The private boys’ school is facing a legal showdown with businessman Ian Joye over plans to boost the number of students approved for its campus.

An estimated 200 full-time professional and academic jobs at La Trobe University will be scrapped, with staff bracing ahead of a meeting on Wednesday.

Sydney is bracing for a lockdown that goes well beyond Friday, residents of an apartment complex in Melbourne’s west are isolating after removalists from NSW visited while infectious and the federal government is set to throw businesses a lifeline.

The Goulburn Mulwaree mayor is questioning why the south-west Sydney painter was allowed to travel 200 kilometres to work on a regional construction site.

Dianne Jolley, the former Dean of Science at University of Technology Sydney, has denied slashing her own clothes and leaving a note on her car.

Two aged care homes in Melbourne’s north where a combined 83 residents died in COVID-19 outbreaks want a Supreme Court judge to make a ruling that would reduce the number of people in a class action against the centres.

Fewer than one in 10 Transport for NSW staff have been trained in cyber security, according to a scathing review of the government agency.

A NSW District Court jury has found Father Anthony William Peter Caruana guilty of 25 offences against 12 boys in the 1980s.

Dozens of students turned up to some schools in Sydney’s virus-hit south-west on Tuesday while others saw barely a handful.

Tenants of Maribyrnong’s Ariele Apartments have vented their frustration after being forced into a sudden two-week lockdown following exposure to two COVID-positive removalists from Sydney.

Immunisation advisers have changed advice on the AstraZeneca vaccine and now urge people who live in coronavirus outbreak zones to fast-track their second dose.

The father, who said he was a journalist, faced tough questions in the witness box after his daughter alleged a professional equestrian rider raped her.

People have been moving around the northern beaches and inner west more than those in Fairfield for retail and recreational purposes.

The victim, who has recovered from his injuries, runs a legitimate business and does not know why he was targeted, police said.

For several generations, Russia had not been kind to the Ulmans.

“He could ad-lib his way out of anything. He rarely used a script, it was all him.”

Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke Petersen went back stage after the concert only to be greeted by conductor Werner Andreas Albert in his underpants.

Meet the WA primary school principal who started ‘Learning Difference Day’, where children with conditions including ADHD and FASD come to school proud of their ‘superpower’.

Today on Please Explain, books editor Jason Steger joins Nathanael Cooper to rip open the covers of the books you should be adding to your reading list this winter.

Chris Anderson, 36, was shot in the chest at an Ipswich home at the weekend.

The list of Victoria’s COVID-19 exposure sites is expected to grow as authorities determine the movements of a removalist crew and a family who flew in from interstate.

Luay Sako, 35, was charged with murder after allegedly breaking into Ms Manno’s bedroom at her Mernda home while she was sleeping and stabbing her on November 17 last year.

NSW reported 89 new local coronavirus cases on Tuesday, as Premier Gladys Berejiklian foreshadowed an announcement about the future of Sydney’s lockdown as early as this afternoon.

A celebration of the humble hot chip will be among highlights of the festival’s first-ever winter edition, which hopes to bring 13,000 people into the city over 10 days.

The couple are among backers behind $US101 million raised in the latest funding round for Mark43, which announced its first contract with NSW Police earlier this year.

The Western Green Energy Hub would comprise of wind and solar power over 15,000 square kilometres producing 50 gigawatts of hybrid wind and solar power.

A quick guide to COVID treatments, more than 18 months into the pandemic.

My Ut Trinh, 53, is charged with eight counts of contamination of goods with intent to cause economic loss.

NSW has announced new testing requirements for Sydney-based essential workers as the state scrambles to contain the growing outbreak of COVID-19.

Queensland will continue to hold off on any harder border measures with NSW, as health authorities seek more information about a case in regional parts of NSW.

A 49-year-old Doveton man was remanded and appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning.

James Winston Mau’u and Junior Jasmine Mau’u were the shooters in the suburban gangland execution of bikie Shane Bowden, police will allege. 

WA’s hard border with New South Wales has tightened further, with the state government warning those who travel to the COVID-19 hotspot may no longer be allowed to return home. 

Despite it being punishable by imprisonment, 65 people identified by WA Health as casual contacts of the Mindarie cluster have not been tested, however authorities consider the group very low risk.

Nearly half of the state’s biggest irrigators have made no effort to install meters contrary to new laws designed to prevent water theft, an audit has found.

We still have no clear answers as to why the Rural Fire Service lit a fire on December 14, contrary to the advice of Mount Wilson fire service captain Beth Raines.

Our tiniest citizens are in the charge of those who are completely disrespected.

The communications authority isn’t up to the task so those with a problem with the national broadcaster have only an internal unit to to turn to.

Top infectious diseases experts say more infectious versions of COVID-19 will continue to “punch holes in every deficiency” of the country’s pandemic response.

Contemporary talk about young people and consent focuses on sex. But consent also applies to information about children being gleened by their social media use.

With women’s health reported to be hard hit during the pandemic, a 30-bed all-women mental health hospital is soon to open in Melbourne.

Sydney’s housing pipeline has hit another choking point with no money forthcoming to deliver the upgrade of a congested road on which the creation of thousands of new homes relies.

Arranging books is political. Some people even like to think about who their favourites authors would like to sit down for dinner with.

The call for older people to bring forward their second AstraZeneca dose is another example of the Coalition’s attempt to solve a problem with the wrong solution.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz and target.

To determine the number of sirens required to give warning of an air raid, engineers are making sound tests throughout Sydney.

Tony Abbott’s daughter Frances - who is married to Olympic rower Sam Loch - gave birth to a son, Ernest Loch, on Sunday.

Brian had been helping his daughter Trish Patchett plan her wedding when he was struck by a car and killed. He had just turned 80 and had been excited to walk her down the aisle.

Goodwill in the time of COVID.

A Coles supermarket and a petrol station have been listed as exposure sites after a family of four brought COVID-19 back to Victoria after visiting Sydney and a group of removalists made two deliveries in Melbourne while infected.