Giants footy boss facing please explain after run-in with umpires

Greater Western Sydney football department chief Jason McCartney will almost certainly need to explain himself to the AFL after a run-in with umpires at half-time of his side’s loss to the Western Bulldogs at Manuka Oval on Friday night.

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Light and shade under open skies: exquisite opera at the Bowl

Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers was an ideal work to pick for Victorian Opera’s outdoor show, which featured superb singing.

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‘I turned my scars into strength’: Victoria gets LGBTI homelessness support

Elvis Martin would have been spared months of pain if he had been supported by appropriate services when he was disowned by his family at 17 for being gay.

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Rising house prices could derail post-COVID economic recovery

Policymakers need to keep an eye on rising household debt levels, propelled by the latest property boom, which could end up hurting much-needed consumer spending.

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‘I don’t have words’: The quiet anguish of the world’s doctor

He is the world’s doctor, and for months he has tirelessly led the global response to the coronavirus pandemic while privately nursing a piercing anguish.

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AFL 2021 LIVE updates: Hawks, Crows open Anzac Day games before Essendon, Collingwood face-off at MCG

Anzac Day AFL Sunday opens with Hawthorn versus Adelaide before rivals Essendon and Collingwood face-off at the MCG and Port Adelaide and St Kilda finish the round in Adelaide.

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Coronavirus Australia LIVE: Lockdown confusion cleared up as Perth records second COVID case

Confusing messaging on who stay-at-home orders apply to in WA has been rectified after the state government issued a new direction on Saturday night backdating its lockdown rules.

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North players to head into quarantine, will get exemptions to train, play

North Melbourne players will be forced into 14 days of home isolation and tested for COVID-19 under Victorian government protocols when they return from Perth on Sunday morning.

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Dutton rejects Premier’s call to use RAAF base for quarantine

Defence Minister Peter Dutton says the “austere” accommodation on RAAF bases is not suitable to use to quarantine returning travellers.

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Sharks enforcer facing huge ban for shoulder charge

The NRL’s match review committee has hit Siosifa Talakai with the highest grade possible for a huge hit on Bulldogs young gun Matt Doorey.

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Chelsea big winners in top four race as Liverpool held

With five games remaining in the league, Chelsea occupy the fourth and final Champions League qualification place – three points ahead of West Ham and four clear of sixth-placed Liverpool.

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Fire in Baghdad hospital kills dozens of COVID-19 patients

Dozens of COVID-19 patients have died in an Iraqi hospital, a local official said, after a blaze ripped through an intensive care ward.

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Barty birthday party as Aussie wins through to final, Karatsev stuns Djokovic

Top-ranked Ash Barty celebrated her birthday by coming back from a set down to book her place in the Porsche Grand Prix final, while Novak Djokovic was bundled out of his own tournament.

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Red carpet for junta leader as ASEAN leaders claim agreement on Myanmar crisis

Leaders of south-east Asian countries have reached a consensus on five points they hope will help resolve the crisis in Myanmar.

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Finding rich pages of history in the camps of last hope

The political debate in Australia has placed little or no value on the memories and stories of refugees.

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Disgraced Peter Handcock deserves no war memorial honour

Lieutenant Peter Handcock is a convicted war criminal who murdered without mercy and his name does not belong on any war memorial honour roll.

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Backdated stay at home order issued for Perth and Peel travellers in regional WA

The WA government issued an official direction at 8.58pm on Saturday night backdating stay at home orders to April 17 for people who had left the Perth or Peel regions to other parts of the state.

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India asks Twitter to remove tweets critical of its COVID-19 handling as cases hit new world high

The Indian government asked social media platform Twitter to take down dozens of tweets, including some by local lawmakers, that were critical of India’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, as cases of COVID-19 again hit a world record.

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Biden challenges Turkey, declares atrocities against Armenians were genocide

The systematic killing and deportation of more than a million Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century was “genocide,” the United States has formally declared, prompting a furious response from Turkey.

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Cyclist killed after colliding with stationary car on Mt Nebo

The woman driving the car saw the 31-year-old cyclist lose control of his bike before he collided with her vehicle, police say.

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‘Dumb government fence’: Crowds return for Anzac Day service, but some veterans locked out by fence

Jay and Alex both served in East Timor and Iraq, but only one was able to get tickets to the Anzac Day dawn service. They stood separately but together, on either side of a wire fence erected around the event.

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The first line of defence helping veterans get their life back

After devoting three decades to military service, David struggled to settle back into civilian life. Then, a powerful bond with an unlikely comrade changed his life.

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Anzac Day 2021

Anzac Day is one of Australia’s most important national occasions.

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Tiger Woods posts photo of himself on crutches, says rehab is ‘coming along’

Tiger Woods posted a photo of himself on crutches on Friday and said his rehab is “coming along” two months after the golf great suffered severe leg injuries in a car crash.

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Mitchell’s courage in face of racist abuse source of pride for Walker

Cody Walker says the Indigenous All Stars made a pact to stand up to racism and Latrell Mitchell is walking the walk after two men were charged with abusing him online.

