A not entirely fruitless endeavour.

Dozens of Australian Open players will be forced to quarantine for 14 days – without training – after new tournament arrivals tested positive for COVID-19.

People who are vision or hearing impaired have served on juries in NZ, the UK and the US, but they still aren't allowed on a jury in Victoria.

Shayleen Frail has recounted the fatal moments a car mounted the curb in Wellington and struck and killed her sons Sheldon, 6, and Shane, 7.

Residents from across Sydney took to social media on Saturday night to report sightings of the meteor, the last one of note since July.

Maddison Hickson, 23, is behind bars after her father Michael John Carroll died at a home near Maitland on Saturday.

Under the plan, the maximum price a passenger would pay for a standard trip would be $4.90, or $4.40 if using the standard Smartrider, and $3.90 for the Smartrider auto-reload.

The public must be kept informed if a mass immunisation program, due to start in a month, is to succeed.

Several health experts are urging the Victorian government to embrace rapid antigen testing for coronavirus, arguing that the technology is cheap, improving in accuracy, and could help keep borders open and strengthen hotel quarantine.

The blaze started just before 11.15am on Saturday near Modong Nature Reserve and as of 12.47pm it had jumped Thomas Road, burning in the rear of at least three properties of Cumming Road. 

A land, air and water search is underway for New Zealander Tane Huffman, who failed to return from his swim on Saturday.

Police have been told the man, believed to be aged 41, was with five other men on separate inflatable lilos when he became wedged on a large submerged rock about 1pm.

Severe thunderstorms could lash parts of the south-east on Sunday afternoon and evening.

Remote learning, working from home and general isolation exposed vulnerabilities in relationships as services report more couples seeking separation advice as pandemic drags on.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian voiced frustration with Victoria's travel restrictions on Sunday, saying that the NSW-Victorian border should have reopened "quite a while back".

We should be wary about casting aside creatures that have survived against the odds.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said testing rates in NSW must increase before restrictions can be eased.

The world had never devoted so much time to the stream of consciousness of a non-Kardashian.

"Ordinary Australians", the same ones that our politicians love to wax lyrical about, are often left empty-handed on Australia Day.

Parnell Palme McGuiness believes that Trump and his unprincipled popularism represent the working class in America.

NSW and Victoria are still facing increasing bushfire risks this summer due to the growing likelihood of severe grass fires, despite recent wet weather and the vast amount of fuel burnt out by the Black Summer blazes a year ago.

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Leading medical groups are weighing up ideas to vaccinate millions of Australians by the middle of the year.

More regulation is coming for social media, but users are pushing the real agenda. Media savvy friends are becoming reluctant users of platforms and taking them off their phones.

Travel restrictions and border closures have encouraged holidaymakers to stay close to home.

Separated from their partners, studies and new lives in Australia, students from four countries tell of their fears as they beg for certainty on when they could return.

NSW Maritime figures show a 40 per cent rise in secondhand boats and a 26 per cent rise in new boat registrations during the pandemic.

Named after influencer Kim Kardashian, the index was developed to measure the discrepancy between a scientist's social media profile and their publication record. A high index increased the likelihood that they were famous for being famous.

University vice-chancellors and education agents say students in India, Nepal and China are pursuing alternative countries because they would rather risk COVID-19 than study online.

2021 is shaping up to be a challenge for Victoria's opposition, while social media platforms may face a reckoning.

Victoria and NSW are still facing increasing bushfire risks this summer due to the growing likelihood of severe grass fires, despite recent wet weather and the vast amount of fuel burnt out by the Black Summer blazes a year ago.

The bodies of Kaoru Okano and her three young daughters, aged 3, 5 and 8, were found huddled together in an en suite after fire ravaged a townhouse.

Victoria has eased conditions for people travelling back from the Greater Brisbane area as Queensland authorities say they are now "hopeful" the hotel cluster has been contained.

Holidaymakers have stayed close to home this summer break as ongoing travel restrictions and border closures boost travel to regional NSW.

Easing restrictions around pubs and restaurants did not quench Australians' thirst for takeaway booze.

After a tragic suspected murder-suicide which left a Melbourne mother and three young children dead this week, experts have warned of a lack of support for those at risk of such crimes, and a misguided 'optimism' that such a thing could never happen.

In the past 10 months, the Therapeutic Goods Administration has received 44 complaints about the thermometers which often greet people at the entrance of shops, businesses, schools and childcare centres.

Victoria has lifted travel blocks on Brisbane and will soon reopen to most of Sydney after days of criticism that the travel guidelines were unnecessarily harsh.

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Businesses owners, industry and politicians are warning tourism businesses in border towns will sink under the weight of two summer wipeouts in a row.

Radwan Dakkak was jailed for 18 months for knowingly associating with a member of a terrorist organisation.

While economists and demographers forecast an overall drop in Australia's birth rate due to the pandemic, an unexpected trend is emerging.

From castanets and panpipes for the kids to immersive art, we have your week in Sydney covered.

Thunderstorms brought heavy rain to south-east Queensland on Saturday afternoon, but the weather bureau has warned of a possible cyclone next week.

Global COVID-19 death toll hits two million as Victorian anger grows over border restrictions while tennis players enter the state. NSW considers vaccine phone 'ticks'.

The announcement follows the national cabinet's decision to significantly reduce the cap on international arrivals via commercial flights by 50 per cent until mid-February, following concerns that the hotel quarantine system will be challenged by the...

NSW recorded one new locally acquired case on Saturday, as the Victorian Premier flagged possible changes to the NSW border restrictions on Sunday.

About 30 people will be released from hotel quarantine by 6pm Saturday, as authorities get a greater understanding of the current virus cluster.

Victorians stranded in Queensland will soon be able to return home. The southern state recorded no new locally acquired cases and three new cases among international travellers in hotel quarantine in the past day.

The Matagaraup bridge climb will open to the public on January 26 with day-time, evening and moonlight walks all on the cards.