Although preparation for the Royal Queensland Show has been halted for another 24 hours, the Ekka is still due to start on August 7.

Medical experts have called on the federal government to introduce universal access to self-collection for cervical screening to help eliminate cervical cancer.

Sky News has been suspended from uploading content to YouTube for a week after the video and livestreaming platform claimed the media organisation breached its COVID-19 misinformation standards.

Sydney recorded 239 new cases on Sunday, while Queensland recorded nine new cases as the state’s south-east entered a snap three-day which threw the NRL and AFL weekend games into disarray.

Lockdowns have given people in Sydney and Melbourne plenty of time to reflect on what their homes mean, and some will find more comfort in that than others.

Anxiety is a normal part of life. But sometimes it can get the better of us. How do you know when to ask for help?

At the start of National Missing Persons Week, the Manirakiza family are experiencing the pain of not knowing what has happened to their loved one.

Gender equity in medicine remains elusive. Apart from concerns about exclusion and discrimination, it is also a public health issue as evidence shows that more women in medicine means better patient outcomes.

Sunday’s updated list of exposure sites includes those visited by a number of people linked to the Indooroopilly school cluster.

Agencies are struggling to find enough nannies to meet the demand, with some placing three times as many nannies into homes than they did before the pandemic.

While Victorian school students have been allowed back in classrooms, the state’s tertiary students must continue studying online if they can.

Victoria’s fifth round of remote learning has only made the conversation around youth mental health more urgent.

Unlike community events and business activities, Jeannette Young says NRL matches can go ahead because players have been in a bubble.

After a week of wild weather across the state that featured gusty winds, teeming rain and thunderstorms, Perth fell just short of its wettest July in history, but recorded the month’s biggest drenching in 26 years.

Police believe a Brisbane anti-lockdown protest could be planned for Monday, but senior officers warn “now is not the time”.

Even informal reports to monitor how the state is tracking and review government plans to ease it out of lockdowns would help.

The NSW Premier has urged Sydneysiders and greater NSW to dedicate the month of August to getting vaccinated.

All of the new cases have been linked to the Indooroopilly cluster, but five Brisbane schools have now been identified as at-risk.

A rich and fulfilling life is made up of experiences, which is hard to do when you are living the same locked-down day over and over again.

The coronavirus has reignited the jingoistic joust between Sydney and Melbourne. So, applying a lockdown lens, which city comes out on top?

Victoria has recorded four new local cases on Sunday, all linked to current outbreaks.

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

As research shows the sperm of fathers, especially in those over 45, is less vigorous than in younger men, researchers warn men not to delay fatherhood.

A mobile laboratory sent to cluster sites is also seeing results delivered in just a few hours.

A number of schools across Greater Sydney have emailed parents and carers to report attendance levels, with one claiming up to 20 per cent of students back on site.

Now here’s a moment: Ray Hadley and I in furious agreement.

In any emergency — bushfires, floods, pandemics — the most important resource is communication.

Young visa holders in Victoria desperate to get vaccinated with AstraZeneca say confused government advice is making it far too complicated for workers in higher-risk industries to get jabbed.

A backpacker hostel without backpackers is like a pub with no beer. Dorm rooms filled with bunk beds sit empty, shared kitchens and bars where young international travellers used to share stories and make memories are gathering dust.

The revelation that we can be stripped of things that once defined us makes us question who we are in the absence of those things.

A new online Museums Victoria exhibition gives a snapshot of some of the 40,000 pieces from Kodak’s Australian business.

The children of the man who died in 2015 made an official complaint to the regulator over his treatment by a practitioner at the National Institute of Integrative Medicine.

Census night is just around the corner, with millions of people set to log on to the Australian Bureau of Statistics website to provide a snapshot of the country’s demographics.

Nearly every road runner and some big track stars at these Olympics are wearing a new type of shoe – that has ignited debate. Why?

Teachers and medical experts have justifiable concerns about how year 12 can return to school safely given the large number of COVID-19 cases in greater Sydney.

Civil disobedience can be a necessary part of protest, but attacking police and horses is not OK.

Helen Cooper and her sister Wendy Johnson regularly bushwalk around Sydney. But unlike other walkers, they are not admiring the rivers, trees or animals. Instead, they wonder if their sister could be buried in the wilderness.

Health Minister Hazzard says NSW could be the first state in Australia to reach the new, national vaccine threshold of 70 per cent but insists Sydney’s emergence from lockdown is not wedded to that target.

The swelling COVID-19 outbreak and the extension of lockdown for four more weeks has left Sydneysiders grappling with mental health and addiction problems, with helplines and services reporting a spike in demand.

Residents in Sydney’s eastern suburbs are concerned about the impact of the White City redevelopment.

More than one million people in NSW are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but they are unlikely to be given greater freedom of movement in Sydney’s Delta outbreak.

As Greater Sydney passes the fifth of what will be at least nine weeks under lockdown restrictions, families with children are looking for ideas to pass the days.

An independent panel will determine the fate of a Sydney private school’s redevelopment to cater for a boost in student numbers at its campus.

North Sydney mayor Jilly Gibson will seek to ban fishing in a popular harbour park if fish hooks continues to be discarded.

The controversial business innovation and investment visas require applicants to have millions of dollars in personal or business assets to stay in the country, which the government has defended as an important way to attract investment in Australia....

Australians have been asked to identify their religion since the 1911 census but the seemingly simple question is increasingly contentious.

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

A growing number of families are choosing a ‘Lap of the Map’ journey around Australia as ongoing border restrictions prevent international travel.

The army will be sent in to door-knock people in Sydney who have tested positive to COVID-19, as NSW continues to battle an outbreak of the Delta variant.

NSW Police took extraordinary measures on Saturday to thwart any repeat of last weekend’s anti-lockdown protests, setting up an exclusion zone around the CBD. And they say residents can expect more of the same on Sunday.