Yara Murray-Atfield

Royalty, prime ministers and some of entertainment’s biggest names join the family of Barry Humphries to farewell the entertainer at the Sydney Opera House. Look back at our coverage of his memorial service.

A Papua New Guinean lawyer who fled to Australia after blowing the whistle on one of the Pacific nation’s biggest corruption scandals is awarded a prestigious free speech prize.

Emergency services find what appears to be the wreckage of a light aircraft in Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay after two planes collided midair.

Political leaders condemn violent clashes that erupted between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters in Melbourne’s south-east in the wake of a fire at a nearby burger shop.

A review into Melbourne’s 2022 floods finds the city’s water authority should overhaul its approach to flood modelling, but is unable to determine whether the disaster was worsened by a controversial wall at Flemington Racecourse.

Premier Daniel Andrews declares victory for Labor in his third-straight election win as leader, saying “hope always defeats hate”.

At the site of a former Bunnings warehouse, nurses prepare doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines from a portable fridge. The shots will soon be administered at Australia’s first drive-through COVID vaccination clinic.

Two of many cases highlighted by Victorian officials as examples of “fleeting” transmission between strangers are reclassified as false positives.

Victoria is spending big on mental health, schools and transport, but big businesses and property investors will be slugged with tax increases. Find out what it means for you.

With property prices surging and competition among first homebuyers heating up, Katie Higgins turns to social media. It’s a move one housing expert says is not surprising as people become more desperate.