Collingwood’s first pre-season match has gotten off to a bad start, with Steele Sidebottom and Will Kelly both injured and out of the game within the first half.

Aaron Finch batted like the leader his nation desperately needed, hitting four sixes in the final over to set-up a game four win for Australia ahead of the series decider on Sunday.

Queensland’s public sector watchdog has found punishment given to child safety officers who failed to protect Caboolture toddler Mason Jet Lee was “manifestly inadequate”.

The Australian Rugby League Commission chairman is making no apologises for keeping last year’s TV rights discounts shrouded in secrecy as the free-to-air negotiation looms.

There are only two types of footballers turned commentators: those who don’t get it, and those who do. Cronk gets it.

North’s midfielders ran rampant at Punt Road Oval on Friday night as the Roos powered to a comfortable 35-point victory over Richmond.

The woman who accused Attorney-General Christian Porter of rape drew on counselling that she said helped to “resurface” a trauma she said she had known about for years.

This belated follow-up to Eddie Murphy’s 1988 romantic comedy fails to solve the problem of what comes after the happy ending.

Australia’s big city house price bonanza looks like it’s back with a bang, but not everyone is celebrating.

Cinematographer Lachlan Milne was desperate to work on a film like Lee Isaac Chung’s acclaimed drama.

Trent Robinson will have a decent selection dilemma if Angus Crichton makes the most of Boyd Cordner’s left-edge back-row spot. Or will he?

Three villagers who allege they saw Ben Roberts-Smith kick an unarmed man off a cliff in Afghanistan are unlikely to be granted entry to Australia to give evidence, a court has heard.

A month after new album topped the charts, the Rubens were busking in Bourke Street Mall with an impromptu performance dedicated to Michael Gudinski.

Melbourne businessman James Baillieu sent a string of emails calling his colleague a ‘maggot’ and questioning whether he was under psychiatric care, in breach of a personal safety order the qualified lawyer told a court he didn’t understand.

After a year of cancelled events, Australia’s two biggest cities will celebrate this weekend with two very different parties.

Eight months after icare launched a remediation program, fewer than 25 injured workers have been compensated.

The coronavirus pandemic provides a “unique chance” to grant undocumented migrants visas giving them access to workplace rights, a government advisory committee says.

Victoria’s environmental watchdog will not force the state’s heavily-polluting brown coal power stations to lower their greenhouse gas emissions

Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley has issued an emergency declaration to halt the construction of the track at Mt Panorama.

A senior source at Credit Suisse says the bank was not told by Greensill about the group’s long running insurance issues.

David Morann will look to make the most of a pick-up drive on Expensive Ego in the Miracle Mile at Menangle on Saturday night.

Detectives seized cash, drugs and property valued at more than $1 million and laid 303 charges as part of the 12-month operation.

In an open letter, epidemiologists call for a new inquiry into the virus’ origins, arguing WHO’s team did not have “the independence or the necessary access”.

Mark Newnham has long harboured high hopes for his grey filly, and has had the Randwick Guineas in his sights since last year.

Australia comfortably beat New Zealand in Wellington on Friday night to tie their Twenty20 series 2-2 ahead of a deciding fifth game on Sunday.

SBS took the action after receiving a complaint from Safeguard Defenders, a human rights organisation, that the Chinese networks had broadcast forced confessions.

Even if Australia’s political relationship with China improves, its plans to turbo-charge a de-carbonised economy will pose challenges for our economy.

MinterEllison’s boss has divided staff at the nation’s largest law firm by criticising a senior partner for taking on Christian Porter as a client in an internal email.

Marwan Haddad, the former brother-in-law of Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim recruited his new wife into his drug supply enterprise.

The Howard Springs quarantine centre in the Northern Territory will more than double its capacity over the coming months as Victoria and Queensland push for their own facilities.

Blocking Australia’s supply of AstraZeneca will not fix the problems that have plagued Italy’s dangerously slow vaccine rollout.

Banana prices could increase several dollars as far northern Queensland farmers assess over $180 million in crop damage after Cyclone Niran hit the coast this week.

Former political staffers who have made allegations of harassment and assault will take part in a new investigation into Parliament’s workplace culture.

We have no reason to complain about Europe blocking vaccine exports to Australia.

Sydney-based French rugby great Frederic Michalak discusses the 2023 World Cup, a July series against the Wallabies and what it’s like working under Trent Robinson at the Roosters.

Long before Paddington became the centre of Sydney’s arts, the Brackenreg family opened a gallery in Artarmon. More than 60 years later, comes a final solo show.

Jane Weaver’s Flock, Adam Simmons/Jean Poole’s Zatoczka, Kings of Leon’s When You See Yourself and Genesis Owusu’s Smiling with No Teeth.

Almost four months after the sudden death of one of rugby league’s brightest young stars after a Manly training session, the family has revealed the painful details of Keith Titmuss’ final moments.

A man who shot two brothers, killing one and injuring the other, has been acquitted of criminal charges after a jury found he acted in self-defence.

For her book Men Who Hate Women, the British writer went undercover online and infiltrated a network of terror groups and incels who advocated violence against women.

WA Premier Mark McGowan announced that capacity at all venues including Optus Stadium and RAC Arena would be increased from 50 per cent to 75 from March 15.

The Sydney star hit top speed at training on Friday but it’s another forward who is set to make a surprise return for the club in round one.

The Prime Minister says he has no doubt Christian Porter would co-operate with any inquest into the death of a woman who made an historical rape allegation against the Attorney-General.

The South Sydney co-owners have come up with a plan to educate young players before they come into the NRL.

Australian writers are making a big mark in a prize for historical fiction.

Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel is written with characteristic understated elegance.

If you liked Steven Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts then the chances are his follow up, Maxwell’s Demons, will be right up your street.

Richard Beasley’s book is a fierce examination of the problems faced by the Murray-Darling Basin.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris both set their sights on the White House but they got there in very different ways.

The comedian, “accidental activist” and Mardi Gras co-host says the bigotry encountered growing up queer has aided her understanding of audiences.