Good Food - What’s Cooking
The best recipes from Australia’s leading chefs straight to your inbox.
Real Footy podcast
The best footy writers bring you all the stories behind the game.
Campus student hub
The essential guide to courses, careers and student life.
Exclusive
Courts
Top cardiologist sent thousands of texts to young employee he is accused of sexually harassing
Professor Chris Semsarian is defending a sexual harassment claim by a young woman who says he touched her on the bottom.
Mid-air scare as Qantas flight lands at Perth Airport on one engine
A Qantas spokesman said the flight was granted a priority landing. It followed some passengers saying they heard a bang.
Exclusive
Religious freedom
Faith groups reject hardline stance on discrimination law
Key faith leaders back a compromise in the debate as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hints at a deal with the Greens to break the impasse on protections for LGBTQ children.
‘If Australia is listening, you need to be worried’
The government’s bill to dramatically increase its deportation powers has passed the House of Representatives, backed by the Coalition and opposed by members of the crossbench.
Latest live posts
LoadingExclusive
Cars
Labor’s ‘ute tax’ thrown into reverse as voters lukewarm on targets
The Resolve Political Monitor shows that 43 per cent of voters opposed the vehicle emission plan when asked about the policy in its original form.
Opinion
Property prices
Smiling but lying – if real estate agents won’t tell the truth, I will
The only thing that’s real about the real estate industry is the apparent dishonesty.
Jenna Price
Columnist and academic
Catch-22 preventing mothers from returning to work
The federal government is being urged to scrap income reporting requirements for access to childcare subsidies to help get more families more work.
Graphic content
Police
CCTV captures Perth mum’s horror laneway accident
Christine Moore survived being crushed under a large Chevrolet Silverado, but was left with injuries including a fractured eye socket.
How tiny Japanese ‘pocket forests’ could cool Perth’s sweaty suburbs
Originally developed by a Japanese ecologist in the early 1970s, Miyawaki forests have been adopted around the world to help offset rising heat in the suburbs.
Vladimir Putin admits concert attackers were ‘radical Islamists’
The Russian leader then said it was necessary to find out “why the terrorists after committing their crime tried to flee to Ukraine and who was waiting for them there”.
The $10b man: Trump just made the most money he ever has in a single day
Donald Trump’s business empire was supposed to be in peril. Instead, it turned into the single-greatest day on record for the former president’s wealth.
How this rock star artist makes whitefellas laugh at themselves
Royals, prime ministers and Donald Trump are all brought down to earth in the humorous but searing works of Vincent Namatjira.
Sacha Baron Cohen denies Rebel Wilson’s claims about his behaviour on set
The Australian actor claims Baron Cohen has hired a public relations crisis team and is trying to stop her from publishing a chapter of her memoir.
How to avoid eating endangered seafood at the fish and chip shop this Easter
Flake and farmed salmon should not make an appearance at your Good Friday fish feast.
Kelly Slater is 52 with a baby on the way and a dead man holding his hip together
The greatest surfer of all time concedes he is likely competing in Australia for the final time as a new chapter looms in his personal and professional life.
Opinion
Air travel
I was stranded in a wheelchair at the airport. Something’s finally being done
Eighteen months ago, I was almost left stuck on the kerb in a wheelchair.
Tracey Spicer
Journalist
‘I have two, she has one’: Moment Sydney Swans players were caught with cocaine
It was a late Saturday afternoon when Alexia Hamilton and Paige Sheppard left the Clovelly Hotel to find a silver Toyota. They have apologised for what happened next.
Western Australia
Kim died unexpectedly at 32. Just hours later, her boyfriend was making sure her super went his way
Travis Barnard accessed his girlfriend’s phone and made himself the sole beneficiary her superannuation fund just six hours after her unexpected death.
Updated
Mental health
WA government takes over shuttered Cockburn mental health clinic
The government has entered into a three-year agreement to lease the clinic, which the South Metro Health Service will operate.
