8 h. ago This festival started in Parramatta’s back lanes. Now it’s taken over the whole city

What once attracted a few thousand people is now reaching hundreds of thousands.

Politics

9 h. ago Class action filed over rates of sexual violence in the Australian Defence Force

Multiple women who allege systemic sexual abuse during their employment with the ADF have taken part in a class action against the Commonwealth.

Events

21 h. ago What are your tips for Sri Lanka as a solo female traveller?

“I’m a solo female traveller in my early 40s looking to do a trip to Sri Lanka. What tours you would recommend and which airline should I fly?”

Politics

21 h. ago Police recruits to take streamlined online entrance exam in push to fill 1200 vacancies

About 40 per cent of the 3100 people wanting to become police officers are languishing on a waiting list, but a new system aims to get them on the front line faster.

Events

30 h. ago For doctors, uncertainty is a fact. But we must be brave, take risks – and save lives

Medicine needs more evidence creators, not just evidence users. I implore students and young doctors to step up.

Politics

33 h. ago Australia v India, second ODI: Rohit’s rearguard ends in India’s Adelaide Oval fightback against Australia

Australia take on India in the second ODI at Adelaide Oval with a 1-0 series lead.

Events

34 h. ago I was wrongfully jailed in Egypt, but Australia’s culture of surveillance takes the cake

Australia is the most “reflexively secretive” country that this former foreign correspondent has dealt with. If we don’t defend our freedoms, we will lose them.

Events

36 h. ago Australia v India, second ODI: Starc, Hazlewood continue Ashes build

Australia take on India in the second ODI at Adelaide Oval with a 1-0 series lead.

Politics

36 h. ago Australia v India, second ODI: India in huge strife, Kohli out for a duck as Australia’s bowling depth shines

Australia take on India in the second ODI at Adelaide Oval with a 1-0 series lead.

Politics

38 h. ago Sofie Laguna takes a trip into the underworld. No, not that one

The Miles Franklin winner’s fifth novel, about an unhappy teenage girl at a boarding school, is imbued with her love of the myths of ancient Rome and Greece.

Politics

38 h. ago Rookie surfer drowns in wild seas alongside friend who tried to save him

A police rescuer was also taken to hospital after he swallowed water while trying to rescue the men in the wild weather.

Politics

41 h. ago ASX lower, energy stocks jump after Trump takes aim at Russia

The Australian sharemarket has retreated at the open but energy companies jumped after oil prices surged higher as President Donald Trump levied new sanctions on Russian oil giants overnight.

Politics

58 h. ago Victoria's top cop apologises for using police helicopter to fly to Tasmania

Victoria's top cop has apologised for making the ‘wrong decision’ to take a police helicopter to Tasmania to attend a work conference.

Events

62 h. ago Style over substance as monster of a movie gets lost in its Gothic posing

Jacob Elordi’s Creature is a victim for our times in Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, but there is little nuance in this take on Mary Shelley’s classic novel.

Politics

62 h. ago We already have a good Frankenstein film. We don’t need this one

Jacob Elordi’s Creature is a victim for our times in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, but there is little nuance in this take on Mary Shelley’s classic novel.

Politics

69 h. ago ‘Some of the worst’: Veteran war journo takes aim at ABC’s David Marr

The ABC veteran brushed off the sledge after the pair had a testy interview over the media’s coverage of Gaza.

Events

3 d. ago ‘I’ll kill your whole family’: Bombshell confessions and secret recordings rock WA bikie trial

The WA bikie accused of paying an ex-soldier to shoot an underworld rival was also allegedly caught on tape threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend.

Events

3 d. ago Trump says AUKUS is ‘full steam ahead’ and three other key takeaways from Albanese meeting

Donald Trump says he intends to honour and expedite the nuclear-submarine pact as Australia and the US signed a rare-earths agreement.

Politics

3 d. ago A killer’s confession: WA bikie’s assassination wasn’t motorplex sniper’s first

A former soldier at the centre of a trial over the underworld killing that rocked Western Australia has made a bombshell admission in court.

Events

3 d. ago NSW Government to spend $190 million to take over troubled hospital

Northern Beaches Hospital came under fire after the death of two-year-old Joe Massa last year.

Economics