The state government is rushing to finalise a significant rescue package for businesses amid warnings that the outbreak will get worse before it gets better.

A teacher shortage is biting in NSW, particularly in regional and disadvantaged areas, and will get worse as a large group of older teachers retire and fewer young people elect to begin teaching degrees.

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

Earlier, Premier Mark McGowan said Western Australia could not afford to take any risks with the virus.

Some recently eased restrictions have been reversed after two new cases were likely linked to a quarantine breach cluster. A miner returned from the Northern Territory has also tested positive.

‘It’s slightly quirky’: A longtime butcher shop in Melbourne’s north-east has had an unlikely makeover to sell pavlovas.

Five people with disabilities are leading what could be the first of several discrimination cases levelled against the government and Yarra Trams over their failure to keep pace with federal standards for accessible public transport.

Sydneysiders are waking up to their first day of a city-wide strict lockdown in almost a year, and Darwin enters a two-day lockdown while the Northern Territory urgently traces contacts of a mine worker who became infectious.

An experienced skydiver and a young man died in a “freak” tandem skydiving accident at Goulburn in the state’s Southern Tablelands.

Northern beaches residents, on their third lockdown, were out and about today but cautious of crowding on popular walkways.

The Victorian Planning Authority released proposed rules for the Preston Market in May, which would allow up to 20 storeys of apartments but ensure the future of the market.

Whether a determination to keep our record of avoiding lockdowns led to a dangerous delay in making an inevitable call will be hotly debated.

The entire year 5 student cohort at Connolly Primary have been listed as close contacts, while contact tracing is underway for casual contacts. 

Police are seeking the public’s help to find the 33-year-old woman they believe was driving an allegedly stolen hire car that hit and killed an officer on Saturday.

Judge Tanya Smith handed down a lengthy judgment in the Sydney Downing Centre in which she said the couple showed little remorse for their offending and their motivation for their actions was the “enhancement of their lifestyle”

Use our interactive map to find and track the sites identified in NSW as potential COVID-19 exposure sites.

Victoria is the only Australian state that allows donors to withdraw their consent up until the moment an embryo is transferred into a woman. It’s a situation that has prompted experts to call for changes to better protect the rights of those under...

Anyone who visited any of the sites, which include Indooroopilly Shopping Centre, is urged to quarantine at home and get tested as soon as possible.

Aged Australians cannot afford to wait around for the Pfizer vaccine. The AstraZeneca vaccine available to them now is not only safe but an effective protection against the much more immediate threat - COVID-19.

What, no sympathy for a selfish white woman hellbent on hurtling downhill in a health crisis?

The outbreak has sent state and territory health authorities scrambling to trace 900 contacts who have departed the mine site and dispersed across Australia since coming into contact with the infectious worker.

Authorities are trying to find airline passengers who shared a flight with an infected crew member, Kangaroos staff and players are isolating and awaiting test results and three miners in the state are isolating after working at the Northern Territor...

Restrictions are back in Perth and Peel with fears a new COVID-19 community case is the quick to spread Delta variant.

Two of the well-known Manly ferries will ply Sydney Harbour for longer than originally planned due to the late arrival of their replacements.

NSW Health’s latest list of exposure sites include a Bondi Cafe, Auburn cinema and an Earlwood chocolate shop.

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

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The driver remains at large after Senior Constable David Masters, 53, was hit while trying to stop a suspected stolen vehicle along the Bruce Highway north of Brisbane.

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

And if you’re refusing to get the jab, don’t whinge about lockdowns.

What should we make of the pop star’s unwavering belief that nobody will listen to her?

With science communication it’s getting harder to tell where the scare ends and the science starts.

As families fret about how later or earlier school start times will affect them, the NSW education minister says any changes will be entirely voluntary.

As Sydney moves through a nerve-racking stretch of COVID transmission, I am torn in my reactions.

May I reveal a little-known fact about Christians? Not all of us who go to church have this faith business cut and dried.

“We just got lulled into this false sense of security, y’know: Sydney, we can handle COVID,” said Lea Chahoud.

Self-isolation is used for positive domestic cases and close contacts, and must be considered for returned travellers too.

A lot has changed since the Australian Club was formed but women are not yet “equal enough” to be admitted into the club’s hallowed space.

Leading experts say that NSW officials should have heeded their own warnings about the Delta variant, and pulled the lockdown trigger sooner.

Dandenong Ranges residents are starting to wonder: what do we do with all these fallen trees? With the timber industry facing a supply shortage, some of the best wood could be worth thousands.

Australia leads the world in solar production, with panels on about 20 per cent of standalone homes in Victoria, but apartment residents have been mostly left behind.

Sydney avoided widespread lockdowns during previous outbreaks - so what has changed this time?

NSW Ambulance will move its headquarters adjacent to the heritage-listed Callan Park in Rozelle to Sydney Olympic Park.

The former prime minister is among residents who objected to expansion of a private wharf in Point Piper.

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Scions of Australia’s wealthiest families are increasingly ploughing their money into climate change prevention as they gain control of, and influence over, family trusts.

For a long time now Scott Morrison has cruised along on a message that, when you strip it down, essentially amounts to: “Be grateful.”

The head of Wests Tigers has warned the club may never return to its Rozelle home as a result.

The overhaul follows an inquiry into the misuse of funds within RSL NSW and the high-profile case of comedian Celeste Barber, who raised a staggering $51 million in her Black Summer bushfire fundraiser but was limited in where the money could go.

Passengers and crew members from five Virgin Australia flights are being contacted after a flight attendant tested positive to COVID-19.