Flinders University is giving employees two extra days’ holiday if they are fully vaccinated. And Monash University and Amazon are paying cash incentives to double-jabbed staff.

The NSW Education Department has not placed an order for any air purification devices despite conceding they may be necessary for some indoor spaces when students return next month.

The scheme came partially undone after it emerged people were not allowed to be offered incentives for their first dose of the vaccine, which the government has labelled ‘bureaucracy gone mad’.

NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet confirmed the plan to restart the state’s critical international higher education sector had been finalised and would form part of the state’s road map to reopening after the Delta outbreak, but students from key m...

Ms Leifer, 55, is accused of sexually abusing three of her students between 2004 and 2008. She has entered a plea of not guilty.

COVID-19 infections hit a record daily high on Thursday, with four deaths and 766 new coronavirus cases recorded across the state.

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A vaccination hub has been shut down until at least Monday to ensure the safety of clients and staff during the protests.

In the week ending Tuesday, roughly one in 10 people aged between 16 and 39 in the state completed their vaccination against COVID-19, federal data shows.

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For long-suffering fans of perennial AFL underachievers the Western Bulldogs and Melbourne Demons, dreams of winning the premiership carry a lot of baggage.

The protesters who chose to demonstrate at the Shrine of Remembrance delivered a grave insult to those who gave their lives for this country.

The developer behind another controversial coastline development has been knocked back again, but the project may proceed in a different form.

TV networks can still show live aerial footage of Melbourne’s CBD protests after being granted a stay against two notices that tried to ban the coverage.

The comments came after WA chief scientist Peter Klinken proposed the idea to amalgamate ECU, the University of Western Australia, Curtin University, and Murdoch University to form a single entity.

No new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in WA overnight after a NSW truck driver who recently travelled west tested positive.

Bradman still in a serious condition, sudden storm and bread prices on the rise.

First atomic test soon, locomotive derailed and meat shortage.

The woman is the third traveller from Queensland to flout WA’s COVID-19 rules in less than a week after two people isolating in Cloverdale left their accommodation and drove to the Goldfields.

Australian air quality expert Lidia Morawska has spearheaded new WHO air quality guidelines, slashing the recommended levels of pollutants in the air we breathe.

Today on Please Explain, science reporter Liam Mannix joins Nathanael Cooper to demystify the Doherty Institute report.

The officer was trying to help an “agitated and volatile” prisoner who was experiencing a medical emergency, according to Queensland Corrective Services.

It’s good economics. The Morrison government decision is a triumph over what might otherwise have been the most expensive instance of “sunk-cost fallacy” in Australian history.

Melbourne protesters have vowed to return to the streets today, thousands of retired healthcare workers have been asked to bolster NSW’s pandemic frontline and Australia’s east coast has been told to expect more aftershocks after yesterday’s ea...

Protesters gathered at the Shrine of Remembrance on September 22, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. Protests started on Monday over new COVID-19 vaccine requirements for construction workers but turned into larger and at times violent demonstrations agai...

The 24-hour strike comes a month after thousands of employees at transport giant Toll walked off the job and is set to impact already-strained supply chains.

Three people who died were from western Sydney, two people were from south-western Sydney and one person was from Dubbo.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk would not say whether Queenslanders would be allowed to travel interstate or overseas by Christmas.

Teui “TC” Robati, 19, appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.

The senior constable had been suspended after reports emerged he allegedly travelled to a Gold Coast border checkpoint as his daughter was trying to cross from NSW without a valid pass.

Resources companies have been focusing on retention policies, wage increases, and sign-on bonuses as they try to both gain and keep staff but construction workers and tradies aren’t biting with plenty of work in regional centres and Perth.

Mr McGowan, who had the choice of staying on the old scheme or moving to the new superannuation entitlements, is eligible for the upper threshold of the pension and could receive more than $250,000 per annum from taxpayers after he retires.

From Thursday, Queenslanders getting vaccinated could win a double pass to the NRL finals.

Michael John Eaton, 51, was a daily visitor to the Cairns shopping centre and he was known and liked by centre staff.

The Victorian Premier has proven himself more than capable of surviving this dystopian drama.

Scott Morrison had two opportunities to show leadership and political smarts this week. He torpedoed them both.

Forcing people to get vaccinated in exchange for work or services could further “radicalise” anti-vaccination activists and should only be done as a last resort, immunisation experts and civil liberty groups say.

Alan Jones’ photogenic senior producer Jake Thrupp is stepping into the limelight

The Victorian government’s top construction industry adviser has quit amid a fierce backlash over building site lockdown orders, as union and industry groups blame unresponsive health officials for the deepening crisis that has led to days of prote...

Tushar Joshi has next to nothing. But a scholarship from Sydney University with help from the non-profit Asha Society is helping lift him out of poverty and one of India’s slums.

A national survey asked about official COVID messages, social cohesion and fairness during the pandemic - and it has yielded some startling findings. The more positive responses came from residents who don’t speak English at home.

Social exclusion is about the worst thing that can happen to a child, and with the bubble buddy rules, some kids will be excluded.

The NSW Building Commissioner wants the nation’s corporate regulator to share in more of the heavy lifting to help clean up the construction industry.

Cutting-edge computer modelling has revealed some dinosaurs wagged their tails, but it was far from a friendly gesture.

In a test of Victoria’s climate change laws, owners of Victoria’s coal-fired power generators and the state’s environmental watchdog are being sued for allegedly failing to limit pollution.

Paul Keating exposes Scott Morrison’s spectacular own goal and Labor’s limp response.

A dairy farmer in the Goulburn district fasted for 42 days after reading about it as a cure for indigestion.

On September 23, 1976, police caught up with escaped armed robber Stephen Shipley. His return to prison was just one chapter in an ultimately tragic tale.

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