Acting Deputy Premier Paul Toole has spoken out in support of Nationals leader John Barilaro, who is facing the loss of his licence after receiving several fines for driving offences.

THE bosses of the biggest six aged care companies pocket seven-figure salaries and churn through $2.17 billion in taxpayer funds a year.

Nine’s big experiment with 2GB is failing spectacularly.

Flood victims are calling for urgent help after many spent Christmas sleeping in their cars or under their houses while emergency housing pods built specifically for them stand empty on the side of...

Sydney’s busy burger scene is about to get a taste of Hollywood.

Snowy Hydro 2.0 a family affair

Sydney’s biggest businesses have called on the NSW government and major employers to require all workers to be vaccinated before they can work as part of a road map to recovery from lockdown.

As the waters rose pensioners Derrick and Sue Goodwin retreated first to the bedroom of their Lismore home and then up on top of the wardrobe.

Almost a year after Premier Gladys Berejiklian declared “Pyrmont is open for business”, a group set up to discuss development has so far only decided that if the suburb was a dessert it would be a...

He has been privy to the conversations and decisions at the very heart of government that have shaped our nation’s response to the Covid pandemic.

Sydney would be considered a “country backwater” if the city cannot hold The Everest and a Bruno Mars concert on the same day, Premier Perrottet says.

True story — a man rides a horse into the Boorowa Hotel and landlord Michael Ward asks: “Why the long face?”

A diplomatic investigation is under way after two police security cars crashed as Australia’s High Commissioner to the UK George Brandis tried to catch up to and join the Prime Minister’s official...

Popular Australian broadcaster and journalist Erin Molan has quit Nine to join Sky News as a prime time contributor and to write a regular column for The Daily Telegraph.

Fishos, get ready for a one in a million opportunity.

Royal Australian Navy personnel have been stopped from marching at the Anzac Day Dawn Service in case they trip in the dark.

Twenty years after Cathy Freeman lit the cauldron at the 2000 opening ceremony, Sydney’s Olympic flame has been reignited – and this time it went off without a hitch.

The first of 55,000 Pacific Island workers could be on planes to NSW as early as Monday to help bring in the state’s bumper $8 billion harvest.

A TEENAGE boy from an exclusive private school allegedly raped a drunk 15-year-old girl at a house party in Sydney while his mate filmed the assault on his mobile phone.

Frustrated commuters from Sydney’s northwest thought it would never happen but after eight years and $7.3 billion the once-in-a-generation Sydney Metro took its first public passengers on a trip into...

Qantas has slashed its multi-million dollar sponsorship of Australian sport, with the embattled Rugby Australia the biggest victim of the cuts.

Suspended TV and radio personality Chris Smith has checked himself into a mental health facility and apologised to the female colleagues left in tears by his behaviour.It comes as Sky News colleague...

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Labor leader Chris Minns today told of his regrets over a trip to China funded by a Chinese billionaire who was exiled from Australia by ASIO as an agent of influence.

On the day Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce told passengers they were not “match fit” his head office staff were treated to live music and “dog therapy” with puppies to relieve stress.

Peter V’landys is putting on his biggest dance move yet with an audacious plan to cash in on the Melbourne Cup.