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People living close to vaccination sites may receive surprise afternoon phone calls telling them to hurry in and get their jabs as part of a program to prevent vaccine waste.

Police are yet to locate Ju Zhang, 33, who was last seen at her home on Winchester Avenue, Epping, about 5.30pm on Monday.

Health Minister Martin Foley ‘not briefed’ on planned deployment of dozens more ADF personnel to Victoria, before mission called off for ‘operational reasons’.

HSC supporters say the money is well spent. But critics say it’s another reason to abandon an exam they describe as outdated and “bloated”.

NSW Police have taken action against businesses in south-west Sydney for failing to check-in customers and have COVID-19 safety plans in place.

After being cancelled last year just days after its launch, the festival has even greater relevance in 2021, with the coronavirus pandemic focusing attention on science like never before.

When asked if any practices or policies around digital access had changed ahead of the new school year, an education department spokesman pointed to the 8517 dongles and 13,666 devices it dispatched last year.

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Last time NSW had a mouse problem, it cost farmers more than $200 million in lost crops.

Spokesman for the sport’s governing body said state government was too busy with plans for quarantining tennis players to provide it with an answer in time.

Exhibition commemorating the massacre of 28 Aboriginal Australians at the hands of convicts in 1838 hopes to challenge the way visitors understand their local history.

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It has been a tough week for emergency crews across the state as they grappled with a monster bushfire in the Perth Hills and extensive flooding and damaging weather in the state’s north all during a five-day lockdown sparked by a positive COVID-19...

Spring Creek has become the latest flashpoint in a controversial planning review looking at how the Torquay area can accommodate massive growth.

The result comes as NSW Police prepares to roll out a new pilot program collecting DNA from family members of the state’s unsolved missing persons.

After months of lockdown and no sports games, Melbourne welcomed back AFLW with a hearty roar.

Homicide detectives have ruled the disappearance of Natarn Auld, 38, as non-suspicious, with a report to be prepared for the coroner.

The Family Court heard the woman learned her husband was likely already married shortly after their 2018 nuptials in Queensland.

Workplace leadership remains based on outdated modes of supervision. It’s time to stop treating employees like toddlers.

More than 70 per cent of the close contacts of a Victorian hotel quarantine worker who contracted COVID-19 have now tested negative to the virus.

Police found the 20-month-old boy in Salisbury on Sunday morning after he was taken from a home in Darra overnight.

Seeing cities in lockdown was the push Jancine and Steve Harrison needed to pack up and move to town, which is home to about 2000 people.

Closing the inequality gap has become a matter of urgency as external forces threaten to divide us further.

Many people have used lockdowns to reflect on how and where they want their lives to be, and now “lifestyle-obsessed” Australians are making changes.

Taken together, Labor policies resulted in a drop of Australia’s emissions by about 10 per cent in real terms.

The pandemic and the advent of remote working has allowed many Sydneysiders to fulfil long-held dreams of a tree change or sea change, with thousands making the move in 2020.

A “treasure trove” of personal papers, plans and drawings from one of the architects of the Australian War Memorial has been unearthed.

In primary school, Alex Cutcherwirth tested as highly gifted but struggled because of undiagnosed dyslexia and ADHD. Now he is benefiting from a new game-changing strategy.

This Friday marks the beginning of the Year of the Ox and promises good news for anyone worn down by an arduous year of bushfires, lockdowns and the US presidential election.

Good people can be possessed by crazy and dangerous ideas, especially when they contain a fragment of truth.

The students were led to a toilet block by older students during class time, leading parents to blame the school’s lax supervision and poor oversight.

A 50-metre rainbow will be painted on the promenade at Coogee Beach as part of this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

As if on cue, an interview with Bondi Rescue lifeguard Bruce “Hoppo” Hopkins was interrupted by a man who panicked in a rip only a few metres from the shore.

Hundreds of NSW police officers are leaving the force because of the toll their job is taking on their mental health.

Motorists and public transport users using one of Sydney’s busiest roads are forced to wait six times a day for recreational sailors.

From Avalon in the north to Yarra Bay in the south, Sydney’s beaches are as different as the tribes that inhabit them. What’s your favourite?

COVID-19 restrictions have led to the scaling back of Lunar New Year celebrations, but one Sydney mayor says councils should not be paying for events to welcome the Year of the Ox.

Hundreds of NSW police are leaving the force because of its effect on their health – and it costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate and replace them.

All it took was a pandemic to bring democracy to childcare arrangements in heterosexual working households.

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The state government proposed an unconventional solution to the shortage of seasonal workers on Victorian farmers: prison labour.

Melbourne’s experiment with expanded outdoor dining has been credited by most of the city’s participating restaurateurs with helping them stay afloat.

Tourism leaders are calling for a new travel voucher scheme to encourage people from regional areas to spend time in the city.

The Australian government is considering how standby lists could be used at short notice when people don’t show up for their Pfizer shots.

Photographer Tammy Law’s Museum of Brisbane exhibition highlights immigration laws and how they have affected five families.

There is increasing proof COVID-19 is spreading through the air in quarantine hotels in Victoria and around the country.

By aged 19, nearly half of all young people who drank had blacked out from drinking too much, according to research.

As more employers recognise flexible work is practical and efficient, large numbers of Melburnians are speeding up their dream to live, and work, in the country.