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The plane carrying Shane Warne’s body has arrived in Melbourne, six days after the cricketer’s shock death at the age of 52.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned a Russian air strike on a maternity hospital in the port city of Mariupol, Australian flood victims will be given up to $3000 in emergency payments and the Morrison government wants to grow defence...

Federal Labor Senator Kimberley Kitching has died from a suspected heart attack in news that has left her colleagues distraught. She was 52.

Lloyd Clark Fletcher was jailed for life for the murder of Manly schoolgirl Janet Phillips, and was later sentenced to an indefinite sentence for attacking a teenager at Wynnum railway station.

Despite opposition to sponsorship money from domestic bookmakers, the NRL is forging ahead with plans for vision to be sold to United States operators to cash in on the American betting boom.

The defending premiers kick off the NRL season with a mouth-watering clash against the Sea Eagles at BlueBet Stadium.

Josh Frydenberg has rejected a plea from NSW and Victoria to pay more GST to the two largest states to compensate for outsized spending on the pandemic.

While they are desperately worried about loved ones overseas, members of a Ukrainian dance group have resolved to express their pride in their culture and identity by performing in the Moomba parade on Monday.

Coronavirus cases are projected to soar again in Victoria, fuelled by the lifting of restrictions and a new Omicron strain that is fast becoming the state’s dominant variant.

Experts warn of a rise in mosquito-borne diseases, and spider and snake bites as health authorities consider expanding a Japanese encephalitis vaccination program in NSW.

The Labor leader says Australian defence spending needs an immediate check to consider national security over the next 10 years.

A woman has told a Melbourne court that former Essendon footballer Andrew Lovett caused her nothing but torture and heartache.

The Australian opener says the Australian players idolised Warne - but not all will be back in time to pay their respects

A controversial social post media about International Women’s Day prompted criticism of the All Blacks.

As St Kilda enter the unwanted territory as the Victorian club with the longest premiership drought, gun midfielder and captain Jack Steele admits he’s pondered the possibility of the Saints matching Melbourne’s feat by winning the flag the seaso...

The NRL’s sweeping changes to its judicial system were delivered only hours before the season kick-off – and it was good news for the likes of Latrell Mitchell, Victor Radley and Jack Hetherington.

The World Health Organisation said it had confirmed 18 Russian attacks on medical faculties since the invasion began.

Tommy Sherry is enjoying the good times now as Sydney’s champion apprentice, but it is a career he never thought he would have after a drug ban in Ireland as an 18-year-old.

Bjorn Baker is surprised Rule Of Law keeps winning and has found his way to Saturday’s Maurice McCarten Stakes but is learning not to put a cap on his sprinter.

The faith Ellsberg’s owners have in the four-year-old has been repaid in financial terms, and the Doncaster dream could come true with victory in the Ajax Stakes on Saturday.

Good news for Australian rugby on the signing front keeps rolling in, with rising Brumbies lock Darcy Swain set to put pen to paper.

Star Shark Nicho Hynes might be a pretty face, but also happens to be a huge rugby league nerd, “not that I’d say that if I was talking to a woman in the pub”.

Modelling suggests daily COVID-19 cases in NSW could hit 20,000 to 30,000 in early April, with a more transmissible version of the Omicron variant becoming dominant.

Defence Minister Peter Dutton says he’s asked top brass to look at ways to make a career in the ADF more family-friendly as part of the government’s plan to expand the force by 30 per cent by 2040.

Check out how our experts tipped the 10th round of the 2022 AFLW season.

Jurors have been instructed to guard against the strong emotions of the case and approach their task “dispassionately, but also fearlessly”. 

As Scott Morrison has learned, apologising is not a panacea for political problems and can end up doing more harm than good.

The scintigraphy scan brought in to make the Melbourne Cup safer will no longer be mandatory if Racing Victoria’s board adopts a proposal for change this month.

The bumper 10-race card included the Provincial Midway Qualifier and the Kembla Classic.

Mr Shalkivskyi also revealed he had asked his parents to leave Kyiv but they had refused and were spending their nights in a bomb shelter.

One of most senior positions in the Australian economy, deputy RBA governor, is open after the surprise resignation of Guy Debelle.

A former SAS soldier has contradicted evidence by war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith that no Afghan men were taken from a tunnel during a mission in Afghanistan in 2009.

Anders Tegnell insists he never pursued a herd immunity strategy, but that is what many people remember of the approach in Sweden where COVID has killed 17,000 people.

Surging nickel prices threaten to put a dent in the auto industry’s electric vehicle ambitions, with the key battery metal caught up in war-induced supply worries. It could add hundreds of dollars in cost per car.

The ingredients that helped make Donald Trump president of the United States just made Yoon Suk-yeol the next leader of the Asian powerhouse economy.

A man who was arrested at Sydney International Airport will be extradited and appear in a Brisbane court on Friday.

The Ukrainian team has excelled in Beijing – winning eight gold medals to sit third in the table – but standing on the podium has been overshadowed by the crisis back home.

In 2017, Kevin Durant faced a spiteful sell-out crowd in Oklahoma City after leaving the Thunder, so he knows what’s likely to come Ben Simmons’ way in Philadelphia.

The NSW transport agency is in talks about the “option of a mixed fleet operation” for the inner west and the CBD and eastern suburbs light rail lines.

Mr McGowan alerted the media magnate that the government was about to introduce monumental legislation, one minute before it was actually read into Parliament.

The three-day New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale at Karaka last week was another record-breaking thoroughbred sale despite an empty complex.

A Federal Court judge has criticised Bill Papas’ claim he had been denied a fair hearing and ordered the extradition and arrest warrant process be hastened to ensure the Sydney soccer identity returns from Greece.

Tāne Mahuta is the largest kauri tree known to be living: 54 metres tall, 16 metres in circumference. The death of its species would threaten “Māori identity itself”.

A Brisbane nurse has been praised for his quick actions in carrying a child suffering a seizure outside a major hospital and racing her to the emergency department.

A cosmetic doctor accused of posing as someone else to leave a fake review about another practitioner denies being a “commercial competitor”, a court has heard.

When James Schiller makes his debut for the Raiders on Friday, no one will be more proud than his uncle, Canberra great Brett Mullins.

There are two kinds of people: those who remember names and those who don’t. Those who do won’t always escape social embarrassments.

Schools affected by COVID-19 teacher absences say they are burning through cash for casual relief teachers, and a shortage of relief staff is making it hard to plug holes.

Six days after the floor collapsed during his gig, the Canberra star returns to turn the charisma up to eleven.