He’s earned a rest.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian says Queensland’s stoush with the federal government over a proposed quarantine hub is no excuse for it refusing to pay the $30 million it owes for NSW hotel quarantine.

Ghassan Amoun, brother of Brothers 4 Life founder Bassam Hamzy, was charged for breaching a sweeping court order aimed at curbing a gangland feud.

An Environment Protection Agency investigation has found a stew of industrial toxins and chemicals in the soil under Brighton Grammar’s junior school and childcare centre.

Ahmed Al Assad, a dual Australian-Iraqi citizen, came to Australia as a refugee before returning to a political career in Baghdad.

A social worker could not attend a parliamentary inquiry into coercive control on Wednesday as she was supporting a woman caught in the grip of persistent non-physical abuses the inquiry is seeking to stamp out.

A vaccine expert says two aged care residents are unlikely to experience any adverse effects from being administered a too much of the coronavirus vaccine.

Brisbane has come of age since its previous bid to host the Olympic Games in the 1980s. However, the lord mayor says it needs a decade of infrastructure work to host the Games in 2032.

Fiona and Greg Mills have spent almost a year trying to claw back the $28,965 they shelled out on an ill-fated holiday. They’ve been told to wait until 2023.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Matthew Donaldson, 41, who police believe may be in the Blue Mountains area and may be armed with a firearm.

Two elderly people in a Queensland nursing home have accidentally received overdoses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. An 88-year-old man and a 94-year-old woman were given more than the recommended dose, but both are ‘doing well’, Australia’s...

The “meticulous and systematic” way in which missing Dover Heights woman Melissa Caddick went about misappropriating “many, many millions [of dollars]” from her investors’ funds has been revealed.

A portable breathing apparatus and redesigned tactile indicators for blind people are among the 42 major works on display at the Powerhouse Museum.

Queensland’s borders will be closed to New Zealand travellers from 6pm on Wednesday night as passengers are forced to complete quarantine. 

A fresh internal dispute has erupted within one of Australia’s largest unions, as the construction division of the CFMMEU makes a bid to claim members from the rival mining division.

Lockdowns have been blamed for Victoria lagging behind on wage growth as the opposition attacks the government over another credit downgrade.

A 33-year-old man from Mernda has been convicted of recklessly making a false statement to the ATO after he pretended to operate a business in an attempt to receive $6000 in JobKeeper payments.

St Vincent’s said it has reported the GP involved to the medical regulator, stressing that the people administering the vaccine were outside staff allocated to the facility for the rollout.

Three of the five new green bridges slated for inner-city Brisbane are still awaiting decisions on their final design and location almost a year after the council’s re-election.

A truck driver who was drug-affected and sleep-deprived when he caused a head-on crash that killed a mother and her son has been jailed for 13 years.

Victoria Police has been ordered to pay legal costs in a failed prosecution of three Mongols bikie club members after firearm charges connected to the killing of Croydon fruiterer were dropped.

On this episode of Please Explain Daily I’m joined by national affairs editor Rob Harris to discuss the implications of Craig Kelly’s resignation from the Liberal Party.

Fremantle’s ‘tent city’ became a focal point for both major political parties ahead of the election and a source of tension between the state government and the City of Fremantle.

The Brisbane man who allegedly drugged, tattooed and forced women into unlawful prostitution has had his case mentioned in court.

The disruption of another Pilbara heritage site has triggered calls for the WA government to act quickly after the March election to reform its outdated laws

Floral love heart displays will adorn the city in March for Moomba 2.0, a scaled-down festival to accommodate COVID-19 restrictions.

Local councils will be stripped of their power to investigate wind farm noise complaints as part of a major shake-up of regulations governing renewable energy generators.

Mourad Kerollos is on trial for murder in the NSW Supreme Court. He does not deny fatally stabbing his wife, but says he was mentally ill at the time.

Dancing and singing will be allowed again at wedding receptions across Greater Sydney from Friday following a record 38 days of zero local COVID-19 transmissions.

Deputy Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski will spearhead an investigation into police conduct following the death of a woman at a burned Logan townhouse.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has called on the Commonwealth to “explain itself” after aged-care residents were given incorrect doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

Liquidators reviewed thousands of pages of financial documents and couldn’t identify a single genuine document missing businesswoman provided to investors.

The corruption watchdog says a “small number” of emails involving Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s private account might be deemed public records.

Josh Frydenberg says he believes Facebook will seal commercial deals with local media companies following ‘complex and difficult’ negotiations with the tech giant’s boss, Mark Zuckerberg.

What child hasn’t imagined donning an astronaut suit, getting into a rocket and flying into space?

The body of Jason Guise was found in a sewage tank at Wynnum in 2019. The suspicious death remains a mystery to this day.

Perth-based Woodside rejects the blame for the national job loss figures, but questions remain over the role gas plays in the nation’s economy and workforce.

Attacks on the Premier are interpreted by most voters as attacks on WA itself, but what is not yet on the radar of most voters is Labor’s closeness to a certain circle in the business community.

The storms which swept across southeast Queensland overnight knocked out power to around 18,000 people and dumped huge amounts of rain.

An early election would allow the government to reap the electoral benefit of the coronavirus vaccine rollout and a reawakening economy – and catch the opposition standing still.

Parts of Sydney received up to 38 millimetres of rain on Wednesday morning with heavy showers expected to push further west.

Victoria has recorded no new coronavirus cases in the past day, after 20,000 people came forward for testing.

The Victorian government will trial the use of robots in hotel quarantine to monitor breaches and provide an additional layer of security in the wake of multiple coronavirus leakages.

Mark ‘Chopper’ Read was no underworld mastermind, but he was a master storyteller and in this episode there is never-before-heard audio of the ultimate showman from 1999.

Extra train services will run through Sydney’s Inner West and T8 Airport lines under a $1 billion plan to increase peak-hour capacity by as much as 80 per cent on parts of the city’s transport network by 2024.

Ruth Wilson, 88, who has recently finished her PhD, has used her lifelong love of Jane Austen to develop a new way of approaching novels in classrooms.

The head of the NSW Police sex crimes squad has welcomed the conversations playing out in Sydney schools this week, after hundreds of former schoolgirls came forward with claims of sexual assault.

After her death in 2018 at the age of 89, the late Pat McDonald left her former employer a $7 million bequest to nurture future generations of young scientists. 

Teachers can only do so much to counteract the flow of passive leadership and wilful blindness that allows sexual assault to flourish.