The Melbourne Rebels' off-field troubles are reflected in their opening Super Rugby Pacific performance against the ACT Brumbies, with the cash-strapped club crashing to a 30-3 loss. ⌘ Read more
The Melbourne Rebels' off-field troubles are reflected in their opening Super Rugby Pacific performance against the ACT Brumbies, with the cash-strapped club crashing to a 30-3 loss. ⌘ Read more
Hemp has been hailed as a fibre of the future with a low-carbon footprint. Canada and China are streets ahead when it comes to embracing its benefits but Australia is lagging far behind. ⌘ Read more
A requirement that antique gun owners hold a firearms licence will be overturned, both major parties vow in the lead up to the Tasmanian election on March 23 — in a move slammed by anti-gun advocates as a case of Liberal and Labor politicians knowing better than police when it comes to the community's safety. ⌘ Read more
Testimonial promotion of regulated health services is illegal under Australia's advertising laws, but paid partnerships with influencers about egg freezing continue to appear on social media feeds, with the health regulator saying it is a "complex" legal area. ⌘ Read more
Faced with mounting public anger about big corporates and the cost of living, can the government create a big enough bang to convince consumers it is serious? ⌘ Read more
A 'fun plan' can help prioritise time with the people you love, say no to being overcommitted and save you money. ⌘ Read more
Once seen as the domain of teenage boys in their parents' basements, Dungeons and Dragons is broadening its player base and enjoying a resurgence in popularity. ⌘ Read more
As Queensland environmentalists continue to fight looming coal mine approvals, Australia's Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is relying on arguments that have come under increasing scrutiny in climate litigation. ⌘ Read more
The ABC has recently heard hundreds of stories from Australians with disability about their experiences with transport across the country. Advocates say systems are failing them. ⌘ Read more
This weekend marks two years since Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his troops and tanks across the border and launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It's also 10 years since he illegally annexed the Crimean peninsula. ⌘ Read more
Some were already out fighting the flames in exhausting heat as others warily monitored worrying smoke but when the wind changed dramatically, families in Victoria's western farmlands knew they were about to face the test they hoped would never come. ⌘ Read more
The document proposes Israel would maintain security control over all land west of Jordan, including the occupied West Bank and Gaza — territories where the Palestinians hope to establish an independent state. ⌘ Read more
Women in the missing Ballarat mother's hometown are either running in groups or not at all, and they're not alone in their fears — 90 per cent of women in a national running group say they joined for safety reasons. ⌘ Read more
Experts say we may look back on the first landing of a US spacecraft on the Moon in more than 50 years as the day everything changed for space exploration. Let's look at why. ⌘ Read more
Scorching end to summer expected for south-east as heavy rain falls on east and west coasts. ⌘ Read more
When Italy became a republic, its former monarchs were forced into exile. In the decades since, two branches of the family have been locked in a squabble over who is the rightful ruler to Italy's non-existent throne. ⌘ Read more
There are no doctors, no hospitals, not even midwives. The women who subscribe say it's "empowering" and the only way to experience true childbirth. This is the world of freebirth. ⌘ Read more
Australia will be asked to consider donating its entire fleet of aging Abrams tanks to Ukraine as part of a broader package of military support that includes ammunition desperately needed in the war-torn country. ⌘ Read more
For thousands of unlucky Swifties who couldn’t land tickets to the Eras tour, just being near their idol was enough. ⌘ Read more
The fight to pay a fair price for food has become one of the most divisive at a time of seemingly countless divisive debates, writes Virginia Trioli. ⌘ Read more
A Toodyay man accused of breaching the state's Aboriginal heritage laws wants cultural sites recorded on property titles alongside other conditions to warn owners about their existence. ⌘ Read more
The two-year-old known to his family as 'little fella' died after being mauled by dogs at a motel in New South Wales' Central West during November 2022. ⌘ Read more
Australia retains the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy after a superb bowling effort, defending 174 for a 72-run win at Eden Park that clinches the three-game T20 series. ⌘ Read more
A fire has engulfed two residential buildings in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, killing four people and leaving 19 others missing, authorities say. ⌘ Read more
