A German backpacker who turned 19 while she was on Gregory Douglas’ horse stud in 2016 was in a consensual relationship with him, the 68-year-old has told a Sydney court.

The Berejiklian Government has been plunged further into minority after NSW Disability Minister resigned from cabinet and moved to the crossbench amid revelations he is the subject of a police investigation into sexual violence-related allegations.

The Opposition Leader will deliver the traditional budget reply speech tonight as Victoria scrambles to contain the potential fallout from an interstate-acquired case of COVID-19.

The much-touted Kurri Kurri gas-fired power station that the Morrison government is urging to get built would operate at just two per cent of the time and employ only 10 full-time employees.

About 17,000 hectares of national and conservation parkland on Mulgumpin (Moreton Island) will be handed back to the Quandamooka People.

NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall says an emergency application has been lodged for “the strongest mouse poison in the world”.

The seven-year-old was allegedly approached by a man, who she did not know, from a nearby bus stop.

Six people who quarantined on the same floor of an Adelaide hotel as a Wollert man who later tested positive to COVID-19 have started a second 14-day stint of isolation in Victoria.

Man jailed for filming dying police officers after an Eastern Freeway crash has plea hearing adjourned after magistrate loses patience with repeated interjections.

A man has been charged over the alleged murder of another man, believed to be his boyfriend, at an apartment block in Rushcutters Bay in Sydney’s inner east on Wednesday.

The comments contradicted a report into the factors that contributed to the death of seven-year-old Aishwarya Aswath at the Perth Children’s Hospital was released.

Northern Territory legislators have enacted abhorrent new laws that will condemn a new generation of Indigenous youths to unnecessary incarceration and injustice.

Labor councillors in Melbourne’s inner west halted a social housing project, despite the area having the state’s longest list of people waiting for a new home.

Skybus, which runs the ‘turn-up and go’ bus service between Melbourne’s two airports and its CBD, has started operating a city-airport service in Brisbane.

Marion von Adlerstein had a bird-like, Audrey Hepburn quality, yet remained utterly herself.

Masks will no longer be mandatory on public transport, at large venues or at hospitals and aged care facilities. However, they will still be required at airports. 

The Australian Breastfeeding Association says the resource was created for an LGBTQ+ audience and there are no plans to adopt the ‘chestfeeding’ term more widely.

Eyebrows have been raised over the price a council paid for a rural block for the little-known entity to embark on a $100 million state significant project.

Today on Please Explain, health reporter Mary Ward joins Nathanael Cooper to bring us up to date on the current situation with the coronavirus pandemic and vaccines.

Submissions on concept plans for the park show clubs representing football, athletics and hockey players are pushing for synthetic grass, multi-purpose courts, spectator seating, an athletics track and an indoor sports centre, to complement two sport...

Goran Stevanovic was stabbed in the back with no warning and pursued when he tried to flee. His killer then cut up his body.

A beautiful little girl is dead. A report says staffing and a lack of cultural awareness contributed to what happened. Yesterday at a press conference, Roger Cook’s spin got just too much. 

NSW Health has recorded its highest number of COVID-19 vaccinations in one day, with 7552 vaccines administered across the state yesterday.

Mark Carson, 58, died on April 3 in his home on the Fraser Coast, where police believe a fight had broken out.

Major staff shortages are forcing cafes and restaurants to cut back on their trading hours.

Honest waste recycling facilities have begged the state to clamp down on a practice that’s effectively shut down their industry at a time it should be booming.

It is in Australia’s enlightened self-interest to make more of a financial and intellectual contribution to global health efforts, especially the World Health Organisation.

Police will allege in court the solicitor, from Turramurra, received money from four men interested in trading cybercurrencies and sent it overseas.

REIWA had forecast 15 per cent price growth in Perth by the end of 2021 but 20 suburbs have exceeded that figure already.

A friend of the woman who accused Christian Porter of rape has made a court bid to stop one of his barristers from acting for him in his defamation case against the ABC.

Long-awaited results of a major ovarian cancer study found screening women detected the disease before they developed symptoms but didn’t save lives.

Police arrived at the apartment block just before 2pm on Wednesday and found the man, believed to be aged 39, unresponsive in a basement.

A man has been arrested by police who were responding to reports he was making threats while armed, forcing them to lock down streets in Ipswich.

Experts say every returned traveller who lands in Australia should be vaccinated against coronavirus as a condition of entry into the country’s troubled hotel quarantine system.

Getting back in the saddle is not as easy as it seems, even without bicycle clips.

More women must be at the table making the decisions that will increase the workforce participation and economic security of all women.

Victorian teachers will be banned from having sex with former students for at least two years after they finish their secondary education under a shake-up of rules governing teacher behaviour.

The case includes 43 charges, which each attract maximum penalties of $1-2 million, making it the biggest prosecution issued by the national resources watchdog since it was established three years ago.

The truth is that this budget, despite its impressive-sounding millions, fails to properly address even one area of need.

‘Bit of a squeeze’, great Scott, a rip-off and chemists’ plan to curb smoking.

Josh Frydenberg would have been hoping audiences hadn’t reached budget saturation levels by Wednesday when he addressed a packed out National Press Club.

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An independent global expert panel says that if the world wants to prevent another pandemic, it needs international health inspectors with powers like those of international weapons inspectors. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Scott Morrison m...

The report also urges world governments to allow WHO infection experts immediate access to inspect outbreaks anywhere in the world in an effort to prevent future cover-ups and delays.

High-income countries must donate a billion coronavirus vaccines to 92 low and middle-income nations before new virus variants develop, potentially rendering them less effective, the World Health Organisation has warned.

Investigators are seeing a surge in self-produced child exploitation material, as they fight an increase in the availability of encryption services making it easier for paedophiles to live stream child abuse.

Beenleigh, Cleveland and Gold Coast line trains were suspended, while Ferny Grove trains were also delayed.

Homes and cars have been damaged across Brisbane by fallen trees after a short but intense storm swept across the state’s south-east.

Health Minister Greg Hunt says Victoria’s claim that $93 million has been cut from federal hospital funding is misleading as the state itself asked for less money.