A 29-year-old Aboriginal woman who was fatally shot by a Western Australian police officer accused of murder foreshadowed that she was going to die that day, a Supreme Court jury has heard.

Corrections Victoria says 39 prisoners and 15 staff at five prisons across the state have COVID-19.

Dominic Perrottet won a ballot at a party room meeting of Liberal MPs on Tuesday morning, following Gladys Berejiklian’s resignation as premier on Friday.

The roll-out of vaccine boosters raises moral as well as medical questions.

Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore said the City sought no health advice from the government before cancelling the 9pm New Year’s Eve fireworks, but she spoke to two experts afterwards, including ABC journalist Dr Norman Swan.

Former Moreton Bay mayor Allan Sutherland was charged in December 2019 by the Crime and Corruption Commission.

School friends, footy and even swimming lessons are out of reach for now, but a spirit of adventure is keeping Aidan in touch with the great outdoors – even if it’s just camping in the backyard.

Year 12s are the first students to return to school after months of remote learning.

Several residents told a parliamentary inquiry they were short-changed by Sydney Metro in its acquisition of land for the Western Sydney Airport line.

Regional Roads Minister Paul Toole is firming as favourite to replace Barilaro as NSW Nationals leader at a party room ballot on Wednesday.

NSW Liberals are debating whether Dominic Perrottet is an ultra-conservative, Victoria is preparing to overhaul its contact tracing and Australia will buy hundreds of thousands of experimental COVID treatment pills. 

More than 140,000 WA resources workers will need to have their first COVID vaccination by December 1 and second by January 1 to continue working on mining sites.

Scientific lobby group OzSage says international evidence shows schools without universal mask wearing are 3.5 times more likely to experience a COVID-19 outbreak.

Sports clubs, councils and stadiums are reclaiming venues they had lent out as vaccination hubs and testing sites during the Delta outbreak as the state closes in on its 70 per cent double dose vaccination target.

Journalist John Lyons’ claim that reporting in Jerusalem is journalism’s toughest assignment is a bit of a stretch.

David Gonski, the businessman and university chancellor who designed Australia’s school funding equity framework, has defended incoming Premier Dominic Perrottet against accusations he is too religiously conservative for the top job.

Dominic Perrottet promised to embark on a “new chapter” for the state and said he would be a “family Premier”.

Three NSW government members are among a cross-parliamentary committee calling for heightened scrutiny of the environmental impacts of the $1 billion-plus project before raising the wall by at least 14 metres.

Cancer outcomes in Australia are among the best in the world, except for those in rural and remote areas, a NSW inquiry has heard.

Early Childhood Management Services, which runs 70 kindergartens and childcare centres across Melbourne, says it has reviewed safety protocols after the Werribee incident in 2019.

A woman who allegedly set fire to a hotel room near Newcastle has also been charged with kidnapping a 14-year-old girl in an unrelated incident almost two months earlier.

Mystery surrounds Gomeroi man Gordon Copeland’s disappearance after he was last seen entering a river outside a northern NSW town in July.

Former world boxing champion Michael Katsidis fronted court after police found more than 30 plastic freezer bags of methamphetamine hidden inside a washing machine.

Maha Al-Shennag mistakenly pressed the accelerator, thinking it was the brake, and crashed into a classroom at a Sydney public school, killing two children.

Female and Indigenous students also outperform their male and non-Indigenous counterparts in their first year of uni, a study by the University Admissions Centre has found.

The previous record of daily cases was reported by NSW on September 11, but Latrobe Valley will still exit lockdown at midnight.

Relatives described Janet Dweh as a gentle person who had just gone on maternity leave ahead of the birth of her fourth child.

A “handful” of officers in each of the state’s 15 districts have resigned over mandated COVID-19 jabs, the first of which was required by all QPS staff from Monday.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet once credited his school, Redfield College, with shaping his future path. The school has links to Opus Dei, a conservative Catholic prelature, but some say those ties are overstated.

The Age’s state political correspondent Sumeyya Ilanbey joins Bianca Hall to discuss Melbourne’s status as the world’s longest locked-down city – and unpacks the way out of lockdowns.

A casual relief teacher has asked the Victorian Supreme Court to urgently intervene to block the COVID-19 vaccination mandate.

Edward Arthur Robinson, 41, applied for bail in Brisbane Arrests Court on Tuesday morning.

Police patrolled the CBD as thousands of construction workers reported for duty on Tuesday when their two-week building lay-off ended.

Dominic Perrottet was today elected to be the Liberal leader and to become the next Premier of NSW. Here’s what he said at his first media conference.

Krispin Hajkowicz has been named as the next Queensland Chief Health Officer, taking over from the long-serving Jeannette Young.

It’s time for the successful spy franchise to ditch this tired trope which has real-world implications for people with disabilities.

Authorities are yet to link the case of a masseuse who was infectious in the community for 10 days to any known COVID-19 cases in Queensland.

“We’re seeing a decline in case numbers in recent days, but we’ve also seen a slight decline in testing,” NSW Health’s Dr Jeremy McAnulty said.

The senior global pastor of the church did not appear in person at Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday after flying back to Australia to face charges of concealing child sexual abuse.

The man was busted by the Gold Coast’s top cop, who was on his rounds at the time.

The woman, believed to be aged in her 50s, fell and injured her leg about 7am on Monday on the Sunshine Coast.

Police divers found the body of a 38-year-old man off Obelisk Beach, Middle Head on Monday night.

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Scientists have shown the success of a method of suppressing the population of mosquitoes which spread tropical diseases like dengue fever, leading to hopes of halting the spread of the deadly illnesses.

Building workers who are not vaccinated face being turned away from their jobs from Tuesday morning after the Victorian government made it mandatory for them to have had at least one COVID-19 jab.

Angus is the miniature schnauzer whose owner Jo Cooper won a costly legal battle against the body corporate of the Horizon to allow pets in its apartments.

Students have spent three terms in the last two years learning remotely and now need any extra help they can get.

Only the sickest COVID-19 patients may get hospital treatment, emergency care could be rationed and category-one elective surgeries postponed if the number of Victorians needing hospitalisation reaches levels predicted for the end of the year.

Tuesday’s staged return to school carries unwelcome risks for students in Melbourne’s COVID-19 hot spots and some are choosing to remain at home rather than risk being exposed to the virus.

More than 80 per cent of Australian girls surveyed by Plan International said they had been exposed to online misinformation, with COVID-19, climate change and racial justice top of the list.