The education department is preparing COVID-19 mitigation measures for when school resumes but public school classrooms will not be fitted with air purifiers or carbon dioxide monitors despite them being part of the plan in Victoria.

There is a road out of this – a long, slow and at times bumpy one to be sure. But we are heading in the right direction.

Queensland schools are being urged to sign up for a new citizen science program in which children will collect insects to help discover new species.

New emails reveal a major reason why a water resource plan for a NSW river wasn’t accredited was because of inadequate consultation with Aboriginal people.

A new research hub led by the University of Queensland will use the money to study evidence-based rehab treatments.

The Australian Medical Association has cautiously backed the national plan for reopening, Victoria will release its re-opening plan and NSW has eased outdoor recreation restrictions for people in hotspot LGAs

Victoria’s roadmap looks to be a sensible balance of cautious opening up and trying to keep within the principles of the national plan for reopening.

Online customers (and curious home-cooks) are swapping and sharing discount codes as demand for easier dinner options grows during lockdown.

The Age photographer Luis Ascui was hit with capsicum spray by police at an anti-lockdown rally on Saturday, with a complaint to be lodged with Victoria Police.

The long Sydney lockdown has produced a strange paradox where house prices have risen even as the economy struggles.

The NSW government has tipped in $200,000 to a pilot program pairing elderly homeowners who live alone with young people struggling with housing affordability.

Vaccines could become mandatory for all Victoria’s authorised workers, teachers, childcare workers, parents of childcare workers, hospitality staff and hospitality patrons as the state moves to reopen schools and businesses.

Manchester United stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Dean Henderson have sent well-wishes to soccer player Danny Hodgson as he remains in an induced coma at a Perth hospital on his 26th birthday. 

Sydneysiders will be aware that they will have nuclear-powered submarines in the harbour in the distant future.

Mr McGowan said after he saw he was being portrayed as Hitler by some protestors, he didn’t pay any more attention to the rally.

October 26 and November 5 look set to become dates when many rules fade into history, and vaccines, not lockdown, are counted on to protect Victorians from coronavirus. Find all the details of the state government’s road map here.

Life could snap back to normal after lockdowns end, or the lasting memories of COVID could affect how we interact with each other.

Some domestic violence services are turning women away as demand skyrockets and COVID-19 restrictions trap women with their abusers.

The victim, a 25-year-old male, was killed at Browns Plains on Friday after what police described as a 30-minute “rolling road rage incident”.

NSW reported another 1083 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, and another 13 deaths – the highest number of deaths in one day so far.

Qld set a COVID vaccination record on Saturday, edging towards 60 per cent of first doses in its effort to play catch-up with other jurisdictions. 

Police are investigating a suspected domestic violence incident after the 34-year-old woman’s body was found in a cabin in the Bulga Forest, near Port Macquarie, about 11.30am on Saturday.

The days of die-hard fans camping in long lines outside the box office to secure tickets to popular events are seemingly over.

Saying a person has “passed” when they have died is a generational thing to a large degree, sprinkled with a tendency to want to appear up with the jargon.

A person has died from COVID-19 in Victoria after the state reached more than 5000 active cases of the virus on Sunday.

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

Schools are grappling with fiery divisions among parents about whether students should be back at school, with some calling for remote learning until the end of the year.

Helping those who are suffering from poor mental health will require us to emphasise resilience rather than illness.

Lockdown has hammered Sydney’s restaurants and bars, but Luke Mangan says the city will boom once lockdown eases.

NSW Nationals leader John Barilaro says rural realism is driving most of his MPs to vote for reform.

Our churches support emergency action during the pandemic. Longer term, the idea that Christians would exclude anyone from church is extremely problematic.

Religious leaders argue that everyone has the right to worship in their churches regardless of vaccination status. What about the rights of those vaccinated people who will be harmed by possible exposure to the virus?

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Last year the typical coronavirus patient was older and might have come from a nursing home. This year they are much younger. And this is posing new challenges.

In what it describes as a “middle ground” position paper, the peak medical body broadly backs the Doherty Institute’s thresholds for reopening the country once 70 and 80 per cent of the population aged 16 and over is vaccinated.

There have been 144 COVID-positive inmates at the privately-run Parklea prison. Their family members on the outside are desperately trying to contact them.

The number of twins and triplets born to women undergoing IVF has fallen to a record low over the past decade, while the live birth rate continues to climb particularly when using frozen embryos. 

A $365 million program designed to reduce landfill by turning food scraps into fertiliser has failed to gain a foothold beyond three councils in Sydney.

“It’s important that children do not spend all their holidays on devices,” said STEM education professor Garry Falloon.

Boxing is increasing in popularity despite the closure of gyms during lockdown, with more women taking up the sport.

Many children with chronic health conditions are unlikely to return to NSW classrooms this year, despite the Department of Education saying it won’t run a dual system.

On a surface level, next weekend’s AFL grand final would appear to pit supporter bases from two different walks of life against each other. In truth, both fan bases are probably more alike than many think.

Extreme positions on COVID-19 are still being staked out in the medical establishment, the academy and parts of the media.

A man with stab wounds has been found on the side of a road in Sydney’s west after he was allegedly abducted.

Paul Cleary’s book Title Fight shows just how far we have to go before Native Title starts to benefit Indigenous communities in meaningful ways.

More than 200 people were arrested and six police officers were hospitalised after anti-lockdown protests in Melbourne. Meantime, NSW Police have deemed their protest operation a success.

This incident occurred less than six weeks after George Floyd was fatally choked by United States police.

The mood at the Austin Hospital is one of trepidation. Staff are bracing for a volume of COVID-19 patients never before experienced in Australia.

‘An old friend’ is how one onlooker described a Red Rattler train that volunteers are helping return to Melbourne’s railway lines.