Sydney news

A mining analyst says a coal company's plan to mine further into the Sydney drinking water catchment appears to be "totally stranded" by the findings of an independent body.

WA's Police Minister is forced to clarify the progress of a review into a case in which a Perth shopkeeper was charged after defending his supermarket from shoplifters.

The Northern Territory Health Minister accuses the management of Indigenous musician Gurrumul Yunupingu of using the performer's illness for promotional purposes.

A Kosta Barbarouses equaliser in a 1-1 draw with Suwon Bluewings puts Melbourne Victory within a home win of making the Asian Champions League last 16.

A fuel tanker carrying between 50,000 and 60,000 litres of fuel overturns in Inglewood in Victoria, releasing toxic and flammable fumes and prompting an emergency warning.

​US policymakers debated last month whether an interest rate hike would be needed in April though they opted in the end for a more cautious approach.

Drugs suspected as two Curtin University studentsrecover in hospital in New Orleans after being shot during a visit to the US.

A far-right fringe party advocating banning mosques and Muslim migration to Australia is stealing right-wing voters from the Government.

Waleed Aly has taken aim at the hypocrisy of Malcolm Turnbull's "age of innovation" aspirations as leaked documents reveal significant delays to the government's NBN roll out.

Top Australian business woman and ABC board member Dr Kirstin Ferguson failed to act on a corruption scandal inside the nation's biggest mining services company, despite a personal request made to her by a whistleblower in 2014.

He had spent more than $35,000 to go to Malaysia for the extreme plastic surgery he hoped would transform his life – a 360-degree tummy tuck, extensive liposuction, an upper eye lift, a chin tuck, lip filler, thigh and chest lifts.

Brumbies flanker David Pocock apologises for neck grab and thanks SANZAAR for suspending him.

Daryl Cohen became the first Victorian Jewish Olympian at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.

Sweeping reforms are needed to volunteer-run sports clubs to help prevent child sexual abuse, a royal commission has heard.

Shoppers buying and sprinkling chopped oregano leaves to flavour their food might actually be using entirely different ingredients, says consumer advocacy group Choice.

Recent plane passengers, hostel residents, hospital and medical centre patients are among those at risk of developing measles following confirmed cases of the highly contagious disease in Sydney.

For the first time, Sydney's Anzac Day march will run down Elizabeth Street. 

Riot police have forcibly removed a group of protesting students from the University of Sydney library during an event attended by the federal education minister Simon Birmingham on Wednesday night.

Children will play with any toy the way that suits them regardless of the toy's gender identity or theirs

Schools funding from 2018 onwards has been kicked down the road until early next year – after the election. Voters deserve to know what the Turnbull government is planning.

What is going on in the company formerly known as Leighton Holdings?

Question. When is libertarianism not liberating? Answer: When it's the low-profile but remarkably influential Institute for Public Affairs.

Police believe a man shot multiple times at Port Stephens, north of Newcastle, on the weekend is a member of the Nomads outlaw motorcycle gang.

Over the past year, according to Peshawar's mayor, eight children have been killed by rats. At night, rodents spill out of the city's crude sewer system, chewing through doors and walls, feasting on food supplies and overrunning hospitals and schools.

A cricket club in rural Queensland concedes it could have done more when child abuse allegations were made against a coach, while the governing body admits it cannot guarantee protection policies are in place.

Two students from Perth's Curtin University are shot in New Orleans in the US and are reported to be recovering in hospital.

Outdoor music concerts have been banned from a regency in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on the grounds they violate Sharia law.

Former Australian resident and colleague of Julian Assange, now official 'poetician' for Iceland's Pirate Party, might be her country's next prime minister.

After a run-away win in the Wisconsin primary vote on Tuesday, underdog Texas Senator Ted Cruz made two brash predictions.

The expulsion of migrants from Greece to Turkey has been suspended just a day after it began after the authorities admitted not having enough resources with deal with asylum seekers.

It has not been such a Funtastic time for the toy wholesaler's investors like billion-heir, Lachlan Murdoch, and retail billionaire, Gerry Harvey. 

Australia's long, hot summer has been a blessing and a curse for the retail sector.

Cartel conduct case against Obeids brought to a halt in extraordinary turn of events.

Get rid of the bunker and let the refs make a decision.

Major cuts to higher education spending are set to be a centrepiece of the May budget, as a new bombshell report finds the annual cost of the student loans program to taxpayers will blow out by a staggering 560 per cent in a decade.

The timing of Malcolm Turnbull's banking industry speech couldn't have been more embarrassing for Westpac.

The number of adults with diabetes has quadrupled worldwide in under four decades to 422 million, and the condition is fast becoming a major problem in poorer countries, a World Health Organization study showed on Wednesday.

Melbourne Victory just a home win away from qualifying for the ACL last 16, after claiming a vital point in 1-1 draw against Suwon Bluewings.

Every Friday night for the past 20 years, an old church hall in inner-city Richmond comes alive in a frenzy of studious activity.

'Curious' that police not investigating their own leak, says Joy Burch

Greater Western Sydney Giants officials have promised to listen to the concerns of local residents as they plans for a massive redevelopment of Manuka Oval.

Hundreds of residents in Victoria's north-west have lost power and some have been evacuated from their homes after a petrol tanker rolled on the Calder Highway.

An important question Australians will need to consider when weighing the benefits of government-initiated cost cuts is how they affect institutions such as the nation's pre-eminent taxpayer-funded scientific organisation, the CSIRO.

Television will never seem the same after this virtual reality experience of the Great Barrier Reef.

Mass email to Liberal Party members includes mock-up of Titanic and an iceberg.

A revamp of home international scheduling will see Brisbane lose the first Test and pink-ball matches played against South Africa and Pakistan.

Dozens of firefighters have battled a blaze at the former Alcoa plant near Geelong that forced the evacuation of about 30 workers.

Collins Street will be extended so far west it will almost touch the Bolte Bridge in Australia's largest wharf housing development.

Ex-leaders - ousted by voters or their own parties - return to play themselves before live audience.

David Neal, managing director of the $118 billion Future Fund, says central banks' raft of monetary policies have dulled their firepower.