Live-streamed rituals and QR codes: How pagans worship during a pandemic

How do you join hands in a circle to worship the full moon and maintain social distancing?

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The safe pair of hands entrusted with investigating William Tyrrell’s disappearance

Installed at the helm of the investigation into what happened to William Tyrrell two years ago, Detective Chief Inspector David Laidlaw has spent more than a decade in homicide and has built a reputation as a quiet achiever who gets on with things. 

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PM, NSW Premier at odds over candidates as federal intervention looms

NSW Liberals are teetering on the brink of open warfare over hotly contested preselections before the federal election due by May

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‘It wasn’t worth it’: Sanja’s cosmetic surgery caused years of pain

Sanja Kukic is among about 150 women each year who undergo breast implant removal at reconstructive surgeon Anand Deva’s Sydney practice.

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‘My life just went downhill’: New housing for older women facing homelessness

Women over the age of 55 are the largest growing cohort of people experiencing homelessness.

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AFL subpoenaed in former Tiger’s injury case

Ty Zantuck, the one-time Tigers hardman, has turned to the AFL, among others, as part of his case against the Richmond Football Club.

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Dishwashers on $90 an hour as staff shortages smash hospitality sector

Rockpool Bar & Grill chief executive Corey Costelloe said relatively inexperienced hospitality workers were commanding six-figure wages.

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‘The single greatest blow for fairness in Australia’: push to raise Jobseeker

The Jobseeker payment leaves unemployed Australians below the poverty line and it’s time for that to change, according to social services groups and economists.

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Lifting age of criminal responsibility to 12 would be meaningless in NSW

Figures from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research reveal there were no children aged 10 and 11 and four aged 12 and 13 in NSW prisons as of September 30.

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Families surrender pandemic puppies as NSW Parliament debates convenience killing

A crossbench bill to outlaw convenience killing in pounds passed the NSW upper house last week, as rescue centres warn they are seeing more people surrender puppies bought or adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The extraordinary gift of witnessing creatures in the wild

We were stopped in our tracks, and I was silenced by the miracle we saw: a pod of dolphins in Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay.

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To finally tackle your procrastination, go bite-sized

If you keep putting off wading through your endless inbox, you’re probably a procrastinator.

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Soccer clubs lawyer up to have titles awarded after seasons lost to lockdown

Dozens of soccer clubs across Victoria are pushing to reverse a decision not to crown any winners or promote teams due to lockdowns, with one going to court to be crowned premiers.

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Sydney’s most liveable suburbs – and where residents are least happy

The 2021 Liveability Census found residents in the inner city and north shore were happier with where they live than people in western Sydney.

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Women in science finally getting the recognition they deserve

Science has long been a male-dominated endeavour, but the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards are giving females in the field overdue recognition and inspiring future generations.

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Gender, sex and power: the debate dividing universities

Universities are meant to be the domain of free speech, but they are struggling to wrestle with identity politics and the gender-critical feminism debate.

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‘We are essentially full’: Councillors unite to oppose luxury housing for seniors

A plan to build “prestige boutique scale” housing for the elderly has provoked a backlash from residents and local Liberal and Labor politicians in one of Sydney’s wealthiest suburbs, amid claims young residents are being forced out of the area.

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The temerity of theatre producers denying local artists opportunities in favour of imports

The producers of An American In Paris didn’t think they would be able to find two people in Australia who could sing, dance and act

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Inside the wardrobe of model Nicole Warne

“My love for fashion started young! I didn’t have a favourite piece because I was constantly changing my clothes.”

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I went on a date every week for a year and learnt rejection has upsides

Dating in real life after months of lockdown is daunting. As someone who has been on 138 first dates, I understand the terror of stepping out to meet a new suitor.

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Are we there yet? The disconnect behind the pandemic bill

In a week when nearly all remaining COVID-19 restrictions were lifted, the Victorian government was desperately seeking new emergency powers.

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Murdoch has the power if he really wants Trump to move on

Contrary to what the media tycoon told shareholders this week, the past really isn’t the past yet — particularly because some of his companies revel in reshaping it and bending reality to serve purposes other than the truth.

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Morrison may lie, but his real test is not honesty - it’s about trust

Voters thought John Howard had lied to them, too, but in 2004 they trusted him to run the country more than the alternative ... until they didn’t in 2007.

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The West’s strength might be its weakness in our AI-driven world

The free world’s adversaries will develop competing artificial intelligence systems with little concern for individual liberties or democratic values.

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Morrison’s split personas risk a can’t-do answer from voters

The Prime Minister will struggle to be all things to all people. And he hasn’t really thought through how Australians might receive the words “Can-Do Capitalism”.

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‘Alarming’ alcohol lobby push to weaken public health regulation

The alcohol lobby is trying to water down the food regulator’s efforts to change Australians’ drinking habits.

