NSW’s ‘Operation Stay at Home’ has come into effect, Melbourne’s inner south-eastern suburbs are on high alert and the first of 1 million extra Pfizer jabs have landed in Australia from Poland.

Sydney’s hospitals continue to be plagued by COVID-19 exposures as the nurses union warns the city’s west faces a “staffing crisis”.

Premier Daniel Andrews has lashed the organisers and attendees of an engagement party that was held in breach of public health orders.

The photo features Dion Prestia, with his mask below his chin, posing with several others holding small bottles of whiskey during lockdown.

Ches Baragwanath has been remembered as a “fearless watchdog” and credited as saving the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office during the 90s.

As the state’s climate gets hotter and drier, with more extreme weather predicted, one community is working to “future-proof” itself through a strategy built on two wind turbines named Gusto and Gale.

As the sixth lockdown drags on and the dream of not just reaching, but maintaining, zero cases appears more illusive, it is unsurprising that Victorians are showing signs of behavioural fatigue.

Former Foreign Affairs official David Savage says he doesn’t know if there was ever any strategy or purpose to the sacrifices that he and others made in Afghanistan.

A year after labelling Cricket Australia “the most incompetent administration I’ve ever worked with” amid his pursuit of a reduction in rights fees, Seven West Media’s chief executive James Warburton has all but declared peace.

There’s everything to play for in round 23 in the race for the eight and the top four but the Bombers could make the finals even if they lose to Collingwood.

Australia is desperately trying to negotiate a landing spot at Kabul airport to rescue hundreds of Australians and Afghans after the Taliban captured the capital.

It’s getting trickier for performing arts companies to outrun border closures and lockdowns.

Small businesses want a national approach to rent relief, including federal government-backed loans to help repay their accumulated debt to landlords.

Duncan Maskell says the current research funding model, which is heavily subsidised by the high fees paid by international students, should be abolished in favour of more direct federal government funding.

Unions will use the conversation to demand up to four days’ paid vaccine leave for everyone, regardless of whether they are casual or permanent.

A pair of promising Canberra gallopers with only 13 starts between them are set for a smash-and-grab raid at the feature meeting at Albury today.

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

Western NSW is facing an “incredibly scary and concerning situation” with nearly 100 active cases of COVID-19 across the local health district, and numbers expected to rise.

Queensland says it has signed an agreement with the Commonwealth allowing a 1000-bed quarantine hub to be built near the Brisbane airport that is now not expected to be finished until mid-2022.

The building industry says tens of thousands of workers will be stood down and revenue lost under Melbourne’s tightened lockdown, and the grocery sector is bracing for a hit under curfew conditions.

Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin had sought to cling to power, but the withdrawal of support from coalition MPs sealed his fate.

Sharlette Johnson was the first woman to compete in junior bull riding in years at Australia’s biggest rodeo at the weekend. And she is just getting started.

The board of Sydney Airport says the $22.8b offer still undervalues the company as the country’s biggest super fund joins the bidding consortium.

The state opposition wants a powerful new committee set up with the ability to compel witnesses to appear before it.

Sydney’s Afghanistan community is anxious about the safety of friends and family in their home country.

The NT’s peak Aboriginal medical body is urging Indigenous people to get vaccinated as the Territory records a new case of COVID-19.

Kefu, who played 60 games for the Wallabies, and three family members were slashed and stabbed in their home on Monday morning.

The Taliban have taken control of Afghanistan, promising to run an inclusive government two decades after being ousted from Kabul by the United States.

Fitzroy North dad Toby Cummings said playgrounds had been one of the few places parents could take their kids to help them deal with the boredom of lockdown.

Thirty-six per cent of women and 10 per cent of men indicated they had experienced a form of sexual harassment in the past year in West Australian mines a new survey submitted to an inquiry into the issue has revealed.

The Porsche driver who filmed dying police officers on the Eastern Freeway has demanded that his bail application on other matters be withdrawn, telling a court he would “get better justice in Belarus”.

Adam Gilchrist has called on Cricket Australia to make a call on the future of the national men’s coach Justin Langer “quickly”, to end a pattern of leaks from within the team that “will derail the summer”.

But Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has told the outspoken senator his comment was an “unnecessary conflation” of the events in Afghanistan and action on climate change.

The State Coroner will investigate the death of a teenage girl after it was revealed she walked away from a residential care home following a string of documented suicide attempts.

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank chief executive Marnie Baker has defended an increase in costs by saying the lender’s main focus is on growth.

The Victorian government is introducing stronger measures to control Melbourne’s worsening outbreak, including closing playgrounds and introducing a 9pm curfew.

The good folk of Dangar Island (population 303) have found an outdoor application for a version of the ubiquitous board game.

Global property giant Lendlease has managed to drag its earnings back into black but says many major projects continue to be disrupted by the pandemic.

It will be the second time he has challenged the constitutionality of WA’s hard border policy, this time arguing a requirement for travellers from high-risk areas to be vaccinated is discriminatory.

The Parra narrative has changed. Brad Arthur and his team are floundering ... and the problem for the Eels is there’s no easy fix.

A quick guide to a group of men described as neo-Nazis, uncovered by an Age, Herald and 60 Minutes investigation. What do they believe and what do they want?

Today on Please Explain, Nathanael Cooper is joined by The Age’s city editor Bianca Hall to talk about lockdown fatigue and parochialism.

The union gave the impression it regarded the penalties imposed by the court as simply a cost of conducting its industrial affairs in the manner it chose, a federal court judge said.

Water is everywhere in the massive Murray Darling Basin and the flush coincides with a new inspector-general to monitor environmental recovery and water theft

Sydney Airport has effectively asked its would-be acquirers to search behind the couch cushions for a few more coins.

In a huge boost for Sea Eagles fans, Tom Trbojevic completed most of Monday’s training session, and already told Des Hasler he wants to play this Friday.

WA Premier Mark McGowan has denied that Perth has clinched the AFL grand final but says his government is working on “very strict guidelines” and discussions were continuing with the league.

The Victorian Premier has vented his frustration at illegal gatherings and people flouting COVID-19 restrictions as he announced a tightening and a two-week extension of the city’s lockdown.

Racing NSW boss Peter V’landys says Racing Victoria’s prizemoney boosts, which are “absolutely” in retaliation to his new $2 million fillies and mares race on Cox Plate day, are great for the sport and its participants.

An entire generation of Afghans raised on hopes of building a modern, democratic state have seen their dreams seem to melt away.