Thousands of residents across Sydney may be forced to evacuate as two weather systems bring more rainfall and flooding.

Healthcare experts say European regulators’ move to “jump the gun” and halt rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine will have a lasting impact on patient confidence.

The Bureau of Meteorology said around 10 million Australians in every mainland state and territory except Western Australia were subject to the weather warning.

A series of bombshell evidence and allegations arose from day one of the three-day coronial inquest into Ms Phillips’ disappearance.

More rain was expected to inundate Queensland’s south-east on Tuesday, with flooded roads after days of downpour prompting a plea from Annastacia Palaszczuk.

Experts say the rollout of vaccinations means mandatory two-week hotel quarantine may soon be replaced, but the state government is pushing ahead with plans for more facilities.

Bureau of Meteorology updates severe weather warning to include entire NSW coast.

Activists are calling for more action to combat climate change and are planning three days of disruptive protests in Perth this week.

Consumer watchdog the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says examining toppling furniture, quad bikes and button batteries are among its 2021 product safety priorities.

The Mid-North Coast has been one of the hardest-hit areas in the past few days, experiencing a one-in-100 year event. But a break in the weather may come on Wednesday evening.

Prison is no place for a child and will have a profound and long-lasting negative impact on their life.

Three young men charged with murdering a 20-year-old tradesman, who was shot dead while visiting a friend’s home, have pleaded not guilty and been committed to stand trial.

The former footballer was accused of sexually assaulting a woman at her home in Fletcher, a suburb of Newcastle, in September 2018.

The first words from the first Aboriginal elder to get his COVID-19 vaccine were those of love and gratitude for his people and those who kept them safe during the pandemic.

Inner-Melbourne councils have told a state parliamentary committee they are struggling to provide enough parks and green space for their communities.

A manager at a Victorian farm skimmed at least $300,000 from migrant workers through sham labour hire companies by arranging for farmhand staff to pack broccolini and asparagus on low hourly rates, a court has heard.

Dangerous flooding and extreme weather has disrupted precious COVID-19 vaccine doses bound for roughly 50 GP clinics in NSW.

A list of road closures has been provided for drivers to avoid the dangerous floodwater in south-east Queensland.

Raising the dam wall by 14 metres - as proposed by the state government - would likely have had little impact on the current flood, according to experts.

Through his vision, NSW Fisheries grew in the 1960s to 1980s. He would later turn his attention to his Hunter Valley vines.

NSW Police are investigating a potential quarantine breach at the Mercure Sydney after a partial evacuation of guests.

On today’s episode of Please Explain, Tory Maguire and chief political correspondent David Crowe talk about the massive week in federal politics.

John Manolakakis says he felt a weight lifted off his shoulders as he lined up with his nonagenarian parents to receive the coronavirus vaccine, as the second phase of the national immunisation effort began on Monday.

The local building market has become so competitive builders are approaching trades on rival job sites with offers of bonuses and other incentives to try and lure them to their projects.

The collision of two powerful weather systems over the east coast of NSW on Monday night will also add to prolonged wet weather conditions across the state.

Climate change is blowing our old “one-in-100-year” calculations out of the water.

As things stand, we are simply guaranteeing that at some stage we will have a colossal disaster, probably with huge numbers of people trapped.

Search efforts have intensified for Anthony Roper, 69, who went missing in Cleveland on Friday, amid concerns that a medical condition may have left him disoriented.

In a tumultuous week that saw nationwide marches against sexism as well as Close the Gap Day, Indigenous women should have been front and centre.

Phase 1b of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is under way, the largest phase of the program so far. An estimated 6.13 million people are set to be vaccinated during this phase.

Western culture has a long history of hypersexualising Asian women to the point of making them prime targets for predators.

The Bruce Highway is closed at the Fraser Coast following a two-vehicle crash on Monday morning.

Emergency services crews were first alerted to the blaze on the corner of Milligan Street and Murray Street in Perth’s west end at 1.30am on Monday.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian urged the public to come forward for their booked vaccinations and symptomatic people to get tested for COVID-19, but only if it was safe for them to venture outside.

Ipswich woman Sharron Phillips, 20, was last seen in Wacol in Brisbane’s south-west on May 8, 1986. Join us as Brisbane Times provides live coverage of the inquest into her disappearance.

Two of the 54 active COVID cases across Queensland have been in ICU since Friday, as 250 GP clinics start administering vaccines today.

Melbourne’s lord mayor says the disruptions undermine business confidence and are “disrespectful and unnecessary” as some protesters plan to camp in Carlton Gardens for the week.

Large swathes of south-east Queensland were lashed with rain on Sunday, flooding homes and roads, with some Gold Coast suburbs copping 113 millimetres in just one hour.

University of WA professor of Indigenous studies, Pat Dudgeon, described police relationships with Indigenous youth as “not good” at an inquest into the deaths of two teenagers.

The latest conflict suggests it doesn’t matter how architects try to honour local “design cues”; one person’s effort might always be another’s eyesore.

A Perth-based digital atlas and mapping company recently got its hands on a raft of remarkably high-quality images of Perth taken by US spy satellites decades ago.

The state’s Coalition governments since 2011 have repeated - and built on - the planning mistakes of their Labor predecessors. But the Coalition should consider the model of one of its own creations - the ICAC - if it wants ensure a better planning...

A draft strategy released on Monday revives the idea of White Bay as a technology hub previously floated by Google and puts residential development back on the table.

Attempts to form cross-party collaborations of women to lift female representation in our parliaments have not worked, and will not work.

Councils merged under the state government’s controversial 2016 amalgamation process have been told they must harmonise their rates this year.

As the state Coalition marks 10 years in power, the Berejiklian government faces growing challenges delivering three major metro rail lines in Sydney.

Accommodation providers are still counting the cost of the Black Summer bushfires and the pandemic on their businesses.

MP Bridget Archer should be promoted to be the new Minister for Women.

Former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has given us a lesson on how pollies invest … or plan for the next generation at least.

Researchers at St Vincent’s Hospital will use psilocybin – the active ingredient in magic mushrooms – to turbocharge therapy for patients dependent on “meth” or “ice”.