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It comes as police investigate whether there are any links between an illegal gathering at the Malabar Headland and the Maroubra house party that has now been linked to almost 90 COVID-19 cases

Thousands of people marched through the CBD to protest Victoria’s lockdown restrictions on August 21, in breach of stay-at-home directions.

A doctor wrestles with a toxic side effect of COVID: misinformation.

Gaye Demanuele and Melody Bourne were last year charged with manslaughter. Police allege they failed to provide adequate care to Caroline Lovell while she was giving birth at her Watsonia home.

A cluster of five COVID-19 cases has been identified at a northern Sydney hospital, including a patient whose death was announced on Thursday.

Robyn Abell was on her way to meet her family at a market in Brisbane when she was hit from behind by an e-scooter.

A Sydney independent school is trialling rapid antigen testing for staff and students and says it has been “fantastic” and increased the sense of safety.

Commissioner Katarina Carroll said the mandate would create a safer environment for the Queensland community.

Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young says the family of three-year-old Memphis had not approached authorities for an exemption from border restrictions.

Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has told a parliamentary inquiry into I Cook Foods that it was “vanishingly unlikely” an elderly woman who died with listeria had picked up the infection elsewhere.

Police seized about 1600 cannabis plants this week after executing 20 search warrants in Melbourne’s western suburbs.

Are there any COVID-19 cases for which the source of infection remains unknown in your postcode? Find out using this map.

The Deputy Chief Health Officer says people will now be eligible for a second dose of AstraZeneca six weeks after their initial jab, as the number of active cases in the state passed 1000.

Health Minister Roger Cook said by the end of the year 100 per cent of healthcare workers would be fully vaccinated.

Traditional gender roles became more entrenched and mothers’ paid work was often expected to be done around extra childcare and housework - a “near-impossible task”.

VCE dance, drama, music and theatre students have got the green light to return for small group assessments but other practical subjects are still in limbo.

The woman was eating a sandwich at a barbecue area when she noticed the dingoes approach her one by one.

Five males aged between 14 and 21 were arrested after an 18-year-old man died during a brawl in Blacktown on Wednesday night.

Today on Please Explain, senior economics writer Shane Wright joins Nathanael Cooper to explore what helped boost the economy last quarter.

Queensland’s Labor government is doubling down on questioning the vulnerability of unvaccinated children in the context of Australia’s staged national COVID-19 reopening plan.

Francis Omigie was driving in the overtaking lane of the M4 motorway when he came to an abrupt stop, causing multiple cars to crash behind him.

Victoria’s coronavirus strategy has shifted gears, NSW is on track to hit a key vaccination milestone and the Morrison government has accused Queensland of ‘scaremongering’ when it comes to children and COVID-19.

The federal government has ramped up attacks on Queensland and WA after they insisted borders and lockdowns would continue to be used to fight COVID outbreaks, even as vaccination rates hit targets.

Victoria will become the first state or territory to make the public display of Nazi symbols illegal in an effort to stamp out hateful behaviour.

Ron De Iulio, who played more than 100 games with the Blues during the 1990s, was arrested on Swanston Street on June 18.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced restrictions on exercise in west and south-west Sydney will be lifted, adding the COVID-19 vaccine uptake will ease more burdens across NSW.

Australia’s best universities remained in the top 100, but the old world order is under a challenge from institutions in Asia.

We can’t rely on politicians, however, to fix things for us. Our post-COVID recovery requires the ingenuity of ordinary people.

NSW administered its 7 millionth COVID-19 vaccination on Wednesday, just nine days after the state’s 6-million shot target was reached.

It comes as another truck driver has tested positive to COVID-19 and was potentially infectious on the Gold Coast for five days.

Two teenagers accused of the attempted murder of another teenager have been remanded in custody.

Kerry Giakoumis, 29, was last seen at the Hells Angels’ clubhouse at Thomastown in the early hours of June 10 last year. 

The summit of Bluff Knoll was dusted with snow on Thursday morning after a storm tore through the state’s south-west and left households without power.

Murdoch University interim vice chancellor Romy Lawson informed the senate on Tuesday she would leave at the end of the year.

The five-kilometre radius for exercise means some Sydneysiders are going to unusual lengths to get their salt water fix.

Warrant Officer Ryan Leslie, who served in East Timor and the Solomon Islands, leaves behind his wife Tara and daughter Montana.

Friday was meant to mark the end of the controversial 2 Squadron of the SAS. Now, citing COVID, the brass has delayed the ceremony.

Doctors in Melbourne’s west say they are finding out too late when their patients have coronavirus, leaving some to call ambulances for people who have deteriorated in their homes.

Mutual support, loneliness, convenience or a dose of good old-fashioned paranoia appears to have brought the two closer together. The object of that paranoia is Peter Dutton.

It describes itself as “a group of mums speaking out for the shadow pandemic crippling our children” but Shadow Pandemic Victoria has close ties to the Liberal Party.

The removal of cladding from the apartment towers as part of a state government project has been delayed until early next year.

A major university wants to publish the results of students’ course evaluations on a public website. It won’t be hard to figure out the individual teachers involved in these often unfair assessments.

Rules permitting outdoor recreation with another person do not apply to people who live in aged care homes – much to the frustration of families.

Recent weaknesses in the strategies adopted by the federal and NSW governments are having serious health and economic consequences.

Two hundred plants were put to the test and 40 were shown to survive the care and the conditions in the average Sydney garden. Now the results of the trials by the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney are revealed.

Early humans took advantage of ancient lakes in the Arabian Peninsula to make long journeys out of Africa as early as 400,000 years ago, new research shows.

We in NSW need to thank that unmasked taxi driver back in June, otherwise, we would still all be unvaccinated, and drifting along in a dream, much like WA.

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