NSW Labor leader Chris Minns and deputy leader Prue Car are holding a press conference to announce Labor’s plan to end the secrecy around toll road contracts.
In the final days of the state election campaign, Premier Dominic Perrottet and NSW Labor leader Chris Minns continue the push to secure votes. Follow all the action from the campaign trail with our live blog
Exclusive: Prominent Japanese politicians have labelled the country’s sole custody system an embarrassment and appealed to Australia to raise the issue publicly in Japan
Exclusive: Sydney lawyer Sevag Chalabian has been sentenced to 12 years’ jail over washing $24 million in blackmail money linked to the Plutus Payroll scam
On the home stretch to polling day, both parties continue their final push to secure votes at the March 25 state election. Follow along with the campaign trail with our live blog
In the deserts of Somalia, a tragedy is unfolding. Drought claimed the lives of an estimated 43,000 people last year – half of them children. Another 18,000 people may be dead by July. Humanitarian officials say the world is looking the other way
Special report: Sarah is the only Australian parent known to have won the parental abduction race in Japan. "It was either that or have that done to me," she says
Bob Johnston, the Reserve Bank governor pivotal to the floating of the Australian dollar and deregulating the banking system, has died at the age of 98
The federal government has rejected an opposition push to create a high-powered parliamentary committee to scrutinise the implementation of the AUKUS security pact
Analysis: Labor leader Chris Minns is not bypassing any chance to peddle his central campaign pitch: that Premier Dominic Perrottet will sell off the last of the state’s public assets, specifically Sydney Water. What has Perrottet actually said?
Exclusive: Doctors will be able to receive an official “endorsement in cosmetic surgery” from the Medical Board of Australia despite not undertaking the training that would make them proper surgeons
Violence towards principals at the hands of students and parents has reached its highest level on record, a survey of hundreds of school leaders has found
A crab that finds cunning disguises, a chest-bursting parasitic wasp and an aquatic plant that grows its own floaties are among more than 600 native plants and animals discovered in the past year
A major barrier preventing most gay and bisexual men from donating life-saving blood plasma could soon be removed as Australia’s medical regulator considers scrapping the sexual activity criteria for potential donors
Australian parents whose Japanese former spouses have abducted their children are demanding urgent action from both governments as years pass without any contact
Exclusive: Australia’s existing coal mines will be enough to supply electricity to the nation until 2040, with the Greens pushing for a ban on new coal projects in return for backing Labor’s signature climate policy