Polling has revealed nearly half of West Australians want to be plunged into lockdown over a single case compared to just one in every 10 people nationally. So why is our state’s view so different?

An Origin series like no other comes to an end, again north of the Tweed. Join us from 6:30pm as Brad Fittler’s NSW side chase the rarest of clean sweeps.

Sydney has extended its lockdown, there are new COVID-19 cases in Melbourne and Victoria has slammed the Morrison government for providing additional income support to NSW.

All the ins and outs for round 18 of the 2021 premiership season as they drop and how the expert tipped the round.

Newly-listed pubs and pokies giant Endeavour group has made its first foray into the lucrative Sydney pub market buying the Terrey Hills Tavern from the Feros family.

Two men faced court on Wednesday charged with murdering father of five Ikenasio Tuivasa.

Victorian health authorities are on the alert after eight new cases were announced and the MCG, Highpoint shopping centre and a CBD pub were listed as exposure sites.

Whether or not you accept Scott Morrison’s arguments on the NSW support package probably depends on your politics, or your postcode, but it’s not a question that can be settled on the numbers.

Everything you need to know to find a winner on the Central Coast.

Not Another Reiby transferred from the John Sargent yard, and Joe Pride has found a nice first-up race.

Matt Crouch and Daniel Talia will be allowed to walk from Adelaide if their free agency compensation is appropriate, while Fremantle’s Lachie Schultz is on Hawthorn’s radar.

The truck driver who killed four police officers on the Eastern Freeway last year says hours before the crash his boss prayed to “take the curse away of the witch”.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her advisers knew what this Delta variant could do long before the virus travelled from the city’s east to the west.

The founder of Modibodi battled a lack of understanding from male dominated investors when she looked for investment for her feminine hygiene business.

Anthony William Peter Caruana was found guilty by a NSW District Court jury of abusing 12 students at a school in the 1980s.

Singtel Optus has said it will be unable to meet customer demands if it can’t acquire the amount of radio wave spectrum it needs later this year.

The NRL has informed all 16 clubs of Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s non-negotiable stance: Break the bubble and you will be deported.

A former CEO and co-founder of a multimillion-dollar technology company was one of four people now fined $5000 each by authorities in both Queensland and NSW after the trip.

Dianne Jolley, the former dean of science at the university, is accused of sending 10 threatening letters to herself in 2019.

Former cabinet minister Kelly O’Dwyer warns female political hopefuls that people will tell them they have to “fit into a particular mould” in order to be successful.

Testing rates in Fairfield are still lagging behind those seen in hotspot areas earlier in the pandemic.

The emergence of the Delta variant, and future variants, will change the way Australia – and the world – contains the pandemic.

Scott Morrison says Australia is “keeping a close eye” on a high-tech Chinese surveillance ship that is monitoring war games by Australian and American forces.

Calls to Lifeline have risen 27 per cent since the NSW lockdown began with its chairman John Brogden saying this lockdown is harder than last time.

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

Eight Australian athletes’ Olympic preparations have been thrown into disarray after the Queensland government banned Sydney athletes from joining the Australian team at a training camp in Cairns.

The government’s most senior ministers will decide whether additional restrictions are required in response to a growing COVID-19 outbreak.

The Dragons forward delivered the statement through the club’s website after the infamous barbecue at Paul Vaughan’s house which threw the NRL into turmoil.

The tourist drawcard was due to start in August after last year’s event was scrapped.

Venues in Ipswich’s Riverlink shopping centre, the Brisbane international airport and an Inala restaurant joined the list of exposure sites across Queensland on Tuesday.

The victims were in their early 20s when the alleged sexual assaults occurred.

Buses left for Scots College’s southern highlands Glengarry residential campus with approval from NSW Health on Wednesday.

Tony Smith, who won praise from all sides of Parliament for his fair approach to the Speaker’s role, will not contest the next election after serving as an MP for 20 years.

One Australian whose booking had been cancelled said “I understand Australia wants zero cases but those stranded will never get home at this rate.”

When Greg Norman lifted the Claret Jug in 1993, it was another sign that the Royal St George’s course doesn’t play to expectations.

Tabcorp has finally discovered what triggered a fire retardant system to deploy in its data centre, destroying its equipment and causing an outage on Stakes Day last year.

Writer Julian Fellowes’ fascination with titled English families, buried secrets, thwarted ambition and upstairs-downstairs proprieties is evident in the six-part adaptation of his novel Belgravia.

Unlike its HBO stablemates Euphoria and Generation, the new and diversified Gossip Girl doesn’t move the dial when it comes to depictions of teenage life.

US prosecutors charged four Iranians with the elaborate plan to abduct a high-profile critic of the regime’s treatment of women from her Brooklyn home.

The entrance of Apple, PayPal and Commonwealth Bank into the buy now, pay later sector will surely lead to industry consolidation given the market is not large enough to feed them all.

Hawthorn struck an agreement in their contract with Alastair Clarkson well before the succession plan became a reality that allows for him to be retained at the Hawks beyond 2022.

If the Swans were to rest the superstar then a game at an icy, windswept Ballarat, where hail has been predicted, off a six-day break would seem the ideal opportunity.

Industry groups representing real estate agents, telecommunications workers, retail employees, posties, drivers and builders want staff prioritised for coronavirus vaccines, saying their jobs are essential leaving them at risk during outbreaks.

Analysts are warning the Sydney lockdown will shrink the national economy and could leave thousands more unemployed, with some predicting the restrictions will be extended further.

These times are incredibly tough, and you shouldn’t need to shag someone just to see a friend. 

Today on Please Explain, the Herald’s state political editor Alexandra Smith joins Tory Maguire to discuss the government’s support package for those hit by COVID-19 lockdowns.

Instead of heeding early warnings that the reef was at risk, the government is working hard to ensure it isn’t embarrassed by an adverse UNESCO ruling next week.

Do you answer emails outside work hours? Do you send them? New research shows how dangerous this can be.

Two former bankrupt brothers banned from the poultry industry for animal cruelty have been hit with sanctions over the failure of their aged care business to return deposits to families.

Nuix has been the most disastrous float in years, but the data forensics group has not lost all of its fans despite being associated with two criminal investigations and a probe into its accounts.