Anastasia Marshall applies for bail in the Adelaide Magistrates Court after being charged with murdering ex-wife Krystal Marshall in October. ⌘ Read more
A mother who lost her child under tragic circumstances has raised concerns about the LED wristbands given to fans attending Taylor Swift's concerts. ⌘ Read more
The Tasmanian harness racing trainer at the centre of a report that made findings of race fixing, team driving and animal welfare breaches wins an appeal to overturn his "warning off" from Australian racetracks. ⌘ Read more
Chaos has hit tonight's Taylor Swift concert in Sydney with thousands of fans being evacuated after lightning strikes near the venue. ⌘ Read more
An elderly south-west Victorian farmer is fined $34,000 over the death or injury of more than 200 koalas during the clearing of a former blue gum plantation on his land during 2020. ⌘ Read more
Angus Beaumont was killed during an altercation instigated by two 14-year-old boys who weren't known to him. ⌘ Read more
Labor MP Marion Scrymgour has hit out at her own party by criticising the NT government over its handling of youth crime. ⌘ Read more
New South Wales Police have charged a constable with two counts of murder after the disappearance of a Sydney couple. Here's what we know. ⌘ Read more
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Lincoln has proven no match for Taylor Swift, whose fans from the outback have pulled out all the stops to get to Sydney despite heavy flooding. ⌘ Read more
Natasha Lechner died of heart failure just minutes after taking part in a kambo ritual, with the NSW coroner finding the giant tree frog poison can cause death in healthy people as well as those with pre-existing conditions. ⌘ Read more
Bruce Shillingsworth Jr receives an 18-month suspended sentence for his role in a fire that caused millions of dollars in damage to the entrance of Old Parliament House in Canberra. ⌘ Read more
A Perth teenager, responsible for what's believed to be Australia's first shooting at a high school, has been told he will be sent to juvenile detention. ⌘ Read more
Some of the 53 people arrested after the first Mardi Gras march in 1978 were locked up at Sydney's Darlinghurst Police Station. The building now tells the story of the LGBTQIA+ community. ⌘ Read more
Chipmaker Nvidia has just recorded the biggest one-day gain by any company in Wall Street history. But could the AI boom be just another dot-com-style bubble? ⌘ Read more
Temperature is a key factor in the productivity of hens — much like us, they tend to eat less when it is hot and that means they are likely to lay smaller eggs. ⌘ Read more
Train companies plead guilty to breaching rail safety laws in wake of fatal train crash north of Melbourne. ⌘ Read more
The pitch in Ranchi for the fourth Test between India and England was described as looking like "a dried up river bed" by one former player with the series on the line. ⌘ Read more
A "seasonal rise" in male prisoner numbers has prompted the relocation of 27 women from a Greenough penitentiary in what the state's justice department says is business as usual. ⌘ Read more
Holes that may have been used to deliver pesticides were discovered this week after a resident reported seeing a man acting suspiciously in the area. ⌘ Read more
Speaking about the difficulty of finding Australian networks on smart TVs, Network Ten's chief content officer said despite being tech savvy, it took her almost an hour with an engineer's help to get her own company's app downloaded on her television. ⌘ Read more
The South Australian government will argue in court that bodies-in-the-barrels accomplice Mark Ray Haydon poses an "appreciable risk to the safety of the community if not supervised". ⌘ Read more
The LNP says it has referred their disendorsed Deagon ward candidate in the upcoming council election to police, alleging he supplied them "fraudulent personal background checks" — an allegation he denies. But it won't stop him being on the ballot. ⌘ Read more
Former head of performing arts Damien Woods is sentenced to four years and two months in prison after repeatedly sexually assaulting a student, with whom he exchanged more than 110,000 text messages. ⌘ Read more
Shane Love likened some of the seized makeshift weapons to those that had been confiscated from a maximum security prison. ⌘ Read more
Justin Tatum, who has one of the most famous surnames in the NBA, has been signed to permanently lead the Illawarra Hawks NBL team. ⌘ Read more
Specially grown sunflower crops are springing up around Southern Queensland to help meet demand from crowds of visitors keen for a photo. ⌘ Read more
Scientists from the CSIRO and Parkes Observatory have helped the United States land a craft on the Moon, part of a plan to send humans there for the first time since the Apollo missions. ⌘ Read more
