Councillors in Melbourne’s east and south-east are wary about letting the state government seize planning control of prime real estate near Suburban Rail Link stations.

NSW’s full lockdown road map has been revealed, Victoria is remaining tight-lipped about when restrictions will ease for the unvaccinated and Queensland’s COVID-free run has come to an end.

Victoria has overtaken NSW for the most number of daily cases of COVID-19 for the first time since the Delta variant took off in Sydney in June.

Trucking giant Toll has warned Sydney drivers against using toll roads because in most cases the costs outweigh any benefit, according to a briefing note presented to a state government inquiry.

Canadian model Jennifer Cole has pleaded guilty to one charge of contempt in the Supreme of Victoria after admitting to circulating an audio recording of her former partner, multi-millionaire businessman Sean Buckley allegedly assaulting and threate...

Singer and musician Fem Belling and partner Casey Macrae have converted a Toyota ute into a pop-up jazz club that will entertain Melburnians as lockdown restrictions finally ease.

Melbourne bar and restaurant owner Hayden Burbank and financial planner Mark Babbage have been arrested after allegedly entering WA by falsely claiming to be Darwin residents and attending the AFL grand final.

Rob Stokes has refused to declare the Warragamba Dam wall-raising a critical state project because it impacts a World Heritage area.

Victorians isolating at home will be asked to take selfies within five minutes of receiving a text alert as part of a trial for a new app that could help future interstate or international travellers to quarantine at home.    

Peter Kay, the brother-in-law of colourful Sydney construction identity George Alex, is the 14th person to be arrested in relation to the alleged $20 million tax fraud and money laundering scheme run by Mr Alex and jailed crime figure Michael Ibrahim...

How does the time change affect people (and cows)? And which way should we wind the clocks this weekend?

Queensland Health has listed a number of new COVID-19 exposure sites across Brisbane after four new local cases were reported on Tuesday.

The medical journal’s choice of words was meant to be inclusive but merely highlighted how language has become a battleground.

A 28-year-old man was on bail for serious charges when he allegedly carjacked a motorist on the Graham Farmer Freeway before engaging in a dramatic chase with police while armed on Monday morning. 

The 40-year-old also tied up another man on the Sunshine Coast, scratched her name into his back, then slit his wrists.

How can you get the most out of your picnic? And how has our love of food sustained us through the extended lockdowns of the past 18 months?

Victoria’s regional communities have banded together to suppress coronavirus outbreaks in a way that has defied the odds.

Darko Desic, 64, will ask the NSW Attorney-General to pardon the remainder of his sentence, after handing himself in this month.

Health Minister Brad Hazzard said 85.7 per cent of people aged 16 and over in the state had now received a first dose of a vaccine and 60.4 per cent were fully vaccinated.

A new survey of 600 doctors by the AMA has found morale among public hospital staff has plummeted, but doctors are afraid to speak up.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk urged people not to panic but said masks would be mandatory indoors in Brisbane and the Moreton Bay region.

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Police said about 15 people were outside the Northern Hospital when three men tried to go inside to visit a patient just after midnight on Monday.

As renewable energy at times powers up to 70 per cent of the south-west of Western Australia, market operator AEMO has outlined more work to do safely accommodate more clean power.

The Public Transport Authority ultimately allowed rail manufacturer Alstom to make the call, which decided to go ahead with KTK after it deemed it was too expensive to engage WA suppliers.

Goodstart Early Learning joins a growing list of private companies to make COVID-19 vaccinations compulsory for its employees.

It is believed more than 12 people are isolating in the house on Tuesday.

Police say Bernice Swales found her son, Jordan Thompson, unresponsive in her Singleton unit and rushed him to hospital. He could not be revived.

Termination letters sent to Qantas Chairman’s Lounge members read like a masterclass in nauseating obsequiousness.

Samantha Jakubiak, her partner Ben Kelly and brother Alek Jakubiak knew they were taking a risk when they opened Frank’s Deli in Waverley during lockdown.

The opposition’s NDIS spokesman has demanded better oversight of vulnerable scheme participants.

The protection offered by immunisation could keep the state’s intensive care cases well below numbers predicted by the Burnet Institute last month.

The agreement fits into US war planning in the South China Sea.

Insisting people get vaccinated in exchange for jobs or services risks entrenching disadvantage, with some experts warning it should not be a long-term feature of Australia’s COVID-normal future.

Our spending on gambling this lockdown has far exceeded last year’s splurge. It peaked 330 per cent higher during this year’s lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne - much higher than the 215 per cent spike reported last year.

Choosing to be vaccinated is not simply an empirical question. Vaccinations imply moral obligation because they benefit the whole of society.

A new app will help parents distinguish between the normal ups and downs of childhood and emerging mental health problems, providing an evidence-based alternative to Dr Google or Facebook parenting groups.

Dressed in purple gym boots and sporting an air of “studied carelessness”, the Glaswegian folk singer-turned-comedian had arrived in Sydney for his first Australian tour.

The Sydney-born venture capitalist is about to become just the third Australian to go to space.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the case is a worker in the aviation industry with no recent history of travel interstate or overseas.

While Gen Z gets ahead of the game.

A Melbourne mother is calling for the public to help find a man with a distinctive snake tattooed on his neck after he allegedly attempted to abduct her son from a busy shopping precinct in Doncaster East.

Patrick Terminals says stop-work actions planned next month by the Maritime Union of Australia could cause shortages of imported electronics, furniture, white goods and sports gear.

The performance of Victoria’s contact tracers and the latest COVID numbers has provided some cause for optimism as the state nears an important vaccine milestone.

Outdoor swimming pools can reopen across NSW today, Victoria is on track to hit its 80 per first first-dose vaccine target tomorrow and Queensland has hit back at the Prime Minister’s comments about Christmas and state borders.

Staging opening up allows us to manage risk as we test to see how our infection control measures stand up.

State Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said businesses should prepare to reopen by Christmas, ahead of the release of updated pandemic modelling to be released on Friday.

The old coal giants of Victoria’s power generation belt are dying fast, and fear of job losses is deep. Many in these communities know they must move to a new future. The question is how.

From beach dips to shopping trips, Melburnians are thinking about the freedoms they’ll have as the COVID-19 road map allows.

The multibillion-dollar road tunnel under Sydney Harbour is not expected to open to motorists until 2027, at least a year later than planned.