NSW is set to hit 6 million vaccines today, Victorian authorities are concerned about a rise in mystery cases and a leading infectious diseases expert says it will be safe to reopen the country once 70 to 80 per cent of people are vaccinated even if ...

As Greater Sydney weathers its ninth week in lockdown the Blue Mountains is blanketed with snow as an east coast low hits.

Geoff Clark, once Australia’s most senior Aboriginal leader, has pleaded not guilty to allegations he misappropriated $2 million from government-funded Indigenous organisations.

Michael Kennedy says he was left frightened after waiting days for NSW Health to contact him after testing positive to COVID-19.

Services such as hairdressers are set to be among the first to reopen in Sydney suburbs outside the worst-affected local government areas, providing an incentive for businesses and their customers to get vaccinated. 

Danny Awad is appealing against a conviction for trying to possess 22 kilograms of cocaine smuggled from Mexico in Xerox printers, arguing a judge in his trial improperly addressed the jury.

Financial watchdog ASIC has taken action against the man who filmed dying police officers on the Eastern Freeway, saying he lacked honesty and judgement.

All Victorians aged 16 and above will be eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine at a state-run centre from Wednesday, with everyone under the age of 60 now qualifying for the Pfizer shot.

The Delta variant makes it harder to reopen schools than after last year’s lockdown, at least until vaccines are available for children.

Once a high-flying Perth multi-millionaire, Zhenya Tsvetnenko will be extradited to the United States to face one of the biggest telecom scams in American history.

Former Fairfield councillor George Barcha was in 2015 found by an ALP internal review tribunal to have renewed memberships to the Smithfield branch without the knowledge of those people while he was branch secretary.

Taxi company 13Cabs plans to pursue business from customers who want to avoid close contact with unvaccinated people.

COVID-19 cases in NSW will continue to climb unless the reproductive rate of the outbreak decreases, as Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant warns the state is “here for the long haul”.

Police Commissioner Chris Dawson is tasked with improving the state’s vaccination rates which are the worst in the country at 27.2 per cent for second doses and 45.9 per cent for first doses as of Monday.

Check which postcodes in Melbourne and Shepparton currently have at least one active COVID-19 case.

Was the war worth it if years from now women can tell their daughters there was once a time when they were free to study, work and move freely?

An infant is among the victims of a man who allegedly used a babysitting website to rape sexually abuse and film children who were left in his care.

Dozens of students took the fight against proposed cuts in the name of budget-tightening to the University of Western Australia’s vice chancellor on Monday afternoon.

As the first person in my family to ever attend a university, my naivety in trusting institutes to provide nourishment in the form of high-quality education was sorely misplaced.

The controversial neurosurgeon has been prevented from performing certain operations until he obtains written approval from a fellow neurosurgeon.

Today on Please Explain, federal political reporter Katina Curtis joins Bianca Hall to discuss the federal government’s funding package for the childcare sector.

When we try to imagine what “living with COVID” will look like, we need to realise that there are two very different “living with COVID” worlds.

One million Australian women have experienced child sexual abuse and survivors of it are three times more likely to be sexually assaulted as adult women, a report has found.

Police said they were still investigating whether there was any relationship between the four people they arrested and the victims, but at this stage there seemed to be no connection.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the vaccination milestone equated to roughly 30 per cent of the state’s population fully vaccinated and 60 per cent with one dose.

Parts of Sydney, particularly the coast, could see almost one month of rain in about 24 hours, while snow has fallen in the Blue Mountains.

An animal shelter volunteer who was due to pick up several dogs before they were killed over COVID-19 restrictions says a rural NSW council lied about trying to arrange rehoming them multiple times.

We need to shift from chasing zero cases to looking at how many people are being hospitalised and dying.

A fourfold rise in mystery COVID-19 cases in the past week and hundreds of infected children are diminishing the chances of restrictions easing as planned early next month.

Operators of rehabilitation facilities say they could be doing more to assist during Sydney’s Delta outbreak.

Administrative mistakes made while documenting the personal details of high-risk returned travellers in Victoria’s hotel quarantine system are reigniting concerns of another coronavirus escape.

Scott Morrison and Gladys Berejiklian want us to get used to the idea of living with COVID-19 but there’s still plenty of work to do on the vaccination program, particularly among children.

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

‘Somebody will be killed’, recipe for longevity and ‘world at their feet’.

Twenty years ago, a diplomatic and humanitarian crisis began when a Norwegian freighter rescued more than 400 refugees from a sinking boat in the Indian Ocean.

It has been a ghastly week for music journalist Jane Gazzo.

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 parents of two children who were taken during an armed home invasion in Blackburn North are “immensely relieved” they have been found.

While a haircut perplexity could lead to bloodletting.

The Tweed Shire mayor is still hopeful the deadlock can be broken between NSW and Queensland over moving the border south to allow people in the region to move freely again.

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.

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.