• World No 10 holds nerve in 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (7-4) semi-final win

• Australian will meet Carlos Alcaraz in championship match

Alex de Minaur has held his nerve to claim what could be one of the most significant wins of his career, downing the world No 1-elect Alexander Zverev with a fearless display of attacking tennis to reach the Vienna Open final.

The Australian played a fabulous deciding tiebreaker, nervelessly brushing off a couple of double faults to keep the pressure on the two-time grand slam champion to prevail 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (7-4) to set up a championship match with Carlos Alcaraz at the Wiener Stadthalle.

After attempt at acquittal or retrial was dismissed, Patterson has 28 days to lodge an application for special leave to appeal to Australia’s high court

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After losing her bid for a retrial, the mushroom murderer Erin Patterson could take her fight to the highest court in Australia.

But her prospects of success are far from rosy, a legal expert says.

• World No 10 defeats Matteo Berrettini 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 in quarter-final

• 27-year-old becomes ninth Australian man to reach 350 tour-level wins

Alex de Minaur has enjoyed a landmark 350th tour-level win of his career at the Vienna Open, downing an old rival to set up a semi-final date with the world No 1-elect Alexander Zverev.

Australia’s main man defeated Matteo Berrettini, the Italian he’s had plenty of trouble with down the years, for the second successive year in the quarter-final of the ATP 500 event at the Wiener Stadthalle.

Prohibition of salty, yeast-based condiment in Victoria’s prisons remains after convicted murderer claimed it denied him right to ‘enjoy his culture’

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A murderer who claimed a refusal to allow him Vegemite in prison is a breach of his human rights as an Australian has failed to overturn the ban on the polarising spread.

Andre McKechnie sued Victoria’s corrections department after he was refused the salty, yeast-based condiment in prison.

Offenders still at large after shots fired from vehicle outside licensed premises in Loganholme

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Four people have been injured after a drive-by shooting outside a venue hosting a boxing event, including a 19-year-old woman who was shot in the head.

Queensland police Detective Inspector Ian Galpin said a group of people were gathered at the passenger drop-off zone outside Fitzy’s Loganholme, south of Brisbane, about 8.18pm on Saturday when a Mitsubishi pulled up.

NSW supreme court judge otherwise dismisses case brought by film’s co-producers and awards Wilson almost $400,000 after star countersued

Rebel Wilson has been ordered to pay A$10 (US$7, £5) in damages after emerging victorious from a bitter legal spat with her latest film’s co-producers.

The Pitch Perfect star directed, co-produced and starred in The Deb, a musical comedy that became the battleground for multiple legal battles in Australia and the US.

House prices in Sydney are at a two-year low after falling 4.7% in the September quarter to $1.66m, according to Domain report

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House prices are falling across every capital city for the first time in 15 years and the second time on record, according to figures from Domain’s September Quarter 2026 House Price report.

House prices in Sydney are at a two-year low after falling 4.7% in the September quarter, to $1.66m.

Western Australian police say woman ‘experienced numbness to her tongue’ after tasting the curry at her workplace in Perth

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A woman has been charged after allegedly poisoning a co-worker’s lunch curry with snail pellets.

Western Australian police say a 58-year-old woman brought a container of curry to share with colleagues at her workplace in Perth’s southern suburbs in February.

Australia’s highest court says Queensland drug trafficker extracting and storing eggs is not ‘assisted reproductive technology’

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A 36-year-old woman has won an appeal in Australia’s highest court about her right to freeze her eggs while behind bars.

Rachel Smith is serving a 10-year prison term in Queensland for trafficking in a dangerous drug.

• Kenyan breaks Melbourne Marathon record by two seconds

• ‘I’m happy to run with the gen Zs,’ 41-year-old says

Marathon’s greatest competitor, Eliud Kipchoge, has sent a message to the next generation declaring that he’s not done yet.

The 41-year-old Kenyan revelled in his Melbourne Marathon debut on Sunday, breaking the race record and delighting thousands of fans at the MCG finish.

Tran Hiep, a 50-year-old Vietnamese Australian anti-human trafficking campaigner, not heard from since 18 September

Vietnamese authorities have detained three activists, including an Australian, on what have been described as “fabricated” charges.

The Vietnamese government said the three confessed to being members of Viet Tan – a pro-democracy organisation – which it describes as a terrorist organisation.

Kylie Ellina Truswell-Mobbs, 52, walks out of court after receiving suspended sentence over 2023 death of David Ronald Mobbs

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A Queensland woman facing a potential life sentence after she gave her terminally ill husband a lethal cocktail of drugs has walked out of court to the sound of cheers.

Kylie Ellina Truswell-Mobbs, 52, pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to assisting suicide in the supreme court in Brisbane on Monday.

• International Olympic Committee endorses Fitzroy River course

• World Rowing and Paddle Worldwide back Australian venue

A crocodile habitat has been given the green light to host 2032 rowing after the controversial site passed an assessment “with flying colours”.

Olympic authorities on Thursday confirmed they had approved central Queensland’s Fitzroy River as a Brisbane Games venue, ending months of debate.

Twenty-nine-year-old Queenslander was visiting Kelingking beach on a holiday, Nusa Penida police say

The death of an Australian woman in a cliff fall at a popular Bali tourist destination has been described as “incredibly sad”.

Police say the 29-year-old Queenslander was found stuck on the side of Kelingking beach cliff on Saturday morning, local time. Emergency services rushed to the scene but she fell further before they could reach her.

Legal pioneer remembered as an advocate for equality and champion of women in the workplace

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Mary Gaudron, the first woman appointed to the high court of Australia, has been honoured for her contributions to the legal landscape after her death at the age of 83.

Gaudron was appointed to the high court in 1987, aged 44, and served until 2003.

Passenger recalls seeing cabin lights flicker and ‘a lot of screaming’ after suspected engine issue

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Liza-Jayne Loch was returning home from a business trip to New Zealand when her Qantas flight ran into trouble.

The plane was climbing above the scenic South Island’s mountain ranges on Saturday afternoon, bound for Sydney, when a bang shook the cabin.

A total fire ban is in place for greater Sydney with extreme fire danger exacerbated by hot and windy conditions

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Summer heat is due to arrive early across much of eastern Australia with potentially record early September temperatures predicted for Brisbane and Sydney, while snow was expected in southern New South Wales.

Maximum temperatures in Sydney during the first days of September were on track to match the city’s midsummer average of 26.4C, warmer than any other start to spring since the city’s Observatory Hill station opened in 1858.

NSW police called to Redfern on Wednesday night found a 17-year-old with a partially severed hand

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A teenage boy has faced court after a “near-complete amputation” of another boy’s hand during an alleged assault in Sydney on Wednesday night.

The 15-year-old allegedly attacked a 17-year-old in a car park on Morehead Road, Redfern, at about 6pm on Wednesday.

Coroner finds 31-year-old deviated from a walking track as dusk fell, four days before the winter solstice

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Overlapping errors, including a lack of preparation in near-freezing winter weather, contributed to the death of a Belgian tourist on a wilderness track.

Celine Cremer set off on a walk at Philosopher Falls in Tasmania’s remote north-west on 17 June 2023 and was reported missing almost 10 days later.

What was originally reported as a body found in Oallen on Sunday was ‘very realistic in the terms of looking like human remains’, NSW police say

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What appeared to be a woman’s body found in a suitcase by the side of a road in regional Australia was in fact a lifelike doll with markings resembling bruises and grazes, police say.

New South Wales police said they were called to Wolgon Road in Oallen, near Goulburn, about 12.50pm on Sunday “following reports a body had been located”.