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Labor’s pensioner scare campaign wedges Coalition between a rock and a hard place

Labor learned in 2019 just how damaging a scare campaign can be. Now many Labor MPs are fighting their own with cashless welfare card claims.

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Where’s William: twists and turns as a nation seeks answers

An extraordinary turn in the seven-year investigation has brought police full circle – back to a person of interest who was ruled out years ago.

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How financial engineering turned into a train wreck for NSW government

Explosive testimony and a trove of confidential documents have lifted the lid on the enormous risks to the state from an obscure rail entity.

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How your club stands ahead of the 2021 draft

The Age takes a look at each club’s needs ahead of the AFL national draft, starting with Adelaide, Brisbane, Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon and Fremantle.

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‘SAS protection racket’: Claims reforms to special forces have been sidelined

“The general mood [among high-ranking defence officers] is that it has been squibbed,” said one senior officer engaged with the Afghanistan inquiry reform process.

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War crimes prosecution could be blown up by legal minefield

Previously unreported investigations into a former SAS soldier might have been compromised because police obtained information they may be prohibited from using.

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The secret rock that could help feed the world and the ‘nerdy’ Australian scientist who discovered it

They lived on a dirt floor in Vietnam while pursuing thier dream to change the world, but now investors are beating a path to the door of Lyndal Hugo and her wife Amanda Cornelissen.

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‘Freedom’ protest influencers back Craig Kelly and Clive Palmer

Some of Australia’s most prominent “freedom” activists involved in the protests unfolding in Melbourne plan to stand with former liberal MP Craig Kelly as candidates for Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party.

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10 years on from the Tiger Mother, did Amy Chua have a point?

After writing a reviled parenting memoir, Amy Chua was accused of child abuse. But now, parents and experts alike are questioning whether her “fascist” parenting style might not have some benefits.

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Millionaire nation: One in four Australian homes now worth more than $1m

In Sydney 52 per cent of houses and apartments have a $1 million plus valuation. In Melbourne, more than a third of homeowners can make this claim.

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Where does your iPhone go to die?

Care about climate change? You have to care about where exactly your e-waste is going.

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The assault, by stealth, on Melbourne’s suburbs

The Victorian government has almost finalised a suite of new powers to impose major projects and higher-density development onto large sections of Melbourne.

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‘They cancelled me as a human’: What nearly killed Logie winner Hugh Sheridan

An online campaign quashed Sheridan’s show before it even began - and left him suicidal. A case of rebalancing bias – or cancel culture gone mad?

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Mark Weinberg’s war crimes probe faces high hurdles. Can it prevail?

The former top judge and prosecutor will need every ounce of his renowned legal acuity if he is to successfully investigate Australian special forces soldiers.

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18,000 stranded by flood waters in Canada

The disruption to Vancouver’s operations is set to exacerbate existing supply chain issues and could even make Christmas trees harder to find, farmers said.

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Sydney man arrested over alleged 300kg Thai heroin seizure

Chatter on An0m – a messaging platform popular with the underworld but which was run covertly by the FBI – allegedly identified Evan Isshak as the Sydney buyer of the drugs.

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ASX set to edge higher as techs buoy Wall Street; bitcoin extends slump

Wall Street has been propped up by tech giants as investors reviewed the latest earnings reports from retailers and an update on the employment market.

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Hotels to stop being used for quarantine within days, but staff will keep their jobs

The state government is ready to scale back its use of quarantine hotels. Seven Melbourne venues will be returned to their original purpose by the end of this year.

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More changes at Aitken as director steps off board

Earlier this week, Ellie Aitken ceased her executive role at Aitken Investment Management. Now Chris Nasser has stepped of Aitken’s board. What gives?

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‘He sniffs blood’: Silent assassin Jhye Richardson ready for Ashes call

In late 2017, the then 21-year-old was recorded bowling at 148km/h during a fiery spell to Steve Smith – topping Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood in the same session.

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Knives are out for unremarkable Religious Discrimination Bill

For religious freedom advocates, the bill is merely a first step. It plugs a glaring gap in existing discrimination law, and not much more, but it’s no surprise that it’s being targeted aggressively by anti-religious secularists.

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Masks off and offices open, but don’t expect a CBD revival just yet

The majority of the state’s COVID restrictions are set to end this week but Melbourne’s big employers are in no hurry to rush back to the office.

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Morrison’s secretive religious ‘freedom’ bill: it’s certainly free of information

Changes to the planned law are a victory for Liberal moderates but raise the question: can the Prime Minister even deliver a law so close to his own heart?

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Why Australia’s missing out on surging wage growth

It’s the question that has been hanging over the economy for the best part of a decade: when will wage growth recover to healthier levels?

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