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The pandemic has reached at least one Aboriginal community, forced the activation of drastic biosecurity laws, and jeopardised an already strained health system.

Data from the federal Health Department shows 284,000 people aged over 16 have received the booster, which is just under half the 577,000 people currently eligible for the shot.

Under Sydney Catholic Schools’ new music program, every year 3 to 8 eight student will learn to play an instrument during school time.

The Auditor-General has warned of long-term budget pain without “structural reform”, saying Victoria’s public debts are likely to be double its annual revenue in the next three years.

Police have seized a car in the search for missing NSW boy William Tyrrell, there are concerns fringe groups are promoting violence at a Victorian protest and Labor is ramping up its campaign promises ahead of the next federal election. 

Supermarkets and pharmacies are struggling to keep up with demand for the at-home coronavirus testing kits, with some consumers placed on waiting lists.

All new large commercial buildings designed from next year will be required to operate at net-zero as part of the latest measures to ramp up the NSW emissions reductions response.

Multiple police and legal sources have confirmed that the evidence gathered so far is insufficient to refer the matter to the Director of Public Prosecutions, as investigators continue their search for William Tyrrell’s remains.

A coroner has found police acted appropriately during a chase that led to the death of two teenage boys when they tried to flee across the Swan River near Maylands.

Both the NSW Treasurer and Transport Minister have ruled out tolling the Sydney Harbour Bridge in both directions.

In an email to parents on Tuesday night, Bondi Public School said about 250 students have been required to isolate, after confirming the first positive case in a “member of the school community”.

The NSW Department of Education is gauging what information and resources families want so they can discuss sensitive issues like sex, consent and peer pressure with their children at home.

The pair were charged with common assault and will appear in Hornsby Local Court next week. The charges are unrelated to William.

Victorian horseracing trainer Peter Moody has been fined for an explosive rant against Mark McGowan and his border stance, which has kept eastern states horses out of Perth’s key racing events.

No other Commonwealth anti-discrimination law has ever sought to directly interfere in state and territory laws in this way.

A woman raped by two men who found her intoxicated on a footpaths ays she was filled with “extreme anger and frustration” at being unable to remember what happened.

Eight months before Joy Rowley was murdered in her home on the Mornington Peninsula, she survived a strangulation assault. Ten years on, her children are frustrated laws that could’ve protected her have not been enacted.

Mr Thomson has been charged over allegations he facilitated more than 130 fraudulent visa applications, resulting in more than $2 million of financial gains

Victoria’s police funding has doubled over the past 10 years, but the evidence suggests police actually cause crime.

The 34-year-old victim underwent surgery on Monday and police arrested the alleged shooter on Tuesday at his Camp Hill home.

A heavy police presence greeted protesters who marched on the Queensland government’s headquarters.

Today on Please Explain, political reporter Katina Curtis joins to discuss what should be done to protect young children from the coronavirus.

Protesters have continued to voice their anger over controversial proposed pandemic laws, while the state gets set for restrictions to relax further in coming days.

Orios Zavros, his wife Lindsey and their children Zoe and Zane ran into trouble when their vehicle became bogged on Friday during a cross-country holiday.

Despite a sigh of relief over Taiwan, this week’s meeting of the two superpower leaders did not remove old tensions.

One victim and others close to those killed or hurt in the Bourke Street terror attack have launched legal action against Victoria Police. They claim officers were negligent and should have heeded warning signs about the attacker.

Australian hospitals are experiencing a mass exodus of critical care nurses as the coronavirus pandemic stretches healthcare workers further than ever, prompting medical colleges to warn of a pending workforce crisis.

Queensland’s sporting heroes have joined a push to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19.

It comes as investigations narrow in on whether William fatally fell from the second-storey balcony of his foster grandmother’s home in Kendall on NSW’s Mid North Coast.

South Metropolitan Health Service chief executive Paul Forden said doctors and nurses had been forced to revert to paper records and warned there would be delays. 

Deputy Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said eight people were turned away at road borders for reasons including not having a border pass or trying to enter from a hotspot.

Police said a 21-year-old man has been charged with acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm after he allegedly stabbed a man in Meadowbrook, south of Brisbane.

If it’s good enough to label Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan as climate criminals for protecting coal jobs in NSW and Queensland, why doesn’t WA Labor cop the same treatment?

The reality of the WA government’s resources sector vaccination mandate is looming for workers and employers alike, and no one knows how many will choose to avoid the vaccine at the cost of their job.

Michael Lynch: “I never cross picket lines, not even for my darling wife.”

Environmental activist Charlotte Sterrett has taken up a position that “ticks all the boxes” to be her ideal job.

Five square metres of bushland has become the priority in the search for missing boy William Tyrrell as police investigate if he fell from a balcony to his death and say their focus is on one person of interest

The Kangaroo Point tower, comprising 37 apartments, will be built beside heritage-listed Shafston House, Brisbane’s third-oldest residence.

Wind and solar farms have been earmarked for construction across hundreds of kilometres of government-owned softwood forestry plantations under proposed changes to the state’s energy laws.

At some schools, more than two-thirds of the staff are temporary or casual. At others, it’s less than 20 per cent.

Alan Jones has leapt into the digital age, launching an advanced (for him) WordPress website.

More than one-third of junior doctors working in some of Sydney’s biggest hospitals say they made a medical error due to the stress of working excessive hours this year.

Emails reveal Dominic Perrottet insisted on pushing ahead with the controversial rail entity because scuttling it would cost the state budget billions.

The state government’s proposed law changes have prompted warnings that unnecessary and traumatic separation from families could be prolonged.

Marie Palmer and her husband Barry McDonald have been learning and sharing the stories of Cockatoo Island and North Head Sanctuary for more than a decade.

This isn’t about job snobbery. It’s more about bondage hesitancy.

Trying to safeguard public space is a noble pursuit in a city like Sydney but intransigence can also derail gilt-edged opportunities to create vibrant cultural precincts.

Researchers plan to use a custom-built telescope to detect Earth-like planets in orbit around the closest star system our own, and they’re hoping for some “wobbles”.

Defence Minister Peter Dutton has all but unilaterally committed Australia to join a US-lead war against China if Taiwan is attacked. Where is the public or parliamentary debate?