Public transport services will be slashed in NSW from today, there are more than 200 exposure sites in Victoria and Olympics organisers are battling to keep COVID-19 from overwhelming the Games ahead of Friday’s opening ceremony.

Regional towns are waiting to learn whether they have recorded their first cases of COVID-19.

The chopping and changing of lockdown rules and relief packages looks suspiciously like policy on the run.

Restaurateur Daniel Zeidan, behind Melbourne venues including the Grace Darling Hotel, Lazerpig Pizza Parlour and Strange Wolf basement bar, has been banned from managing companies for four years.

The new secretary and president had promised better governance and a more muscular industrial approach but became embroiled in an unsuccessful attempt to sack a staff member.

WA’s Department of Health confirmed on Monday afternoon the seafarers had tested positive for the disease via rapid PCR testing; the remaining six crew will now also be tested.

Greens member Anab Mohamud will return to Yarra City Council on Tuesday for the first time since she was involved in a fight outside a gay nightclub in April.

The body of the woman, aged in her 50s, was found by emergency services on Monday morning at the home in Green Valley in Sydney’s west. 

Vancouver’s COVID-19 case numbers are similar to Sydney’s, yet the Canadian city is opening up while the Australian city is moving into harder lockdown.

Sydneysiders were excited to get their first COVID-19 jab as a new mass vaccination clinic opened in the CBD on Monday morning.

As the state recorded 16 new local cases on Monday, Premier Daniel Andrews said a decision on the length of the state’s lockdown would be announced on Tuesday.

Emoji have become the new body language at a time when seeing someone in person is either strongly discouraged or involves having half your face covered.

For five days straight, TikTok comedian Jon-Bernard Kairouz correctly predicted the number of NSW cases the night before the Premier would announce them at her 11am press conferences. But his streak came to an end on Monday.

A man’s body has been found at a Gold Coast beach about two kilometres north-east of the Gold Coast Seaway.

Today on Please Explain, climate and environment editor Nick O’Malley joins Tory Maguire to discuss how Australia’s suburbs are likely to cope with increasing temperatures.

A major study shows vaccine hesitancy is significant among 18- to 29-year-olds, highlighting the need for clear public messaging about the pandemic.

NSW has introduced strict new rules for residents of the three local government areas that further limit their movements in a bid to stem the spread of COVID-19.

It’s frightening to consider the dominoes in the Greater Sydney construction shutdown, Here’s a snapshot.

Former Labor minister Eddie Obeid set to return to prison after guilty finding over his role in a rigged tender which delivered his family $30 million windfall.

Venues including the Brisbane airport and supermarkets, service stations and pharmacies across the northern suburbs, Moreton Bay and Sunshine Coast regions are the latest places of concern for contact tracers.

The students’ departure for Winter School - a term 3 residential boarding program outside Jindabyne that Redlands has run for almost 30 years - has the full support of NSW Health.

Will nanobots and brain chips help us thrive – or could cyborgs wipe us out?

NSW recorded 98 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm, with two-thirds of those reported in south west Sydney. Twenty people were infectious in the community for more than one day.

Sally Capp wants national leaders to set targets for the level of vaccinations required so the country can “open up and live with” the coronavirus.

The barrister acting for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald told the Federal Court “we’re not going to get an orderly two-week notice period that the Taliban is going to attack Kabul”.

Robert Napoli has pleaded guilty to swindling Victoria’s Education Department, just days after his sibling was jailed for doing the same.

The Melbourne school hit by the most COVID closures last year emerged with happier students and improving VCE scores.

Queensland health authorities say they are still satisfied there is no need for a hard border with NSW, despite some cases getting very close to the border.

Principal Maray Farah says St Aloysius College dealt well with the disruption of the coronavirus lockdown and remote learning because the school community is used to working towards continuous improvements.

The school leaders of Glen Eira College have long had a private mantra: “Are we there yet, do we have their trust?” They finally believe the answer is yes.

The first “grammar” school in Melbourne’s outer south-east had modest beginnings but is finally reaping the rewards of a firmer focus on academic performance.

St Paul’s Anglican Grammar School has been named The Age’s 2021 Schools that Excel winner among non-government schools in rural or regional Victoria.

Tyrrell College has been named The Age’s 2021 Schools that Excel winner for rural/regional government schools for its sustained improvement in VCE results over the past decade.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has arrived in Tokyo ahead of a final pitch for the state to host the 2032 Olympics.

A man has died after crashing his scooter at West End on Monday morning.

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews says Katie Hopkins will be leaving Australia as soon as the government can possibly arrange it. “I’m hopeful that it will happen imminently.”

One driver who falsified records had come from a truck stop hotspot and was unco-operative with police was forced into quarantine, police said.

John Mant was Gough Whitlam’s Principal Private Secretary on dismissal day .

Perth landlords are doing well out of their property investments compared to owners across other capital cities.

Sirius College’s Eastmeadows campus has been selected as The Age Schools that Excel winner for 2021 among non-government schools in Melbourne’s north.

Reservoir High School is The Age’s Schools that Excel winner among government schools in Melbourne’s north.

Now in its third year, The Age’s Schools that Excel dashboard allows you to track school results over the past decade.

St Andrews Christian College encourages its students to go “MAD” − to Make A Difference.

Why the Labor leader risks losing support in ALP seats after his strident defence of Israel.

Her task is to address bullying, sexual harassment and sexual assault at Parliament House. Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner is taking inspiration from the people who’ve come forward to tell her what they know.

But the mayors of Sydney’s two COVID-free local government areas want to stick out the lockdown with the rest of the city.

The tutoring market may have shrunk during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it remains big business.

A convicted fraudster and his assistant have been suspended from their jobs over a fraudulent invoice they submitted to Club Marconi for work that wasn’t done.

Experts, governments and clear thinkers all agree that rapid mass COVID-19 vaccination is the key step in returning to normal life.

The move is a blow to Toorak Shule.