Mandatory face masks are no longer required while shopping in Victoria with restrictions being lifted at 6pm on Friday.

Olympic silver medallist Nathan Baggaley, 45, and his brother Dru Anthony Baggaley, 39, were allegedly involved in a failed plot to import 650 kilograms of cocaine in 2018.

In a greater number than we could have imagined. We received hundreds of letters from women across the country, many revealing for the first time their stories of sexual assault, harassment and trauma.

The week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial review photographers.

The ceremony was attended by two veterans of Bomber Command in World War II who are almost as old as the air force itself.

A court hearing for Russell Street bomber Craig Minogue had to be suspended on Friday after the accused rapist repeatedly threatened to sack his lawyer.

Environmental watchdog lays 118 charges against the alleged owner of illegal chemical dumps in Melbourne and regional Victoria, claiming he had created a serious risk to public health.

Traffic continues to build as multiple crashes clog the traffic in Brisbane’s south on Friday.

A pensioner was moments from death as his car was swallowed by floodwater - until someone heard his cries in the darkness.

A Victorian woman accused of inciting people to protest against the coronavirus lockdown will challenge the lawfulness of a police search on her home.

Queensland’s Chief Health Officer has provided an updated list of the locations the man, a 26-year-old landscaper, visited in the past week.

At 17, Lech Blaine was in a car accident in which three of his friends died, and one was left with a permanent brain injury. He walked away, physically unharmed. Mentally however, it was a different story.

The Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation is at the centre of fresh controversy over its planned divestment of a key Aboriginal hub in Redfern.

The car of a missing woman has been found in the Upper Hunter as floodwaters recede and thousands of residents across NSW start the task of recovery and clean-up.

The coin, bought by an Australian collector who lives in California, fetched the second highest figure for an Australian coin sold at auction.

WA Health anticipated more than 20,000 frontline quarantine and border workers would be fully vaccinated against coronavirus by mid March. On Thursday, just 3444 had been immunised.

“My daughter has to perform for her rapist.”

A man accused of shooting armed forces overseas and being part of a Queensland-based terrorist syndicate has been remanded in custody.  

For the past seven months now, 22-year-old Patricia Dellaporte and her partner have been looking for a new home for their young family. Despite attending dozens of home opens, they are yet to find somewhere to live.

Australia’s best chefs fly to Perth for four feature events, while another 20 dining experiences will leave your mouth watering in anticipation.

Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley says there is “more work to be done” to fix cultural problems that lead to violence against women.

The Kenyan-born migrant and refugee advocate on helping other women as a domestic violence survivor, why politics isn’t on her horizon, and how church is her “spiritual food”.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today's interactive superquiz and target.

In this episode, Tory Maguire and US correspondent Matthew Knott assess President Biden’s press conference debut. 

The 1929-built hostel enclosed an earlier 1896 red-brick building known as Pearl Villa and was due to be incorporated into a significant redevelopment of the site.

Police believe the two Melbourne brothers and their friend were plotting a terror attack in the name of Islamic State.

The Australian Federal Police is investigating after several suspicious packages containing white powder,were sent to federal MPs.

Some parents want nothing more than to engage with someone – anyone – who is not screaming at them for a juice box. Others are not pleased to be there.

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Octogenarian mates Jim Skidmore and Peter Gill have been members of the club, just east of Princes Bridge, for over 60 years and say it’s amazing that an amateur sports club can thrive for so long.

Former Virgin Australia executive Rob Sharp has been confirmed as the new Transport for NSW chief executive almost four months after the controversial axing of his predecessor Rodd Staples.

Mr Foster, who is accused of stealing $2 million in Bitcoin, will live at a home in Dover Heights in Sydney’s east.

Clearer skies appear over Sydney and Mid North Coast but flood risk continues.

Two Queensland women who lied about visiting Melbourne while it was a coronavirus hotspot have learnt their fates in a Brisbane court.

Victoria records 28 days without a single local case of coronavirus, achieving what the state’s Chief Health Officer has described as effective elimination of the virus.

The two men, from Melbourne and Brisbane, allegedly played senior roles in a Queensland-based religious syndicate and had a desire to travel to Syria.

For the first time, a long-lost list of 178 Aboriginal names for places on Dyarubbin – as the Hawkesbury is known to local Aboriginal people – will go on display at the State Library of NSW on Saturday.

We didn’t plan to leave Melbourne after lockdown. Then I woke one day and thought, ‘I’m done here’. We sold our Collingwood apartment, bought a house in Ocean Grove for half the price, and honoured an old dream.

The Herald’s annual photographic exhibition ‘Photos1440’ is now in its 10th year. Herald photographers recall their most memorable photo of the past decade.

A strip of land between the surfing meccas of Gracetown and Prevally in Western Australia’s South West is set to be renamed ‘Yebble’ after a Noongar hero.

The hydra-headed 33-kilometre network of mostly tunnels that burrows towards the city from the south and west has been a signature project of the Coalition’s decade in power.

Amanda Bingham, who met her second abusive partner when running away from the first, wants to help other women who have been mistreated by men, and the system.

Scott Morrison reached the lowest point in his leadership this week by continuing to strike the wrong tone and policy in support of women.

Five years after Victoria’s landmark Royal Commission into Family Violence reports to police are at an all-time high, women are being hospitalised because of family violence at the same rates and 26,000 women and children are being turned away from...

NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes has put a stop to billions of dollars worth of new residential development earmarked for Sydney’s north-west until he can be satisfied there are adequate evacuation routes.

Chilling secret recordings reveal Australians praising Christchurch mosque murderer Brenton Tarrant and endorsing violence as they audition to join American far-right neo-Nazi group, The Base.

Warragamba Dam isn’t the culprit in the latest flooding events around Sydney, and raising the dam wall won’t provide the solution.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today's interactive superquiz and target.

Visiting US Parks Ranger Patrick Ryan identified a 78-metre-high Deane’s gum near Woodford as the tallest tree in New South Wales.

A sex scandal involving parliamentary staff isn’t the only issue getting politicos down. Just ask about COVID-19 restrictions in the pool and fitness centre