A reckoning approaches on the horizon for Australian rugby — but the beleaguered code's fate will be decided long before the Lions Tour and World Cup the future holds. ⌘ Read more
A man is in police custody, connected to the disappearance of a Sydney couple, but who is Beau Lamarre, and what can his celebrity-obsessed past tell the police? ⌘ Read more
A new analysis of school funding reveals five elite private schools in New South Wales and Victoria spent more on new facilities in 2021 than half of the nation's public schools. ⌘ Read more
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Coles and Woolworths "clearly have excessive market power", but he won't forcibly break up the supermarket duopoly. ⌘ Read more
China plans to send two giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo, renewing its longstanding gesture of friendship toward the United States after nearly all pandas on loan to US zoos were sent back as relations soured between the two nations. ⌘ Read more
NT Cricket said it made the surprise call due to a lack of talent at the national level and had tried to form a mixed team with other states and territories that were also short on players. ⌘ Read more
A letter from police to the NSW government has called for pig dogs to be made illegal because of animal welfare concerns and the considerable resources consumed in the effort to prevent trespassing. ⌘ Read more
Emergency crews are continuing to battle a large bushfire west of Ballarat in Victoria, with authorities urging nearby residents to leave immediately. ⌘ Read more
Are you across this week's news headlines? Put yourself to the test. ⌘ Read more
As the 2024 Super Rugby season begins, the Western Force — a club that was axed just a few short years ago — enter the new campaign looking to stamp their authority on the competition. ⌘ Read more
A vast majority of psychiatrists in regional Australia say workforce shortages are negatively impacting patient care and those in the industry are experiencing high levels of stress and burnout. ⌘ Read more
Loosely based on a 2014 novel, this film is set in a family home next to Auschwitz during WWII. But instead of being deeply emotional, this film is icy cold — which is, somehow, all the more threatening. ⌘ Read more
Intuitive Machines hopes to become the first private company to land on the Moon, and the first US mission on the lunar surface in decades. ⌘ Read more
It may be isolated from the rest of the country, but Perth Festival takes pride in telling uniquely local stories from the far west. Here’s a smattering of highlights and tips for the final week. ⌘ Read more
Primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia are presenting "significant hurdles in Wendy's life" including behavioural and cognitive impacts, according to a statement from her care team. ⌘ Read more
The coronial inquest into the 2019 death of Indigenous teen Kumanjayi Walker has resumed in Alice Springs, with an NT Police sergeant answering questions over text messages he sent to former constable Zachary Rolfe. ⌘ Read more
Global markets have surged a day after chipmaker Nvidia released better-than-expected earnings, with Europe's broad Stoxx index reaching a record high, while the Australian share market is set to open higher. Follow live. ⌘ Read more
Phone data has led police to narrow their search for missing mother-of-three Samantha Murphy to an area at Mount Clear in Ballarat. ⌘ Read more
Defending World Cup series champion Saya Sakakibara says trying to find calm on and off the bike is helping her as she races a UCI World Cup event on home soil for the first time since 2020. ⌘ Read more
The Matildas will face off against Uzbekistan in a two-match series in stage three of the Olympic qualifiers. Wins in both matches will guarantee them a spot at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. ⌘ Read more
It was an incident that divided football and led to a change in the rules — now a collision in last year's qualifying final has led to Angus Brayshaw retiring from the game. Where does the AFL go next, as it tries to deal with concussion issues? ⌘ Read more
The story of how Coles and Woolworths came to dominate the Australian supermarket landscape is more than a century in the making. ⌘ Read more
Luke Davies and Jesse Baird disappeared under suspicious circumstances this week, while detectives are looking at a line of inquiry for a third person as well. ⌘ Read more
The figures from a Ukrainian air force spokesperson reveal the scale of Russia's aerial onslaught on Ukraine since the full-scale invasion. ⌘ Read more
Drone delivery is booming, and Australia's had a years-long head-start globally thanks to the national aviation regulator being ahead of the curb, but the future of the service is still coming into focus. ⌘ Read more
The Queensland town of Imbil, at the centre of a major clean energy project, has been gifted millions in funding in what the state government has described as a "gesture of goodwill" but some have referred to as "bribery". ⌘ Read more
