Cases of liver disease in dogs across Gippsland and the Mornington Peninsula have prompted Australia’s peak pet food association and dog owners to call for stronger regulation of the pet food industry.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

As a parent, paediatrician and infectious disease physician, I have been struck by the way in which the learning and wellbeing of children has been consistently deprioritised in the debate about remote learning.

A patient with a spinal injury was left waiting in a corridor at Sunshine Hospital for 14 hours on Monday just days after Australia’s leading doctors warned that hospitals across the country were at “breaking point”.

Meaney established a reputation for understanding Australian foreign policy history in a new and original light.

A united plan to bring Perth out of the doldrums is needed but arguments go in circles whether the way to do it is through building ‘big things’, focusing on the grassroots community, or a mix of both.

Mr Hamzy, brother of Brothers for Life gang founder Bassam Hamzy, was gunned down outside his home in Condell Park on the morning of October 19.

Rebellion at the Celtic Club over a decision to sell the pub that was its home has escalated into a legal fight involving allegations of financial mismanagement, alcoholism and not being Irish enough.

Melbourne-based scientists have developed a new anti-viral technique that can be quickly tweaked to target viruses including COVID-19 – an important step on the path toward new pandemic defences.

Boroondara councillors have voted down plans to hand over a staff car park to create shared open space for Camberwell school students and residents.

Twenty-four cases were in the community for all of their infectious period and seven were in isolation for part of their infectious period, Premier Gladys Berejiklian says.

But the war veteran’s barrister has argued that the public health situation in Sydney had “worsened very considerably” and lawyers should not be asked to return to court in the city.

The four men were arrested on Tuesday afternoon over the death of Chris Anderson, 36, who was shot in the chest at an Ipswich home on the weekend.

Valerie Newstead regretted there were few, if any, roles for 90-year old actors.

My Ut Trinh is a free woman after being accused of putting needles in Queensland strawberries, sparking a national crisis.

There have also been new contact tracing sites identified on the Sunshine Coast.

The outage is the second this week affecting V/Line trains after a network-wide communications fault shut down services on Monday. 

Using ANoM, criminals communicated freely about violence, drugs and money. They didn’t know that police were listening in.

Two people have been arrested and charged with making an explosive substance.

A quick guide to what we know about shortening the interval between doses of AstraZeneca.

Axing anthropology and sociology and carving off humanities courses in WA risks billions of dollars more in failed engineering and mining projects, leading experts warn.

University of Western Australia students are outraged and rallying to oppose restructures to its school of social sciences.

The longer you take to realise you must act, the more disruption you end up causing.

It is hard to know whether NSW’s “soft lockdown” approach accompanied by strong contact tracing will work. It has not been tried before.

‘Nobody is safe’: one in three hospital patients in intensive care

Sydney’s health system has become the first in the country to confront the latest wave of highly transmissible Delta-variant cases.

The peak irrigation body is frustrated by the small number of big irrigators who are breaking the rules and bringing the industry into disrepute.

No other Australian media outlet devotes the time, energy and resources to complaint investigation as the ABC does.

Christo’s Pizzeria owner Peter Poulos doesn’t remember what he ate for dinner when he sat on the table next to Nationals MP Adam Marshall. He has since recovered from COVID-19, but his father-in-law is still in hospital.

The slow reveal of the Morrison government’s vaccine incompetence is an unfolding horror show.