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‘I have to live with the trauma’: Police under investigation over young mother’s arrest
Emefa Gidiglo believes she was arrested by WA Police because of the colour of her skin and says the ordeal left her scarred.
NSW Health Minister pleads for interstate Pfizer doses as state records 163 new cases
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard says he was “disturbed” by other states’ lack of support in a renewed appeal for Pfizer vaccine doses.
How Sydney’s outbreak turned into a national emergency - and where to from here?
South-western Sydney suburbs have among the lowest vaccination rates in the state despite being in the epicentre of the city’s worsening outbreak.
Can you reduce the side effects of the COVID vaccine?
Still awaiting your jab? Improving your health in the lead-up won’t hurt and may help reduce some reported side effects.
The Taliban conquest of a thin strip of land could change Afghanistan
When a small group of armed insurgents in cars arrived in a village in the Wakhan Corridor, it put a sharp focus on Beijing’s role in Afghanistan.
Live
Tokyo Olympics
Tense clash as Kookaburras, Japan open hockey tournament
Australia’s men’s hockey team started the match as prohibitive favourites and took a 2-0 lead into quarter-time. But the hosts have hit back.
The best Olympic outfits from the Opening Ceremony
From pink shorts to flamboyant gowns, enjoy this collection of outfits paraded by the national teams in Tokyo.
Updated
Olympics
The defiant Games: Naomi Osaka lights cauldron as Tokyo Olympics open at last
It took $37 billion, a bulldozing Olympic committee and a Japanese government resisting the will of its people, but the Tokyo Olympic stadium has finally lit up in fireworks.
‘Virtually no protection’: Why Australian homes are so cold
Low building standards, various design features, and a warm-weather mentality work against us in winter.
‘Pay or play’ clause means Hopkins is set to pocket full $200,000 fee
She may have been booted out of the country on Tuesday, but right-wing motormouth Katie Hopkins looks set to laugh all the way to the bank back in Dear Old Blighty.
Exclusive
Property market
‘The market is insane’: Many voters fear home ownership is out of reach for young Australians
Only 18 per cent of voters think many young people in their area will be able to buy their own homes, according to a new survey.
‘The battery hen of the sea’: the fight to clean up Tassie salmon farms
The state’s most renowned author Richard Flanagan, along with a host of scientists and environmentalists, are pitted against an industry and government they say are risking the very core of Brand Tassie: its pristine natural environment.
‘FreeBritney’ goes to DC to change the laws that caged the pop star
The activists’ goal is not just to end the pop star Britney Spears’ legal conservatorship but to overhaul a system they say is rife for abuse.
Analysis
Q&A
What’s wrong with the once-mighty Q+A, and how to fix it
The departure of host Hamish Macdonald after 18 months has prompted questions about Q+A’s future - and an opportunity to get it right.
Editor's Picks
Just in
Western Australia
Home dreams shattered as Perth families gagged by builders’ silence culture
West Australians who are unhappy with their home builder say they are being bullied into staying silent as they struggle to get out of their contract.
Aboriginal elder takes fight against WA heritage laws to United Nations
Ngalia elder Kado Muir told the UN Rio Tinto’s destruction of Juukan Gorge in May last year highlighted the failures of current laws to protect sites where industry has an interest.
BHP’s WA nickel plant to power Tesla electric vehicles
Mining giant BHP has struck a deal to supply nickel to Elon Musk’s Tesla from its Nickel West mining, smelting and refining operations in Western Australia.
Why WA is missing its chance to stop Perth’s urban sprawl
Perth’s biggest problem is its lack of infill of existing land, targets the government counteracted through its own policies, an independent infrastructure advisory body says.
Updated
Coronavirus pandemic
McGowan open to Perth hosting AFL hub, grand final at Optus Stadium
With the rest of Australian in various states of lockdown, Optus Stadium is likely to be the last venue standing when a decision is required on where the 2021 AFL grand final will be held.
Politics
Risks and benefits of AstraZeneca in ‘state of flux’ for Sydneysiders
Experts say young people in Sydney must actively balance the risk of getting COVID-19 against the possible rare side effects from the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Business
Telstra’s Pacific adventure: a radical pivot or a deal to good to refuse?
Telstra’s offer for a telecom operator in the South Pacific has caught the attention of political and national security figures, not just its investors.
World
The Taliban conquest of a thin strip of land could change Afghanistan
When a small group of armed insurgents in cars arrived in a village in the Wakhan Corridor, it put a sharp focus on Beijing’s role in Afghanistan.
Opinion
PM has dealt with the ‘sorry’ question. It might be harder to put the ATAGI questions to rest
Michelle Grattan
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Living la vida lockdown: how Australians are adapting to the isolation economy - and spending up
Andrew Charlton
Economic adviser to former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd
Explore
Property bydomain
With just the bare essentials, this two-room weekender is jaw-dropping
"You just need to bring clothes. You don’t need to replicate the permanence of a home with a lot of stuff," says the architect.
The unexpected group of buyers driving up house prices
The market is currently being dominated by those upgrading to bigger, better or more beautifully located homes. But why are they doing it?
Life & Culture
Exclusive
Beer
Meet Australia’s best home brewers – and their award-winning beers
Hipsters, hop lovers and home bodies all flocked to home brewing as a pastime amid the pandemic, prompting Fremantle’s Little Creatures to find the country’s best backyard brewers.
Opinion
WordPlay
Are you bi-Pfi or bi-Az? How to join the vax populi
David Astle
Crossword compiler and ABC Radio Melbourne presenter
Sport
Updated
Coronavirus pandemic
Perth firms for AFL finals hub, Grand Final at Optus Stadium
With the rest of Australian in various states of lockdown, Optus Stadium is likely to be the last venue standing when a decision is required on where the 2021 AFL Grand Final will be held.
Updated
Coronavirus pandemic
West Indies, Bangladesh tours in doubt after positive COVID test
The second one-dayer against the West Indies was postponed minutes before it was due to start placing Australia’s tours of the Caribbean and Bangladesh in fresh doubt.
Opinion
AFL 2021
The case for AFL players rolling up their sleeves for vaccination
It’s too late for this season, perhaps, but the AFL and its players should be rolling up their sleeves as soon as possible.
Jake Niall
Chief football writer, The Age
Analysis
Tokyo Olympics
Coates reminds Queensland Premier who is in charge
Among his extraordinary talents for navigating the born-to-rule bureaucracy of the IOC and bending the will of state and federal governments to his ends, John Coates has an Olympic-sized capacity for humiliation.
Kermond’s cocaine disqualification a blow to teammates’ medal hopes
The failure of equestrian team’s travelling reserve Rowan Willis to quarantine his horse on time means Australia now cannot enter a team in the showjumping event and therefore loses individual places.
Premier and Coates appear side-by-side after awkward Games ‘rebuke’
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates were positively beaming despite an awkward public encounter.
From ‘backwater’ to ‘Olympic Cinderella’: How the world viewed Brisbane win
Brisbane, with its “humble origins as a 19th-century penal colony”, has soared in the eyes of the world overnight.
Have Your Say
Coates’ cutting behaviour is exactly according to his cloth
So Coates and Palaszczuk worked out the details of her public belittling off-stage you say? That makes no sense.
Peter FitzSimons
Columnist and author