It has been a while since the Tasmanian Greens enjoyed the level of power they had in 2010, with two cabinet ministers in the then-Labor government — but, with an election less than a month away, party leader Rosalie Woodruff says voters are ready for "real change". ⌘ Read more
Some 3,790 Ukrainians who fled the Russian invasion are in Australia on three-year temporary humanitarian visas, but they are due to expire. ⌘ Read more
The Australian's legal avenues to avoid extradition from Britain to the US are running out, but something in London gave his supporters hope this week, and it wasn't inside the courtroom. ⌘ Read more
The Tasmanian Tigers women's team is hoping to secure its third straight title when it plays Queensland in the WNCL final this weekend. To boost their chances, players are drawing on the experiences and encouragement of team stalwarts. ⌘ Read more
Sustainability is on the menu for the official review of the national dietary guidelines, but the red meat industry is concerned it will not recognise its work to reduce greenhouse emissions. ⌘ Read more
The counting of votes for the recent Indonesian election continues under the shadow of allegations of structured, massive and systematic fraud, according to the two losing candidates and election monitoring groups. ⌘ Read more
A central problem is that the department's component parts are a bad fit. There seems an overwhelming case for separating immigration, citizenship and multicultural affairs into their own department with cabinet status, writes Michelle Grattan. ⌘ Read more
Former RBA governors and federal treasurers have warned the Albanese government not to strip itself of the power to overrule the Reserve Bank, but will the government ignore them? ⌘ Read more
After about a year marooned in soft ground, the machine named Florence is on the move again. It's a relief to the trouble-plagued Snowy 2.0 project, but those troubles are not over. ⌘ Read more
In Gaza, Maazize is feeding her children ground up animal food and tea made from sticks and leaves, just so they have something in their starving stomachs. ⌘ Read more
Residents in Victoria's west endure an anxious night, with an out-of-control fire bearing down on dozens of communities. ⌘ Read more
Widespread asbestos contamination of mulch has left residents of Sydney and Canberra worried, but experts say it does not pose a "significant risk". We unpack how asbestos causes health issues and what kinds of exposure are harmful. ⌘ Read more
The state government distributed thousands of free fishing rods to primary school kids in an attempt to engage young Victorians in fishing, and while some kids love their rods, others have ended up on Facebook marketplace. So, did the program work? ⌘ Read more
Whether you rate her or not — and as Swifties know, haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate — it's impossible to deny that it is Taylor Swift's moment and the best way to share the joy is not to stand back and judge it, but to step in and feel it, writes Leigh Sales. ⌘ Read more
Guinness World Records (GWR) has revoked the title of the "world's oldest dog" it had awarded a now-deceased Portuguese canine named Bobi, as it found no conclusive evidence that he had in fact lived more than 31 years. ⌘ Read more
The watchdog is investigating after at least 13 workers at Albemarle's Kemerton refinery were treated for chemical exposure, while in a seperate incident a worker was treated for burns at Alcoa's Wagerup alumina refinery. ⌘ Read more
Whales sing loud enough that their songs travel through the ocean, but the mechanics of how they vocalise has been a mystery. Scientists now think they have an idea, and it's something not seen in other animals. ⌘ Read more
The South Australian government explores building a desalination plant on the state's Eyre Peninsula that would deliver water to mining and agriculture in the far north. ⌘ Read more
Alarm bells are ringing in NSW after the fungal disease Rice Blast was identified in crops in the state's north, with authorities moving to prevent it spreading to major growing regions further south. ⌘ Read more
Queenslanders are suffering in record numbers from gastro as they seek respite from the summer heat in pools and waterparks. ⌘ Read more
It's a roller coaster commodity: peaks that can draw prime ministers and billionaires to town, but troughs that could make your stomach drop. So, can Australia hang on for the ride? ⌘ Read more
After the sharpest increase in road deaths in 15 years was recorded in 2023, federal and state ministers, as well as experts from home and abroad, have gathered to discuss how to tackle the problem. ⌘ Read more
As Richard Marles plugs defense black holes, and Peter Dutton plays politics over a boat of foreign nationals arriving on Western Australia’s remote coast, the plight of Julian Assange offers a rare moment of unity, writes Brett Worthington. ⌘ Read more