Thieves took jewellery, handbags and other personal possessions from the grieving family in a crime linked to a series of break-ins across Sydney.

The alleged victim went through a two-day cross-examination in which she was called a liar. She now faces another trial after the Court of Appeal set aside the conviction because of comments the judge made.

The federal government warns that the number of new migrants settling in big cities must be kept “at or below” their capacity to absorb them.

Premier Berejiklian announced a two week lockdown for Greater Sydney, Wollongong and Shellharbour, the Blue Mountains and the Central Coast.

A NSW public health order requiring airport staff to be vaccinated initially appeared to apply to all airport workers, many of whom are not vaccinated or on priority lists, sending the industry scrambling.

Melbourne Football Club will move out of poker machines and away from its reliance on gaming revenue, announcing they will sell the Bentleigh Club.

The Australian Medical Association WA president has urged the state government to back a three-day lockdown so contact tracers were not overwhelmed.

The men called for assistance about 6pm on Sunday after becoming lost during a visit to a remote beach, police say.

The miner is selling its Colombian coal interests to Glencore, leaving its Mt Arthur mine in the Hunter Valley as the sole thermal coal mine in its portfolio. 

Long-time St Kilda assistant coach Aaron Hamill has been approached by his former club Carlton about a potential role for next year.

State and territory leaders went into the emergency national cabinet meeting seeking answers on the speed of the country’s vaccine rollout.

Dr Laming has threatened defamation action against at least 10 journalists and politicians over their comments about his decision to photograph a woman restocking a fridge.

The Wallabies Spring Tour squad could be depleted by players eager to avoid quarantine upon returning to Australia.

The new cases in a Rose Bay Secondary College student and childcare worker at Bellevue Hill Kids Club will be reported by health authorities on Tuesday.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has warned COVID-19 case numbers are likely to rise in coming days, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is returns to work this morning and coronavirus restrictions are in place in WA and the NT.

Beep Test steps out for the first time in a two-year-old  maiden over 1100m at set weights in a race dominated by first starters.

Everything you need to know to pick a winner on a seven-race card.

Two Melbourne businessmen have snapped up the Great Northern watering hole for around $80 million, in the most expensive pub sale of the year.

Tim O’Brien’s spectacular parallel-to-the-ground grab at the MCG on Sunday was the third incredible mark of 2021, after Shai Bolton’s and Jack Riewoldt’s. Renowned high-flyers Jeremy Howe, Michael Roach, and Shaun Smith grade each of them.

Some people were turned away from clinics in Joondalup on Sunday afternoon after being told there was a seven-hour wait, only to return again in the early hours of Monday morning to again join the queue.

The future of five players remains uncertain as Sydney FC flag the need to sign at least three new players for next season.

NSW halfback Nathan Cleary played 70 minutes with pain in the shoulder and is racing the clock to be fit for Origin III.

The new intergenerational report reveals without a change to the nation’s tax mix, workers, banks and mines will carry the cost of future services.

The government’s spending priorities are plain to see in its latest intergenerational report. But all dollars are the same in fixing the budget bottom line.

More than 280 toddlers were diagnosed with COVID-19 in the Indonesian capital on one day alone last week.

At the age of just 32, after stints at North Melbourne and Collingwood, Levi Greenwood has called time on his playing career to prioritise his health. 

A multibillion-dollar fund that splashed cash on commuter car parks was not administered appropriately, with a scathing audit finding a plan to award the money on merit was shut down.

The Victorian Royal Commission has highlighted that the cultural cancer at Crown Resorts runs deeper than its top layer of executives or its board.

James Davis, accused of enslaving a woman and coercing her into sexual servitude, has been refused bail after police say they found an automatic rifle on a property he co-owns.

Voters largely stayed away from the ballot box - the abstention rate is estimated at 65.7 per cent.

The biotech giant says no doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine will go to waste as it doubles down on investment to protect Australia from other pandemics.

Brendan Nelson put up a spirited defence of the reputation of Ben Roberts-Smith, including tales of the “reverential mobs” that used to fall upon the former SAS soldier wherever he went, until the day he was accused of war crimes.

Five COVID-19 tests feels like a lot for a desk jockey who’s been working from home since March last year, but I’ll keep rocking up for a nose poke until we are out of this mess.

Prosecutors told a Supreme Court trial that Abraham Sinai helped the shooter before, during and after the killing of Ho Ledinh.

A backline that has virtually been decimated. A precarious spot on the edge of the eight. Is it time to finally pull the pin on the Tigers’ flag hopes this season?

Craigie Leisure Centre, the Mirror Park toilets in Ocean Reef, Mullaloo IGA, and Le Shaggy Chic Shack in Ocean Reef are the latest potential COVID exposure sites to be added.

Florida is the birthplace of resort-style high rise residential development that has been copied in cities around the world, including Australia.

While the union was penalised, Justice Duncan Kerr had harsh words for the regulator for wasting court time and approaching the case like a “blood sport”.

Even in retirement, the former Blues captain was playing his part in a series-clinching win over Queensland.

The revelation adds years to the time they knew each other and was gleaned from more than 200 interviews as well as scouring court documents.

It has become annoyingly clear that Australia’s rugby future is bound with New Zealand’s. But that doesn’t mean rolling over for powerbrokers across the ditch.

Bruised Nationals MPs are warning it will take some time to mend bitter divisions following Barnaby Joyce’s ousting of Michael McCormack and his allies from cabinet.

The death toll has risen to nine with more than 150 people still missing as questions swirled about the tower’s structural integrity.

Victorian premier Daniel Andrews’ former senior advisor Chris Reilly orchestrated Crown’s threat to call in the state’s gambling minister in a bid to get the casino regulator to back off.

Discrimination against older Australians is rife, but there are many reasons why we need to learn to ditch ageism.

A gym, new airport sites and a service station are among the exposure sites listed as Queensland records fresh cases of community transmission.

Employees were briefed last week on what the cuts would likely mean for the projects that support the state’s 1000-plus at-risk plants, ecological communities and animals, like the brush-tailed rock-wallaby.

The papers included discussion about the potential Russian reaction to the British warship HMS Defender’s travel through waters off the Crimean coast last week, the BBC said.

As WA races to stem an outbreak from Sydney, a separate cluster at a Darwin mine has led to 177 WA FIFO workers being forced into quarantine as their colleagues in Qld and NSW test positive.

Ashleigh Barty enters the grasscourt championships surrounded by external expectations and her own willingness to “dream big” about nabbing a Wimbledon trophy.