A Health Department statement said a plan for the management of the vessel would be made after test results were received on Tuesday. 

Craig says it will take time to process the tragedy after his partner, Koby Poole, and two of their children were killed in a car crash on Flemington Road.

Shops were shuttered, but demand for testing was high in Shepparton as residents helped each other out and authorities raced to prevent the cluster from spiralling out of control.

Relentless and passionate, James Edward Tilley fought fiercely for the rights of British pensioners in Australia.

Pockets of goodness can be found in locked-down communities, in the suburbs and online, providing us with some green shoots for optimism and hope.

Bourke Shire Council said its pound’s holding pens were at capacity, two dogs were aggressive and the regular rehomer was twice unavailable before it destroyed the dogs.

It’s hard to grapple that our national treasures have become a political Hot Potato for adding four culturally diverse characters to the show.

There have now been 11 deaths in the Liverpool Hospital outbreak, following the announcement of the death of a man in his 80s on Monday.

Richard Pusey, the man jailed for filming four dying police officers after a crash on Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway, could be a free man as early as this week despite pleading guilty to a series of other offences including assaulting a woman.

Police are urging the public to call triple zero if they see a Mercedes-Benz stolen in the daylight attack.

Thirty adults have been fined after travelling from COVID-19 hotspot suburbs to attend an illegal church gathering in Sydney’s west, hours after the pastor led a prayer for an end to lockdowns.

The Suburban Rail Loop is not good value for money, experts warn, as questions are raised over the way government calculated the multibillion-dollar project’s benefit-to-cost ratio

Job numbers in NSW plunged by 36,400 in July with women’s employment accounting for 85 per cent of the decline.

Mandatory lighter-coloured roofs in Sydney’s south-west growth area will stop the spread of Colorbond Ironstone that has long been synonymous with urban sprawl.

Johann Ofner was killed by wadding from a blank shotgun round at Brisbane basement bar Brooklyn Standard in 2017 while filming a Bliss n Eso music video.

Gelmetti exemplified “la dolce vita”.

The majority of new cases have been in the community while infectious and authorities are still investigating how 22 of Monday’s cases were acquired.

Don and Phil bought a new Oldsmobile on the proceeds of Bye Bye Love and toured with Johnny Cash.

The crash occurred while many CBD workers were enjoying Friday drinks in the alfresco area of My Place Bar in Perth. One man was killed and several others rushed to hospital.

Police are reviewing footage of the Sunday protest to identify people who now need to isolate if they crossed the border, as the Premier expressed her “disappointment”.

Young children now account for about one in four new cases. Today on Please Explain, federal health reporter Rachel Clun joins Bianca Hall to discuss kids and COVID-19.

Councillors have ‘failed the community in the provision of core services, financial management and planning and reporting’, an administrator says.

A curfew has been put in place for parts of Sydney, Victorian childcare rules have caused confusion and a political stoush is brewing over the country’s plans to ease lockdowns when vaccination rates hit 70 per cent.

The highly anticipated trial of a Northern Territory police officer accused of murdering an Aboriginal teenager has been delayed again and may not begin this year.

Greg Harding, 64, the owner of the Craignish Country Club near Hervey Bay, was slain in his home last week.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the state had hit 5.9 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine after a record 730,000 people were vaccinated last week.

Queensland has recorded two new virus cases on Monday, one local and one in hotel quarantine, as the state moves to get food supply chain workers vaccinated.

Two popular Perth pubs have received widespread support after offering incentives to patrons who get vaccinated.

“I’m about to die,” reads a message from Abdul’s niece, a first-year medical student at Kabul University. Abdul’s family are in hiding in a Hazara neighbourhood in western Kabul, too scared to leave their home.

Given my profession as a mental health nurse, I hoped I could handle the challenges of self-isolation with grace. However, I soon learned why solitary confinement and separation from a child are such effective forms of torture.

Top lawyers are mounting the case for an overhaul of the NSW Coroners Court as they warn of unnecessary distress and delays for victims’ families.

Boston Consulting Group is among consultants who have charged the government millions for advice on the state’s controversial rail corporation.

After she reported that she had been raped by a detective, a NSW Police employee said she was sent to a “dumping ground” for troubled officers.

Pregnant women in Sydney are finding it hard to access the COVID-19 vaccine, despite emerging evidence they experience severe disease if they contract the virus.

After Tiananmen Square, Bob Hawke stood by those affected. Now it’s Scott Morrison’s turn.

Children are at increasing risk from the Delta strain. So where is the sense of urgency around sourcing appropriate vaccines and getting them into young people’s arms?

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

Pleas on bombing charges rejected, they came to say goodbye and pencil maker sharpens up.

The Press Council has not upheld a complaint by John Nagle.

When plague broke out in Brisbane one hundred years ago, State authorities waited almost three weeks before informing the rest of Australia.

At first glance, the social media sites have the romance of a high fashion magazine. But they are selling second hand clothes to a new generation of op shoppers.

Is there a limit to self-promotion? For Byron Bay-based megastar Chris Hemsworth, it appears there is.

Of the litany of historic planning and investment failures in Broadmeadows, none has been more acute than in housing.

The Prime Minister is backing NSW to reopen under current vaccination targets, as Victoria’s lockdown extends into the regions, and curfews will be in place for parts of Sydney from Monday.

Reaching herd immunity of 70 or 80 per cent will, however, enable greater easing of rules across the state, Deputy Premier Steven Miles says.

Some scent memories are rusted on.

A former soldier was prevented from travelling to fight for a far-right paramilitary group in Ukraine, according to authorities, amid warnings some extremists are trying to join the armed forces by concealing their views.

Last year, the Islamic school in Truganina was a focal point of Victoria’s second wave of COVID-19. Now, hit by a fresh outbreak, it is setting benchmarks for fast action and community engagement.

One parent says children wearing face masks is ‘a bridge too far’ while others say it will keep kids safe and help curb the spread of COVID-19.

Officers responded to more than 107,000 DV incidents last year – one every five minutes – amid an increase in reporting.