In an Australian first, SPC will require all staff to vaccinated by November if they wanted to gain entry to worksites and hold onto their jobs. But the move has drawn a fierce backlash from workers, who say it erodes their rights.

Sydney’s COVID-19 outbreak has leaked into the regions, Victoria is entering lockdown again after a fresh mystery case and Queensland is facing its largest coronavirus outbreak since last year’s first wave.

A 32-year-old Sunshine Coast woman who was visiting her friend in Brisbane was killed when her Hyundai i20 was hit by a passenger train at the Kianawah Road crossing in February this year. 

Anxiety levels in the state’s Newcastle and Hunter regions are high as eight local government areas are plunged into lockdown.

Contact tracing is no longer enough to contain an outbreak of the Delta variant – people who have contracted the virus just can’t be found fast enough.

National cabinet’s plan to give Australians a clear path out of life under COVID restrictions raised many questions among readers. While for some the end of restrictions couldn’t come soon enough.

The Premier says residents should go home and start locking down as he announces the state is entering a snap seven-day lockdown on the advice of health authorities.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian is defending the year 12 return to class, saying the HSC is an “opportunity for a better life”.

Brian Houston was charged following a two-year investigation into allegations he had failed to report the alleged abuse of a young male in the 1970s.

The recommendations in today’s report are a small step in the right direction, but we still lag behind many other jurisdictions in reducing drug-related harm.

The latest COVID-19 outbreaks in Melbourne have prompted new restrictions. Here’s a list of the new rules.

Queensland man Omar Saghir, 39, was arrested by AFP officers when he landed at Sydney Airport on July 16 from Saudi Arabia.

Shanae Edwards had travelled and worked all over the world, volunteering in South America, skiing in Canada, exploring temples in Thailand. But most recently it was the capital of Georgia that had captured her imagination.

A man who sexually assaulted two vulnerable women while feigning to be a ride-share driver now fears his family being split up if he is deported after completing his jail term.

It’s puzzling that politicians who tell students that the HSC is not the be-all and end-all are now making it a priority in the middle of a pandemic.

More than 80 close contacts of the FIFO worker had been identified and five of his close contacts have returned negative results including his partner, housemate and three workmates.

Today on Please Explain, Nathanael Cooper is joined by Indigenous affairs reporter and Gamilaroi man Cameron Gooley.

A NSW Supreme Court judge said Arthurell has a proclivity to violently terminate lives, and strict conditions must be imposed to protect the community.

NSW reported 262 new local cases on Thursday, the highest number of local cases ever recorded in the state in a 24-hour period.

More than 100,000 Pfizer doses earmarked for Queensland in September will now be delivered from next week, in an effort to significantly lift vaccination rates.

A museum program involving Jewish and Islamic students is designed to break down stereotypes they might have and help them understand what they have in common.

Three teenagers have been arrested after a 16-year-old was found with serious head and chest injuries in Sydney’s west. He remains in a critical condition.

Queensland will launch its Care Army to help people stuck in some of Brisbane’s hardest-hit suburbs who are facing a week’s wait for food.

Stephen Lapthorne and girlfriend Michelle Pope left his family home in Sydney’s upper north shore to make the 20-kilometre trip to Berowra in 1978, but they never arrived.

Locations across Loganholme, Shailer Park, Indooroopilly and Toowong were added to the list of SEQ exposure sites late on Wednesday.

The state government is trying to ‘strike the balance’ between staffing vaccination clinics and hospitals as Delta strikes - but we just don’t have the nursing numbers.

Desmond Carr, 32, was last seen on August 2, 1979 on a road around 90 kilometres south of Broome at 3pm working on a road roller. An hour later when his colleagues came to pick him up, he was nowhere to be seen.

Three shops at the Greenwood Village Shopping Centre are now on the list, while at least eight intrastate Qantas flights in Western Australia were cancelled.

The woman escaped by forcing open a glass door. Police are continuing their efforts to find her.

If Crown continues to operate the casino in the light of all that has been revealed, then proper regulation is not a serious activity for the government of Victoria.

Sydney’s new, problem-plagued River-class ferries will only be able to operate when the sun is up.

Australians nominating as Christians are about to dip below 50 per cent in the coming census, but that doesn’t necessarily make us a godless nation.

Frustrated pharmacists say they are waiting up to two weeks for COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to arrive, with hundreds of the state’s pharmacies signed up for the program still waiting for jabs.

The Prime Minister will announce his Closing the Gap plan on Thursday morning, but still it will take many decades to close the chasms that separate First Nations and non-Indigenous Australians.

Wesley College will begin giving the jab to its staff on campus this week, as several other non-government schools in Melbourne look to follow suit.

Sydney mathematician Daniel Mansfield has revealed the 3700-year-old artefact from the Old Babylonian period contains the earliest example of complex geometry in the world.

Thank you, Grace Tame, for calling out Morrison’s “nothing to see/hear” approach to one of several problems that Australia faces: lack of accountability in government.

Mike Webb found out he had been to an exposure site just hours after interpreting at the state’s daily COVID press conference.

Health Minister Yvette D’Ath has asked that a federal offer of 150,000 new doses be delivered directly to pharmacies to distribute, as demand increases.

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

Old boundary stones, “Catch me if you can”, and women rowers ban.

Some would argue the local tech industry doesn’t need to raise its profile. But our homegrown tech titans obviously think otherwise.

More than one-10th of the city’s office floor space was empty in July – the highest vacancy rate since January 2000 – as COVID shutdowns hit business confidence and workers’ desire to return.

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.

A teacher at Al-Taqwa College in Melbourne’s west has tested positive to COVID-19, forcing nearly 2500 students and teachers into isolation.

It’s a cocktail with a sting.

Queensland’s lockdown looks set to continue, according to health experts, unless there’s a dramatic decline in the number of cases and lockdown measures prevent new ones.

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.