Four children have been killed and three others have been hospitalised following a pedestrian crash in Sydney’s north-west. Just before 8:00pm, emergency services were called to Bettington Road, Oatlands, near Parramatta, where police believe the children had been hit by a 4WD while riding their bikes. Acting superintendent for Police NSW Danielle Emerton said the families of the children were …

Australia has upgraded its travel advice in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak to include all of mainland China to level four, “do not travel”, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has advised Australians not to travel to China due to the “escalating threat” of the virus, while asking those who have …

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has accused a “toxic, climate-denying alliance of right-wing politics”, the Murdoch media and the coal industry of hijacking Australia’s climate debate. In a damning essay written for US publication Time magazine, Mr Turnbull said that while climate change was a simple matter of physics, Australian politics had made it a matter of ideology. “In Australia, as in the US, this …

The man responsible for the nation’s borders has defended a plan to quarantine Australians evacuated from China on Christmas Island. Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton was grilled on Thursday about the plan to fly up to 600 Australians from China’s coronavirus-plagued Hubei province to Christmas Island. They will remain on the isolated Australian island for up to 14 days. Mr Dutton said …

Dominic Thiem made a significant breakthrough at the Australian Open on Wednesday night, upsetting World No. 1 Rafael Nadal 7-6(3), 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-6(6) at Rod Laver Arena. The Austrian recorded his first Grand Slam victory against the 2009 champion in six attempts to reach his first semi-final at the opening major championship of the year. Thiem won 78 per cent of first-serve points (65/83) and struck 65 …

For a nation that has been sifting through the dirt for decades for a truly loveable tennis champion, Australia has finally hit the mother lode in Ash Barty. The Queenslander is that rarest of rare gems in sport: a relentless winner who is also universally adored and respected. It’s not something Australia has had in abundance of late, in tennis …

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the Federal Government will try to evacuate “isolated and vulnerable Australians” trapped in China because of the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus. The National Security Committee of Cabinet met earlier today and decided to launch the operation, after a briefing from Chinese authorities in Beijing on Monday. Mr Morrison said Australian children and elderly people …

Australian PM Scott Morrison has been accused of lacking leadership during the bushfire crisis – by the man he replaced after a party room coup. Malcolm Turnbull, who was deposed in 2018, told the BBC that Mr Morrison had misled the country by “downplaying” the influence of global warming. Mr Morrison apologised last month for taking a US holiday amid …

Alexei Popyrin has underlined why he is a rising star of Australian tennis after comfortably progressing to the third round at Melbourne Park via a straight-sets win. Popyrin exerted his command over Spain’s Jaume Munar early in their Australian Open encounter on Court Three en route to winning 6-2, 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 in two hours and four minutes. The win …

A clash with Rafael Nadal still looms for Nick Kyrgios, but for the time being he will be satisfied to have safely advanced to the third round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park. Kyrgios was in superb touch at times during his 6-2, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 defeat of veteran Frenchman Gilles Simon to edge a step closer to meeting …