Many community and tourism leaders are disappointed the regions will remain in lockdown, but others are advocating for a gradual easing of restrictions.

Victoria plans a modest easing of coronavirus restrictions, the Prime Minister says he’s secured another 500,000 Pfizer vaccines and US President Joe Biden labels the Afghanistan evacuation a success.

After taking more than two weeks to respond to the request from leaders of the 12 locked-down areas, Ms Berejiklian instead referred them to the Local Government Minister.

A reduction in the number of food delivery rider injuries is not an incentive to neglect the need to protect their safety.

The teenagers will appear in courts in Brisbane on Thursday, with police opposing bail.

A woman charged with incitement and accused of urging people to attend anti-lockdown protests remains in custody despite being granted bail, because she refuses to agree to bail conditions imposed by a magistrate.

The cluster linked to the privately run Parklea prison in Sydney’s north-west has grown to 80 – 77 inmates and three staff members – but authorities are hopeful the infection has not spread to other facilities with transferred prisoners.

Victorian business leaders say they are devastated by the lack of a path out of lockdown and that many companies would be unable to trade for the foreseeable future.

Kristo Langker’s interaction with the NSW Deputy Premier was wrongly considered an “escalation” of an existing investigation, budget estimates was told.

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in Melbourne has prompted tweaks to the state’s restrictions.

The state government’s zero-case obsession has been consigned to the epidemiological dustbin.

The pair who illegally demolished the Corkman Irish Pub in Carlton say they don’t deserve jail, because of the “beautiful” park they’ve built in the pub’s place.

New rules will include expanded 10-kilometre travel limit, a three-hour exercise limit, outdoor personal training and private real estate inspections.

The challenges of the Delta variant means there is little or no room to move to reduce Victoria’s lockdown restrictions.

China reckons it will limit the nation’s children to three hours a week for video games. Good luck with that.

I’m only three years into a career I love and I’m exhausted, burnt out and disappointed. And I’m not the only one.

Maryam Hamka, 36, was last seen alive at a Woolworths in Brunswick on April 10.

Queensland authorities issued a public health alert for exposure sites in Brisbane’s south and Goondiwindi on August 26 after a truck driver tested positive.

Melbourne’s lockdown will be extended until September 23, but coronavirus restrictions may be eased sooner across most of regional Victoria.

After spending so much time inside since Melbourne’s playgrounds were shut last month, families are jumping for joy at news they will soon reopen.

The veteran rugby league figure has told the Federal Court he first learned of Daily Mail articles accusing Molan of racism when she was crying before a broadcast.

Marino Sotiropoulos, the brother of Stuart MacGill’s partner Maria O’Meagher, said he was not involved in the alleged kidnapping incident but, rather, tried to act as the “middle man” and resolve the issue before it escalated.

Today on Please Explain business reporter Clancy Yeates joins Jess Irvine to discuss why home values are defying lockdown.

Spring has spring as the weather warms in Melbourne.

When police arrived at Karen Leek’s home to find the greyhound trainer had been bashed to death, her great-niece said she didn’t have a clue who would want to hurt her aunt. It was a brazen lie.

Cameron Dick lashed out over suggestions of more High Court border challenges, accusing Attorney-General Michaelia Cash of encouraging the likes of Clive Palmer.

NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said the decision to escalate enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions was not directly based on health advice but has suggested community transmissions of the Delta variant would be 10 times the current level if not f...

Now is the time to make our early childhood system the backbone of Australia’s social and economic wellbeing.

Gladys Berejiklian says the 70 per cent vaccination target can be reached by mid-October, urging her national cabinet colleagues to accept they need to reopen with ongoing cases.

Football commentator Eddie McGuire will miss out on the AFL grand final for the first time in 45 years after the WA government rejected his application to enter the state.

Queensland Deputy Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski says talks will continue between Queensland and NSW to try to ease tensions around the border issue.

The AFL grand final won’t solve our myriad problems, but it will bring some excitement and make some money, and after the 18 months we’ve had, there’s nothing wrong with that.

The man’s body was found after a fire ripped through the flat in Glenfield in Sydney’s south-west.

The unsettling silence around the MCG is a poignant reminder that it should be the vibrant centre of an animated city.

A leaked letter from a respected Aboriginal organisation has labelled the COVID response in far western NSW as “chaotic” and says mistakes are “mounting”.

Israel’s experience offers a valuable indicator of where we might find ourselves in the months ahead.

The WA Premier should be preparing for a surge in the disease when it inevitably comes.

Poem places the epic ride in an area where all stockmen were Indigenous, says Anthony Sharwood, the author of The Brumby Wars.

Australia’s Asian neighbours no longer view its alliance with the US as a handicap.

We have a “plan”, but do we have planning? Weeks after the announcement of the magic vaccination numbers of 70 and 80 per cent, the government has now thought to ask intensive care specialists about how they would cope.

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

Serial provocateur John Safran put publisher Penguin in an awkward spot when he posed for photos in Ferrari racing gear complete with Marlboro logos.

$3452 goes in outside job, it’s all in the choice, and still ’In Touch”

70 years ago, representatives from Australia, New Zealand and the US gathered in San Francisco to sign the Pacific Pact, soon to be known as the ANZUS Treaty.

While a cabbie pays homage to his dunny door.

Brendon Payne, 29, was one of two soldiers killed while training in north Queensland. The other is yet to be identified.

Homicide squad detectives have charged a 64-year-old man with murder following the disappearance of Pemberton man Tony Ditri.

As the health sector abandons paper records, doctors and nurses are struggling to use their digital replacements, according to a new survey.

The senior police figure tasked with easing travel bans for border communities says the government’s Tweed River pitch is dead in the water.

The loosely organised events were largely seeded by a prominent conspiracy theorist through messaging app groups, as calls to dismiss governments on August 31, from at least early July.