Sydney news

Melbourne is on track to have the hottest day since March with temperatures set to soar to 38C, while the Mallee is expected to reach the low 40s, with a total fire ban in place.

A country nurse and professional fisherman looks back on 35 years of nursing both in Australia and in Vietnam.

An ambitious 40-year vision for Sydney that aims to change the structure of the city will be unveiled by the overarching planning body, the Greater Sydney Commission.

A man is charged with the murder of a 12-year-old girl who disappeared 18 years ago in Sydney's west.

A Melbourne bartender, who was about to close up for the night, 'gets his kit off' and jumps into the Yarra River to rescue a drowning man.

A six-year-old boy seriously injured in a jet-ski accident that killed his brother in north-west Queensland is flown to Townsville for further treatment.

Police will investigate the suspicious death of a 60-year-old man who was found next to an unconscious man on the side of a road in Kilburn, in Adelaide's inner north.

From housing Australia's first and only saint, to smuggling prisoners through elaborate underground tunnels, Portland's archives are almost as colourful as its locals.

A battle for water will see Ord farmers take on the WA Government this week in the State Administrative Tribunal.

Selection chairman Trevor Hohns says Australia's new Test team should be given time to settle ahead of the day-night dead rubber against South Africa in Adelaide.

This year's spawning event on the Great Barrier Reef went as well as could be expected in light of the worst bleaching in the reef's history, a coral reef ecologist says.

Several dogs have been died in the past week, as snake bites keep Tasmanian veterinarians and snake catchers busy.

Two cows and a family of wild buffalo become tourist attractions at a remote Northern Territory roadhouse.

Sistergirls, brotherboys and gender-diverse Aboriginal Australians from around the country come together to share stories of culture, identity and struggle.

South Australian Water Minister Ian Hunter refuses to resign from his portfolio despite admitting he used "inappropriate language" aimed at his Victorian and federal counterparts.

Khaled Naanaa, the Madaya nurse who leaked images that shocked the world, is now in Australia and finally able to tell the full story of starvation being used as a weapon of war in Syria.

A man's body is found on a footpath in Kilburn in Adelaide's inner north.

Amid a downturn in milk prices and upheaval across the industry, hard-working, dairy-farming families are still eking out an existence, making an essential product in what's increasingly a labour of sheer love.

Franklin resident Evan Croker is interested to know how many people are born, and how many die, on an average day in the ACT.

The High Court will today consider whether West Australian senator Rod Culleton and former South Australian senator Bob Day were validly elected at the last federal election, in two cases which could alter the shape and control of the current Senate.

It has only been 10 days since Parliament last sat, but it has been a packed week and a half. Here's what you need to know before the bells ring this morning.

A barrel bomb killed a family of six in rebel-held eastern Aleppo early on Sunday, a war monitor, a rebel and two medics said, while rebel shelling killed seven children at a school in the government-held sector, state television reported.

A man has been taken to hospital with leg, head and arm injuries after an incident in Campbelltown early on Sunday evening. 

Norway’s Andreas Mikkelsen clinched an emotional victory as Volkswagen bowed out of the FIA World Rally Championship with a 1-2 finish.

Dentists appear phobic about a robust public campaign combating the nonsense being pushed to local governments in Queensland about fluoridation

Rain threatened to put a dampener on Southern Stars captain Meg Lanning's record-equalling century in Australia's victory over South Africa at Manuka Oval on Sunday.

Nick Xenophon has been warned he will be attacked for breaking a key election promise if his Senate team supports a new compromise on paid parental leave that would increase payments for some parents while reducing payments for those with an employer scheme.

James Sutherland forecast on the morning after Australia's crippling defeat to Hobart that it would be "a different group of players that gather for the next Test match". He wasn't wrong.

Deutsche Bank expects miners to underperform in the coming months and advises buying the dip.

Mining magnate and agriculture sector champion Andrew "Twiggy" Forresthas been named the WA Australian of the Year.

A man is being treated in intensive care after a suspected one-punch attack in Sydney's CBD.

Schapelle Corby will be free to leave Bali after more than 12 years on the island.

Tuggeranong Valley skipper Shane Devoy says the feeling of losing the Regional Twenty20 Cup grand final isn't the motivating factor behind their charge to a Gallop Cup home semi-final.

Once again we see that the Baird government has not consulted broadly aboutthe increasing population of Sydney, although he has consulted with property developers ("Sydney set to pack in 185,000 new homes", November 19-20).

This week the US dollar is set to stay strong and yield stocks are expected to continue to suffer.

When an Australian Test captain admits his men have no answer to swing, seam or spin bowling, you know the team is in trouble.

New Zealand win third and final match of the trans-Tasman men's hockey series in Auckland.

Frustrated coach Mark Jones was "disappointed to throw two points away" after the Newcastle Jets failed to strike a killer blow against a 10-man Central Coast Mariners

They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn

Justin Timberlake took on Trolls to set a good example to young women.

When he was a kid, as opposed to now when he is barely more than that, Matt Renshaw played cricket with Joe Root in the fading light once their dads repaired to the rooms after stumps.

US president-elect Donald Trump is not philosophically opposed to free trade and may even be persuaded to reverse his opposition to the giant Trans Pacific Partnership deal, according to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Nic Maddinson admits he must put behind him a poor recent record in Adelaide and against the pink ball in his Test debut this week.

Danish striker Morten Nordstrand produced a clinical finish to help the Newcastle Jets snatch a 1-all draw with the Central Coast Mariners at McDonald Jones Stadium on Sunday and stretch their unbeaten run in the F3 derby to six games.

The Turnbull government has began intense negotiations with the Senate crossbench as it seeks to pass its double dissolution trigger bills before the end of the year.

A woman has been caught on camera delivering a racist rant on an Adelaide public bus on Saturday afternoon.

In selecting Matthew Renshaw ('Matthew Who?' doesn't work as well as 'Peter Who?') , Nic Maddinson, the returningMatthew Wade, Chadd Sayers, Peter Handscombe and Jackson Bird, who is also a newbie as he wasn't officially in the Hobart Test squad , Australia have picked six new members of the Test side, with perhaps four debutants. It is a rare occurrence in Test cricket.

Canberra Railway Museum has closed due to a lack of funds.

It's clear to many cricket lovers than the current iteration of the Australian Test team is a far cry from the ones that dominated all comers around the turn of the century.

The small world of racing and the relationships within it will be explored during the James McDonald's bet inquiry across the next week.