Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge has also flagged some international students returning in “small-scale pilot [programs]” later this year.

Residents say rates will rise by up to 40 per cent in some areas, while neighbouring suburbs of the merged council areas will save hundreds of dollars a year.

Judy Bednar, who came as a young girl to Australia from Hungary with her family, has been remembered as caring, opinionated and open-minded by her friends after she was found dead in her home in Melbourne’s south-east.

Social restrictions eased in Greater Sydney on Monday after no new COVID-19 cases were linked to an eastern suburbs couple, and the UN has weighed in on the escalating Israel-Palestine crisis.

The site of Melbourne’s second drug-injecting room is expected to be located in an art deco building opposite Flinders St Station and near the popular al fresco dining laneway Degraves Street.

Gregory Douglas used a common sequence of action to convince young female farm volunteers to accept unwanted sexual massages, a jury has been told.

The NSW government is “urgently” reviewing laws allowing students to carry knives to school for religious reasons after a student used one in a stabbing.

The manager who worked for the trucking company that Mohinder Singh, who killed four police officers on the Eastern Freeway, drove for faced court on Monday.

A serious crime of personal violence attracted a sentence a third of that applied to a set of non-violent drug supply crimes.

The head of Virgin Australia says Australia needs to get used to living with COVID, and believes it’s “not in anyone’s interests” to keep the borders locked off forever.

Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguire is joined by state political editor Alexandra Smith to discuss how businesses and state governments are handling extended border closures.

Smaller rail, bus and tram upgrades that could lead to big improvements for commuters are in danger of being sidelined as the massive Suburban Rail Loop consumes most of the funding.

A woman remains in hospital in a critical condition after a fatal school bus crash west of Brisbane, as the state recorded an unusually high number of road fatalities by this time of year.

A disparate coalition of surfers, Shellharbour residents and the wider NSW beachgoer community is fighting to stop a multimillion-dollar tourism development at Killalea State Park, popularly known as The Farm.

A Sunshine Coast man has been charged by police after he was allegedly driving dangerously in front of officers and found to be four times the legal limit. 

A man who claims his reputation was ruined by an ex-girlfriend who accused him of being a sex addict and cheat has offered to settle on the opening day of their defamation trial for $5000.

The litany of mistakes and errors in treating seven-year-old Aishwarya Aswath at Perth’s Children Hospital on Easter Saturday are laid bare in a comprehensive report into her death.

A man has been flown to hospital in a serious condition after a hard landing during a skydiving incident at Toogoolawah, north-west of Brisbane.

NSW will need to administer another 9 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to consider reopening international borders, Premier Gladys Berejiklian says, as the state’s mass vaccination centre starts inoculating people in their 40s.

The NSW government has approved plans requiring new developments to make financial or floor-space contributions towards new rental housing, but not everyone is happy.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has again rejected suggestions a quarantine facility should be built near Toowoomba in southeast Queensland, saying the plan “lacks detail”.

A Queensland pharmacist accused of setting a Brisbane house on fire with his partner inside will spend at least the next month behind bars.

Brisbane can expect similar conditions on Tuesday after recording its coldest morning of the year on Monday.

Like the millions of Australians born overseas, I’m desperate for the border to reopen and international travel to resume.

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A woman’s body was found at Mermaid Waters on Monday morning.

Researchers from Queensland and the US have developed a promising new drug which they say can directly target COVID-19 virus particles and destroy them.

Former senior constable Isaac Cavanagh was sacked after crashing a police vehicle while drunk and off duty, and for urinating off a balcony at an office party.

Six girls and eight boys, aged between two and 17, were rescued on May 7 and placed in the care of a local social welfare office after intelligence was provided by Australian police to Philippine authorities.

In 1976, 400 anti-uranium protesters pitched tents and then crawled and staggered across the main road outside Parliament House in Canberra in a mock enactment of a nuclear holocaust. The demonstrators wore gas masks and painted their faces in part o...

Aishwarya Aswath’s parents have shared further details from Perth Children’s Hospital’s internal report on what happened the night she succumbed to infection.

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

The shipment, which arrived in Sydney from Thailand, was declared to contain food items and electric barbecue grills.

4BC traffic reporter Olympia Kwitowski said many roads heading into the River City were “just awful”.

A radical facelift is planned for the top end of Western Australia’s most popular tourist strip after a massive tourism precinct was approved last week.

In its first week, it wasn’t crime that stole the headlines, but the complex inner workings of the WA government.

A 63-year-old woman’s body was found in a South Yarra apartment block on Saturday night, while a 78-year-old woman was found dead in her Chelsea home on Saturday morning.

A 34-year-old Wooloowin man is due to face a Brisbane court on Monday morning over the incident.

Vanessa Rocis and Anthony Thomas built the foundation for their romantic relationship while stuck in hotel quarantine on separate levels of the same hotel.

Victoria’s vaccination program is running well below capacity due to a shortage of AstraZeneca doses and public hesitancy about the locally manufactured vaccine.

Melbourne scientists will use genomic sequencing for the first time to track fast spreading syphilis outbreaks running rampant in the city’s outer western suburbs, as doctors warn immediate intervention is needed to contain an evolving epidemic of ...

The powerful Police Association has called on both sides of politics to declare their position on bail laws ahead of the state election as the prison population explodes again.

A property developer for whom Daryl Maguire unsuccessfully lobbied to rezone buildings in Campsie will end up with the tallest towers in the area regardless under a council plan.

The economy has not “bounced back”. Massive public spending has dragged it into shape but it is still far from healthy.

The state government’s Blended Arts Education Program aims to give rural and regional schools better access to dance and drama education.

Job security used to offset low pay for teachers, but one in five jobs is now temporary, a new study has found.

Prison break foiled, a royal birth and soccer stand-off.

The ABC had decided that “God Save The Queen” would no longer be played at the beginning of its concert recitals. The news had one Sydney royalist seething.

The independent MP for Warringah and slayer of former prime minister Tony Abbott took on the daunting UTA100 ultra-marathon trail race over the weekend.

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