Exclusive
Housing crisis
New push to pinch skilled workers from the east
We need labour to give WA a fighting chance to build the homes it needs now, a powerful lobby group is telling our leaders.
Homes destroyed, police investigate as bushfire rages south of Perth
Police are treating a bushfire that has destroyed homes south of Perth as suspicious.
Concerns held for Perth GP missing on Bibbulmun Track since December
Dr Nathalie Casal, 71, told family she was going to walk the Bibbulmun Track in December with a group but has not been heard from since. Police are now looking into her disappearance.
Politics
The catch-22 preventing mothers from returning to work
The federal government is being urged to scrap income reporting requirements for access to childcare subsidies to help get more families more work.
Business
Updated
Mergers & acquisitions
Smiggle, Peter Alexander slated to become standalone companies in 2025
The popular stationery and sleepwear brands are set to be spun out of Premier Investment’s stable of brands next year.
World
UN votes for immediate Gaza ceasefire after US abstains, Netanyahu furious
The US decision not to veto the resolution has infuriated Israel, prompting Netanyahu to cancel a high-level visit to Washington.
Opinion
Thought Islamic State had been destroyed? Think again
Rodger Shanahan
Middle East and security analyst
Explore
Property
How a DIY guru turned his poky 1950s house into a bright family oasis
Rob Palmer, known for his DIY advice on Better Homes and Gardens, was destined to be a builder. But for his own home, he had a little help.
Heartbroken vendor who slashed price guide by $300,000 gets a happy ending
A renovated Artarmon home attracted scant buyer interest at first, but a cut to the price guide prompted a surprisingly good result.
Good Food
Lifestyle
Opinion
Holidays
Planning a theme park holiday for your family? Get ready for the Hunger Games
They’re supposed to be the happiest places on earth. But expensive VIP passes and hours-long wait times are taking the shine off theme parks.
Shona Hendley
Writer
Opinion
Home accessories
How Marvin the robo-vac became a (weird) member of the family
Michael Bachelard
Senior writer, The Age
Culture
Making some noise: the Australian comedians enjoying the Taskmaster effect
After proving themselves to TV’s Taskmaster, these comedians are touring with a newfound confidence and fanbase.
Traveller
Drivedrive
From Our Partners
Sport
Analysis
AFL 2024
Sydney’s AFL teams are both 3-0. Now they’re disappearing for a month
The prospect of an all-Sydney grand final or, at the very least, a first non-Victorian premiership winner in six years, is becoming increasingly real.
How Aussie giant-killer plans to topple world’s hottest tennis player
Chris O’Connell is just one win from the Miami Open quarter-finals. But to get there he must get past Jannik Sinner, who is still in smoking-hot form since his Australian Open win.
Pinned and pretzeled: Underwater wrestling regime behind Picklum’s title tilt
Australia’s brightest surfing star Molly Picklum returns home as world No.1 and in more demand than ever.
Analysis
AFL 2024
The stat that reveals how Dockers have become AFL’s new comeback kings
It’s the first time Fremantle have begun a season 2-0 since 2015. There’s one part of their game that shows just how they keep turning large deficits into convincing wins.
Two Sydney Swans women players caught with cocaine
The two women were sentenced to a good behaviour bond in a Sydney court in January.
WA’s Shield hero Rocchiccioli continues meteoric rise
Corey Rocchiccioli collected 46 wickets this summer, breaking Bruce Yardley’s long-standing record for a WA spinner of 39 back in 1982-83.
AFL Briefing
AFL 2024
Perkins defends Essendon’s edge, stands up for Wright
Essendon young gun Archie Perkins has stood up for Peter Wright after the spearhead was criticised for his clash with a Swans favourite son.
Have Your Say
Sydney’s AFL teams are both 3-0. Now they’re disappearing for a month
The prospect of an all-Sydney grand final or, at the very least, a first non-Victorian premiership winner in six years, is becoming increasingly real.
