The Traralgon Creek has flooded and may keep rising as residents are evacuated from their homes.

With Ben Roberts-Smith in the witness box for the first time, and the publications giving an outline of their defence for the first time, the battle lines have been drawn.

Melbourne’s two weeks of lockdown will ease at 11.59pm tonight with cafes, shops and schools to reopen tomorrow but big business has warned the Victorian government’s conservative approach will do little to ease its financial burden.

Mick Gatto’s nephew is accused of forcing a man into a car, holding him against his will and threatening him in a dispute over the purchase of luxury handbags.

When news surfaced the dual Brownlow medallist declined the AFL’s invitation to be admitted into the hall of fame, emotions bubbled to the surface.

The media companies outlined their truth defence in the defamation case, saying none of the allegedly unlawful killings could be justified as being in the heat of battle.

Sydney’s eastern suburbs, inner west, northern suburbs and Hills district have all seen a surge in sexual assault reports since Chanel Contos’ petition launched in late February.

After five hours of the ex-soldier’s evidence, the room fell silent. Heads rose from their notes. It was almost shocking for a man so brimming with such chutzpah to stop talking.

A man has been found dead in South Gippsland, more than 200,000 are without power and some regional towns are stranded after wild winds and heavy rains hit Victoria.

Nurses and midwives at Liverpool and Campbelltown hospitals have walked off the job this afternoon after having a “gutful of being ignored”, the union says.

Sydney has recorded its coldest day in 37 years, only managing to climb to 10.3 degrees, as an Antarctic chill lingers over NSW.

The hospital is 28 midwives short, with a whole ward containing 27 beds which was closed at the beginning of the pandemic still closed despite the lack of a large COVID-19 outbreak in Perth.

Daniel Taylor is suing the Sunday Telegraph for defamation over a front-page newspaper story from 2019 titled “Inside the House of Ibrahim”.

Melburnians will still be required to wear a mask outdoors as public health authorities scramble to find the source of infection for four new locally acquired COVID-19 cases.

Michael Clark, believed to be the national president of the Nomads in recent years, was charged at Queanbeyan police station following a raid on his home in Canberra on Monday.

Queensland’s police commissioner has launched a legal challenge against the decision to acquit a former mayor of 13 fraud charges.

Queensland government said the pair may have been relocating for work, but had not applied to for an exemption permit to travel into the state from Melbourne.

‘We’re back Friday!’: Our diarists weigh up the lessons from another lockdown and count their blessings.

State power companies will grow renewable generation and storage capacity under the announcement from Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk ahead of next week’s budget.

Sister Noni Mitchell IBVM, former province leader of the Loreto Sisters in Australia and superior general of the sisters internationally, has died aged 92.

Crime reporter Fergus Hunter joins Nathanael Cooper to look at how Hakan Ayik allegedly helped distribute an app compromised by the FBI.

A woman has been shot dead in a targeted attack after answering the front door of her home, police say.

Mark McGowan says the Morrison government should let a Tamil asylum-seeker family detained on Christmas Island settle permanently in Australia.

Moe and Sarah Haidar, the Melbourne couple prevented from seeing their son for nine days by Queensland health officials, have spent their first evening together as a family.

Adam Brooks made an appearance in court on Thursday.

People in NSW and Queensland are being urged to get tested after a woman travelled to the sunshine state from Victoria and later tested positive for COVID-19, Melburnians are set to come out of lockdown tonight and the Blues are celebrating after las...

Queensland does not look likely to enter any sort of lockdown following a couple from Melbourne testing positive on the Sunshine Coast, with the state’s response becoming more “pragmatic”.

Almost 100 women and children were crammed onto a rickety fishing boat which broke down nine days into the journey to Australia. Now Priya waits for her sick daughter to get better in a Perth hospital as the court battle over deportation continues.

A Macmahon contractor has died at the Daisy Complex mine at Mount Monger in the Eastern Goldfields.

Peddling the rumours over Daniel Andrews’ fall has been dismissed as disgraceful but the intent is clear – so the public will see his injuries not as the result of an accident but of an incident.

Queensland Health updated its list of exposure sites on Thursday morning after a COVID-positive couple entered the state from locked-down Greater Melbourne.

Health Minister Brad Hazzard says there is “a real and present danger” after a Melbourne couple travelled through several NSW towns while infectious.

The public discussion around rape and consent driven by women like Chanel Contos and Brittany Higgins has supercharged reporting.

The couple sparked an interstate contact tracing scramble after driving from locked-down Greater Melbourne through New South Wales to Queensland.

The death of an elderly man involving a forklift at a Gold Coast workplace on Wednesday night will not be investigated by Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.

Get your lemon wedges ready: a brew instrumental in kick-starting Australia’s craft beer movement three decades ago is returning on tap to its place of origin.

As Western Australia’s hospital crisis enters another week of grim milestones a new challenge has emerged for hospital administration as staff morale plummets.

The weather bureau said there was no snow overnight despite the temperatures dropping. However, there was still a chance of snow flurries.

The images of Tharnicaa on a hospital bed are ones that no one can or should look away from. But what is happening to Tharnicca is not an aberration but the intended outcome of our cruel approach to people seeking asylum.

Parents and teachers support students being allowed to wear their sports uniform every day to encourage activity, but principals are reluctant.

Transport Minister Andrew Constance said he wanted to make health concerns over air quality from massive motorway projects like WestConnex a thing of the past by electrifying the entire Transport for NSW fleet and eventually all vehicles.

Some universities are paying their new vice-chancellors less than their old ones while others are taking a pay cut, amid controversy over university bosses’ high salaries

Three relatives of Istanbul-based drug kingpin Hakan Ayik have been implicated in the ambitious global law enforcement operation involving the An0m platform.

Pharmacies across NSW are working with the state government to determine which locations will be the first to start using chemists to administer the COVID-19 vaccine, with more than 1200 earmarked by the federal government as suitable for the job.

UQ researchers have developed a quantum microscope to allow them to see smaller biological structures than were previously possible.

If the US and New Zealand are willing to resettle the Biloela family then they are obviously refugees and not a threat to anyone.

Mrs McDermid, a well-known rider, will set out to ride on horseback from Sydney to Brisbane, accompanied by her daughter and son.

Traditionally, the Valmorbida family was famed for giving us Lavazza coffee, and a type of social esuberanza that made the coffee brand’s Flemington’s Birdcage marquee such a frothy hit year after year. But now a legal dispute over a family trust...

Melburnians are set to travel up to 25kms from their homes from Friday, police have foreshadowed more arrests after the ‘sting of the century’ and NSW and QLD are making final preparations for the first game of the State of Origin.

With less than a fifth of the state’s businesses fully recovered from COVID, the sector wants more certainty around future lockdowns and a clear path out of the pandemic.