Victoria is in talks with the federal government to boost its vaccine supply, while Afghans with Australian visas are being told to stay away from Kabul airport over feats of more terror attacks.

In an email to members, the group’s managing director Martyn Iles said the coronavirus was here to stay and that he was “not afraid to face the inevitable”.

This weekend the first ship to dock at Brisbane’s new International Cruise Terminal was a saviour to Victoria’s Mallacoota bushfire victims in 2020.

He’s worked for the FBI and been fired upon daily in Afghanistan, but there’s one memory that’s seared into Fred Bradford’s mind – the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.

A takeaway coffee from a Shepparton cafe was all it took to send Amy DePaola into quarantine for 10 days, she might have been spared if she had arrived 10 minutes later.

A fundraising campaign led by artist Ben Quilty has raised $4 million thanks to pledges from Atlassian billionaires Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes.

An online conflict between two psychics has spilt into Victoria’s County Court amid claims of a “spiritual hijacking”.

There is now widespread recognition that we’ll need more than just a high rate of vaccination to live more freely in Australia. So what might life look like?

The report said it must be concluded and emphasised that the WA Liberals were a party in decline and headed for the door. Decent people had abandoned the party leaving what was now effectively a political wasteland devoid of Liberal principles and va...

Anyone who visited the sites at the same time as the truck drivers needs to get tested and quarantine immediately.

Just over half the new locally acquired cases reported in Victoria were in quarantine for all of their infectious period.

Parents who made appointments on for their children to receive the Pfizer vaccination were outraged by the cancellation of their appointments.

The union leader has said he will not step aside from his position despite his wife Emma Walters accusing him of assaulting her.

A record 156,165 people received a vaccination in NSW on Friday - more than 61,000 of those at vaccination hubs.

So much uncertainty has dogged this year’s HSC students but the vice-chancellor of the University of Sydney says they can be certain of one thing: the nation’s tertiary institutions will welcome them.

Many current first and second year students have had little face-to-face contact and on-campus experience.

Western Bulldogs supporters were dealt a blow last week, but as all football fans know, the emotional highs make it worth the many heartbreaks.

Michelle Smith’s doctors were horrified when they suspected the renowned neurosurgeon had not removed her tumour and had operated on the wrong side of her brain.

The government deserves congratulations on trying to get students back to school. But it needs to stop the spin and tell us the facts.

A single breach in transporting an international air crew in mid-June kicked off the Delta strain outbreak in Bondi. Three months later, the whole of NSW is in lockdown and racing to get vaccinated, with the rest of the nation fearing they will be ne...

It took only seven days from Mohammad Islam’s positive test to when he was crippled by breathlessness. The 45-year-old and his wife both had chest pains and running fevers. The next morning, their six-month-old tested positive.

South Australia is leaving other states for dust, and to their shame.

Scott Morrison has a problem with Australia’s premiers. Even NSW’s Liberal Premier has told colleagues she’d have preferred that Peter Dutton won the federal leadership. But the PM’s big electoral risk is in confronting popular Labor leaders.

After two years of communications chaos, the Premier is spearheading a carefully messaged shift in strategy.

Scott Morrison is playing to the NSW and Victorian voters fed up with lockdowns, but he has much to risk in offending the other states, particularly Western Australia.

Parents with employment have reported poorer mental health than unemployed parents for the first time, according to a study, and single parents are even worse off.

Questions are mounting about whether Premier Berejiklian and her crisis cabinet adopted the right Delta strategy at the start or was it too little, too late.

The Victorian government wants to boost vaccine output by up to 120,000 per week, as it lags behind NSW which has received top-ups from the Morrison government.

This Leichhardt shop owner – and institution in Sydney’s Little Italy – is a happy to help others while sales have collapsed.

He was one of Australia’s most celebrated artists, and he wanted Bundanon, his properties on the banks of the Shoalhaven River, to be a place where all sorts of people could gather. Nearly 30 years on, a striking new building puts that dream on a f...

Terror attack at Kabul airport ends chaotic rescue mission for Afghans who helped Australia.

There are unique challenges to vaccinating multicultural and multi-faith communities where some are distrusting of government and gleaning health messages from social media.

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Two bomb blasts have rocked Afghanistan’s Kabul airport, fully vaccinated people in NSW will soon be able to go on outdoor picnics and Victoria’s daily coronavirus numbers are at an 11-month-high.

The NSW government eased the Monday deadline for frontline workers to get vaccinated but has removed the option of rapid antigen testing.

Thousands of frontline workers within Sydney’s COVID-19 hotspots may be locked out of employment from Monday as unions and peak bodies plead with the NSW government to ease a fast-approaching vaccination deadline.

Tweed tensions flared as the toughest cross-border restrictions so far in the pandemic tightened further. Many living across the two states wonder what is next.

Researchers say cane toad tadpoles’ cannibalistic behaviour is “not normal” and instead a reaction to the harsh Australian environment.

The go-it-alone regional quarantine site’s developer believes it will cost far less than those in other states, as the Commonwealth announced Multiplex will deliver its preferred Brisbane site.

Transmission rates in hotspots must fall if they are to reopen classrooms from October 25, while 200,000 school employees will need to be vaccinated under a new policy that has come under fire.

There are few who haven’t heard about Dr Charlie Teo, revered for his technical skill in the operating theatre, his ability to deliver hope and - without doubt - save lives.

Families are breathing easier after the federal government announcement that children aged 12 and over can access Pfizer vaccinations.

Contact tracing is under way in WA after two new cases of COVID-19 were detected on Friday.

A former police officer has faced court charged with almost 100 offences, including allegations he raped a woman at a police station and had an intimate relationship with a victim of crime.

In the playgrounds of western Sydney’s hotspots, parents are hopeful their children can return to school as soon as possible following the government’s new plan. But the reality might not be as bright.

Arthur Kelekolio told a court he had never fired a gun before the day in January 2018 when he walked up to Ho Ledinh and shot him dead.

Registered with Australian authorities, Ali’s family had made the dangerous road journey from Iran to Kabul in the hope they could get help. Since the airport attack, his texts have gone unanswered.

Two women raped by a man in separate suburban attacks eight months apart have told a court of the fear they endured in the years after the crimes.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said there would be a staggered return with different year groups returning each week, but some schools might not be eligible. Here’s what you need to know.

Police are investigating those behind messages posted on social media and in anti-lockdown chat groups identifying, abusing and at times threatening officers who worked at last weekend’s anti-lockdown rally.