A Sydney Liberal MP leading the Commonwealth’s inquiry into housing affordability has equated social housing with “housing commission” and criticised affordable schemes as rent fixing that drive up prices and limit supply elsewhere.

The Royal Children’s Hospital, kids’ safety body KidSafe and a grieving mother are pleading for a renewed focus on home safety as Victoria’s lockdown rolls on.

Close to 180 bus drivers have walked off the job at a western Sydney depot after one of their colleagues tested positive to COVID-19, and say they will not return until rapid antigen testing is introduced.

The NSW government has provided the right incentives to the vaccinated. A freer state does not mean we will “let it rip”, but there are some restrictions we could lift immediately - such as hotel quarantine for fully vaccinated and extremely low-...

A Bayside real estate agent has pleaded guilty to child exploitation charges after he and another man filmed themselves having sex with a 16-year-old girl before circulating video footage.

A NSW truck driver who has tested positive for COVID-19 was infectious in south-east Queensland for two days this week, including spending time at a Westfield shopping centre in Brisbane.

Counsel for former Labor minister Eddie Obeid tells court he should receive no more than a two-year sentence, to be served at home.

One of the men accused of raping a woman he lured into a Scarborough beach public toilet by pretending to be gay and offering cocaine has been released to home detention.

A state government decision to stop native logging in the South West has been labelled short-sighted by those who know how environmentally friendly and sustainable local jarrah and karri production should be.

All the exams are to go ahead, with an accidentally leaked preliminary timetable showing they will finish on December 3.

Public health experts have expressed concern about NSW’s road map to reopening its economy, which they say appears to have been driven by industry.

The communities of Tweed Heads and Byron Bay hope the NSW plan to reopen doesn’t prolong the Queensland border closure.

A collection of state infrastructure projects worth a combined $2.6 billion will be delayed to ease the pressure on Western Australia’s booming construction industry.

The mining state posted a $5.6 billion surplus for the 2020-21 financial year, which was $2.5 billion more than anticipated by Treasury officials in February thanks to $11.3 billion in royalties paid by its iron ore sector.

Crime victims often say the court process they have to go through for ‘justice’ turns out to be more traumatic than the crime itself. Victoria’s Victims of Crime Commissioner is launching an inquiry.

Are “breakthrough infections” as scary as they sound? What are COVID symptoms like if you’ve been double-jabbed? And what do these cases mean for reopening?

The University of Melbourne has apologised to casual staff for years of underpayment. But workers and the union say the university is not doing enough to address ongoing insecure working conditions.

The proposed acquisition of the Minerva in Potts Point would anchor the downtrodden strip’s transformation as a theatre district and halt plans by its recent buyers to turn it into a hotel.

Pub workers are looking forward to returning to work and getting paid from next month but are uncertain about how restrictions will be managed.

With birthday parties banned, playgrounds intermittently roped off, play dates cancelled and visits with family forbidden, life for the smallest members of society has changed. What is life like as a child in the COVID-19 pandemic?

Active COVID-19 case numbers have surged in Melbourne’s north and west, but are on their way down in Shepparton. Track cases in your area with these interactive maps.

The motoring group found the overall running cost of an electric car has dropped by $10,000 in the past five years as the range of electric vehicles on the market widen.

Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles says talks will continue between officials on border measures despite NSW announcing some regional lockdowns would lift on Saturday.

We ask subscribers to the Greater Good newsletter to show us some of the things that have made them smile over the past week.

The lawyer for Joseph Saadieh has told the NSW Supreme Court his parents are willing to remove his bedroom door and cancel their internet connection.

Today on Please Explain, media writer Zoe Samios joins Nathanael Cooper to look at the editorial shift from News Corp.

Danny Hodgson’s UK-based parents’ joy may soon turn to dismay as WA’s Health Department says it has not waived hotel quarantine after days of negotiations to get exemptions.

The device, Rhinomed Junior, sits at the base of the nose and collects virus particles.

Pubs and gyms will be among the first venues to reopen in NSW, restrictions are easing for most of regional Victoria and Australians could be allowed to leave the country as early as November.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian has revealed the state’s reopening plan when 70 per cent of NSW’s eligible population is fully vaccinated.

The developers who illegally demolished the Corkman Irish Pub must serve 30 days in jail for thumbing their nose at authorities, after Victoria’s highest court dismissed their latest legal challenge.

Just 125 Queenslanders and people moving to the state were allowed to arrive on Wednesday.

Evidence shows people who are fully vaccinated are far less likely to catch and pass on COVID-19, but they can still transmit. Some experts say it’s time to give fully vaccinated people more freedom.

A plan was announced for gyms, hospitality venues and hairdressers to reopen to the fully vaccinated by the end of October.

Queensland was waiting to see what New South Wales did with its rules in regional areas before making any decisions about the border bubble.

Pusey, 43, was released from the Ravenhall Correctional Centre on August 25.

The current iron ore price average estimate for 2020-21 is US$134 per tonne but with its surge from April to June this will land much higher.

Emergency services responded to the blaze about 4am on Thursday on Old Cleveland Road.

Qantas has repatriated more than 26,000 people since the pandemic began, but tight government arrival caps are preventing thousands more from returning.

While Scott Morrison and Greg Hunt have told us that vaccines are being equitably distributed on a pro-rata basis according to each state’s population, it turns out that NSW has been getting a disproportionately large share.

Police in Victoria will no longer set a limit on the number of cautions a young person can be given or require they admit guilt to be eligible for a caution.

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

The Fish River Caves, a magic lantern exhibition, and around the courts.

Roll out the red carpet and polish the ceremonial silverware. 2022 could be the year for Royal tours to resume.

While a masked ranger saves the day.

Despite seven convictions by the age of 18, his criminal record never matched his brutality.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Thursday will deliver the long-awaited COVID-19 recovery road map outlining the first freedoms granted to NSW as it emerges from its extended Delta lockdown next month.

COVID-19 cases have spiked in the inner-city suburbs of Waterloo, Redfern and Elizabeth Bay in the past week, with health authorities urgently calling for residents to get vaccinated to curb rising infections.

There’s been a war of words over NSW’s federal vaccine allocation, Melbourne worshippers will be fined after breaching COVID-19 rules and vaccine passports for international travel will be issued within weeks.

Compensation of $440m is to be awarded, despite a ruling on Wednesday that Seqwater’s dam management was not responsible for the 2011 floods.