Health experts say the Delta variant is putting more young people at greater risk of contracting the virus and becoming seriously unwell. 

NSW has flagged a crackdown on people ignoring public health orders, Victoria Police have dispersed another anti-lockdown protest and residents of Cairns are waking up to their first full day out of lockdown.

A contact tracing error has left at least one Byron Bay business bewildered amid concerns there may be missing pieces to the picture.

Advocacy groups say new state laws aimed at minimising alcohol harm will not stop drink being supplied to children and intoxicated people.

Initially slated to be finished next year, the $175 million QPAC addition is now expected to welcome audiences in early 2023 after final designs came in $25 million over budget.

It is critical we try to stamp Melbourne’s community outbreak out now before it takes an even greater hold.

Queensland has announced the ACT will become a hotspot and will close its borders to the territory from this weekend.

Brett Armstrong sued the State of NSW arguing he was left with incomplete quadriplegia after he was thrown to the ground head-first by a police officer in 2016.

Victoria has recorded 21 new local COVID-19 cases and two additional cases involving two women from Sydney who arrived without the right permit on Monday and tested positive while in hotel quarantine.

One regional health care system cannot cope with an outbreak, according to the local mayor, who is also concerned for the vulnerable local Aboriginal population.

The Noosa Temple of Satan is pushing for members to be allowed to teach religious instruction classes to school students.

A young driver panicked when police tried to pull his car over on January 28 because he was on bail at the time and banned from driving, his lawyer told Melbourne Magistrates Court.

Apartment buyers are demanding to know why the state’s building watchdog altered prohibition orders for the twin 22-storey towers last month that could prevent them from getting their deposits back.

Queensland chief health officer Jeannette Young said she did not want to make the situation more tragic after the five-month-old died in a tragic magpie incident in Brisbane’s south.

Officers who had sex with a 17-year-old girl regularly picked up women through their jobs, used fake names, and would communicate using ‘bat phones’, documents reveal.

Entrepreneur escaped “poverty and rabid anti-Semitism” for new life in Sydney.

The billionaire spouted contested statistics and discredited theories about the jab on 6PR’s Mornings program with Liam Bartlett, but said he would not bring his own “personal health” into the debate.

Today on Please Explain, industrial relations reporter Nick Bonyhady joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss the latest news in the mandatory vaccination debate.

I am convinced that Christian churches and organisations can be and should be fully accepting and inclusive of people of all genders and sexual identities.

Kate Jenkins has stressed the need for the Morrison government to impose an onus on employers to eliminate sexual harassment, saying this had existed in Victoria for a decade without any adverse impact on business.

Two men in their 90s died after testing positive to the virus: one had received one dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine and another had received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

Bayside, Strathfield and Burwood have joined the list of Sydney local government areas of concern, as the lockdown for Newcastle and surrounds is extended.

Queensland’s Premier said they expected more cases in the coming days, again foreshadowing harder border measures with NSW, as northern shires saw more cases.

The academic community at Perth’s most prestigious university has flagged issues with the arguments in favour of cutting social sciences.

WA’s universities are in the thick of a crisis that the McGowan government should address right away to ensure they live up to noble expectations set out for them under state law.

WA’s hard border is set to undergo its greatest test as NSW surges ahead in vaccinations in a bid to ease its lockdown and manage COVID-19 within the community by September.

A frosty atmosphere has descended on a NSW ski village as Sydneysiders arrive for their annual winter ski holiday.

Independent schools no longer want the government to dictate how they should approach big decisions such as which students to return to school.

Employers in industries such as supermarkets and hospitality have the right to demand their staff be vaccinated, the chair of Safe Work Australia says.

The man was arrested on Tuesday after intelligence from the global law enforcement sting using the An0m communications app identified him as a person of interest. 

Thought to have murdered three people, the convicted forger and artist was found guilty, and sent to Van Diemen’s Land to serve his life sentence.

Victoria has a payment for workers who do the right thing, but no NSW.

The behaviour of Health Minister Brad Hazzard at the parliamentary inquiry into lockdown was that of a belligerent child.

Ending months of speculation about who would take on the top job, the seasoned criminal barrister has emerged as the successor to Lloyd Babb, SC.

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

Bill soon for vote at 18, modern touch, and Mexico to outlaw ‘quickie’ divorces.

Even before politics, industry minister Christian Porter knew how to impress an audience

A quick guide on how to avoid being swooped and what to do if you are.

A yellowed armband, likely worn by a Jewish person in a Nazi ghetto, is among dozens of items listed at a Queensland auction.

A review into the deaths off 55 children known to Queensland’s child protection system has found a disproportionate number were Indigenous.

When a bill is a blessing.

The RNA has put its hand up to host professional cricket and AFL matches at the Brisbane Showgrounds while the Gabba gets its Olympic facelift.

Six people may have received an ultra-low dose of the Pfizer vaccine at a north Brisbane vaccination centre on Saturday.

NSW is in lockdown limbo, Melbourne’s coronavirus restrictions are unlikely to ease tomorrow and Brisbane’s first mass vaccination hub is opening today.

Who’d have guessed? There was a real estate angle in the Byron Bay coronavirus story.

Harley Palise, accused of raping a woman he gave a lift home from Carlton, has taken the witness box, telling the jury she made advances towards him and he went “with the flow”.

The supermarket chain has not ruled out appealing the decision again after a long-running dispute with Elsternwick residents in Melbourne’s southeast.

Crown Australia’s chief financial officer says high-profile former executives shared the blame for not stamping out money laundering through a casino bank account used by overseas gamblers.

A major staffing crisis is looming at a western Sydney hospital after a COVID-19 cluster in a mental health unit grew to nine cases on Wednesday.

Federal Court Justice Michael Wigney described the campaign waged by former patient Catherine Cruse against Dr Warwick Nettle as “full of falsehoods”.