Strict lockdown measures are now in place across Greater Sydney, including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast and Wollongong and Victoria is on alert after the contagious Delta variant was detected in the state.

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A Queensland podiatrist who accessed child exploitation material, which included a baby, more than 2200 times and admitted to rape fantasies has been disqualified from applying to be a health practitioner for four years.

The man has been released into custody multiple times despite being convicted of sexual offences over two decades and breaching supervision orders.

Police are asking for public assistance to help locate a 28-year-old man missing from Redcliffe, north of Brisbane, who hasn’t been seen for several days.

The Health Minister has warned people from NSW hotspots that they risk a $5000 fine if they attempt to enter Victoria, as the state reported one new community case linked to Southbank complex outbreak.

Parks and beaches were filled with joggers, cyclists, swimmers and surfers on the first day of Sydney’s lockdown.

The NT’s Chief Minister says more than 1600 workers were at the mine while the man was infectious, but more than 900 have already left and some may have travelled interstate.

Premier Berejiklian announces a two week lockdown for Greater Sydney, Wollongong, Blue Mountains and the Central Coast.

There were 82 COVID-19 cases associated with the Bondi outbreak on day 10, compared with 65 during the Crossroads Hotel outbreak.

The NSW government has announced a strict lockdown for all of Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Wollongong from 6pm Saturday until midnight Friday, July 9.

About 900 people have left the mine site since June 18 via charter flights to Darwin, Alice Springs, Perth and Brisbane.

Health Minister Martin Foley says he will donate his approximately $8500 pay rise to local charities as the wages of all Victorian MPs are set to increase by 2.5 per cent from next week.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian has warned that restrictions might be extended across more regions of Sydney after the state recorded 29 new cases of COVID-19 in the community to 8pm on Friday.

Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath said returning Queenslanders from a NSW hotspot would be forced into quarantine.

A man has died from stab wounds after a struggle in an underground car park in Bentleigh East on Saturday morning.

The NSW government has extended current restrictions to midnight on July 2 and introduced stay-at-home orders for one week for those who live in, or people whose usual place of work is in, in four inner-city councils areas.

Given the gargantuan sums borrowed and spent on JobKeeper, no one needed to be worse off. So why did the Morrison government exclude universities?

The 53-year-old male officer died at the scene at Burpengary early on Saturday. The vehicle has not been found.

William was three when he disappeared from his grandmother’s home at Kendall on the Mid North Coast in September 2014.

The Liberal Party is rightly anxious. The new Deputy Prime Minister and Nationals leader has put his Coalition partners on notice: his party will do its own thing.

Perhaps it’s that men who have erratic episodes return to “normal”, while women who have erratic episodes are considered mad.

At last, a major project to celebrate. But let’s not stop here. We can add further life-giving stents to the city’s ailing heart.

I’m sad. I’m angry. But I’m also proud of my suburb. We take care of each other.

While many patients who had already received their first dose of the vaccine are returning for their second, demand for first doses has taken a blow.

Decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has seen plenty of action in the field, but this week he was under siege from barrister Nicholas Owens SC.

Retired Supreme Court judge David Kirby QC calls it the “deep green”, the unique sliver of inner-Sydney bushland he played a decisive role in saving from becoming a freeway decades before.

Because of the rammed earth walls, Sally and Rob Hawkins’ house is at least 10 degrees warmer inside on cold days, and 10 degrees cooler on hot days.

The current COVID-19 outbreak was preventable from the beginning.

After months of relative normality, Sydney’s complacency was shattered this week as the highly transmissible Delta strain of COVID-19 leaked into the community.

There was also revelations of threats to kill journalists and criticism of the 1973 police inquiry being removed from a report.

‘Heart of the city’: tenants of the historic Nicholas Building, which is up for sale, are calling for its artists’ studios to be retained.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says her state is going through its scariest period of the pandemic so far, the outbreak linked to a Victorian dry cleaners has grown to two and work is underway on a dedicated quarantine facility in Queensland.

There are calls for a re-examination of planning rules in the storm-battered Dandenong Ranges.

Peter Stiebel packs the car and travels three hours to Mount Buller every weekend during the snow season in search of the perfect snow fall.

Chinese students have mostly continued to enrol in Victorian universities since Australia’s borders shut, while Indian students have left the system in droves.

NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet wants Sydney workers to have access to a federal COVID-19 disaster payment as the government locks down inner and eastern suburbs and scrambles to slow the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19.

Seven Indonesian crew members of a ship docked in Melbourne have demanded they be sent home, alleging they have been intimidated, harassed, and overworked.

The Oakleigh man, who unknowingly carried the virus back to Victoria and passed it onto his boss, is the father of the woman who hosted a “super spreader” event in Sydney.

The Independent Planning Commission approved Mirvac’s proposal to redevelop the shopping centre at Darling Harbour with a 42-storey residential tower.

It’s an anxious time for all Sydneysiders, not least of all those who have been inadvertently close to the virus at an exposure site.

For two hours, surrounded by hospital staff and under strict conditions, Mark Kilian and his wife Anneli Gericke were able to reunite with Frans.

The research found 20 per cent of people recovering after 10 days; after 20 days about 60 per cent had recovered; at a month it was 80 per cent, and by the three-month mark just over 93 per cent.

Melbourne mother Natalie Dunlop went to bed on Thursday night thinking she would soon get to see her husband and one-year-old son after several days apart. But news announced overnight changed that.

A scientist has questioned plans to send the contaminated soil to landfill, and says a more sustainable method should be adopted for future infrastructure projects.

With school holidays beginning just as parts of Sydney are issued with stay-at-home orders, this guide outlines how the rapidly changing border situation affects Victorians.

Sydney’s most famous strip of sand was quieter than usual as businesses at Bondi Beach closed their doors as COVID-19 restrictions came into effect on Friday.

Police allege the man conducted a speech south of Perth on the evening he arrived and had plans to host two further talks in Fremantle on Thursday and Friday.

The court ordered Palmer’s company Mineralogy repay Queensland Nickel, which collapsed under Palmer’s ownership in 2016.

Insurers tried to exclude pandemics from their business interruption policies, but they made a key mistake in the fine print.