7 h. ago ‘Fearing the worst’: Dogs prepare for possibility knee injury will end Darcy’s season

A hush went over Marvel Stadium as the Bulldogs’ star forward hobbled off the ground with a knee injury sustained in a marking contest.

Events

10 h. ago The top reasons voters are hesitant on Albanese or Dutton – and it’s worse in marginal seats

An exclusive survey for this masthead reveals the top concerns voters have as the May 3 election approaches.

Politics

13 h. ago Father dies, son in hospital after being swept into ocean from rocks on ‘worst Easter weekend’

Six people have died in a horror toll of drownings across the Easter long weekend, over what Surf Life Saving NSW’s boss call the “worst Easter weekend” he’s seen.

Politics

22 h. ago After a chance encounter at the library, I no longer hide my age

Rather than being a “woman of a certain age”, I’m proud to be in my 70s.

Politics

22 h. ago Thinking of a fringe? Don’t go the chop without reading this first

Are you more of a Daisy Edgar-Jones, or a Kendall Jenner?

Politics

22 h. ago Crumbling facade, no balconies: The push to turn a ’60s concrete bunker into homes

The facade is falling away and the windows are tiny – this is a building that is showing its age. So transport nerds, would you want to live inside the former VicRoads offices in Kew?

Politics

22 h. ago Drop: As suspenseful as anything I’ve experienced in a cinema for ages

Meghann Fahy plays a woman having the worst night of her life as a series of mysterious threatening phone messages wrecks a first date.

Politics

37 h. ago The worst paid teachers in Australia are spoiling for a fight to get a better deal

The teachers’ union has raised the spectre of strike action for the first time in a decade in pursuit of a pay demand of up to 14 per cent for 52,000 Victorian government school educators.

Society

51 h. ago How NRL’s brightest half came of age: Four things learnt in Dolphins’ boilover

As one of the game’s brightest young talents put on a masterclass, two Queensland hopefuls now face anxious waits with injuries clouding their seasons.

Politics

51 h. ago Bombers hold on in Good Friday thriller but star big man is facing a long injury lay

Brad Scott has all but confirmed the worst fears of Essendon fans – that Sam Draper has injured his Achilles.

Events

2 d. ago Which is Victoria’s smallest federal electorate? Take The Age quiz

How well do you know Melbourne and Victoria? Test your trivia and news knowledge with The Age’s weekly quiz.

Politics

3 d. ago The Magpies just thumped the Lions at the Gabba, and this incident could make matters worse for the premiers

The Magpies have made a statement, thumping the Lions on their own turf on the Thursday night stage.

Politics

3 d. ago The new beauty standard is worse than ‘rewinding the clock’, it’s having no age all

In the same way Ozempic has obliterated the body positivity movement, new “undetectable” cosmetic interventions are creating unattainable goals for women.

Politics

3 d. ago The new beauty standard is worse than ‘rewinding the clock’, it’s having no age at all

In the same way Ozempic has obliterated the body positivity movement, new “undetectable” cosmetic interventions are creating unattainable goals for women.

Politics

3 d. ago Meet Noel. He’s just recorded his second album at the age of 97

“I wake up with a song these days,” singer-songwriter Noel Balfour says.

Politics

3 d. ago Torched, defaced, smeared: have Australia’s corflute wars gone too far?

Candidates in marginal electorates have reported a high number of incidents with campaign posters being torn down, or worse.

Events

3 d. ago WA students with ‘maths dyslexia’ fall through the cracks as crisis worsens

The low percentage of WA students excelling in maths means those with the learning disorder dyscalculia are falling through the cracks.

Events

4 d. ago How ‘Australia’s worst school’ transformed after public low point

Two determined principals dramatically turned around the culture of a school where student and educators’ physical and mental health, plus academic records, had been plummeting.

Politics

4 d. ago Teachers bitten, pushed down stairs: How ‘Australia’s worst school’ transformed after public low point

Two determined principals dramatically turned around the culture of a school where student and educators’ physical and mental health, plus academic records, had been plummeting.

Society

4 d. ago I’ve followed our leaders for 10 elections now. Society is getting angrier

Protesters have always been liable to get angry. But the police presence during this election campaign shows that anger is getting worse.

Politics