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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Bushfires, drought, export problems, a pandemic … the past year has thrown many challenges at Australian winemakers. Remarkably, though, their output quality has remained high. Here, we team up with The Real Review to bring you the country’s top ...

Police said the cocaine haul had a street value of $900 million and represented about a year’s worth of supply of the drug for all of NSW and amounted to the largest ever intercept of cocaine bound for Australia.

Skiers and boarders are making the most of early falls with Perisher starting its lifts a week before the traditional Queen’s birthday long weekend.

The company that provided security at the Melbourne hotel central to last year’s COVID-19 second wave has gone into liquidation while facing a class action over its role in the outbreak.

The Age Editor Gay Alcorn is joined by The Age investigative journalist Nick McKenzie to examine the upcoming defamation trial brought by Ben Roberts-Smith against The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald and the issues at stake.

Frances William Paine earnt the respect of all he met and the deep love and affection of his family. Professionally, he worked in several industries including manufacturing, theatre, newspapers and charity.

Carl William Sedgwick Bloomfield murdered Duke Allan Wayne Schafer (pictured) in Woodford Correctional Centre last year.

The decision to deliver the cover the funding shortfall comes after WAtoday revealed the hospital had been left with no other choice but to cut frontline staff.

For a long time everyone agreed: low-alcohol beer tasted terrible. But rising sales are turning that assumption on its head – and riding the new sobriety movement in the process.

Chris Minns said he firmly believed the next election would define the post-COVID economy and society and that his party would have a big role to play. Cost of living, stagnant wages, regional jobs and tolls will be the first areas he plans to target...

It’s being called the fourth agricultural revolution: bringing digital solutions to bear on age-old farming problems. And some of the most intriguing applications are being developed here.

When Grace Chen met “Big” Sam Young in the high-pressure environment of a professional kitchen, she wasn’t ready for a boyfriend. But his ebullience, and a shared passion for haute food, soon changed her mind.

If you notice a fly in a glass of your particularly nice drop, there are a few courses of action.

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The paintings that have won the famous portraiture prize have grown from slightly more than half-a-metre to 3.2 metres tall. See how they measure up to the viewer in our interactive gallery.

Starting Monday, this trial is the biggest defamation action in living memory.

NSW Health has confirmed infections in a family who travelled to Jervis Bay are not linked to previous NSW cases, although they are also the Delta variant of the virus.

Some of Australia’s biggest media companies have been fined a combined $1.1 million for breaching contempt of court laws over the way they first reported George Pell’s conviction on sex abuse charges.

Having seen lawyers “stuff up” straightforward fraud cases, and criminal prosecutions drag out for years, Andrew Tragardh decided on a new approach.

From late-night walks, family health dramas, schooling across the airwaves and baking batches of yummy scones, five Melburnians are keeping us up to date on how they are spending their days (and nights) in lockdown. This article will be updated daily...

In New South Wales former ministers are required to take a two-year break before working for any organisations involved in major planning and development issues but in WA politicians can move into high-paying private jobs straight away.

Problems in quarantine, vaccines and aged care have given the government a number of headaches but whether they’ll still matter when the election rolls around in not certain.

Victoria’s population boom has masked a steady deterioration in the state’s fundamental economic performance.

Sharn Coombes, a criminal barrister of 20 years, will take on a former MP and a flight attendant for a south-eastern seat potentially crucial to Scott Morrison’s election chances.

NSW has been asked to send its Pfizer doses to Victoria by the southern state’s peak medical body, which says the suppression of community transmission would benefit Australia as a whole.

Victoria Police has moved to block any compensation for Faruk Orman, whose murder conviction was quashed in 2019 because of the role played by barrister-turned-police-informer Nicola Gobbo.

The NSW government has been swamped with thousands of responses to proposed cuts to bus routes in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and indicated some changes will be made to the original plan as community opposition grows.

Because NSW has not been heavily exposed to the virus, the state is in a unique opportunity to study COVID-19 vaccines, taking on the “trickiest questions”, such as how it compares with immunity from infection and whether boosters are needed.

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

The process doesn’t make anyone straight, ever: merely ashamed for being homosexual.

The Real Life sessions across WA, described as a ‘gay conversion therapy roadshow’, have shocked advocates and cast a spotlight on the McGowan government to enact a state election promise to outlaw the controversial practice.

Tesla chairwoman correct in urging Australia to turn its focus from exporting fossil fuels to becoming a renewable energy superpower.