Follow along as we bring you all the key moments from Saturday’s AFL matches.

I felt sick imagining listing myself on dating sites like a “for sale” item. What if someone from work saw me? But behind the fear I felt the emergence of something else: hope.

Forget the concept of bringing forward the pre-finals bye. No, if the AFL has its way - and the Delta COVID strain doesn’t finally pin them in a tackle nastier than Shane Mumford’s - the show will go on, without delay.

Sydney’s lockdown set to drag on, while Victoria goes hard to stamp out cases that have crossed the border. Follow all the developments as they happen.

Richmond champion Dustin Martin will miss the rest of the season and remain in a Gold Coast hospital for observation after suffering a kidney injury in a heavy clash during the Tigers’ win at Metricon Stadium.

A first-against-second preliminary final, the contest was living up to expectation The Eagles swooped in the third term and stunned the Crows with a five-goal-to-one third term, building a fortified lead heading into the last. A string of four goals ...

Conservative English personality Katie Hopkins has admitted she has been deliberately trying to flout infection control in hotel quarantine in Sydney, after flying into the country this week.

The Queensland Premier and Brisbane lord mayor will fly to Tokyo on under a veil of secrecy on Sunday in preparation for their part in a pitch to Olympic officials this week.

Queensland has recorded just one new case of COVID-19 on Saturday, a returned traveller in hotel quarantine, after shutting its border to all of Victoria from 1am.

South Sydney skipper Adan Reynolds hopes COVID does not deny him a hometown farewell as he continues to hound Dane Gagai to join him at the Broncos next year.

Port Adelaide have leapt into the top four after a series of mistakes from St Kilda late in the last quarter cost them any chance of victory.

Dozens of truck drivers drove in a convoy with horns blaring across Sydney for nearly two hours on Saturday afternoon to protest the NSW government’s decision to close the construction industry for two weeks as part of a COVID-19 lockdown.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

All you need to know to back a winner when racing returns to the Riverina on Sunday

Fatherhood, a shot at Olympic gold and then perhaps an NRL contract: the life-changing events keep coming for rugby sevens star Lachlan Miller.

If there’s one horse that won’t mind the heavy conditions in today’s $34,000 Leeton Toyota Narrandera Cup (1600 metres) it’s the lightly raced gelding Roman.

Collingwood and Carlton, mired on the bottom rungs of the ladder, may be arch rivals but they have not met in a final for more than 30 years. However, there is hope this lean run may finally change.

Tukimihia Simpkins was signed by Super Rugby’s Chiefs, held talks with the Crusaders and would love to play for the All Blacks - but he will make his NRL debut on Sunday.

Testing queues and exercise, Sydney in lockdown.

Phil Gould tried talking Trent Barrett out of joining Canterbury, but the Bulldogs coach couldn’t be happier about their Belmore reunion.

Premier trainer Chris Waller has plenty of group 1 glory, but he took a certain satisfaction from four wins in arctic conditions at Randwick in July.

State and federal MPs have joined staff and supporters calling on the council to scrap plans to bulldoze the home of Backbone Youth Arts under redevelopment plans.

It was hardly a convincing performance by the Roosters, who remain in touch with the top four after the win in Townsville.

Despite being forced to play in Adelaide, there was no let up to the grit of the local rivalry as the Giants overcame a determined Swifts side.

Ben O’Connor has been a revelation in his first Tour de France and has what it takes to finish on the podium in the future, says an Australian cycling pioneer.

After 62 days at sea, 356 buckets of water and months of hitchhiking on yachts across the globe, 31-year-old Jake Shephard and 27-year-old Tamara Ilic are almost home.

South-west Sydney residents will be subject to stricter restrictions on their movement after NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced 111 new cases to 8pm last night.

Wednesday night’s Origin finale also brought an end to a fantastic working relationship between Brad Fittler and Craig Fitzgibbon that has spanned two decades.

A specialist dentist has won a $170,000 payout for a one-star Google review after she claimed that she was defamed online by one of her patients.

The Blues led by 13 points with only five minutes remaining, before goals to Brodie Holland and Chris Tarrant brought the margin back to one point. But the siren would soon sound, and Carlton held on for a thrilling, slimmest-of-margins win.

Collingwood have again silenced cross-town rivals the Vixens with a 52-48 win at Netball SA stadium in the second Victorian derby moved this season.

Players and staff from eight AFL clubs visited exposure sites in Victoria in the past few days but all have returned negative results after being tested.

Superannuation can be a good tax shelter and provide solid returns for savings made for children.

Israeli director Navot Papushado delivers violence and mordant jokes in this female action film.

The Bachelor’s latest bachelor, Jimmy Nicholson, is an airline pilot seeking a woman with her own goals and motivations in life

Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto confirmed that a visitor from abroad who is involved in organising the Games had tested positive.

The ABC News Breakfast sports presenter sometimes forgets he is on TV. For anyone who has watched him in the morning, that doesn’t come as a complete surprise.

Eighteen of Victoria’s latest COVID-19 cases were infectious in the community for an average of 1.7 days, vindicating the state government’s “go hard, go early” lockdown strategy, but health authorities have refused to rule out an extension o...

Lance Franklin and Toby Greene remain headline acts for their sides but there is a changing of the guard in the Swans-Giants rivalry.

Australia lost the last T20 match by 16 runs to concede their T20 series 4-1 as Big Bash stars were exposed as international also-rans.

Ariarne Titmus and Katie Ledecky have kept each other at arm’s length as they prepare to square off in what will be the most watched race on the Tokyo program.

Fuelled by days of heavy rain, the floodwaters also left thousands of Germans homeless after their dwellings were destroyed or deemed to be at risk.

Urban heat experts say the record-breaking heatwave in North America should set off alarm bells in Australia. But decision-makers are not listening.

Daniel Preuss told WAtoday he was woken by the smell of fire in February but it has since been revealed the 40-year-old allegedly started the blaze while using an angle grinder.

Household names such as Ash Barty and Sam Kerr will attract a lot of attention at the Tokyo Olympics. Here are some other Australians ready to capture the nation’s heart.

Ezi Magbegor and a host of Opals stepped up as Australia beat the USA for the first time since 2010.

Patty Mills is a star basketballer but as a proud Indigenous man and now an Olympic flagbearer he means much more to Australian sport and society.

We are extraordinarily vulnerable and for the next six months need to act accordingly.

Four states accounted for more than 40 per cent of all new COVID-19 cases in the US last week.

When the lights went up after the Cannes premiere of Nitram, the audience stood to give the film a seven-minute ovation. Caleb Landry Jones, who plays the mass killer at the centre of the film, was in tears. Then Spike Lee, head of the competition j...