With the NRL based on the glitter strip for who knows how long, it’s only fitting that the Titans kick off Friday’s double-header before an all-Sydney showdown.

A failed COVID-19 test and the strain of spending an Olympic Games in social isolation has prompted the withdrawal of two Australian athletes.

Yvette D’Ath has issued an apology to Brisbane’s sole Greens councillor for claiming he failed to appear before, and was criticised by, the Supreme Court over a planned protest last year.

Victorians wake up to a fifth lockdown, Sydney braces for a spike in coronavirus cases and Queensland locks out the families of NRL players.

Venues including the Brisbane airport and supermarkets, service stations and pharmacies across the northern suburbs, Moreton Bay and Sunshine Coast regions are the latest places of concern for contact tracers.

Former education department chief Nino Napoli was jailed this week after he and family members defrauded school funds over seven years.

The government’s approach-to-market for onshore mRNA manufacturing closed on Friday with the expectation it would take one to three years to produce vaccines under most of the proposals from businesses. 

The cast and crew of the blockbuster musical have been granted exemptions to Victoria’s border closure and to some lockdown and quarantine rules.

Police claim the man was using an angle grinder to remove a padlock from a sea container on his property when a paddock caught alight during catastrophic fire conditions. 

Back in 2012 Casey Dellacqua received a text message from an unfamiliar number.

The state’s corruption watchdog has been accused of failing to act on police brutality after clearing officers involved in an incident in which a mentally ill man had his head stomped on.

Wild winds, averaging 60 to 70km/h with gusts in excess of 90km/h, are likely in parts of Sydney and the eastern parts of NSW, the weather bureau says,

Powerful midfielder Charlie Rowbottom, the sister of Sydney men’s player James, is heading to the Gold Coast to begin her AFLW journey.

Phillip Island venues have been added as exposure sites as Deakin University confirms a staff member who attended its Waurn Ponds campus in Geelong on Wednesday has tested positive for COVID-19.

The airport’s biggest shareholder warns the share price could plummet if a deal falls over and says hopes of a $9-a-share offer are too optimistic.

Carlton co-captain Patrick Cripps is out of Sunday’s important clash with Collingwood at the MCG.

Despite the most recent policy document being adopted on March 15, Perth Theatre Trust Chair Morgan Solomon said venue hiring policies were under review.

Before a blockbuster clash at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday, here are the statistics that show where the game will be won and lost.

At least 69 people have died in Germany as swollen rivers caused by record rainfall across western Europe swept through towns and villages.

Former Wallabies halfback Will Genia says the Wallabies must take matters into their own hands if France continue to make life difficult in the third Test.

The company has been forced to scrap its winter season’s 37 remaining performances.

Cases of fully vaccinated Australians catching COVID-19 are part and parcel of how vaccines work and should not raise undue concerns, say experts in the field.

Melbourne woke up to the first day of Lockdown V5 today.

John Ghanem was inadvertently given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen when was born at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in 2016.

Victor Radley believes some good can come from the incident that resulted in him being booted off a plane and then sprayed by his coach.

Across the globe, researchers have been fascinated by whether the pandemic has caused people to turn to religion or draw more on spiritual practices such as prayer or spending more time in nature.

Greg Vines, who cut his teeth on the tough industrial world of 1980s Victoria, is a candidate to run the organisation that tackles slavery, child labour and harassment at work.

In this episode, writer David Leser discusses the changing character of Byron Bay with his daughter, the Byron-raised photographer Hannah Leser.

The ruling was based on separate cases filed by two Muslim women in Germany who were suspended from work for wearing a hijab.

Neva Liana Lozzi helped run the financial side of a string of adult stores between 2015 and 2020 when she gave herself $787,571 in bank transfers, superannuation payments, rent, and payments for holidays and bills.

Ephemera Quartet’s Blackholes and Modulations, Goldfynch’s Goldfynch, Joan Armatrading’s Consequences and Chet Faker’s Hotel Surrender.

Having lived through a world war during childhoods in England, Anne Gadenne and Patricia Hamer are confident of weathering another five days in lockdown. But they worry about the younger generation.

Much has been said about working from home but not as much focus has been placed on managing from home.

The battle between Sydney and Melbourne over who controls Australia’s spring racing has intensified again.

The champion jockey’s 100th Melbourne win this season came in a male-only domain on one of the world’s toughest circuits - and all the signs suggest there is more to come.

EVerything you need to know to find a winner on the 10-race card at headquarters.

A father fighting to free his son, a woman scarred by her own husband and Indigenous students far from home: three new documentaries delve deep.

Julia Banks is the latest former MP to chronicle the appalling treatment dished out to women in Federal Parliament.

Border closures denied us the chance to see the Artemisia Gentileschi show in London. A new book investigates the feminism of an artist who was a rape survivor.

There’s a pretty good story behind the Netflix series Lupin.

Suzanne McCourt’s saga has its protagonists shaped by character and history during the tumultuous decades of the 20th century

Dymphna Stella Rees’ memoir tells of life in a family in which literature and books took central place.

Olivia Laing examines the contradictions and multiplicities of the human body in her latest non-fiction work.

The director says the spirit of her famous father, Rumpole creator Sir John Mortimer, QC, imbues her first drama series, The Pursuit of Love.

A history of illicit journeys to Australia seeks to change the perception of people smugglers.

A visit with the Senior Australian of the Year, Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann, in the Northern Territory shows the wisdom of walking in two worlds.

Uncertainty is the new normal for AFL clubs and Essendon coach Ben Rutten says the Bombers aren’t daunted at the prospect of being on the road again.

A colourful soccer identity and business partner accused of defrauding Westpac by almost $400 million allegedly funnelled tens of millions of dollars into lucrative properties in NSW and Victoria.

Dean Webber, 19, killed Queensland man Corey Christensen, 37, and NSW man Thomas Davy, 27, in Alva Beach near Townsville in 2018.

Liz Cambage has withdrawn from the Australian Olympic basketball team citing her struggles with her mental health, and fears of being without a support network in the Tokyo Olympic bubble.