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

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.

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.

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

Amid the fast-paced, 24-hour news cycle it can be easy to lose sight of the bigger picture surrounding a story or set of issues.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

With the official Mardi Gras parade moving to the Sydney Cricket Ground, a march protesting the detention of refugees and Aboriginal deaths in custody will take over Oxford Street.

Preparations and dress rehearsals ahead of Mardi Gras 2021 which will be held at the iconic Sydney Cricket Ground.

Filipino seaman Larry Pineda says he and fellow shipmates trapped aboard a bulk carrier docked in Portland have no idea when they might be freed and that they’re praying to be vaccinated.

On this episode of Please Explain, Tory is joined by lifestyle writer Samantha Selinger-Morris to discuss Britney Spears, politics and misogyny. 

Officers received information that drugs were allegedly being moved from Sydney to Brisbane by people connected to the Comanchero bikie gang.

Teaching literacy is a new frontier in the culture wars, with students who struggle with this most vital life skill the primary casualties.

It is the first Royal Commission called in Perth in 20 years.

Hemp has been identified as an emerging industry with great potential, but growers say regulation and the negative connotations associated with the ancient plant are holding them back.

The pharmaceutical giant lost a bid to overturn a court decision that found it exaggerated the benefits of its pelvic mesh implants and minimised the risks.

It took years for the federal Minister for Communications and the Arts to realise the woman he’d shared a house with during university days was a rare gem.

The shadow minister for climate change and energy on achieving net zero emissions by 2050, why turning 40 was a fitness turning point, and his family’s grief.

Aged care business operated by bankrupt brothers convicted of animal cruelty has been accused of probity failings, including transfer of funds to pay their mortgages.

It’s time to stand up to the onslaught of inspirational quotes.

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This year will be a vast improvement on last, but Australia has much work to do before it can be free of its local and international COVID restrictions.

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

Industry superannuation funds have emerged as early contenders to run VicRoads’ licensing and registration arms after the Andrews government announced a partial privatisation of the agency.

The media is in the doghouse again for reporting on celebrity gossip, but isn’t that just what readers want?

A development application lodged by Brisbane City Council outlined details of the 470-metre pedestrian and cycle link, with a mast taller than the Story Bridge.

A man and a woman from Mildura who went viral under the #toostrongforyoukaren hashtag are now suing a raft of media companies for defamation.

Police divers have combed through 6000 square metres off Dover Heights in a bid to narrow down what may have happened to missing Sydney businesswoman Melissa Caddick.

Wayne Laver worked homicide for years, seeing the Hoddle and Queen street massacres. But it was a swiftly solved case that haunted him.

Nearly two decades after it was sold for top dollar at auction, a huge tract of undeveloped land sits dormant in a prized residential suburb of Sydney. What went wrong?

The new case was a returned worker from Papua New Guinea’s Ok Tedi copper mine who tested positive in hotel quarantine.

Victoria has recorded no new COVID-19 cases for a seventh consecutive day, as a doctor in regional South Australia becomes the first Australian to receive the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Friday morning.

The headmaster of The King’s School, Tony George, says Australia is facing a reckoning over the harm that porn, alcohol and boozy parties inflict on children.

Limits on singing and chanting in schools will also be lifted, and social events can proceed as long as there is enough room for adults to follow COVID-safe practices.

The 22-year-old woman is being treated in Royal Perth Hospital. Her injuries are not life threatening. 

A woman managed to keep armed intruders at bay after they attacked a man with a machete during a botched home invasion in Melbourne’s south-west.

Paid tastings go against the tradition of the cellar door bar, where customers could rock up unannounced and taste as much or as little as they liked, usually for free.

Eavesdropping on private conversations between the parents of famous people before they got famous.

The perception still is that there is “sport”, and then there is “women’s sport”. Where are the men? Well it is just assumed that they are the “sport”.

There’ll be no Oxford Street crowds. No jumping on milk crates for a view. And we’ll be missing thousands of international visitors. But this Saturday’s festival still has a lot to say.

Lola Hamzy says her murdered son Mejid Hamzy had nothing to do with his brother, Bassam Hamzy. Police believe they are closing in on Mejid’s killers.

Academics say if discussion of gender fluidity was banned in classrooms, plays such as The Merchant of Venice and films such as Tootsie would be off the agenda.

There are those who buy into the narrative that stranded Australians are to blame for their predicament. This is unfair.

The National Transport Commission recommended states and territories legalise e-scooters, but NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance is unconvinced.