Victorians are allowed to return to the golf course as parts of Gippsland enter a snap lockdown, NSW healthcare workers have tomorrow to be vaccinated and Brisbane remains on high alert after a coronavirus outbreak.

Education Minister Sarah Mitchell also wants all schools in Sydney to open at the same time instead of keeping those in areas with high virus transmission closed

A major report into the environmental impact of raising the wall of the Warragamba Dam has significantly reduced the expected toll on World Heritage bushland cited in a leaked consultant’s paper.

Seven deaths and 950 local cases were recorded as residents of Melbourne and most of regional Victoria woke to eased restrictions on Wednesday but the Latrobe Valley was placed back into a seven-day lockdown.

More than 1 million Australian passports have expired during the pandemic, so it’s expected there will be a backlog renewing them if those who want to travel next year don’t act quickly.

At one point during the attack he hit her so hard she urinated in the bed, the Brisbane Supreme Court was told.

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One of Brisbane’s biggest shopping centres is among a range of new COVID-19 exposure sites identified by Queensland Health authorities as multiple new clusters emerge this week.

Enforcing harsh restrictions that don’t work will only increase community mistrust and anger, as we saw last week in Melbourne’s ugly protests.

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NSW is expected to experience widespread rain and severe thunderstorms over the next three days as storm season begins.

Melbourne golf courses were allowed to re-open on Wednesday and golfers wasted no time getting back into the swing of things.

Footage of a man being slammed to the ground was taken at the station on September 22 and has since been shared widely on social media.

The regulator says the department failed to provide a safe workplace for those working in hotel quarantine and exposed others to health and safety risks.

Australia’s largest early learning provider was fined in a Queensland court after the three-year-old boy’s death last year.

Queensland Health is making it easier for people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as the state’s vaccination rate lags the nation.

Calls to triple-zero reached levels on Monday not seen since the 2016 thunderstorm asthma event and a record-breaking number of people clogged a major hospital’s emergency department.

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“It beggars belief that people would knowingly do this and threaten the livelihoods and the lives of millions of Western Australians,” Paul Papalia said.

The fatal shooting — which took place in front of horrified onlookers including Mr Martin’s family — sparked a massive police investigation with more than 100 officers assigned to the case.

NSW has recorded 15 deaths from COVID-19, the state’s highest daily number during the latest outbreak. There were 863 new local cases reported.

The 29-year-old driver was seriously injured after his truck was hit by a coal train at a level crossing at Scone in the Upper Hunter region of NSW.

The latest cases come after Brisbane was already on edge due to four new local cases reported on Tuesday.

For Andrew Sinclair, who died unexpectedly in Melbourne last week at the age of 69, opera was not merely a job but a calling.

A controversial quote from the Queensland CHO has been “misrepresented” by an antivax campaign in Melbourne, Queensland health authorities say.

The fuel shortage has happened amid a so-called clean energy transition, where older, fossil fuel energy sources have been displaced by wind and solar, a process that is happening in Australia’s east and west coast energy markets too.

A surface trough over south-west Queensland will move towards the south-east on Thursday and Friday.

Labor will not alter or reverse hard-fought changes to the GST grants system by their state counterparts.

The Prime Minister says we should be able to get together for Christmas, but several hurdles lie in the path.

At least Scott Morrison will have warm memories from his US trip to counter the arctic frost which has settled over our relationship with France.

October 11 is looming large for Sydney’s hospitality venues - especially those that haven’t fully launched yet.

Safety and sovereignty dictate that we will need to develop nuclear facilities in Australia to maintain and support these submarines.

The first name on the Police Memorial Wall is Constable Matthew Tomkin who was shot by an escaped convict in December 1837. The last is Constable Josh Prestney.

Melton MP Steve McGhie says he has received multiple complaints about health and welfare issues at a supported residential service in Melton South.

Health Minister Brad Hazzard says he has no intention to exempt any local health district or hospital from the mandatory vaccination rules.

The unrepresentative National Party is the road block to a safer climate for all of us.

Freeway fog pile-up, survivors’ last hurrah and artist on many stages.

As the USS Oldendorf cruised into Sydney Harbour, anti-nuclear protester Ian Cohen hitched a ride on the bow of the warship.

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Three COVID-19 threats have emerged in Western Australia after the arrival of a military plane with one positive case, a soon-to-arrive cargo ship with 11 infected crew members, and the arrests of Australians from virus-stricken Victoria.

Mandatory vaccines for freight drivers will ease some testing requirements and increase pressure for a national approach, after a seventh driver was infectious in the community.

The next two days will be critical if Brisbane is to avoid another lockdown, but some workers have already been sent home amid fears the CBD could again become a ghost town.

Almost a decade since the incident that changed her life forever, Dana Vulin is on a new mission to help others by healing their scars after surgery.

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.

As NSW case numbers fall, Victoria’s are rising. The Andrews government is hoping a vaccination sprint will see the state following a similar trajectory to its northern neighbour.

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

Victoria and NSW are racing toward living with the virus, and are just weeks away from lifting their lockdowns. If Prime Minister Scott Morrison has his way, the rest of Australia will soon follow into this new land.

As shops, bars and gyms are allowed to reopen, some parents will have to send their children back to school before the official return date on October 25.