Australia has tipped past 70 per cent of the eligible population vaccinated with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Meantime, authorities in NSW have announced some LGAs are going back into lockdown, and Melbourne construction workers have take...

Fully vaccinated people returning to NSW will be able to quarantine in their homes by December if a new trial into the state system proves successful.

The state agency responsible for child protection repeatedly placed a young Aboriginal boy in unsafe and culturally inappropriate environments.

The week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial review photographers.

While emergency first responders; military, police, nurses, paramedics and firefighters can take solace that most of the community appreciate their efforts, prison officers are on their own.

The two people who died are an 85-year-old man and an 84-year-old woman, both from Cowes.

Marine biologists warn that dredging to build a motorway tunnel will disturb toxic chemicals contained in sediment on the floor of Sydney Harbour.

More than half of the NSW population aged 16 and over is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with the rate rising to 50.58 per cent on Friday.

The hearing that will determine whether former school principal Malka Leifer stands trial on sex abuse charges will continue in a closed court on Monday.

Father and son Darren and Michael Greenfield allegedly took payments from the owner of a building company in exchange for preferential treatment.

Police allege three boys were sexually assaulted by a female teacher at Maroubra Bay High School between 1977 and 1980.

Many have lost work or livelihoods in the Fairfield LGA, which has been subject to the harshest restrictions in NSW. But the community has pulled together and, as vaccination rates rise and cases flatten, there is some hope of reuniting with family s...

The befouled Fowler candidacy confirms the most negative existing perceptions of the party.

When looking for someone knowledgeable about wine, most turn to men. A group of women working in the industry are intent on changing that.

Queensland is considering whether to tighten restrictions around truck drivers, after nearly a dozen recent COVID scares connected to freight workers.

Ibrahem Hamze, a member of the Hamzy crime family, was saved when police came across a stolen Mercedes being driven on Sydney’s north shore last month.

Many have lost work or livelihoods in the Fairfield LGA, which has been subject to the harshest restrictions in NSW. But the community has pulled together and, as vaccination rates rise and cases flatten, there is some hope of reuniting with family s...

Random government inspections have found three in four Victorian construction sites breaking coronavirus safety rules as tensions between the state government and building industry threaten to boil over.

The WA Director of Public Prosecutions has given her bleakest outlook yet, explaining the challenges facing her office as the legal system bursts at the seams.

Today on Please Explain, environment writer Miki Perkins joins Nathanael Cooper to look at how Australian scientists have brought the eastern barred bandicoot back from extinction.

A project called The Neighbourhood Museum is helping keep children creative, curious, active and connected during lockdowns.

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Ben Roberts-Smith is seeking to expand the number of people he is taking legal action against to also include his ex-wife’s best friend, over allegations the friend gained access to the former soldier’s email account 101 times.

‘Up here we can social distance’: the parkour runners exploring locked-down Sydney

Amna Karra-Hassan, from the Lebanese Muslim Association, says people feel targeted by authorities after four people were arrested for attending an outdoor funeral at Rookwood Cemetery.

Mystery cases in the Mitchell Shire and Geelong among 510 cases recorded on Friday, as construction workers take their lunch to the streets in protest.

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 journalist who took the tricycle for test drive wrote: “Formula One bath-chair … had travelled five yards outdoors when everything when phut.”

Now I live in one of Sydney’s “red zones”. If this is government “concern”, save us from it.

Why are women held up to higher standards of legal and moral behaviour, and when we falter, the punishment is excessive ridicule and a limited chance of redemption?

Kenja became notorious for the child sexual abuse claims against its late founder, Ken Dyers, who the group is still trying to defend. But there were many other vulnerable individuals whose lives were irrevocably damaged by the ‘cult’.

Public barbecues are being switched back on in a local government area under strict COVID-19 restrictions in a bid to bring some joy back to residents’ lives.

The state will begin a home quarantine trial in Greater Sydney in coming weeks, allowing some fully vaccinated returning travellers to isolate at home.

What further changes could be made in Victoria in the short term to alleviate lockdown stress? And when can state and international borders safely reopen?

Queensland has recorded one new case of COVID-19 linked to the Sunnybank cluster on Friday, as the state gears up for a major vaccination push over the weekend.

The State Parole Authority concluded it was the best way to protect community safety and said he would be subject to stringent conditions and 24/7 electronic monitoring.

Michael Khedoori has taken advantage of having fewer people on the street to explore his local area by doing parkour, the sport of getting from one place to another in the fastest way possible.

Use our tool to view your extended bubble under the Victorian government’s new 10-kilometre travel limit on Melburnians.

Lingering symptoms of COVID-19 rarely persist in children beyond 12 weeks, in a reassuring sign they are far less likely to suffer the debilitating effects of long COVID than adults.

An 18-year-old man has been charged over an alleged road rage attack at the testing clinic in Sydney’s west.

The PM was forced to shelve a virtual Coalition party room meeting on Thursday morning after tech issues derailed his attempts to spruik the new triumvirate to his parliamentary colleagues.

The genius of JobKeeper was keeping workers linked to the employers. The new payments break that link - and too many workers choose to stay at home, and that suits too many bosses.

A dozen of the state’s top cardiologists were forced into isolation and multiple urgent heart procedures cancelled after two unvaccinated nurses worked while infectious with COVID-19 at a major Sydney hospital. 

More than 450 organisations have agreed to acknowledge and pay compensation to people who were sexually abused while in their care as children, but the survivors of groups that have not signed up to the scheme may fall through the cracks.

The Prime Minister is all revved up about the nuclear-powered submarine deal with the US and the UK.

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

Inquiry to cost $2m, thieves on crest of crime wave, and Hawke delays uranium crunch.

By 1986 Ted and Hazel Birch had spent twenty years squatting on the outskirts of Broken Hill to escape what they called the ‘jail’ of living in town.

Australia and its allies announced a major new security deal on Thursday to share advanced technologies including nuclear submarine technology.

Reaching a key vaccination milestone has prompted tweaks to the restrictions in Victoria’s capital.