The prime minister is facing a pile-on from all sides over the government’s hate speech reforms – first for a lack of action, and now for doing something.

The two were passengers in a car that hit a pole in Oaklands Avenue just before 6pm.

South Australia has sweltered through a day of extreme heat with some parts of the state almost reaching a staggering 50 degrees.

Residents in numerous Otway Ranges towns have been warned to find immediate shelter after a bushfire that began two weeks ago broke containment lines.

A major police investigation has been launched after the sudden death of a man on the Gold Coast on Friday.

9News has obtained shocking video of the moment a young e-bike rider crashes in Brisbane's Clem Jones Tunnel.

A baby has survived after falling out of a moving car and onto a busy road in Klemzig, Adelaide.

A stolen car packed with eight teenagers hit a Mercedes SUV causing it to flip on Melbourne's Monash Freeway.

Temperatures soared towards 40 degrees in Victoria, making sunscreen the ultimate tennis accessory as the Australian Open was halted in the heat.

Tracy Beaton vows to chart a new course at the Commission for Children and Young People after it failed to act on red flags about an accused child rapist.

The search for Julian Ingram, the alleged NSW gunman accused of shooting three people dead, widens.

The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age

A man has died after falling from a seventh floor balcony in Sydney's west in what police called an "absolutely tragic" incident.

Young shark attack victim Nico Antic has died in hospital, almost a week after being attacked.

The Federal Government issued a record fine to a New South Wales business for exploiting hundreds of workers.

As police widen the search for accused triple murderer Julian Ingram, a family torn apart is trying to make sense of an unfathomable tragedy.

It’s stood tall in Melbourne’s inner north for more than 140 years, but surprisingly few know the important history behind this striking landmark.

The US president claimed allied troops stayed back off the front line in Afghanistan, where dozens of Australians were killed in combat and hundreds more were injured.

The AFL legend used his valedictory address as Australian of the Year to urge governments, the medical sector and the public not to lose momentum in the fight against motor neurone disease.

The 12-year-old was mauled by a shark in the first of several attacks in Sydney this week and has died in hospital despite heroic attempts to save him.