The new local case of COVID-19 detected in Victoria is a woman in her 20s who teaches at Al-Taqwa College in Melbourne’s west.

The NSW Premier wants to see 6 million jabs in arms by the end of this month, Queensland is facing a major outbreak and Melbourne’s lockdowns have changed the country’s internal migration patterns.

New pandemic rules enabling wills to be finalised remotely may increase the risk of elder abuse and coercion, researchers say.

Mark McGowan said cabinet decided the appointment but stopped short of responding to a ‘yes-or-no’ question over whether he was involved in putting forward Neville Owen’s name to his cabinet.

Mustafa Kayirici was jailed last year, following a previous lengthy sentence, for sex attacks on a 13-year-old girl and adult women.

NSW will need to maintain some of its highest daily vaccination rates on record to reach the six million doses needed by the end of August for restrictions to begin to be eased.

Delays in getting a bed still plague Victoria’s only forensic psychiatric hospital for men despite repeated warnings and a recent funding announcement.

The detections came just days after NSW Health announced it would be diverting 20,000 Pfizer doses from Hunter-New England Local Health district and six other regional districts to south-west Sydney for a mass vaccination program of Year 12 students.

The man transited through Perth Airport at the same time as a traveller from Queensland who later tested positive for the virus. However, the FIFO worker had previously contracted COVID-19 last year.

Last week, Gladys Berejiklian said year 12 would return to class. On Wednesday she backtracked, saying access to classrooms will be based on COVID-19 risk.

Families living in Brisbane’s COVID hotspot suburbs and stuck in mandatory quarantine are facing long waits for grocery deliveries.

Residents have been determined to be close contacts and will be repeatedly tested during their 14-day home isolation.

Aude “Ady” Alaskar died on Tuesday night after what health authorities have described as a sudden deterioration.

The US burger giant is suing a Queensland business after it operated on Uber Eats, DoorDash and Menulog as “In-N-Out Aussie Burgers”.

The draft framework will set the scene for development in City of Yarra suburbs such as Richmond, Collingwood and Fitzroy for the coming decade.

Children account for 70 per cent of the present cluster’s cases, which experts attribute to the different way children move around the community.

On this episode of Please Explain, business editor John McDuling joins Tory Maguire to discuss how Afterpay became the subject of Australia’s largest ever corporate deal.

The city-bush divide is sadly reflected in the quality of school education. But the current big population move out of cities, pronounced by the pandemic, is Australia’s chance to fix this inequality.

The national cabinet should not be pulling a trigger too early and consign Australia to even more lockdowns and a higher number of COVID-19 deaths.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says her view is that the Sydney outbreak has not yet reached its peak, as the state recorded 233 new cases and the sudden death of an unvaccinated man in his 20s and a woman in her 80s.

A disability support worker charged over fraudulent claims for payments from the NDIS has been sentenced to a $1000 good behaviour bond without conviction.

Saturday’s events were, at best, unedifying and poorly executed; at worst, an atrocious display of misguided defiance, defeating the entire point the crowds were trying to make.

Principals have been given less than 24 hours to provide student details as NSW Health rushes students through first vaccinations over five days.

Ron Lee was chosen as one of a select group – eventually known as “the eavesdroppers” – which performed vital work in signals intelligence.

A Perth Magistrate described the escape from a fourth storey room as ‘breathtakingly arrogant’.

Cairns businesses brace for the possibility of restrictions following a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the region that is not linked to the Brisbane cluster.

Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has warned if people don’t do something “really, really, really special” the lockdown will be extended beyond Sunday.

Tents have appeared on the doorstep of WA Parliament as the homelessness plight is once again thrust into the spotlight.

Christopher Dale Flannery loved his job and for a price he would kill and dispose of the body, until he found himself on the wrong side of the barrel.

I don’t want to ditch tradition just for the hell of it. But wigs are not delightfully eccentric anachronisms - they represent everything that’s wrong with law and justice in Australia today.

Potty mouth fails to come forward after barrister cries foul language.

Many former Catholics will still tick “Catholic” on the census, simply because they feel a cultural connection to the Church.

NSW Health has imposed a 14-day stay-at-home order for anyone who has been in south-east Queensland’s lockdown zone.

New Queensland exposure sites added to the list on Tuesday include another Indooroopilly school, stores at the nearby shopping centre and sites across Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

The more of us who become vaccinated, the safer it becomes for those who aren’t. And that could undermine the success of a vaccine passport.

Attorney-General John Quigley was not aware of the relationship between Neville Owen and local billionaire Kerry Stokes, but still supported the former judge’s appointment to lead the Perth Casino Royal Commission.

Pilbara Minerals managing director and chief executive Ken Brinsden says ‘dinosaurs’ in the industry need to be rehabbed and not just sent down the road to other companies.

Religious leaders have raised concerns about conspiracy theories fuelling vaccine hesitancy in vulnerable migrant communities in Sydney’s west.

When Luis Montero was 16 he was so desperate for somewhere to stay he slept in a tent in Yarra Bend Park.

The federal government was warned months ago about the importance of producing mRNA vaccines on home soil.

A Herald analysis of international experience shows in certain circumstances curfews appear to have worked.

It is clear is that we are heading, in real world practice if not codified name, to a system of vaccination passports which will divide Australian society into the jabbed and unjabbed.

Despite about 60 per cent of the North West’s population older than 16 being eligible to receive the vaccine, just 8 per cent are fully immunised – the lowest uptake rate in the country.

At last, a visionary move from the ALP’s low profile leader; direct payment to get vaccinated.

TAFE NSW will offer 10 new fee-free courses in mental health, digital security, business administration and construction to help people re-skill during the pandemic.

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

Zoe Amor, daughter of the founder of the Rick Amor drawing prize, is among the 19 artists on the shortlist for the $20,000 first spot.

511 out of 521 actresses, accidental death, and he’ll be the judge of that.

Forty years ago, rescue crews worked through the night to save 2-year-old William Farr, jammed four metres down a deep borehole on his grandparents’ property.

Five months after getting Pfizered in his Australian flag mask, Morrison is again leveraging the mystical “Aussie spirit” to mobilise the populace.