Teenager Kaiden Boult, 16, said he was surfing by the rocks when a group of boys on two boats started screaming.

Taking children away from their unsafe home or rushing a harmed child to hospital are only two examples of the challenges Queensland child safety officers face.

The Age Photographer Justin McManus and Health Reporter Melissa Cunningham were permitted exclusive access to Sunshine Hospital's COVID-19 ICU ward where some of Victoria's most unwell COVID-19 patients are being treated by our dedicated health worke...

‘Sexologists’ demonstrating sex, watching clients in bed, or getting very hands-on in the actress’ new series could leave both clients and patients at risk of danger, Australian practitioners say.

Many of us know a relative, friend or acquaintance who is refusing to take a COVID-19 vaccine. But what’s life like for their nearest and dearest?

Inner west residents have been urged to avoid walking on the tracks, as some trams are still operating to allow tests to be carried out.

Spring Racing Carnival, Stakes Day at Flemington Racecourse on November 06, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia.

The Prime Minister has congratulated Australians after the country passed the fresh COVID-19 vaccination milestone, as Victoria recorded a sharp drop in the number of active coronavirus cases in the state.

Police say there is no ongoing threat to the community as they continue to search for a man who they say shot at officers on Boronia Road early this morning.

The race to replace retiring Commissioner Mick Fuller as the state’s top cop is narrowing, with deputy commissioners Mick Willing and Karen Webb the frontrunners.

On her knees, Janine Francis has dug up parts of Queensland with her bare hands searching for her niece’s body. There is still so much the family doesn’t know, no words to describe how lost they feel.

A four-metre high skeletal koala puppet called ‘Blinky’, with wisps smoke floating off it and a grimace on its face, was the focal point of the morning’s Extinction Rebellion protest against inaction on climate change in St Kilda.

The number of anti-vaccine mandate protesters marching through Melbourne’s CBD swelled across the afternoon, as climate demonstrators also took to the streets.

Fears that the turnout might be affected by anxiety around COVID-19 were not realised in the first legal protest since Sydney’s lockdown began.

COP26 Global Day of Action for Climate Justice, Sydney

Two men have died and a woman has been hospitalised after a shooting at a home on Tasmania’s north coast where two young children were present.

Three weeks after they allegedly kidnapped a man at Greenwich, four men were driving around West Ryde on Friday. Then the police swooped. 

At 80 per cent double dose rates, vaxxed international arrivals could safely enter the community without having to quarantine, according to new Doherty Institute modelling. But the Queensland government won’t be budging.

Strangers on Thursday laid flowers just metres from where a three-year-old boy was killed in a hit-and-run incident that has left his family shattered and a community seeking answers.

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Now that we are allowed to see each other again, many of us find it tiring. We need time to adjust.

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Australia has passed another vaccine milestone, with more than 80 per cent of residents over 16 now fully vaccinated against coronavirus.

Nine year 12 students reflect on finishing school during a global pandemic – and the longings they never thought they’d have.

Police were called to a car crash. When they arrived, they found David King lying dead on the ground - with a gunshot wound.

Their removal is part of a belated recognition by the school of a dark past, the latest chapter of which played out in the District Court on Friday when John Patrick O’Brien, 81, was jailed for sexually abusing teenage boys at the boarding school b...

NSW Treasurer Matt Kean has flagged a big spending program to expand childcare so more women can work.

Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge complains the new draft national curriculum in history is too “woke” in not saying enough positive things about Anzac, Christianity and liberal democracy. His own grasp on history needs some fact-checking.

Pathology companies profited from public funding of COVID-19 tests. Now, they’re pressuring Canberra to keep paying $85 a swab for another 18 months.

The rush of development in Nagambie threatens to swallow up 51 native trees that host an array of wildlife.

The world celebrated when the missing four-year-old was found, but the media glare won’t help lives get back on track.

Anthony Albanese’s opportunity lies where Scott Morrison is weak: the states all have more ambitious emissions targets than the Prime Minister’s - and federal Labor can simply embrace them.

The economist and former government climate adviser Ross Garnaut assesses COP26 - and finds the good, the bad and the disappointing.

Australia’s future needs to invest in a pre-1788 understanding of land management.

The Melbourne Cup is not for everyone with studies suggesting the younger generation is becoming less interested in the event.

Australian globalists, embarrassed by Scott Morrison’s tiff with Emmanuel Macron, should take a closer look at the French President’s nationalistic, political motives.

We know the problems. We know what we should be doing, and must do, to address the problems. Time to elect only those politicians who both know and care, and vote out the rest.

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The man at the centre of the Cleo Smith case has been charged with child stealing and another charge, Victoria and NSW open their borders to each other and Katherine in the NT has entered a snap lockdown.

The official search has ended, but the family of Jeremiah Rivers is not giving up. 

Maythem Kamil Radhi, 45, faced a four-day court hearing after being charged over the SIEV X maritime tragedy that claimed 353 lives.

Schools reopened in full this week but COVID-19 cases among the young are spoiling the reunion for many children and further disrupting their education.

One of Hillary Clinton’s key staffers, Huma Abedin was on top of the world. Then her US congressman husband, Anthony Weiner, dropped a bombshell.

Major attractions are reopening this weekend after lockdown, see where you can go.

Little girl found: a town rejoices but now the healing begins for little Cleo

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has returned to Australia after a dramatic week in Europe to attend the G20 conference in Rome and the COP26 climate change summit Glasgow.

He was accused of fighting with Stephen Lane, a former independent political candidate, outside a restaurant on July 30.

The High Court decision means the injured women in the class action can start making claims for compensation, years after the court process began.

Parts of WA would be shut off from other parts of the state and country if their vaccination rates don’t hit 90 per cent.

COVID outbreak modelling conducted by the WA government suggests that a 90 per cent vaccination rate would save about 200 lives compared to an 80 per cent rate.