Regional Victoria will be waking up to eased restrictions, as Melbourne faces at least one more week of lockdown despite the reclassification of two cases of fleeting transmission as false positives.

Stephanie Foster’s report also revealed 38 complaints relating to bad behaviour by politicians had been made to the Department of Finance in recent years.

The former treasurer has hit back at parliamentary critics for taking on jobs with major WA companies so soon after retiring from politics.

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Health Minster Yvette D’Ath has appointed an administrator in place of the North West Hospital and Health Service board after issuing a show cause notice last month.

Richmond and the West Coast Eagles could bring their round-14 clash forward, while the Saints are awaiting approval to head to Queensland.

Melburnians are waking up to their second week of lockdown, emergency support payments are set to be signed-off by national cabinet today and Ash Barty is out of the French Open.

Conversations between Queensland and Commonwealth officials about the proposed Toowoomba quarantine hub were ongoing, according to the premier.

Father Joseph Kolodziej, the parish priest at All Hallows Catholic Parish Five Dock, was asked to step down from his public role at the parish and its neighbouring primary school this week.

When you are single and your friends are your family, what happens when those friends settle down and make families of their own?

Tom Trbojevic has not touched a drop of alcohol since his famous foot race with ‘Harry’ and it has helped the NSW star strike a rich vein of form.

We’re back at the Gardens for the Winter Cup and as ever Brad Gray of Racing NSW has all you need to find a Rosehill winner.

A decision by the powerful police union to fund the legal defences of three officers charged with leaking photos of former AFL coach Dani Laidley has polarised the force.

For those enduring lockdown, there’s a swathe of pop culture pickings to while away the days. And for the rest of us, well who wants to go outside right now anyway?

Middle-distance runner can see the positive side of taking on the world’s best.

The cast announcement for the production, set to open in August at the Palais, on Thursday morning almost immediately attracted criticism.

Richmond and Essendon are getting behind a campaign

Round five saw the Giants forced into five days of hotel quarantine after border restrictions changed while the team was on a flight to Perth.

Edward Cummings knows his family tradition, he honours it with the name of his stable and wants to build on it with Duais in Saturday’s Queensland Oaks.

World No.1 Ashleigh Barty was forced to retire from her second-round French Open match and has now turned her attention to recovering in time for Wimbledon.

MPs across the political spectrum say Linda Reynolds must restore trust in the National Disability Insurance Agency if she wants support to bring in changes to assessments.

Queensland’s peak local government body will elevate newcomer Alison Smith to the top job when long-serving chief executive Greg Hallam retires in November.

A barrister acting for the former special forces soldier told the Federal Court there was a risk of “contamination” of his defamation proceedings against The Age and the Herald.

Some of Sydney’s best storytellers came together to reminisce at the State Funeral for Bob ‘Bozo’ Fulton.

There is real jeopardy for the Coalition in aggravating voters in the states and regions that could turn the next election.

The playwright and performer went to New York and hosted queer-themed walking tours of Greenwich Village. Her new play Triple X is the result of a long journey.

Water authorities around Australia say people flushing cotton buds down the toilet are creating one of their biggest headaches for sewage treatment, fuelling calls for a national ban on the plastic-stemmed swabs.

The restaurant run by former cricketer Stuart MacGill has closed its doors following the “personal stress” of his kidnapping.

The regular gambler said Crown uses giveaways and promotions to ‘play’ its patrons.

National cabinet has asked medical experts for further advice about whether it should be mandatory for aged care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

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

In the exhibition Fake Truths, artist-in-residence Hadyn Wilson has magicked up bogus letters, relationships and even a philosophy session with Rupert Bear.

Gander in Newfoundland (population 11.688) helped out stricken travellers after 9/11. Its generosity spawned a hit musical.

Kandinsky and Pollock have been acclaimed as the pioneers of abstract art. Overlooking the Swedish artist who was inspired by seances with female friends.

A former NSW Labor Party official and priest who abused boys on “abhorrent” child sex tourism trips in south-east Asia, during which he also produced abuse images, has been jailed for 17 years.

It was a brilliant if unlikely pairing – Melbourne’s hip eatery king Chris Lucas teaming up with Sydney’s top degustation duo Martin Benn and Vicki Wild to create a new restaurant they hoped would change the face of dining. Then came COVID-19.

Despite the lofty goals of the United States and the European Union and the Paris Agreement targets, nearly three billion tonnes of new coal will be extracted each year if all the planned new mines are completed.

Public health officials have identified a “very concerning” new COVID-19 variant in some cases that have been identified in Melbourne.

Manly and Rugby League Immortal Bob Fulton was laid to rest today in Sydney.

The Delta variant of COVID-19 now in Melbourne is likely more transmissible than other variants of the virus seen so far, but there is no conclusive evidence it causes worse illness in children.

A report found there were unacceptable risks of visitors to the 42-year-old garden being bitten by snakes and impaled by star pickets.

With three minutes remaining, it appeared as though Melbourne’s near-psychotic intensity would be in vain, and that Brisbane’s greater talent would deliver the outcome everyone had pencilled in. But late goals to Melbourne delivered a one-point v...

NSW coach Brad Fittler has placed enormous trust in a group of young Penrith players for Origin I. Are they up to it?

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Champion trainer Chris Waller has six of the 14 entries in Saturday’s Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm.

Northern Australia Minister Keith Pitt rejected the loan, claiming the wind farm would not provide firm power to the grid, but Labor says he is prejudiced against renewable energy.

That Peter Wegner’s portrait of artist Guy Warren would win was a virtual inevitability providing a fairytale ending to the 100th year of the prize.

Liz Phair out of retirement, Crowded House’s Dreamers Are Waiting, Arthur Grumiaux’s Complete Philips Recordings and The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s Time OutTakes.

The hurt over her split with Tom Waits was just one of the things that gave way as ‘The Duchess of Cool’ wrote her memoir.

There’s definitely something fishy going on in Matt Nable’s third novel, set in 1960s Darwin.