National cabinet, and lawmakers, need to be mindful to avoid the creation of a ‘two-tiered’ society as they weigh up how vaccine passports might work in Australia.

Heads of high-profile schools said the HSC should begin when year 12 students are allowed back on site on October 25, saying the delay is “agonising”.

With thousands of Shepparton residents due to end their isolation this week, community leaders are demanding an urgent assurance that testing will be stepped up.

Principals, medical clinics and even private tutors are scrambling to secure Pfizer bookings for year 12 students before VCE exams start in early October.

Homicide squad detectives have taken a 60-year-old man into custody as they investigate the disappearance of Pemberton man Tony Ditri.

An unvaccinated Indigenous man in Dubbo has died in hospital from COVID-19, becoming the first regional death of the latest NSW outbreak.

Authorities are seeking to get control of transmission in prisons to prevent an explosion of COVID-19 cases in the challenging environments.

When Nicole Kowalczyk wants to decompress from in lockdown, she takes her children to the banks of the Maribyrnong River. Now. she’s been appointed its advocate as Maribyrnong Officer at the Yarra Riverkeeper Association.

A Victorian mother has spoken of the backlash she received for reporting her husband, well known in his community, for rape and assault.

Humanity’s giant new space telescope, the long-delayed James Webb, will peer at the earliest stars when it launches for deep space on October 31.

Just one month ago a media report unveiled a massive rise in young people reporting to emergency departments, but reaction was muted.

The $73 million development to connect the Perth CBD with Northbridge has had mixed fortunes with just three tenants remaining in the building’s ‘market hall’.

The Andrews government will aim to vaccinate every Victorian year 12 student with their first dose before exams start, blaming a lack of supply for the decision not to make the cohort a vaccine priority.

Health Department Director General David Russell-Weisz told 6PR on Monday morning multi-day category two and three surgeries would be cancelled, affecting between 600 and 800 surgeries.

An independent report into the infection of an unvaccinated Brisbane hospital receptionist has found no breaches of health orders. And despite strong comments at the time, the government is not looking to assign any blame.

Two army officers have died in a road accident outside Townsville on Monday afternoon.

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Collingwood star Jordan De Goey has been fined $2075 after pleading guilty to road offences including speeding while driving a sports car and sending text messages when stationary at traffic lights.

Some of the last words Adam Woodward heard before he was allegedly killed were ‘is that all you’ve got?’, as he collapsed to the ground with 17 wounds, a court has heard.

Tim Farriss’ left ring finger was reattached after the accident, but his lawyer has told the NSW Supreme Court it is “useless”.

Today on Please Explain, federal political correspondent James Massola joins Bianca Hall to discuss the freedoms widespread vaccinations could bring.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian predicts October will be the worst month for intensive care hospitalisations and pressure on the NSW health system.

Raptor squad and the bomb unit were called to a home at Chifley in south-east Sydney on Sunday after police found a suitcase with “protruding” wires.

Ms Molan, a sports broadcaster on Nine and 2GB, is suing the Daily Mail for defamation over a story and two tweets published in June 2020.

The drivers, aged 23 and 29, crossed the Eucla border into WA on Thursday before their surveillance tests from the day before came back positive on Friday morning.

Even if you’re alone, you know someone else is out there listening.

Australia’s universities posted a combined surplus of $669 million last year, but new analysis predicts 2022 and 2023 will be the worst years for the sector.

The report offers plenty of lessons for their federal colleagues who are gearing up for a tough election in WA which could make or break their chances of forming government again.

Two of Western Australia’s top doctors have labelled a move by the government to scrap compassionate border exemptions for travellers from NSW “coarse, vulgar, insensitive and unnecessary”.

Like shopping strips across Sydney, Summer Hill’s main drag is doing it tough.

Several trucks blocked the M1 southbound on the Gold Coast causing delays for motorists.

Sydney races to stop the expansion of COVID hotspots, Victoria considers easing some restrictions amid its prolonged lockdown and the situation around Afghanistan’s Kabul airport remains extremely dangerous.

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

I’m an HSC student and I feel let down by the system that has educated me for the past 12 years.

The bike and pedestrian paths will run along Darley Road, connecting the beachside suburbs to cycleways at Centennial Park which connect to the city.

The National Native Title Tribunal’s refusal to register a key element of a $34 million land rights agreement between the Taungurung people and the Andrews government has reopened a bitter territorial dispute between Aboriginal clans.

Morrison – as he always does – is determinedly putting the past behind him.

Closing the gender pay gap may be a lower priority for businesses in the pandemic, but the new director of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency says the conditions could drive change.

Soldier X confessed to murder. Now, in a concerted media campaign to obscure evidence of war crimes, even testimony like his is at risk of being obscured by half-truths, lies and spin.

Almost a dozen certifiers will be put under intense scrutiny by the state’s building watchdog as it attempts to boost public confidence in apartments.

The job of protecting nursing home residents from COVID is only half done if it means no one can visit them.

As the NSW COVID-19 case numbers grow ever higher, it is incumbent on the Premier to acknowledge the missteps that led to this unfolding disaster.

A new study provides a rare insight into abortion rates in Australia, which are frequently skewed by patchy and inaccurate record-keeping.

The pandemic forced the justice system to innovate at break-neck speed, but the backlog still looms large.

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

Students “like zombies”, Food for 200 on strike, and Move on pool charges.

And let’s face it, it’s hardly been salad days among the first families of business recently. But it’s pleasing to see a generation next young gun stepping up.

The premiers need to cease their unedifying efforts to eke out short-term political advantage at the expense of the longer-term benefits of interstate collaboration.

NSW recorded six deaths and 1218 cases, its highest daily tally. Three Victorian government MPs said some restrictions may need to ease as the state recorded 92 new cases. And Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has warned state premiers the economy will suffe...

Several of my male friends who started barracking for Melbourne as little tackers in the ’60s, and haven’t had much joy since, have developed a distinct spring in their step.