Queensland stars know what it’s like to be on the wrong side of NRL’s massive scoring sprees this year – and think they have a plan to dig themselves out of trouble against the Blues.

The NSW budget will be announced at noon on Tuesday. Here’s what we know so far.

The round 15 AFL fixture remains up in the air while both NSW teams were scrambling to Victoria as the GWS-Hawthorn game was moved from Sydney to the MCG in the wake of NSW’s escalating COVID-19 situation.

The new Deputy PM urged Coalition MPs to unite behind making Australia “as strong as possible as quickly as possible” when it could not rely on the US to guarantee regional security.

Investigations by IBAC over several years have uncovered ongoing corruption and misconduct risks across the corrections sector.

Between them, Tannar and Lannan Eacott siblings have been seen by billions and have made millions.

A resistance to state-wide lockdowns as well as a surging property market has pulled NSW out of a pandemic-induced recession.

ICAC says lobbyists should be banned from giving gifts to public officials and an expanded register should be kept to monitor those who go from government to lobbying.

Accusations of mansplaining and telling women how to raise their children were thrown around during a meeting of Coalition MPs examining childcare subsidies.

Liberal Senator James Paterson said Australia’s position to only list one arm of Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation was “increasingly isolated internationally”.

The eastern suburbs cluster nearly doubled in size on Tuesday after 10 new cases were recorded.

Farmers will get a chance to be paid to help to cut greenhouse gas emissions in a Nationals proposal that opens the way for a climate change deal under new leader Barnaby Joyce.

Victorians’ confidence in the QR check-in system will be weakened unless rules are tightened so that only the Health Department can see the data, the state government has been warned.

Ranges has been a good money spinner in the country and now has co-trainer Peter Snowden angling for an overdue city win.

Sydney’s mid-week meeting is a Canterbury this week and Ray hickson takes us through everything you need to know.

There were 22 assaults at Banksia Hill Detention Centre in May, giving the youth detention centre the unwanted title of one of the most violent correctional facilities in the state. 

Melbourne gym and dance studio owners say more than a year of rolling lockdowns has caused uncertainty and hurt demand, as well as their mental health.

Water-safety advocates say the scheme could mean a generation of children from disadvantaged backgrounds will be formally taught to swim for the first time.

Melburnians have been warned to book their place in the sun during school holidays as demand soars.

The former deputy prime minister resigned before starting as chancellor after a backlash to his appointment due to his connections to the fossil fuel industry.

Barnaby Joyce has been sworn in as deputy prime minister, the NSW government is handing down its budget and Victoria’s travel bubble with New Zealand is on track to resume.

The university’s interim vice-chancellor, Professor John Germov, said an external review of the university’s governance had uncovered a historical case of fraud that police were investigating.

Col Hutchinson ranks the best Geelong goals after the siren in the VFL/AFL, while some inaccurate - but extraordinary - goal-kicking in the bush raises eyebrows.

The employer-led drive is expected to reach more than 13 million people, including suppliers and workers’ families, boosting the country’s slow vaccine rollout.

Emergency services were called to Lithgow Correction Centre, on the Great Western Highway in Marrangaroo, about 1.10pm on Tuesday.

The second State of Origin is five days away but head office is taking no chances with match officials, who have been ordered to fly to Queensland on Tuesday night.

The mayor of Kingston says locals are concerned about safety at Moorabbin Airport after a light plane crashed in a suburban area near the airstrip.

The state government will spend $120 billion on NSW Health over the next four years, with hospital upgrades and ambulance jets flagged in the 2021-22 budget,

Victoria’s lockdown to stop the spread of COVID came at a price with jobs and wages falling across the country in early June.

Truck giant Scania will drive into a new distribution centre in Melbourne’s north at a time when the industrial sector’s vacancy rate is shrinking to record lows.

Not long ago, Abiy Ahmed, whose country voted in long-delayed parliamentary elections on Monday, was a shining hope for the country and continent.

The former Australian of the Year’s vast collection of south-east Asian art is just one aspect of a remarkable life.

The presence of Laurel Hubbard, the first transgender Olympian, will be a major story in Tokyo. To the members of Australia’s team, she’s simply another competitor.

Errors in management of the register are causing some predators to be wrongly left off the register while others were incorrectly monitored and imprisoned.

What does an army of Millennial investors have in common with Australia’s richest person? An appetite for investing in cannabis.

New schools are also planned for St Leonards, Chatswood and Macquarie Park - one of them on the site of the Premier’s old high school.

An award-winning journalist and prominent community leader have called on SBS to release an internal report into workplace harassment.

Newly appointed director Nigel Morrison says Crown Resorts knew it may have been underpaying gaming tax to the Victorian government as far back as 2012.

Kerri-Ann Conley’s matter was referred to the Supreme Court on Tuesday after her two toddlers died in 2019 inside a black car in Beenleigh.

Tom Trbojevic has suffered several bad hamstring tears during his career, and is now following a strict training regime which goes against some conventional wisdom.

Hancock Prospecting has turned over a new leaf, investing in the blooming medicinal cannabis industry but has hit environmental regulation trouble with a Canadian coal project.

James Richard Finch told a journalist how he and others set Brisbane’s Whiskey Au Go Go alight in 1973, killing 15 people.

While the state has made a stellar economic recovery from the pandemic, Treasurer Dominic Perrottet will spend an additional 7.3 per cent in the next year and the forecast deficit will reach $8.6b.

Waratahs chiefs want to hear from Simon Cron, the wildcard in a pack of coaches battling for the job.

Boys at a northern beaches Anglican school were told to choose the qualities they looked for in a girl from a list that allocated more points for virginity, looks, and strong Christian values than for generosity and adventurousness. In another classr...

Wildlife photographer Lucca Amorim sat for 30 minutes in his car with the window opened as the fox came and went towards him before “going off in stealth mode” hunting.

Cat Webb is one of many who struggle with challenges like Dry July, so a non-alcoholic beer brand is launching its own campaign with a novel approach.

Geelong coach Chris Scott has defended Joel Selwood after the Cats skipper was widely criticised for two incidents from his side’s win over the Western Bulldogs.

With the second of a two-part reunion special airing on Monday, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians era has come to an end.

The property, raided by detectives investigating the killing of bikie Shane Bowden, has been linked to the Mongols and two getaway cars used in the shooting.