WA Chief Health Officer Andy Robertson said recent arrivals from New South Wales and Queensland should check if they had been to any of the newly listed exposure sites.

Melbourne’s tough lockdown restrictions will be eased on Friday, barring any unexpected mystery cases. But Melburnians will be restricted to travelling no more than 25 kilometres from their homes over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend.

Schools, retail, cafes and restaurants will be allowed to reopen across Melbourne from 11.59pm on Thursday.

But Australian children and adolescents may not be asked to roll up their sleeves for many months after the expected approval.

A court injunction preventing Labor’s national executive from conducting preselections in Victoria has been lifted, paving the way for the party to choose candidates in 22 federal seats.

The era of skyrocketing pay rises for Australian university leaders is another casualty of COVID-19 and an estimated $1.8 billion downturn in revenue.

In the decade to 2018, non-government schools outspent government schools on capital works by $29.6 billion, with the help of hundreds of millions in taxpayer grants every year.

Firefighters were called to smoke and flames issuing from a school building on Warners Avenue shortly before 5pm on Wednesday.

James-Robert Davis is accused of abusing and manipulating his partner between 2012 and 2015 by making her wear a collar and holding her in a cage.

SA Police said anything on display at the range was there to help simulate a “realistic training environment” and was not a reflection on the ABC.

A controversial new drug that has offered hope to Alzheimer’s sufferers by slowing cognitive decline still needs to be cleared by local regulators before it can be rolled out in Australia.

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder over the death of teenager Jason Langhans, who tried to stop a fight at a 16th birthday party in March.

Khal Asfour, who represents the state’s most populous council, says it’s unfair that Waverley Council workers have received preference over others.

Up to 15 neo-Nazis - including self-proclaimed white supremacist Thomas Sewell - terrorised hikers at a Victorian camping spot, a court has heard.

Dubbed Operation Ironside, Australian Federal Police and the FBI secretly monitored the communications of hundreds of underworld figures through an encrypted app developed by authorities to track criminals.

A forfeiture order under Queensland’s hooning laws has led to a $600,000 car being prepared for auction where proceeds will go back to the state.

Deputy State Coroner Jane Bentley could deliver her findings into Tiahleigh Palmer’s death as soon as the end of next week.

Perth got perfect scores for healthcare, education, and infrastructure but the lowest score in the top 10 for culture and environment.

Melburnians are set to travel up to 25kms from their homes from Friday, police have foreshadowed more arrests after the ‘sting of the century’ and NSW and QLD are making final preparations for the first game of the State of Origin.

Melburnians will be able to travel up to 25 kilometres from home for any reason and schools will reopen, but home visits will remain off limits from 11.59pm on Thursday.

Today on Please Explain, sports reporter Michael Chammas joins Nathanael Cooper to tell us what we can expect from the game.

In a fiery hearing on Wednesday, a barrister acting for Ben Roberts-Smith took aim at articles referring to the former soldier and a lawyer acting for him against his ex-wife.

Snow has fallen in Orange, in NSW’s Central West, while icy conditions could bring up to 10 cm to the Northern Tablelands on Thursday.

Police prosecutors allege a witness saw the man enter the woman’s donga and sexually assault her while she was heavily intoxicated and unable to give consent.

Baby Lily’s parents realised their daughter’s body was missing when they bent down to kiss her during her funeral and saw another baby inside the coffin.

A juror used a mobile phone to look up the definition of a legal terms at the heart of the trial, against the judge’s orders.

The best friend of the woman killed by a group of dogs in Queensland says she “had a heart of gold and a beautiful soul”. The dogs have since been put down.

Delta is concerning. But prioritising the COVID-19 jab for young, mobile adults will help stop it in its tracks.

The type of COVID-19 outbreaks, not the number, is what sets the city apart from the other capitals.

The judge presiding over Ben Roberts-Smith’s urgent case against his ex-wife has asked why he wasn’t told that the former soldier was reportedly in a relationship at one stage with one of his lawyers.

Use our tool to measure you bubble under the Victorian government’s likely new 25-kilometre travel limit on Melburnians.

Australian and New Zealand cities have dominated the top cities but Sydney has fallen out of the top 10.

Melbourne has dropped from second to eighth place in global liveability rankings after the scores were affected by government responses to the pandemic.

The change was delayed in term one last year because of the coronavirus pandemic but will now be introduced. Principals are concerned that schools are still in a COVID environment, and they were anxious about any drop in hygiene.

The NSW government has announced a $100 million support package to farmers after its original package was labelled by farmers as “an impractical and dysfunctional joke”.

The state has confirmed it will transfer the old Brockway tip site in Mount Claremont to Christ Church Grammar School, drawing the ire of neighbours who claim they’ve been blindsided.

Police have arrested a man and seized drugs, cash and a weapon after a raid in Melbourne’s north-west in connection with Operation Ironside.

The developers behind plans to build twin towers on the site of the White Sands Tavern are seeking final approval for the proposal.

The city feels hollowed out amid failed public spaces and social problems are glaring as it’s becoming clear that many workers have shifted to work from home permanently.

Stanthorpe will experience a minimum temperature of minus 2 degrees on Thursday.

Australia’s leading universities have climbed the latest international rankings, but the impact of the pandemic on international students was not taken into account.

The state’s universities continue to climb in global rankings but are forecast to face a grim few years as Australia’s borders remain closed to international students. 

Despite concerns of a quarantine leak, the government is expecting to release Melbourne from tough lockdown restrictions on Thursday.

However, the NSW opposition and advocacy groups fear the laws are about to be watered down, with the government signalling it will make several changes to the act this week.

Thousands of older Australians are yet to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, but librarians, waste collectors and lifeguards at an eastern Sydney council have already had their jabs. 

Politicians talk about reviving the city centre but there’s a view that COVID has achieved the decentralisation agenda that years of policy could not. Some say this is a good thing.

It is not often that I feel ashamed to be an Australian.

The Yoo-rrook Justice commission has appointed Aboriginal leader Josh Smith as CEO.

A young woman, who had doused herself in red paint and interrupted a parade by returning troops, explained her actions to a Sydney courtroom.

After eight years of wanting a baby, Mrs Elaine Guare gave birth yesterday to the world’s first test tube triplets.