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Ringwood Secondary College’s many music ensembles must meet online to play together during lockdowns, but playing when schools are open brings its own challenges.

Reading is key to closing the education gap for vulnerable children.

Hospital manager, ex-British colonial police inspector, rugby union tragic and voluntary justice of the peace for 35 years, Garnet Edwards was a “Renaissance man”.

A security guard at a Melbourne immigration detention centre has tested positive for COVID-19, but health authorities say the guard had no contact with detained asylum seekers.

As nations jockey for power, the geopolitical map is being redrawn. Where does Australia fit? And who are our friends in this new world?

Police are investigating whether the death was suspicious.

A man has died after being bitten by a shark at Shelly Beach on the NSW North Coast on Sunday morning.

Volunteers have delivered more than a thousand food hampers to struggling people in Wilcannia, where a COVID-19 outbreak continues to spread.

Premier Daniel Andrews says he expects authorities will treat those caught on video partying with Nadia Bartel the same as the people who attended an engagement party that breached lockdown.

More good news is needed to crowd out the bad, so that teachers can retain confidence in their competence.

The Mount Lindesay Highway at Cedar Vale was closed after Sunday’s crash, which saw three other people suffer serious injuries.

The conservative lobby group is one of a number of industry groups, think tanks and not-for-profits that received the JobKeeper payments even though their revenue surged or held up.

Some couples have broken up amid the stress of having to constantly rearrange their weddings over the past 20 months. But others are eager to embrace the new wedding rules, even if it means only five guests.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has revealed more than 90 per cent of the state’s 183 new cases were aged under 50.

NSW has reported 1485 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday and another three deaths, Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.

Queensland Health has named a new exposure site after the truck driver was infectious in the community on Thursday and Friday.

Homicide detectives are investigating the circumstances around the death of a man at a Dandenong South caravan park on Saturday night.

“I didn’t really have any public profile. To go from zero to 100 in just a couple of months was a bit of shock.”

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

Our national COVID-19 response could have been so much better. Jon Faine explains how.

Concerned public health officials and epidemiologists say Victoria still has a chance to bring the third wave to heel, and protect the regions from uncontrolled spread, but that will require people to “follow the rules”.

Stay-at-home dad Hussain Ali advises other fathers to consider following in his footsteps and “be mindful of making the decision you are least likely to regret”.

Health and architecture experts and the federal opposition want a national plan for better-ventilated schools and more details on the roll-out of a booster shot program to protect the most vulnerable.

Passing voluntary assisted dying legislation during a pandemic poses some difficult questions about life and its value.

The Australian of the Year is determined to expand the remit of the Morrison government’s big pow wow this week.

Opportunities for new beginnings can come from left field: the birth of a child, the evidence of Spring, discovering what it means to love and be loved.

Lockdown restrictions don’t have to get in the way of a memorable Father’s Day. There’s plenty to make and create to ensure dad enjoys the day.

Greg Hunt has moved to reassure Australian parents after UK experts advised holding off vaccinating healthy 12-15 year olds.

The government must consider easing some restrictions before the school holidays. Doing so will give everyone some relief after a difficult winter.

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How fortunate we are that a number of our former NSW leaders had the foresight to create a system of magnificent national parks.

Youth mental health was already a large and worsening problem before the pandemic, but COVID-19 has exacerbated it.

A former Victorian prisoner viciously bashed by guards while he was naked and handcuffed lying face-down on cell floor has been unable to view footage of his assault from their body-worn-cameras because of a law requiring these recordings be kept sec...

The peak body warned governments will need to “fund the gap” if venues are forced to operate at reduced capacity.

The lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne have pushed performers to their limits. This is how they describe the financial and emotional toll of the COVID-19 crisis and repeated lockdowns.

Experts warn the average age of children presenting with self-harm and other acute mental health issues is creeping lower.

Closed swimming pools are leading to a loss of water safety skills, prompting concern from lifesavers, parents and swimming instructors.

Working parents trying to supervise remote learning are recruiting outside help because they are concerned about their children’s academic progress.

It’s remarkable what you can turn up among the 870,000 probate documents that are in the process of being digitised by the NSW State Archives.

“Normally I wouldn’t even get one kayak out in the middle of the week. Today I was fully booked.”

Medical staff at Royal North Shore Hospital are opposed to plans for a residential tower designed to provide affordable housing and a new primary school on hospital land.

The coronavirus pandemic continues to affect events across Australia with television’s night of nights, the Logie Awards, the latest casualty after it was cancelled for the second year in a row.

Researchers are hoping to isolate how hookworms reduce the symptoms of coeliac disease, in hopes of creating a medicine to replace the worms themselves.

Queenslanders are the “guardians of their lifestyle”, an expert says, as authorities work to head off any outbreak from two recent community cases of COVID-19.

Anthony “AJ” Elfalak was last seen on a rural property in the NSW Hunter Region on Friday morning.

An inquiry into Victoria’s judicial system, from the perspectives of victims of crime, will aim to find improvements to the way things are done.

Of the 1041 patients in the state’s hospitals, 173 are in ICU and 62 of those require ventilation.

Victorian pubs and restaurants in regional Victoria where COVID-19 cases remain low, could open by mid-September under a trial for fully vaccinated customers.

A boxing promotion company was allowed to run a combat sports event in Melbourne despite police warnings of the potential for acts of violence from attendees.