A regional NSW local government area is back in lockdown as the state is expected to reach its peak COVID-19 infections in the coming weeks. Meantime, the principal of a Melbourne independent school has defended allowing children to return during loc...

Vaccine liaison officers and culturally safe health messaging to be rolled out to areas with low Indigenous COVID vaccination rates under new government plan.

His parents Nicola and Peter Hodgson say they can feel the love and affection of the WA community as their son is in a critical but stable condition in hospital.

Police say the man was standing in the middle of a road in Bankstown on Monday when he was asked to move before becoming aggressive.

NSW Treasury secretary Michael Pratt said his department didn’t have “line of sight” over every grant despite the top bureaucrat personally signing off on the $5.5 million grant.

Holding those responsible for shoddy work, and restoring public confidence in apartments, is critical to helping to address key challenges facing Sydney.

Unless restrictions are reimposed, NSW’s road map to reopening would lead to all the state’s ICU beds being full for five weeks over Christmas, modelling by OzSAGE projects.

Hospitals have paused elective surgeries for all but the most urgent patients, who are at imminent risk of death without medical intervention, as waiting lists’ blow out to record levels.

The woman has told the NSW District Court trial of Brendan Leigh Russell that she was hospitalised after his operation which left her “in extreme pain”.

The construction industry faces a compliance blitz as authorities warn break rooms could be the most dangerous workplace setting.

Adam Woodward, 35, was murdered outside Brothers St Brendan’s Leagues Club in Rocklea in Brisbane’s south in 2018.

Councils in Sydney’s north are divided on plans for a new harbour tunnel that will connect Sydney’s northern beaches with the inner west.

The meatworks that experienced an outbreak of COVID-19 last year has pleaded guilty in court to failing to provide a safe workplace.

While Sandra Gibbons enjoyed a birthday picnic with four friends, two Sydney mayors criticised restrictions preventing their residents from doing the same.

Mitchell Priest, in whose property a Nazi flag was allegedly hanging, is also accused of making significant preparations to manufacture a firearm and was refused bail.

About a third of residents at a Waterloo aged care home for vulnerable men have tested positive to COVID-19, as concern grows about spread of the virus in the inner city.

Australia urgently needs a national taskforce to elevate ventilation and air quality management to the equivalent of vaccination.

Australian laws are not set in stone. Just like Texas, with a change in government we could see various state and territory abortion laws further regulated or overthrown.

A Queensland man is accused of swearing at onlookers before stripping off and going for a late-night swim in a public lagoon.

Increased use of hand sanitiser and other disinfectants have caused a spike across the world in serious skin problems among health workers and the public.

Two new cases on Monday are students at St Thomas More College in Sunnybank, attended by a 13-year-old girl whose mystery case had sparked lockdown fears.

The victim was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Police are questioning a teenage boy over the attack.

Brad Hazzard and Kerry Chant are yet to discuss the pandemic response for First Nations communities with peak Aboriginal health organisations, the state’s top Indigenous health body says.

A 33-year-old Rosedale man has been charged with dangerous driving causing death following the incident which involved seven children.

Three new close contact exposure sites have been identified across Upper Mount Gravatt on September 9, including a bus route and the Westfield Garden City shopping centre.

The first of the three women who allege they were sexually abused as children by Malka Leifer gave evidence for almost a full day in the court hearing that will determine whether the former school principal will stand trial.

Today on Please Explain, Europe correspondent Bevan Shields joins Nathanael Cooper to look at what led the country to this point and what life is like there.

A second council within the electorate of Liberal MP Tim Wilson is divided over the Morrison government’s controversial car parking scheme since a scathing national audit raised serious pork-barrelling concerns.

After a 34-year career, I talk to colleagues still working as paramedics. They’re broken.

Having three women vying within Labor for two positions might seem a triumph for gender equity, but when the loser is the only woman of colour, does equity end with white women?

Melbourne will experience a heartbreaking silence on September 25 as the grand final heads to Perth. But I’m glad our WA friends get to host the biggest day on the footy calendar.

The unprecedented emergency order means nursing assistants and people employed as ‘COVID vaccinators’ are now authorised to give the jab.

Gladys Berejiklian warned the state’s vaccination rate was not increasing as rapidly as it has over the past few weeks.

The retail nightmare at Yagan Square echoes the dire status of other multimillion-dollar Perth CBD precincts that focus on food and beverage rather than feeling.

One in every six people charged with breaching WA’s border and quarantine rules has been jailed, a punishment deemed excessive every time it has been appealed. 

Perth has an opportunity to be a world leader in embracing its unique landscape, with more considered green spaces and less focus on food and retail on proposed CBD developments.

Offering safe harbour to fleeing Afghans is the compassionate thing to do. But it’s also strategically important that we do so.

Our leaders have mastered the art of going missing in action.

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It made for political theatre, but too often the 11am press conference - day after day - was about the theatre and only served to steal attention from more critical matters.

A lawyer writes that he and others will give evidence on Monday to the Australian Parliament about the Hun Sen regime’s attempt to intimidate Cambodian-Australians.

An infectious disease expert who advises the Victorian government has sounded the alarm on groups forming on social media to encourage unvaccinated people to visit their businesses.

At some schools, there have been hundreds of classes merged or put under minimal supervision due to a shortage of casual teachers.

The pandemic has our nation divided at its state borders, but the more serious fractures are much closer to home. They involve the workers who are essential to Australia’s functioning, but who are invisible to too many of us.

Issues reported by survey participants included balcony doors that do not lock properly in some high-rise hotels accommodating families or sole parents with young children.

The decision to quietly ditch a search for a private sector partner will cost the NSW government millions of dollars in compensation.

A wombat needing human help has lifted the spirits of the owners of a Yarra Valley winery.

WA has put the brakes on reopening plans after a pessimistic prediction of what will happen when Australia opens up. Other models predict different scenarios.

Gladys Berejiklian’s decision to cease facing the daily press reports shows appalling lack of leadership.

Some parents have been able to secure vaccine appointments for their children as the clock ticks on their return to school. Others face a busy Monday.