Some of the 49,000 international students who have been shut out of the state during the pandemic are set to land in Melbourne next month.

Police charged the protesters over separate incidents outside the shopping centre’s vaccination clinic on November 16.

The story of how an African-American jazz band was kicked out of Australia on flimsy “character” grounds in 1928 is told in a new book.

Ben Krasnostein, a member of the Smorgon family, says he is not anti-government but wants a thorough debate on the legislation.

Former WA Department of Communities assistant director general Paul Whyte defrauded the government of $27.4 million in one of the largest corruption cases in the nation’s history.

The renewed search for missing NSW boy William Tyrrell has entered its fifth day, Victorians are waking up to eased coronavirus restrictions and AstraZeneca has unveiled a new antibody treatment for those who can’t get vaccinated.

A driver who hit and killed a pedestrian when distracted for a few seconds reaching for a vase on her passenger seat has been spared jail because of her remorse and ‘parlous’ mental state.

The NSW government will reassess the need for close contacts of COVID-19 cases to isolate when senior ministers meet next week, with Premier Dominic Perrottet signalling the state would reconsider school closures and strict isolation rules for studen...

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An independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner will be created in NSW to crack down on unethical government supply chain practices after landmark modern slavery laws passed the state Parliament.

The child was rushed to the Queensland Children’s Hospital with a head injury, according to the Queensland Ambulance Service.

Ben Jayaweera, director of Growth Plus Financial Group, was found guilty in 2019 of dishonesty causing detriment to clients.

The week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial review photographers.

Planning Minister Richard Wynne has has amassed unprecedented powers, approvals and oversight over the state’s planning system. Critics warn local and community interests are being usurped.

From today, a Victorian’s vaccination status will determine what they can and can’t do as the government battles to get its new pandemic laws through parliament.

Gone are the days of quick catch-ups over a meal between meetings as professionals now settle down to for long lunches to order dishes and drinks that fit the festive bill.

Clouds might interfere, but there’s still a chance to see a once-in-a-century partial eclipse tonight. Here’s how to do it.

Seven-year-old Jovan Talwar suffered a fatal head injury when another child let go of his wheelchair and it rolled down a shoddy ramp at a Melbourne school, a court has heard.

Specific new information led investigators to a five-metre patch of bushland. Police on Friday were pumping water from a nearby creek, despite inclement weather that threatens to halt the search.

Today on Please Explain, crime reporter Sally Rawsthorne joins Rachel Clun to discuss how the investigation has narrowed to focus on a small patch of land in Kendall.

Danny Whitton, 25, a Wanaruah man, died after ingesting paracetamol at Junee Correctional Centre in 2015.

In the immediate search for HMAS Sydney only a single empty life raft and an inflated RAN lifejacket were found.

On Friday, with restrictions lifted, workers began returning to Melbourne’s city offices and eateries without their masks.

Edward Hall once arrested Ned Kelly and saw him put behind bars. But the accident that took his life was more typical of 19th-century policing.

One of Sydney’s most blue-blooded areas has forced housing developments onto the local election battleground after the rejection of a NSW government density push.

A 75-year-old man was found dead in Brisbane and his son has been charged with murder.

There were no new community cases on Friday, ahead of another vaccination push over the weekend as Queensland inches towards the 80 per cent double-dosed benchmark.

Amalgamation at WA universities could end up as nothing more than a money-saving accounting exercise that reverses the social value of higher education institutes.

The three-year-old, who has autism and is non-verbal, was reported missing by his parents in September after he vanished while playing with his brothers at the family’s house in Putty.

The crew member has been identified as Able Seaman Thomas Welsby Clark from New Farm in Brisbane.

Former Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi’s 2010 vision could have positioned Perth as a world leader in sustainability and greening solutions, as these concepts show.

Despite promoting the successes of its sociology professors, the university will scrap the major and cut those jobs.

Chatter on An0m – a messaging platform popular with the underworld but which was run covertly by the FBI – allegedly identified Evan Isshak as the Sydney buyer of the drugs.

The state government is ready to scale back its use of quarantine hotels. Seven Melbourne venues will be returned to their original purpose by the end of this year.

Earlier this week, Ellie Aitken ceased her executive role at Aitken Investment Management. Now Chris Nasser has stepped off Aitken’s board. What gives?

For religious freedom advocates, the bill is merely a first step. It plugs a glaring gap in existing discrimination law, and not much more, but it’s no surprise that it’s being targeted aggressively by anti-religious secularists.

Low-risk venues such as shopping centres and cafes would be the first to abandon mandatory QR check-ins if coronavirus cases continue to fall.

The proposed bill in Victoria would answer to a charter of human rights. For a start, NSW doesn’t have such a charter.

Experience shows us that ID laws are discriminatory, and that minority voters are more frequently questioned about their identification than white voters.

Nothing beats face-to-face contact says flying minister David Shrimpton, who visits remote parts of NSW in his light plane to provide pastoral care.

100 years ago, millions of feet of film exploded in the Park Street office of the Overseas Film Services in Sydney. A woman jumped to safety as shops were gutted by fire.

Ed Raftery identifies “the ever-sharpening perception of death” as a person ages. While I am not yet an “Ancient” in his terms, I have come to recognise this phenomenon for myself.

Menzies heckled at Sydney meeting, professor urges committee on solar energy, and young bowler steals honours.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz and target.

Police are continuing their search for the remains of William Tyrrell, who disappeared aged three from his foster-grandmother’s home in Kendall on the NSW Mid North Coast in 2014.

While politicians can get folked.

There have been more than 100 more juveniles in custody compared with this time last year, as the state’s three youth detention centres reach capacity.

A Cairns woman accused of illegally crossing state borders and who was “f---ing livid” when wrongly termed a sex worker has been confirmed case zero in the first outbreak to reach the remote Northern Territory.

The woman’s evidence is under new scrutiny as police investigate whether William fatally fell from a balcony on the Mid North Coast in 2014.

Environmental groups have accused a major retailer of exploiting a loophole to escape bans on single-use plastics that are progressively being implemented across Australia.