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There are no jobs on a dead planet Sharan Burrow tells Biden’s summit

The former Australia trade union chief now a leader of the international union movement committed to supporting a just transition to clean jobs.

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Second man charged over alleged Caboolture double shooting murder

The 21-year-old Kallangur man was originally taken into custody last Sunday, the day after the deaths, for alleged drug possession at Jindalee in the city’s south-west.

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‘There’s a lot of expectations when you send a Frenchman into space’

Some of the foods French astronaut Thomas Pesquet will enjoy in orbit: lobster, beef bourguignon, cod with black rice, and almond tarts with caramelised pears.

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‘Most painful experience of my life’: Freak accident that saw Cartwright lose 10kg in a week

When Parramatta threw Bryce Cartwright a lifeline for the 2021 season he thought his tough run was behind him. But there was more turmoil to come.

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‘Almost like a game’: Netflix bootlegger avoids jail for scheme that used stolen login details

Evan McMahon, 23, provided people with illicit access to streaming services using millions of stolen login details.

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Woman found in chest a week after alleged murder-suicide by partner

Further details have emerged after the man was first found by the manager of their Gold Coast apartment building on Friday morning during a welfare check.

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AFL 2021 LIVE updates: Jeremy Cameron makes Geelong debut against West Coast, Suns host Swans

Join us for our AFL Saturday live blog as five bumper games take to the field including the much-awaited clash between Richmond and Melbourne.

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School students, families told no risk from exposure to close contact of COVID-19 case

A person classified as a close contact attended the school on Wednesday and Thursday sparking the alert.

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Health authorities urge importance of vaccine after clot case, WA cluster

The sixth clotting case, amid more than 1 million vaccinations, comes as Queensland authorities prepare for an influx of arrivals from now hotspot-declared regions of WA.

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As parts of WA go into their third lockdown, how did we get here?

It appears health bureaucrats had known for weeks of the risks of the Mercure still being used in the nine-hotel quarantine system. Now a city of two million people holds its breath, worried it may not dodge the bullet this time.

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‘It makes me grateful for what I’ve got’: How Haas managed Ramadan in 35-degree Darwin

Payne Haas ran for the most metres out of any Bronco on Friday night, and he did so in stifling heat while completing the Muslim month of fasting.

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Indulging my dark urge of killing off bad men through fiction

Day after day, seeing reports of yet another woman killed by an ex-partner, despite her efforts to escape led my writer’s brain to a satisfying alternative.

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Israeli police arrest dozens in night of chaos in Jerusalem

A far-right Jewish group known as Lahava led a march of hundreds of protesters chanting “Arabs get out!” toward the Damascus Gate.

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‘Bitterly disappointed’: Virus cuts holidays short for Rottnest guests after island evacuation

The popular holiday island was mayhem on Friday after news of a looming lockdown started coming in from the mainland.

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AstraZeneca vaccine doses in US should go to hard-hit countries, says business group

Shipping stockpiled AstraZeneca vaccine doses to countries struggling with the coronavirus “would affirm US leadership, including in COVAX”, the group said.

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Collingwood training cancelled amid AFL COVID hits

The Pies were in Perth to play West Coast last Thursday and Friday and have to isolate until they return a negative COVID-19 test.

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What are CTE and concussion and how do they affect athletes?

What’s the difference between CTE and concussion? What are their short-term and long-term effects? And how are sporting codes handling the problem?

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Man trapped after building collapse in Sydney’s west

An emergency operation is underway to rescue a man trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in Sydney’s west.

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Climate summit ends with Joe Biden pledging that action equals jobs

Biden is pushing hard to redefine the debate, arguing that renewable energy is at least as much an economic opportunity as an environmental imperative.

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‘I want another crack at the NRL’: Pay ready to return to coaching

You would understand if Dean Pay was jaded by the coaching caper, but the former Bulldogs mentor is keen for another opportunity in the NRL.

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US allows J&J COVID-19 vaccinations to resume

Members of an expert panel said it’s critical that younger women be told about that risk so they can decide if they would rather choose another vaccine.

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‘A jolt of disbelief’: the long road to finding my donor dad

After uncovering alarming practices in Australia’s fertility industry, an investigative reporter learnt that a friend was actually her half-sister. Together they tracked down their biological father, who had revelations of his own.

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‘She’s my strongest backer and harshest critic’: ACCC chair Rod Sims on wife Alison Pert

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims met his wife, international law academic Alison Pert, in Papua New Guinea on a blind date. A scuba-diving scare soon afterwards cemented their attraction.  

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Super League beast isn’t dead, and ruling bodies are skating on thin ice

The threat to ban players from international football helped stall the breakaway league’s momentum. But it’s unlikely such a sanction would stand up to European competition laws.

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Three strikes, you’re in: The Olympian who bombed because he was too fit

Kurtis Marschall, the Commonwealth Games pole vault champion, missed every height at the nationals, but his best could put him in medal contention in Tokyo.

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