• AFL Briefing
• AFL 2025

Three-match ban for Roo ruck Xerri; Son of a Carlton gun in hot water over vicious VFL shove

North Melbourne will weigh up whether to challenge Tristan Xerri’s three-match ban for knocking out Melbourne’s Tom Sparrow. Meanwhile, Carlton’s Ben Camporeale has his own tribunal woes.

• July 14, 2025
• Peter Ryan and Hannah Kennelly

• Exclusive
• Public transport

How ‘boys club’ at Sydney Trains puts female workmates at risk of harm

A confidential report contains personal accounts that are damning of the male-dominated workplace at the country’s largest passenger rail operator.

• July 6, 2025
• Matt O'Sullivan

• Opinion
• Opinion

We have a great law to tackle workplace sexual harassers. Pity it’s never been used

Amid horrific claims of sexual harassment and abuse in the hospitality industry, what if Australia’s world-leading Respect@Work law is a “dead letter”? A law that’s on the books but never enforced might as well not exist.

• July 3, 2025
• Karen O'Connell and Josh Bornstein

• Investigation
• Investigation

Hospitality giants in spotlight

Some of Australia’s giants of hospitality are in the spotlight across a series of investigations by the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Good Food and 60 Minutes.

• Opinion
• Susan Kiefel

I was among this disgraced judge’s victims. Attempts to honour him are an insult

The former High Court judge Dyson Heydon is being rehabilitated in some parts of the legal profession. It’s galling.

• June 27, 2025
• Rachael Patterson Collins

• NSW councils

This serial pest called a woman a ‘fat dumb blonde’. He says he was being picked on

Councillors are behaving badly across the state, yet the NSW system for holding them accountable is broken.

• June 27, 2025
• Jordan Baker

• Social media

Is this the end of faceless internet trolls? How one ‘mumfluencer’ is turning the tables

Indy Clinton hired a private investigator to find the anonymous trolls who relentlessly cyberbullied her. Could this mark the start of a new era for online engagement?

• June 25, 2025
• Nell Geraets

• Courts

Blake Lively responds after $600 million suit against her thrown out

The court decision is the latest development in the bitter legal battle surrounding the dark romantic drama It Ends With Us.

• June 10, 2025

• Opinion
• Opinion

The one question you must ask your teenage kids

We know one in four women between the ages of 18 and 24 has been on the receiving end of something resembling a dick pic. But it starts much earlier than that. Much, much earlier.

• May 27, 2025
• Jenna Price