-east Queensland as an extensive line of storms bears down on the region.

Criminal and family violence cases waiting to be finalised by the Magistrates Court have doubled in number, with about 200,000 cases pending across all the state’s courts, partly due to the impact of the pandemic on the legal system.

The remaining fraud charges against former City of Perth councillor Jim Adamos stemming from a lengthy and expensive inquiry into the dysfunctional local government have been dropped. 

Buruli ulcer infections have been detected outside Victorian coastal areas for the first time, and experts have linked transmission to possums and mosquitoes.

The man was described as fair-skinned, about 40 years old and 175 centimetres tall, and had a white swastika painted back-to-front on his forehead.

A young man accused of driving a car along Bourke Street Mall and causing panic among pedestrians is also charged with unlawful imprisonment and assaulting a man with a metal pole.

The Victorian Treasurer says extending temporary cuts to stamp duty risks overheating the housing market.

Chief Commissioner Shane Patton said up to 25 stations were closed at any one time in recent months as hotel quarantine commitments, border closures and enforcement of coronavirus restrictions strained resources.

Two boys, aged 11 and 12, have been charged with stealing offences after an alleged spree of robberies and assaults which also saw a nine-year-old boy arrested.

Police acknowledged that their response to call for help would form a central part of a coronial investigation into Doreen Langham’s death.

A small robot touched down on the red planet this week, the latest to hunt for life on there. One Oxford University philosopher hopes it finds nothing but “dead rocks and lifeless sands”.

HungryPanda has promised to have an insurance scheme in place for its riders by the end of next month.

The men are accused of bashing a Perth father to death inside his Balga home, allegedly leaving him with injuries comparable to a car crash victim.

Gladys Berejiklian says the government has not forgotten the hundreds of bushfire survivors still living in caravans, sheds and other temporary accommodation.

A Cairns dentist and his practice have been hit with a huge fine after poor sterilisation of instruments exposed hundreds of patients to potential infection.

The mining giant promised in June not to disturb heritage sites at its mine in WA’s north due to “deep respect for the Banjima people and their heritage.”

The COVID-19 death toll in the US has passed 500,000, the highest reported of any nation in the world.

Melbourne’s Anzac Day parade might still go ahead in April as the state government works with RSL Victoria to make commemorations ‘as close to normal as possible’.

Batteries put in bins spark garbage truck fires and a stern warning from City Hall.

Mourad Kerollos is on trial in the NSW Supreme Court accused of murdering his wife by stabbing her to death. He has pleaded not guilty.

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists says legal frameworks are perpetuating coercive control and failing to criminalise the behaviour would be negligent.

Nathanael Cooper and investigative reporter Kate McClymont look at the latest developments in the investigation into Melissa Caddick’s alleged fraud and her disappearance.

Can you remember the last time you spent less than $44 in a day including food, rent and bills?

A former Labor party official and Catholic priest has told a Sydney court he feels guilty and ashamed for exploiting vulnerable boys in Vietnam and the Philippines.

The state’s highest court overturned the defamation payout in a dispute likened to Shakespeare’s warring Montague and Capulet families.

The Brisbane man who allegedly drugged, tattooed and forced women into unlawful prostitution has had 13 more charges laid against him.

All the evidence points to accepted standards being trashed.

The 25-year-old university student was going through a “weird time” when he vanished from the Armidale region nearly 30 years ago.

A Victorian coroner is calling for fresh research into the effects on the brain of blows to the head in sport following the death of AFL champion Danny Frawley.

Investigators release CCTV footage of a man they believe could help with their investigation into a sexual assault near Melbourne’s legal precinct last month.

Premier Daniel Andrews has defended his government’s handling of Crown after other jurisdictions moved earlier to investigate claims of money laundering and gang links.

Victoria has recorded no new local cases of coronavirus for the fourth day in a row and none in hotel quarantine, as another shipment of Pfizer vaccines lands.

A man, 32, is in police custody after the truck he was driving hit the pedestrian in Chester Hill on Tuesday.

The woman, 37, was crossing a road when the driver of a black SUV allegedly beeped the horn and verbally abused her. Then he followed her into a nearby cafe.

Anzac Day marches and services will return in 2021 after Queenslanders resorted to driveway commemorations during the height of the pandemic last year.

Two bodies have been found in the extensively damaged unit at Browns Plains. Police continue their investigations as they believe the fire was deliberately lit.

In documents that Transport for NSW tried to keep secret, an official demanded to know who had been talking to MP Daryl Maguire over the location of a new motorway.

Witnesses gave evidence of perpetrators using motion sensor cameras to monitor their partners, changing passwords, blocking access to credit cards and stopping victims from leaving the house

Cleveland Street is being reduced to 40km/h, partly to make it safer for cyclists following the death of a food delivery rider hit by a truck.

Details of how ancient Kimberley rock art was produced and the lives of the people who painted them seemed destined to remain just out of our reach, but then a team of scientists hit on a new idea.

Readers have reacted with anger and disappointment at Amanda Vanstone’s analysis of the Brittany Higgins rape allegation and its aftermath.

‘My life fell out from underneath me,’ says Peter Shnek, 56, who lost his job at a firewood business when state borders closed in March.

Heavy seas have lashed the abandoned wreck of the barque Endeavour II in Parengarenga Harbour, New Zealand.