Sydney news

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is urged to put politics aside and agree to allow federal funds allocated for the Perth Freight Link to be used towards the WA Government's $2.5 billion Metronet transport plan

Queensland is losing more than 500 regional jobs and about $15 million a month in royalties because the State Government is favouring a multinational company over an independent, state-owned company, a mine owner says.

A service working with recovering drug users in central Queensland is kept busy as the number of users increases.

The dusty but iconic St Patrick's Races in outback New South Wales give young Adelaide jockey Justin Huxtable the most prestigious win of his short career.

A retired Western Australian MP says she was labelled 'a granny' during her last election campaign, but in the recent race to fill her spot an older male candidate was not given the same treatment.

A 23-year-old is missing after being swept off rocks by five-metre swells along with another foreign student at Nobbys Beach at Newcastle in the New South Wales Hunter region.

Is 2017 the year that Aussie Daniel Ricciardo can break through for his first Formula One world championship? Two former world champions certainly think so.

The Football Federation Australia is investigating allegations of an altercation between two assistant coaches of Adelaide United and Brisbane Roar after United's dramatic late win.

Trevor Hickman lives in a small brick house he's seen all over the city - a three-bedroom ex-government house that was built in the 1960's. It prompted him to ask: Who did the original design?

It's been a volatile start to the year, weather-wise for Sydney. Hot days have made way for rainy ones, and those who rely on the outdoors for an income say they're reeling from the consequences. One busker says he's never seen a year as bad as this, in the decade he's been entertaining people at Circular Quay. It's so bad he's considering moving to Europe, where conditions are more predictable.

Pace sensation Pat Cummins' newfound resilience has been put to the supreme test after Australia's feared scenario with him was realised.

Police charge a man after a shooting on Brisbane's southside left one person in hospital with gunshot wounds to the head.

Voters in some of the most conservative seats in Australia overwhelmingly support legalising same-sex marriage in 2017, according to a decisive new poll of a dozen Coalition seats.

Consumed by his paranoia about the "deep state", Donald Trump has disappeared into the fog of his own conspiracy theories.

A much-trumpeted state government crackdown on property developers on councils has been described as useless after a councillor was able to declare he was not a developer despite running a company that has made nearly 100 development applications in three years.

The NSW government will ramp up a program of encouraging major housing development near rail stations in Sydney, as well as pushing for new schemes that make it easier for renters to buy their own property.

The Giants are eyeing the AFL Women's trade period in a bid to strengthen their playing list.

Tim Cahill did the business for Melbourne City on Saturday night, as he has done for so many clubs and his country for so many years.

Brisbane Roar assistant coach Ross Aloisi faces major disciplinary measures after allegedly striking a rival coach in the tunnel after the Roar's 2-1 defeat to Adelaide United.

Dane Ingham has made history, as far as I can tell. The first player to choose to play for New Zealand rather than Australia. As the debate swirls about whether the youth system is nearing collapse, what should we read into this?

Just weeks after former player James McManus launched legal action against Newcastle for their handling of a series of career-ending concussions, the club is again under scrutiny after an incident involving fullback Brendan Elliot in Saturday's 24-18 loss to South Sydney.

Australia's reprogrammed batsmen face a major examination of their mettle if they are to save the third Test after Cheteshwar Pujara produced an epic innings to join Indian cricket royalty and bat the visitors out of the game.

Sydney has sloshed through yet another wet weekend, with a total of 222 millimetres of rain soaking the city over the past 19 days - 16 of which were rainy.

India's batsmen taught their guests a lesson over the weekend in Ranchi. The Australians have one day to show how much they learnt.

Paul Keating has dramatically entered the debate over allowing first home buyers access to their superannuation accounts.

Andrew Johns summed it up with 20 minutes remaining. "This is horrible", the eighth immortal said of the Wests Tigers performance.

The host judges on My Kitchen Rules have perfected the poker face, but Pete Evans gave a fairly clear indication about how he feels about self-proclaimed 'Seafood King' Josh.

ACT Brumbies flyer Henry Speight struck twice to sink the NSW Waratahs on Saturday night.

Josh Dugan has starred for a resolute St George Illawarra in a gritty victory over the premiers but only after figuring in the game's latest concussion controversy.

A Sydney man facing a terrorism trial in Bulgaria says he's outraged that Australian authorities have "sold him out".

Melissa George has spoken about the violent end to her relationship in an extraordinary interview where she has called upon Australia for help to gain custody of her children.

Season one of the AFLW both thrilled and surprised, but what did the key players themselves have to say?

The G20 financial leaders dropped a decade-long commitment to free trade yesterday after opposition from the US, raising fears the Trump administration could upset the global economic order.

A priest has been stabbed in the neck at a church in Melbourne's north.

Corrine McMillan, the principal of Cavendish Road State High School, will run for Labor at the state election.

Australia's industry super funds have launched an unprecedented advertising campaign.

A leading Mexican state governor says Donald Trump's budget proposal proves that US taxpayers will foot the bill for his controversial wall on the border with Mexico.

The nation's budget problem still won't be solved when, one day in the distant future, we get the federal budget back into surplus. Only a change in strategy is likely to produce a sustained solution.

Sharon Verghis sent her twin son and daughter to school at four, something that's increasingly viewed by other parents with scorn.

Scott Morrison is planning to push the so-called "Google Tax" through Parliament.

Raiders young gun Nick Cotric scores first NRL try almost exactly eight years after his captain scored his first.

The shopping centre arms race has heated up, with seven developments north of Brisbane either in progress or in the works.

The family of a baby who died during childbirth at Queensland's biggest hospital hopes an inquest into his death will shine a light on a lesser known right to a second medical opinion.

Pressure is building on the state government to release a comprehensive response to a report warning of "catastrophic outcomes" for people in care with disabilities.

Australia has one of the highest levels of part-time work anywhere in the OECD.

It was the revelation that producers and viewers of the reality series have been waiting for, but will it truly come to pass?

It took five months and seven attempts, but Western Sydney have finally broken their Spotless Stadium curse.

UC geologist has been to the planet's most isolated places to understand climate change.

Iraqi army troops close in on the strategic and symbolic prize of the al-Nuri Mosque.

I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you, at the latest outrage to befall Canberra.