The Australian Open Golf in Sydney attracted almost 60,000 people over the weekend and showcased the city to the world – but there are fears a lack of funding means it will be moved to Melbourne next year.

Seafood Industry Australia CEO Veronica Papacosta said “strong availability” and limited supply chain issues unlike previous years would keep festive price hikes at bay, including for the nation’s beloved Christmas favourite, prawns.

Upgrading the RNA Showgrounds to give the Brisbane Lions and Queensland Cricket a home during the Gabba rebuild isn’t the state government’s responsibility, Sport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe has sensationally declared.

In Adelaide, a physical altercation had ­broken out at a northern suburbs wedding, spilling onto a residential street, before a car reversed into the crowd, CCTV footage reveals.

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An emotional Anthony Albanese yesterday announced his good friend, Labor MP Peta Murphy, had died after a lengthy battle with cancer, aged 50. 

Destination NSW was dealt a $125m budget blow in Labor’s September budget, further fuelling fears that Sydney could be set to lose major events such as the Australian Open golf tournament. 

After more than three months of deadlocked negotiations and two rounds of strike action, the SA teacher’s union is set to agree to the state government’s latest pay offer. 

Gold Logie nominated actor Mark Coles Smith was told to “mind your own business” after disturbing a group of offenders carrying out an arson attack on a Collingwood convenience store. 

Queensland is bracing for its first cyclone of the season as the Bureau of Meteorology keeps a close eye on a tropical low that is expected to develop into a category 3 tropical cyclone by Thursday. 

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Labor is under pressure to ­justify the release of 142 ­immigration detainees after a High Court ruling on one test case involving a convicted child sex offender, as the ­Coalition argues there was no need to let so many people out.

Athletics Australia has lambasted Daniel Andrews for dumping the Commonwealth Games, saying it will cause “immeasurable harm”.

A tourism industry leader is calling on the government to help Adelaide leapfrog Melbourne as southern Australia’s premier cruise ship home port or risk losing a significant portion of the $215m cruising made for the South Australian economy last year.

A boutique 20,000-seat stadium will be constructed at Brisbane’s inner-city RNA Showgrounds under a state government plan to host AFL and cricket fixtures while the Gabba is redeveloped to host the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Lobster lovers may have to shell out $150 a kilo this Christmas as wild weather off Victoria and Tasmania triggers possible shortages.

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Hands visibly shaking, a tearful Brittany Higgins held up a diagram showing the exact location of the couch in Parliament House where she was allegedly raped.

Dumped radio host Lauren Phillips has questioned whether a Sydney-based show will work in her beloved Melbourne hometown.

Playford has become the second council this month to stop reading out an Acknowledgment of Country following a lengthy “culture wars” debate between councillors.

One of Australia’s top international music exports has slipped quietly into Sydney undetected.

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Brittany Higgins will give “graphic and distressing” evidence about allegations she was sexually assaulted in Parliament House by Bruce Lehrmann, a court has heard.

Unions and developers have joined forces to push for urgent reforms that would give nurses, ambos and other essential workers a fighting chance of being able to afford to live in Sydney.

Australia’s largest cruise operator will pull several of its ships from Melbourne in protest against the Victorian government’s decision to increase its ports tax from next year. 

Shocking footage, that will be vital at the inquest into Queensland’s deadliest police massacre, details the moment Good Samaritan Alan Dare arrives to help his neighbours only to be fatally shot by a camouflaged gunman lying in wait seconds later, his devastated widow has revealed.

A three-month-old baby girl was taken to hospital after being showered with glass when a wall at a neighbouring construction site collapsed in the wake of the wild storm in Adelaide overnight on Monday.

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Bruce Lehrmann has admitted to taking cocaine on the night he learned he was the subject of sexual assault allegations, telling a court he “spiralled” after watching Brittany Higgins’ The Project interview.

Training for venue bouncers is “not fit for purpose” and needs to be urgently overhauled as part of a broader move to ­turbocharge Sydney’s night-time economy.

A released immigration detainee who refused a mandatory electronic tracker was uncontactable to police and at large in the community as Labor refused to reveal any details about the case.

The worst of the storm  missed Adelaide, but Whyalla, Port Augusta, Port Pirie, Jamestown, Melrose, Peterborough and Olary were affected.

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Police and border agents monitoring convicted criminals released from immigration detention will get $255m to bolster tracking efforts and prosecute any individuals who breach sweeping emergency laws. 

Over 80 climate activists were arrested in the waters off the Port of Newcastle last night for overstaying their welcome just days after the NSW Police Minister was accused of encouraging the group to go ahead with the protest action. 
 
The growing demand for affordable housing in Queensland has pushed a not-for-profit organisation to sell two of its inner-city properties so it can try and buy multiple new homes for those in need further out of town. 

Abusive parents who attack educators online will be banned from South Australian schools for the first time, while aggressive families face longer sin bin penalties, under an official crackdown on surging bad behaviour. 

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Colleagues of an Adelaide mother allegedly murdered by her estranged husband inside their family home have revealed heartbreaking details about her final weeks as a fundraiser is set up in her honour. 

Melbourne hospitals workers faced an onslaught of abuse last financial year – equivalent to more than one attack every hour – as staff warn aggression from patients and their families has spiked in recent years. 

An ex-Adelaide woman accused of twice attempting to kill her former partner – then plotting to kill him and his mother after those attempts failed – has arrived back in Australia after being extradited from a Pacific island. 

A Victorian Labor MP has warned the “body positivity movement” is normalising weight gain, leading to a surge in overweight women with “cascading” health problems. 

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Hamas will release dozens of hostages from Gaza in an agreed prisoner swap and ceasefire deal with Israel – but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed the war will go on. 

The woman seated alongside alleged killer teenager driver Dhirren Singh Randhawa has told police the son of SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens “ran across the road, into the path” of the vehicle moments before the fatal impact. 

US band The Brian Jonestown Massacre cancelled a Victorian show on Wednesday after their Melbourne gig degenerated into abuse and fist fights on stage. 

Australia’s richest person has called on the federal government to give the nation a “Christmas bonus” in the form of a petrol excise tax cut to deal with spiralling costs. 

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Violent men who are charged by police for choking women will be regarded as serious violent offenders and could be forcibly detained even after their sentence has been served under new laws to be introduced today. 

The teenage driver accused of killing Charlie Stevens has been banned from contacting the four eyewitnesses to the alleged hit and run crash – whose conflicting accounts underpin the case against him. 

Tens of thousands of Queensland public servants are set to receive a one-off cash boost in time for Christmas in a generous wage deal set to cost the state government $350m a year. 

New schools for booming Western Sydney suburbs risk being overcrowded from the day they open, with existing primary schools already enrolling more kids than the maximum capacity of the proposed high schools nearby. 

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