A statue of Captain Cook at a park in Melbourne has been covered in fresh red paint on Australia Day.The memorial at Catani Gardens in St Kilda was vandalised early on Wednesday morning.
Victoria is rushing to get children vaccinated before school returns, as COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalisations continue to stabilise.The state recorded 15 deaths and 13,755 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, including 6130 from PCR tests and 7625 from rapid antigen tests.
A memorial has been planned for the "sweet, innocent" girl whose body was found in a barrel northwest of Sydney.
A NSW man has lost his licence and been charged with drink-driving after being nabbed by police twice on Australia Day.Police charged the man with two high-range drink-driving offences after being stopped twice within hours in the state's north on Wednesday.
An Australian pharmaceutical firm that's developing a world first virus-killing nasal spray is set to list on the ASX.Firebrick Pharma co-founder Dr Peter Molloy told AAP he's been working on the spray, called Nasodine, for almost a decade, as a treatment for the common cold.
The Black Summer bushfires, the Bali bombings, the shot-down flight MH17. Andrew Colvin was there to help spearhead Australia's response.
We asked climate scientist Professor Tim Flannery to predict how Australia will look in the years 2030, 2050 and 2100. Here are his terrifying predictions.
British and Australian navy ships have arrived in Tonga to deliver aid without making contact with anybody ashore, to avoid spreading COVID-19 in a nation which has never had an outbreak.The danger of spreading the disease was underscored when nearly two dozen sailors aboard the Australian ship HMAS Adelaide were reported infected on Tuesday, raising fears they could bring the coronavirus to the small Pacific archipelago devastated by an undersea volcanic eruption and a tsunami on Jan.
The United States has set out a diplomatic path to address sweeping Russian demands in eastern Europe, as Moscow held security talks with Western countries and intensified its military build-up near Ukraine with new drills.In a written response on Wednesday to Russia's demands delivered in person by its ambassador in Moscow, the US repeated its commitment to upholding NATO's "open-door" policy while offering a "principled and pragmatic evaluation" of the Kremlin's concerns, Secretary of State An
A man has been charged with murdering his six-year-old daughter and her mother in a stabbing attack in Melbourne.The girl and her 39-year-old mother were both found with critical injuries at a home in Mill Park on January 13.
North Korea has fired two cruise missiles into the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military says, amid rising tension over a recent series of weapons tests.South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff did not specify the missiles' range or trajectory on Tuesday, but said it was conducting an analysis together with US authorities.
For artist and philanthropist Deborra-Lee Furness, the theme of family is stronger than ever this Australia Day.She has spent years campaigning to change adoption laws, an issue that is close to her heart, and that has earned her a place on the Australia Day Honours List.
Shame and regret are two things jurors have been asked to consider when determining whether two men accused of raping a friend after a 21st birthday party are guilty.Shaun Bloomfield and Luke Merryfull are both accused of raping the young woman in a caravan after a party in Balmoral, a tight-knit country town in western Victoria.
Tensions were palpable on The Project on Tuesday as hosts Carrie Bickmore and Peter van Onselen fought over Grace Tame’s frosty meeting with Scott Morrison. Watch the footage here.
The "virtual fatigue" felt by so many of us will change the way Australia lives and works, a survey shows.Years of tapping to seek advice or treatment, order food, try to learn, or see colleagues and friends are taking their toll.
NSW arresting officers displayed "shortcomings" in their decisions after their fellow officer was stabbed by an accused child sex offender who was then shot dead, a coroner has found.Nick Newman, 33, died from seven shots fired by Detective Senior Constables Tim Carey and Ben Anderson at the Maroubra Junction Hotel on January 26, 2018.
It's 'so we can all be safer,' Coles Group's David Brewster says.
Victoria has recorded one of its highest daily death tolls of the pandemic, after 35 people died with COVID-19.The state posted 13,507 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, including 6533 from PCR tests and 6974 from rapid antigen tests.
Queensland has recorded another nine COVID-19 related deaths and 13,551 new cases as the Omicron wave appears to peak on the Gold Coast.The latest deaths were people aged between their 50s and 90s, none of whom had received a third vaccine dose.
The annual report from the International Shark Attack File shows there was an increase in shark bites in 2021.
