Emergency department nurse Lucy has painted a grim picture of life in Perth hospitals and said while the funding was a great start, hospitals were in crisis now.

A parliamentary committee has proposed making it easier for skilled migrants and international students to get permanent residency.

Tens of thousands of people in Sydney’s Penrith region are waking up to tougher lockdown restrictions, under-40s in Victoria will be able to get an AstraZeneca jab at mass vaccination hubs from today and Cairns has been plunged into a snap lockdown...

Lamaro’s Hotel owner Paul Dimattina says the pub wasn’t trading past 8pm and that it was just a few friends having a drink and consoling him in the face of yet another lockdown.

This week on the Real Footy podcast, Caroline Wilson, Jake Niall and Sam McClure discuss the coaching situation at Ikon Park.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison aims to drive down case numbers, while Liberal MPs wonder if it is even possible to get case numbers to zero ever again

Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned bookings for the HSC vaccine program were well below capacity, while several students said they were still waiting to be sent a booking link.

Victorian renters can be evicted over rent going unpaid due to the COVID-19 pandemic but cannot be forced to repay what they owe until October 25, VCAT has ruled.

This excellent ABC drama series takes us back to 1986, a time of big hair, big news, and very loud bosses.

Brett Armstrong is suing the State of NSW, alleging former police officer Samuel Kanard threw him into the ground head first, injuring his spine, in March 2016.

Simon & Schuster says it stands by the book after a feature in Good Weekend on Saturday cast doubt on parts of the celebrity chef’s life story.

All that has changed since the last major UN climate report is we have emitted more greenhouse gas and improved the tools by which we chart our catastrophe.

It seems an eternity since Fayerra swept onto the scene in January 2020.

Even under the most ambitious emission reduction scenarios, the world is likely to heat to 1.5 degrees or more above pre-industrial levels by 2040, according to the latest IPCC report.

Everything you need to know to find a winner on the seven-race card.

Amid the abundance of abysmal readings and projections from the latest global climate report was one frightening forecast that didn’t make the cut.

Australia’s famously variable climate will become more extreme in a warming world, with compounding effects of droughts, heatwaves and worsening bushfire weather among the perils ahead.

Here’s some of the most important things we learned from the first instalment of the Sixth Assessment Report.

Women with mammograms booked at more than 20 free clinics in the Greater Sydney area were advised on Monday that their appointments would need to be rescheduled.

Paul Fletcher claims documents relating to the approval of $660m in commuter car parks should say confidential, while new details show the PM approved many of them the night before calling the election.

An unemployed local has confessed to killing a 57-year-old Swiss tourist while trying to rob her of $12. Her death has rocked the reopened tourist island.

Alex Dion couldn’t pay for the drugs Wachira “Mario” Phetmang brought him, so he killed the 33-year-old and dumped his body in bushland in Sydney’s west.

Chef de mission Kate McLoughlin says Australia’s Paralympians are ready to shine on the world stage - but the team will enter a very different Tokyo to that of the Olympians last month.

A spontaneous photo exhibition on the street facing windows of a Woollahra gallery attracted the world’s best photographers in a flash.

NSW Health said from 6pm the Byron Shire, Richmond Valley, Lismore and Ballina Shire LGAs will be subject to stay-at-home orders until at least August 17.

Toll road giant Transurban has warned investors it will bleed up to $12 million every week that Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane are in lockdown, and that COVID-19 restrictions will threaten its earnings until the end of this year. 

The ancient flying reptile had a skull a metre long, dozens of spear-like teeth and seven-metre wings with which it soared over the inland sea 105 million years ago.

Australia’s medical regulator has provisionally approved Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for its use from September when one million doses are due to arrive.

National Australia Bank is looking expand its share of the credit card market by buying Citi’s Australian retail banking arm.

Myer has its back against the wall but has come out swinging in its battle against billionaire retailer Solomon Lew with plans for a share placement.

A mass vaccination hub will open in Brisbane to help boost delivery of increased Pfizer supply, as all Queenslanders older than 16 are urged to register for a shot.

The ACCC is taking Telstra, Optus and TPG to court, hoping to exact a large enough penalty to prevent future misleading conduct.

Carl Bridges’ truck crashed into the car, which had run out of fuel and was partly on the road, around midnight on August 19, 2018 on a long stretch of country road near Corrigin.

Many Victorians in their 20s and 30s were breathing a sigh of relief as they queued to get their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

The boy was found unconscious, with head and chest injuries, and died in hospital on Saturday.

The men who robbed Michael West and stole $2 million were almost polite, carefully removing his watch before cuffing his wrists. But the victim’s son has told a court his father was left living in fear.

A sudden rule change last week has caught out many Australians who ordinarily live overseas, contradicting assurances made by the Home Affairs Minister days ago.

The Tokyo Olympics may be finished but your time as a sedentary sports enthusiast is just getting started thanks to this lineup of Olympic-themed streaming.

IOC vice president John Coates confirmed that the executive has the International Weightlifting Federation in its sights.

It would be a travesty to deny future Australians the same free access to iconic sports events that we have enjoyed for decades.

Brie and Luke O’Loughlin only dated for five months in real-life before they got engaged, and new research shows theirs is one of many relationships that have benefited during the pandemic.

As the Taliban attempt to create an air of inevitability and the US military campaign mostly finished, the public relations war in Afghanistan has taken on outsize importance.

Job vacancies plummeted by more than 10 per cent during the first full month of lockdown in Sydney, with warnings unemployed people are being trapped in poverty.

Parts of what was Victoria’s oldest building, Captain Lonsdale’s Cottage, had been used in a Moomba float and to build a lavatory leaving the historic property beyond repair according to Dr Miles Lewis, senior lecturer in architecture at Melbourn...

On this episode of Please Explain, national affairs editor Rob Harris joins Tory Maguire to discuss what the political stage might look like after the vaccine effort fully ramps up.

In my Indian community in western Sydney, everyone knows someone who has lost family, friends or neighbours to Delta. We carry a collective grief because of this loss.

Traffic on some of Sydney’s major toll roads surged by almost 25 per cent after the NSW government first eased restrictions on the construction industry.

The Yoo-rrook Justice Commission has found its early work slowed by restrictions introduced to tackle the spread of COVID-19.

Sometimes you need a rocket up you or what used to be called tough love when I was a girl.

Jessica Lee Heath, 24, is accused of forcing open the glass door of her Gold Coast hotel quarantine room and fleeing.