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.

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.

The Delta strain has put children – and, as a consequence, unvaccinated adults – at increased risk. Our health chiefs must refocus their energies on finding a safe way to inoculate children against COVID.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The white and privileged among us cannot avoid the fact that there remains tension when it comes to race in Australia, perhaps most notably with those of African refugee background.

News Corp Australia plans to make up to 25 editorial positions redundant.

The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal resisted calls from a government agency to suspend the mayor from office despite finding his conduct was serious enough to warrant more than a reprimand.

As the year 12 vaccine program got under way, the Premier called on more students to come forward as bookings were nowhere near their capacity of about 24,000 doses.

A baby has been taken to hospital in a critical condition after a mother reportedly fell while being swooped by a magpie in Brisbane’s south. 

The Collingwood star appeared via video link from his lawyer’s office on Monday morning, when the Melbourne Magistrates Court heard the single charge of indecent assault had been withdrawn by the prosecution. 

At least 106 of NSW’s new cases were in the community during their infectious period, while a record 133,840 tests were conducted.

Marcus Reubenstein, who runs the news website APAC news, says he was defamed by the suggestion his website was run by the Chinese Communist Party.

Melburnians have been warned to stay away from regional Victoria after public health authorities said they were confident the city’s outbreaks had not leaked to the country.

When turnaround times blew out at one of NSW’s busiest pathology networks, many assumed the laboratory was overwhelmed. The actual reason was more mundane.

Outside court, the man apologised for his actions, before telling journalists to “get the f--- out of my face”.

Tolling giant Transurban has confirmed to investors the $6.7 billion West Gate Tunnel project has blown out by $3.3 billion, but the final cost could be even higher.

Queensland has recorded five new cases on Monday, four of them linked to the current cluster and one in hotel quarantine, in a good sign the state is getting ahead of the current outbreak.

Ruqia Haidari was married off to an older man she didn’t know for $15,000 and taken to live thousands of kilometres away from home. Two months later she was murdered by her husband.

A national taskforce says it cannot yet support the use of new treatment Sotrovimab, of which the federal government recently bought more than 7700 doses.

Elwood Sourdough is among companies and services that have noted a rise in trade as customers’ buying habits change during the pandemic.

The number of healthcare workers infected with COVID-19 since the state’s outbreak has doubled in the past two weeks and has hit 117 cases, with one peak medical group renewing calls to mandate vaccines for all hospital workers.

A comprehensive new report measuring volunteering in NSW shows the number of volunteers and the time they gave both increased during the pandemic.

High vaccination rates are just the starting point on a pathway out of COVID. But in our race to find a new normal, we must not jump the gun by reducing restrictions too soon.

Buyers of off-the-plan apartments in an eastern suburbs complex have been left “frustrated and angry”, and counting the financial cost.

Gladys Berejiklian is deluded in saying we have the harshest lockdown of any state.

Toxic air pollution from wood heaters has resulted in 14 deaths a year and reduced life expectancies across one regional city, a new study has found.

Netflix will invest $500,000 in training, which will be delivered by Screenworks and supported by the state government to address a national skills shortage in film crews.

In a warm-up for his win at the Commonwealth Games the following year, marathon runner Robert De Castella set a record time in the eleventh annual City to Surf.

Billionaire trucking magnate Lindsay Fox has lost a bid to kick the state government off a private beach outside his weekender following a court decision handed down last week.

Lindsay has loss in court as he seeks to kick state government off his beach.

Labor’s decision to embrace the stage three income tax cuts to high-income earners and support negative gearing highlights the current identity crisis the ALP faces.