...and landing on those feet for an audience with Davy Jones.

A toxic mix of workload pressures and salary disparity has led to serious teacher shortages.

When the Education Minister introduced new university fees last year he promised ‘no existing student will be worse off.’ Now, students who alter their degrees are getting an expensive shock.

Australia’s rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine will begin on Monday, with the country going 24 hours without a case of community transmission on Saturday.

Parts of Queensland are expected to suffer through the hottest day this summer, with storms to develop on Tuesday.

An indigenous maternity group says the government needs to look at a new approach to address the unacceptable high rates of stillbirths among Aboriginal and Torres Straight Island women.

The Pfizer vaccine is the first to be rolled out in Australia, but it poses significant storage challenges – and with the liquid gold in short supply, healthcare providers are loath to waste any doses.

The state government faces renewed calls to release a secret list of buildings with flammable cladding after publicly identifying dozens of affected properties with hoarding bearing the Cladding Safety Victoria logo.

The 34-year-old Sunshine Coast player who collapsed after making a tackle on Saturday “will be missed by many”.

A record 4175 year 12 students ditched the ATAR last year and completed VCE without a study score as universities offered new alternative pathways to enrolment.

As the cameras flashed, Dr Jesse Li had to keep his cool as he administered Scott Morrison’s Pfizer shot. ‘It’s the honour of my life,’ he said.

Councillor Linda Scott will put forward a motion on Monday to endorse the movement, which is being fronted by former Socceroos captain and human rights campaigner Craig Foster.

Class sizes may exert some influence on parents’ choice of one school over another, but experts say the latest data shows smaller class do not necessarily increase academic performance.

Capacity rules for live music venues need to be loosened or federal government support for musicians and their crew extended, industry leaders warn.

The range of available emoji is expanding to include more and more people, from exhausted home-schooling parents to transgender and gender non-conforming people.

Police launched the high-visibility operation just hours before a home in Merrylands was sprayed with bullets. Five people were home, including two children.

Uncle Archie was wheeled onto stage holding an oxygen bottle, the tubes from which were feeding much-needed oxygen into his lungs.

As Australia’s vaccine rollout begins, our online calculator will tell you which group you have probably been assigned to for receiving the jab.

Victoria’s new $143 million support package to help businesses recover from the five-day “circuit-breaker” lockdown will include an automatic $3000 payment for bars and pubs and a revival of the $200 travel voucher scheme.

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

On Monday, Gold Coast health workers will become the first Queenslanders to be vaccinated, while the rollout to the broader population will be carried out in phases. See when you’ll get yours.

Both riders were aged 19, with one crashing into a tree early on Sunday and the other colliding with an oncoming car.

Police have released a photograph of Lincoln Ryan-Coulter who was last seen leaving a home in Cammeray earlier this month.

Now we know what at least one large employer thinks of us workers beavering away from home in a pandemic that threw our lives in the blender and pressed ‘purée’.

Thank you, Jacqueline Maley, for giving me a better insight into how James Packer rammed through his Barangaroo “shining jewel”.

Opinions are divided about building regional quarantine facilities, but the mayors of Albury and Dubbo both agree medical services in regional NSW are not up to standard.

St Catherine’s principal Dr Julie Townsend wrote to her school community on Saturday after a petition unveiled hundreds of former Sydney schoolgirls’ allegations of rape at the hands of their male peers.

A young woman from the eastern suburbs who secured a conviction against a former friend who raped her at a party says the court process is traumatising and Australia still has a culture of blaming the victim.

Debt collectors are chasing millions of dollars owed by more than 7000 returning Australians for their stay in mandatory hotel quarantine in Sydney.

The News Media Bargaining Code is lousy legislation, but Facebook’s retaliatory ban on Australian news has misfired.

Community groups are concerned about the environmental impact of a tunnel under Middle Harbour, as the NSW government maintains it will be built according to strict conditions.

A dispute over whether to permit dogs on a beach on the NSW South Coast has turned vicious, as dog owners accuse a local council of treating them with contempt.

Certainty is something Australians crave after a year of restrictions, snap lockdowns and border closures.

In September alone, the cameras at the corner of Oxford and Crown streets in Darlinghurst snagged more than 300 motorists a day, raking in $1.5 million in fines.

While some saw an opportunity for a sea change or tree change, new data reveals many residents are actually deepening their roots in the city.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today's interactive superquiz and target.

The reopening of a beloved Melbourne restaurant sounds like something to celebrate, so why isn’t the resurrection of Red Spice Road an unmitigated good news story?

To get the jab to thousands of Victorian quarantine workers, a dedicated vaccination clinic will be established at each of Melbourne’s 12 quarantine hotels.

Rates of family violence abuse using stalkerware and other technology are up sharply, but a new open-source tool will help victims detect if they are being monitored.

Researchers are concerned about a rise in Buruli ulcer infections as new cases emerge in parts of Victoria where they had not previously been reported.

Bus driver unions and groups say bus drivers are being physically and verbally abused statewide, not only in Brisbane. They say the issue should not be ignored and further state government attention is urgently needed.

The federal government has revealed the who, what and where of Australia’s initial vaccine rollout, but there are fears the nation’s supply is at risk due to a worldwide shortage of suitable syringes.

The people of Parramatta want their heritage buildings respected, retained and revived.

Queensland’s first COVID-19 vaccination jab will be given on Monday at the Gold Coast University Hospital. It is likely to be received by a nurse at the Gold Coast’s University Hospital’s COVID clinic.

Dorothy Armstrong, who lives with an acquired brain injury, has confessed to crimes she says she claims to have never committed.

Dr Jeannette Young said she never realised how many people travel every day between NSW and Queensland.

Another shooting has put innocent people at risk in Sydney’s west as police launch a new squad targeting a violent feud between two crime families. 

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

Portland’s economy, already hit by China’s lobster and timber bans, may be further crippled after a local steel manufacturer lost a bid to build a wind farm.

Victorian hospitality businesses need at least $5000 each in government support before rent is due to recover from last week’s snap lockdown.