Restaurant owner Hayden Burbank, 49, and financial planner Mark Babbage, 39, were each sentenced to 10 months imprisonment with seven months suspended in Perth Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

Some of those calling for Daniel Andrews to be hauled before the anti-corruption commission, including commentators and politicians, have not produced any credible evidence of an abuse of public funds.

Police have been forced to disperse crowds at a regional Victorian doctor’s surgery after hundreds are alleged to have gathered there in recent days to seek COVID-19 vaccination exemptions.

NSW and Victoria look set to ease some restrictions earlier than anticipated amid growing vaccination rates, pharmacists are preparing to vaccinate Qld schoolchildren and the Coalition is inching closer to a deal on net zero emissions.

Victorians will be able to resume home renovations as early as next week, with the Victorian government set to accelerate the return of one of the major arms of the construction sector.

The regulator should explicitly require all criminal incidents involving aged care residents to be reported to police immediately.

The charity and the Australian Small Business Ombudsman say the helpline will be vital well after the emergency phase of the pandemic has passed.

A US medical taskforce has overhauled guidelines for aspirin, recommending middle-aged and older people no longer take a low dose of the mild analgesic to prevent a first heart attack or stroke.

The federal opposition says report about noise from the expanding airport proves why a permanent body must review operations.

Government inspectors reported there was “no immediate safety risk” at an apartment complex in Canterbury on Wednesday afternoon but said ongoing action may be required to ensure the ongoing safety of residents.

An outbreak of COVID-19 at maximum-security Shortland prison has infected at least 14 inmates and staff since late September. 

lmost 40 years after its maiden voyage on Sydney Harbour, the iconic Queenscliff ferry made its last trip across the Heads.

Only 20 per cent of the state’s 2000 threatened species have had protection action plans developed by the Environment Department, according to a report from Auditor-General Andrew Greaves.

Almost 40 years after its maiden voyage on Sydney Harbour, the iconic Queenscliff ferry has made its last trip across the Heads.

The civil trial that was being heard before the Supreme Court of Western Australia ended abruptly on Wednesday.

A 17-year-old Victorian girl has opened up about being struck down with COVID-19 and put on a ventilator, saying she thought she was going to die.

The state government rejected five key recommendations of a report into the high numbers of Indigenous people in custody, while supporting another 16.

Police say Nathan Hetherington posed a risk of making others ill through his behaviour, which included riding on the back of a tram and entering the grounds of the Royal Botanic Gardens.

Paramedics, including a specialist medical team, treated the critically injured man, believed to have been aged in his 30s, but he could not be saved.

It is difficult to have empathy for those who claim they are now an oppressed class because of their decision to not be vaccinated.

The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils has defended the online event that will host two Taliban speakers.

The University of Technology Sydney and University of Melbourne are among city institutions that have decided to make COVID-19 vaccinations compulsory for staff and students to return to campus.

Magistrate Jacqueline Milledge described parts of the video as “absolute gibberish” and “offensive”, but suggested it was merely in bad taste and not necessarily in contempt.

A review of 194 ICUs across Australia has found fewer than half of the beds which are earmarked to come online during a surge of COVID-19 cases could be adequately staffed.

The federal government will not stand in the way of international passenger flights landing at Toowoomba’s Wellcamp Airport, if Queensland can convince the airlines to come.

On Wednesday morning, the full court rejected Clive Palmer’s arguments that the McGowan government’s legislation was unconstitutional.

Lawyers acting for Victoria’s police chief have urged the Supreme Court not to compel the force to reappoint an officer who punched a teenage boy while on duty.

From Monday, state school teachers will refuse to answer certain emails from the Education Department, go to meetings or work on a government education-improvement project.

When it comes to planning Melbourne’s future, the needs of the community should be equal to the short-term profit motive of developers.

Dozens of sick and vulnerable babies at the Royal Children’s Hospital have been plunged into isolation with their parents, after a father visited his sick baby on the neonatal intensive care ward while unknowingly infectious with COVID-19.

“The deal was that you bought your girlfriend a corsage, a box of Winning Post chocolates and, of course, a program.”

Workers at an Esso oil rig in the Bass Strait were afraid of being sacked if they raised safety concerns in the lead-up to an incident in April that left an employee injured.

The Department of Health is weighing up a proposal aimed at preventing as many students as possible from missing exams.

Today on Please Explain, economics correspondent Shane Wright joins Jess Irvine to discuss a new analysis of the JobKeeper wage subsidy program.

The laws are a significant step up to the anti-consorting laws that failed to make it through Parliament during the last term of Mark McGowan’s government, before its re-election.

The trophy home broke records this week when it was sold at a private auction.

Ray Wyeth was “one of the most valued midwives” in the region and had been working as a nurse in isolated Indigenous communities.

Queensland continues to ramp up its vaccination rollout, as the Premier warned it took five weeks to get vaccinated, which was “getting very close to Christmas”.

Footage of a dawn retrieval of a kangaroo from Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin went viral around the world, but the kangaroo met a tragic end.

The Andrews government is building 10 community hospitals in the major growth suburbs, but a land acquisition in the outer east has been challenged.

Fabio Silveira and his son Lenny, who has cerebral palsy and recently underwent surgery in the US, have been unable to obtain permission to quarantine at home.

Two lanes of Alice Street were closed during peak-hour, due to the attendance of emergency services vehicles.

A West Australian teacher and her young son feel betrayed by WA Police and their messages about the importance of protecting domestic violence victims after they repeatedly failed to bring charges against a violent ex-husband.

A WA teacher has watched her exemplary 25-year reputation be dragged through the mud with “unfounded and unsubstantiated” investigations by child protection services, the education department and police, all the while living in terror of being st...

McGowan has in mind a soft landing which would see the virus begin to circulate in WA, but without overwhelming rates of hospitalisation or death as the vaccines do their protective work.

The 50 selected schools are spread across the state, but there is a concentration in the south-east.

Two young men died at the “catastrophic” scene of the Truganina crash on September 30, while another two died as they arrived at hospital.

Raini Cook, 23, who remains in a coma after Sunday’s shooting, is “loved by a lot of people”, her mother says, while two suspects remain on the run.

The mood among parents is mostly one of impending celebration and relief. But for some, a quiet unease ripples through the excitement.

Glyn Davis, who is chief executive of the billion-dollar Paul Ramsay Foundation, joins OA next month.