NSW will make coronavirus vaccines mandatory for all health workers, Victorian authorities are concerned about small transgressions in Melbourne and everyone over the age of 16 will be eligible for their recommended COVID-19 jab by the end of the mon...

Community leaders in south-west and western Sydney fear for people’s mental health, women at risk and disaffected youth, as they warn a police curfew imposed unequally across the city will worsen social divisions.

In a highly unusual move, the Court of Appeal will cross-examine the scientific basis of forensic evidence used to convict several young men of child homicide or assault.

While officials remain tight-lipped on the outcome of an urgent hearing over complaints against Charlie Teo, the neurosurgeon said he “accepted the Medical Council’s direction”.

Protest organisers are promoting a range of schemes intended to help attendees subvert the major police operation and travel to the event. 

Before he was sacked last November, Rodd Staples raised safety as a “key issue” in the setting up of the $40 billion rail corporation.

Daniel Andrews said he would not rule out locking down regional Victoria after positive cases were detected Shepparton - the first cases outside greater Melbourne in the current outbreak.

Mario Phetmang was lured to a Belmore car park, bashed to death, and dumped on the side of the road in a drug deal gone wrong. His killer then fled to America.

Three people including two young children have died after a car struck a pole and burst into flames on a busy inner-city road.

The State Emergency Service says it will move to change the culture of the organisation after an independent report found an epidemic of sexual harassment of women.

WA Premier Mark McGowan has given a deadline for West Australians stuck in NSW to make it back before the government changes its stance on compassionate travel.

Jessie Moore murdered her great-aunt, greyhound trainer Karen Leek, and the next day claimed she discovered her body.

The group of Liberal powerbrokers, known as ‘The Clan’, used the chat to Liberal pre-selections and other party processes and referred to factional rivals with nicknames such as ‘Pork Chops’.

Brierley, a corporate titan who has had his knighthood stripped, pleaded guilty this year to three counts of possessing child abuse material.

Year 12 students in Greater Melbourne will begin to return to campuses for some assessments before the end of the month, but only in groups of 10 or less.

Infectious diseases nurse Grace Carroll has seen the illness, the deaths, the grief and even the virus itself. Friday night Zoom drinks with friends have helped get her through.

The Defence Minister and refugee advocate Shane Bazzi are set to face off in a defamation trial from October 6.

In my part of Sydney, police drive up our streets and check on us from helicopters. The new lockdown restrictions have our neighbours feeling stigmatised and abandoned.

The outbreak in the northern Victorian city has fuelled fears of a new statewide lockdown.

Regional hospitality operators say repeated lockdowns and uncertainty about the future have prompted a wave of cancellations and requests for refunds.

In May, Barbara Chabaud was found dead in the stairwell of the public housing tower she had lived in for years, allegedly murdered. For years prior she had complained about feeling unsafe. Now her friends are asking, was she really listened to?

Today on Please Explain, investigative journalist Nick McKenzie joins Nathanael Cooper to look inside the insidious white supremacy movement in Australia.

Carr’s three breaches all occurred on the same day and involved a cleaner and speech pathologist attending his house, and a car trip to his brother’s empty property.

It’s one of the most profound innovations of our time - and Manhattan-based Australian Kate Crawford wants us to wake up to AI’s inherent risks.

A man has been found guilty of raping a woman after she was he gave a lift home after she was found lying on a footpath, intoxicated and alone, on Lygon St, Carlton, in 2018.

The cook and TV host on her career before food, why she has only felt comfortable with her body in the last decade, and her long fight for better food in aged care.

Shaken and wiping away tears, rugby legend Toutai Kefu has opened up about the violent break-in at his Brisbane home.

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A man who sexually assaulted two women in four months, while pretending to be an Uber driver and preying on drunken passengers, has been jailed for six years.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has extended the lockdown for Greater Sydney until the end of September amid a number of new restrictions following 642 new cases and four deaths on Friday.

The undeniable legacy of lockdowns is the normalisation of the police and the military in our lives.

Nine-year-old Omar Kahil, an only child who lives in Greenacre, has been playing basketball with his imagination since police requested the hoops from his local park be removed during lockdown

On June 23, 2001 he went to the pub and confided to a bouncer: “I’m going to neck myself.” It was the anniversary of Maria James’ funeral.

ABC RN Breakfast show host Fran Kelly and Marion Frith, a former speechwriter and journalist turned novelist, discuss love, luck and weathering ‘really friggin’ serious’ moments.

Intelligence from the now-defunct online black market site Silk Road, shut down by US authorities in 2013, has seen Victoria Police carry out raids across the state.

More than two weeks after a Herald analysis of international experience showed that in certain circumstances curfews worked, the Premier announced a curfew for some LGAs.

The lesson from this terrible year - and from 1666 - is that leaders who wait too long to make tough decisions are soon overwhelmed.

Submissions to a parliamentary inquiry have revealed hundreds of sexual harassment complaints at WA mining sites including five accusations of rape.

Masks will be mandatory outside the home, except for exercise, across NSW while a 9pm to 5am curfew will be introduced in Sydney’s 12 local government areas of concern.

The case, a child younger than 10 who had tested negative to the virus four times, was a younger sibling of a student from Ironside State School, which was linked to the Indooroopilly State High School outbreak.

Experts say small inducements rather than lottery tickets may be key to driving up vaccination rates as one shire enacts its own incentive strategy.

Golden Century in Sydney’s Chinatown has fed everyone from students to socialites and pop stars to politicians.

John Quigley told Parliament he had no recollection of telling a journalist he would not have supported Neville Owen leading the royal commission if he had known of his close ties to Perth billionaire Kerry Stokes.

The vaccination of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population has been the remit of the federal government, but with WA lagging state authorities say more must be done.

The evacuees, which include consular officers, interpreters and immigration personnel, have been taken to the Hyatt Regency Perth hotel for quarantine.

We’re currently in the midst of one of the most challenging times during the pandemic in Australia. But until most of us are vaccinated, we can’t live with the virus.

The state government raised a range of concerns over the draft national curriculum in a confidential submission to the review

“I just think it’s important we get vaccinated, so we don’t spread the disease,” said 17-year-old Kaidyn Wright, at a vaccination drive in south-west Sydney.

Mee Mee and her mother Su don’t have much room to move. They share a bed in an old pool house in Blacktown and make meals in their “shower-kitchen”, while waiting more than six years for public housing.

Some young Australians are now so desperately unhappy with government inaction on global warming they feel being arrested and fined is actually less of a cost than the cost to their future if nothing is done.