Townsville is Australia’s largest northern city and rugby league is a religion there. Hosting the State of Origin is very much a big deal.

The MP’s chief of staff Frank Zumbo, 53, was arrested at Sutherland police station shortly before 6pm on Friday.

A new coronavirus outbreak discovered in Melbourne has dashed hopes of an early end to the city’s lockdown.

Three teenagers were arrested in Crows Nest after the car crashed into three other vehicles and the driver allegedly punched and headbutted a police officer.

Health authorities have cast doubt on whether a Victorian family contracted COVID-19 while holidaying in NSW.

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A rogue deer running through the empty streets of locked down inner-city Melbourne has been euthanised, after it stunned locals on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.

Lockdown Four doesn’t feature some of the ‘fun’ of previous versions for the five Melburnians keeping us up to date on how they are spending their time.

About 15,000 Queenslanders are expected to receive their COVID-19 vaccination at 18 community hubs at the weekend.

Victoria has recorded five new local COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours to midnight as hotel quarantine leak is listed as possible source of Delta outbreak.

The large mass of cold air from the Southern Ocean will push into southern states, bringing chilly temperatures, rain and snow to parts of NSW and Victoria.

Filmmaking is one of a number of creative industries that should be a foundation stone of Australia’s economic diversification and job creation in the future.

Most of us can only dream about living in a mansion dubbed a “flawless masterpiece” with one of the southern hemisphere’s largest windows sky-framed windows and stunning views of the mighty Swan River from every room. 

It was a brilliant if unlikely pairing – Melbourne’s hip eatery king Chris Lucas teaming up with Sydney’s top degustation duo Martin Benn and Vicki Wild to create a new restaurant they hoped would change the face of dining. Then came COVID-19.

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For a long time everyone agreed: low-alcohol beer tasted terrible. But rising sales are turning that assumption on its head – and riding the new sobriety movement in the process.

It’s being called the fourth agricultural revolution: bringing digital solutions to bear on age-old farming problems. And some of the most intriguing applications are being developed here.

The developer of the spanking new student accommodation tower on the Block wants to turn it into a quarantine site.

Families in Sydney’s single-sex public school catchments have been lobbying for co-ed alternatives, and their campaign has succeeded.

Food delivery companies will be required to provide protective equipment to riders in NSW, who will also be monitored with unique ID numbers by police, with the state government set to introduce the toughest safety laws in the country for the gig eco...

CMV is the most common infectious cause of disabilities in newborns yet it is still largely unheard of by most newly pregnant women. Now there is new hope that a vaccine could soon be produced to provide immunity against the infection.

Authorities have been hunting Hakan Ayik for more than a decade. Now for the first time we have uncovered his life of luxury lived in the open on the border between east and west.

Dozens of former soldiers are expected to give evidence in the defamation action launched by the highly decorated Ben Roberts-Smith.

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Regional Victoria will be waking up to eased restrictions, as Melbourne faces at least one more week of lockdown despite the reclassification of two cases of fleeting transmission as false positives.

Figures revealing how many mental health presentations there have been to Perth’s hospital emergency departments contradict claims by Premier Mark McGowan of a “massive surge” in the number of patients.

An expert says the new coronavirus outbreak discovered in Melbourne will dash hopes of an early end to the city’s lockdown after genomics testing found it was the more infectious Delta variant.

The former AFL player agent told a court on Friday he thought his vehicle was exempt from parking tickets.

Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes is fighting against her own party’s controversial plan to introduce independent assessments to determine funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

A Queensland man accused of raping and treating a 14-year-old girl “as an object” and referring to her as “belonging” to him, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment.

Despite no COVID-19 community transmission, pedestrian counts show far fewer people are shopping in the Brisbane Mall than planners expect in mid-2021.

Blockchain underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, but experts in the sector are now looking at other applications for the technology.

For casual workers hammered by yet another lockdown, the feeling as Scott Morrison faced the media was relief, along with nagging questions. Why was this aid coming so late and would they botch the delivery?

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The government is relying on roving patrols instead of a hard border to ensure locked-down Melburnians stay out of regional Victoria.

Health Minister Brad Hazzard said there was “no evidence whatsoever” a Victorian family caught COVID-19 while holidaying in NSW.

Manly and Rugby League Immortal Bob Fulton was laid to rest today in Sydney.

The former treasurer has hit back at parliamentary critics for taking on jobs with major WA companies so soon after retiring from politics.

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Health Minster Yvette D’Ath has appointed an administrator in place of the North West Hospital and Health Service board after issuing a show cause notice last month.

Melburnians are waking up to their second week of lockdown, emergency support payments are set to be signed-off by national cabinet today and Ash Barty is out of the French Open.

Conversations between Queensland and Commonwealth officials about the proposed Toowoomba quarantine hub were ongoing, according to the premier.

Father Joseph Kolodziej, the parish priest at All Hallows Catholic Parish Five Dock, was asked to step down from his public role at the parish and its neighbouring primary school this week.

A decision by the powerful police union to fund the legal defences of three officers charged with leaking photos of former AFL coach Dani Laidley has polarised the force.

Queensland’s peak local government body will elevate newcomer Alison Smith to the top job when long-serving chief executive Greg Hallam retires in November.

A barrister acting for the former special forces soldier told the Federal Court there was a risk of “contamination” of his defamation proceedings against The Age and the Herald.

The restaurant run by former cricketer Stuart MacGill has closed its doors following the “personal stress” of his kidnapping.

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A former NSW Labor Party official and priest who abused boys on “abhorrent” child sex tourism trips in south-east Asia, during which he also produced abuse images, has been jailed for 17 years.