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Victoria reached 16 days without community transmission on Friday, while Queensland and NSW also recorded no new local cases.

Around 2000 competitors hit the water at the Mornington Peninsula for the Portsea Swim Classic, the first major in-person swimming event this year.

The chief health officer said there were three locations in Queensland where COVID-19 was found in wastewater and warned residents to get tested.

The man disappeared after a powerful wave crashed over the breakwall on Thursday evening.

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The heatwave will continue to intensify over the next few days until hitting its peak on Tuesday.

Local hikes to escape Sydney without leaving it

Tourism operators say domestic travellers will not fill the gap left by international visitors.

A 92-year-old woman is in hospital after being assaulted during a home invasion in Sydney’s inner west.

Just after 10pm on Friday night emergency services responded to reports that up to three people had been washed into the surf.

The state government has taken control of Pioneer Park and called in police in an extraordinary move to dismantle a controversial homeless camp.

Two Queensland neighbourhoods being developed to run with 100 per cent solar and battery is set to save home owners $1600 per year on their power bills.

There are now ten coronavirus cases linked to the Australian Open ahead of the tennis tournament’s start on February 8, as the government confirmed more hotels will be contracted to house people in quarantine.

We have spent more time than ever with our four-legged friends during COVID-19 lockdowns. How do they see the world? And what are they really feeling?

A week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial Review photographers.

Visitors will be able to walk around the Optus Stadium rooftop and lean out over the field 42m above the ground for the ultimate Instagram photo.

The man was rushed to hospital from the watchhouse and underwent surgery.

Sydney doesn't just do salt water exceptionally well - make a splash at these scenic freshwater swim spots.

Critics of the Australian honours system claim it is too politicised, too weighted towards the wealthy, too pale, male and stale. Can the growing movement to make it more egalitarian really make a difference?

Australian health authorities have expressed their concern that a new and more transmissible mutant coronavirus strain running rampant across Britain could be much more deadly than earlier strains.

​A Sydney dentist and a young construction worker, both linked to the notorious Ibrahim family, have been ordered to repay almost $16 million they received in “spotters’ fees” from a well-known developer.

Universities have farewelled vast numbers of researchers and academics. A huge resource is now loose in the community.

Stop the nonsense and call Australia Day "Australians Day" and give us all an opportunity to celebrate the fact that we all live in the best country in the world. 

Australia has an “urgent moral obligation” to help lead international efforts on climate action, Australian Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt has told an international summit.

Several Queensland bodies have given conditional support to the extension of Jeannette Young’s special powers to the end of September.

As our political leaders play fast and loose with the truth, what are our kids supposed to make of this mess?

Mum and dad’s house is packed with weird and whacky things from a lifetime of weird and whacky travels.

Our nationalistic pride is too often blinkered to the injustices against Indigenous Australians that have indelibly scarred our early settlement history.

The Andrews government is recruiting hotels in addition to the 11 already operating with the number of Australians allowed to land in Melbourne set to climb next month.

There is a massive shortage of seasonal workers to pick fruit on Victorian farms. Why don’t locals want to do it?

COVID-19 concerns and a raft of complex, changing social distancing restrictions have presented hospitality groups and restaurants with steep challenges.

The Queensland Hotels Association says staff at city hotels could be sacked if a plan to move COVID quarantine to the regions gets the nod.

A driver has been charged over the death of a 17-year-old boy who was hit by a vehicle that veered onto the footpath along a major road in Sydney’s south-west.

A 32-year-old Warrnambool father has been remembered as a “fun-loving, mischievous and supportive mate” after being taken by a shark in South Australia.

The Paralympian and tennis champion on how sport saved his life, running for political office and why he’s proud to discuss his sex life.

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A 24-year-old man is in hospital after being swept out to sea from rocks at the popular beach in Sydney’s Royal National Park.

The koala’s disappearance sparked a massive search effort in the Bibra Lake bushland the next day, with concerns the elderly marsupial wouldn’t survive long without her medication. 

Only Queensland and South Australia have kept their bans for people from Greater Sydney, while the other states and territories have started easing restrictions.

Victoria is predicted to heat up over the Australia Day long weekend, with temperatures set to soar into the 40s across much of the state.

Rough sleepers in Fremantle’s ‘tent city’ have been offered to stay in hotels as the government moves to clear the homeless camp.

Much of NSW could be sweltering under severe to extreme heat into next week.

Much of NSW will be sweltering under severe to extreme heat into next week and areas of Sydney such as Richmond and Penrith possibly reaching temperatures in the low 40s.

A Spanish tennis player in hard lockdown after potentially being exposed to COVID-19 on an Australian Open charter flight says she has now tested positive. Emirates says it will resume flights from London to Australia within days. Follow along for mo...

Google and Facebook threaten to banish Australian users as an inquiry into the use of Australian media content becomes an old-fashioned showdown.

The organiser of Sydney’s Invasion Day rally to be held at the Domain on January 26 has said the march will go ahead and is likely to be well in excess of the COVID-19 legal limit for protests.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s office broke the law when it shredded documents relating to a $250 million grants scheme, according to an investigation.

A tropical low currently looming of the North West coast is unlikely to develop into a cyclone, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.