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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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who filmed dying police officers on the Eastern Freeway has demanded that his bail application on other matters be withdrawn, telling a court he would “get better justice in Belarus”.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in Melbourne has prompted new restrictions. Here’s a list of the new rules.

Osama Subuh, who was positive for COVID-19 and admitted to hospital with pneumococcal meningitis, worked at KFC Punchbowl.

Crown casino has begun an investigation into one of its staff members after it was revealed the man is part of a neo-Nazi group.

For our schools to provide an authentic Christian education they must be able to employ staff who share in the stated beliefs of the school.

Infiltrating a nest of Australia’s far-right radicals revealed they are angry, armed and training for societal collapse. Uncovering their identities came next.

I’m fearful of losing the argument because it could mean losing my brother. I’m fearful of winning the argument for he might just stop communicating altogether.

Under National Cabinet’s COVID-exit plan, only highly targeted lockdowns will be permitted once a state reaches 80 per cent, or Phase C, with international travel to begin reopening.

Queensland has declared parts of the Northern Territory as hotspots while will require workers who need to cross the border to be vaccinated by the end of the week.

The proposed legislation was designed to help protect survivors of sexual crimes and their families, but it leaves the door open for victims of other “applicable crimes” to apply.

Announcing the record high number, Premier Gladys Berejiklian said suburbs of concern in western Sydney were Merrylands, Guildford, Granville, Blacktown, Mount Druitt, Yagoona, Greenacre and Bankstown.

Kefu and his family were rushed to hospital after they were slashed and stabbed by a gang of three armed burglars.

Graeme Leslie Murray is due to face court on Monday charged with two counts of domestic violence-related murder.

Established in 1959, the Mount Isa Rodeo is the richest in the southern hemisphere and attracts contestants from all parts of the world.

Daily life in Sydney as NSW reported high local COVID-19 cases, the highest daily case total since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Despite being 18 months into the pandemic, WA remains just as vulnerable to COVID-19 as it was in 2020. Will our luck continue, or will we too face an extended lockdown before the year’s end?

A review in Western Australia aimed at preventing lawsuits from transgender patients could change the way doctors prescribe crucial hormonal treatment, and other states may follow suit.

Robodebt, pandemic, climate change ... how far should we go in blaming politicians when their decisions lead to people dying?

Big fines will place an unfair burden on those least able to afford them - and they could undermine community trust in authorities at a time when it is most needed.

The future of a long-awaited cycling ramp at the northern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge will be put in the hands of the public.

Like so many Victorians, the COVID pandemic has upended major parts of Melbourne comedian Kirsty Webeck’s life. Her story is the first in our series: Life, interrupted.

The AMA’s NSW president describes the fears of her colleagues, but also the reasons to have hope that the latest outbreaks of COVID-19 can be overcome.

A law student at Monash University and a member of the Hazara community in Melbourne decries the West’s abandonment of Afghanistan.

A report predicts universities will be forced to cut at least half of their non-research staff and specialise or risk closure as higher education revenue contracts in the next decade.

In a small pharmacy 40 kilometres west of the city, Veronica Nou has single-handedly vaccinated 10 per cent of Oxley Park’s residents in a week.

Mayors in Melbourne’s eastern and south-eastern suburbs fear new Suburban Rail Loop stations will lack seamless connections to nearby train stations and amenities.

Gladys Berejiklian must account for her failure to properly assess the risk posed by the Delta variant and her government’s decision not to lock Sydney down harder, sooner.

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