Carrying signs such as “I just love Mark McTwat,” and “coercion is not consent,” thousands of protesters descended on Perth on Saturday to protest COVID-19 mandates.

When the pandemic meant Gavin Clifton could not scale Sydney Tower to raise money for medical research, he turned to his Blue Mountains backyard.

He’s investigated suicides, homicides, medical mishaps and Aboriginal deaths in custody. But the former NSW and Queensland coroner laments the country’s coronial system.

A Victorian child under the age of 10 has died with COVID-19, becoming the youngest person in Australia to die with the virus.

They patrol up and down the restaurant, dodging and weaving through tables and diners to drop off food with a chirpy “enjoy your meal”. So are robot waiters the future of food?

Politicians and Queensland Police say the emails have been sent to numerous ministers in a bulk email. 

The protests were all about freedom not to vaccinate. The police wore masks, the crowd didn’t.

The battle over the soul of Chinatown

A toddler is in a critical condition after being pulled from a swimming pool at a Crown hotel in Southbank.

The Melbourne rally took place after a tumultuous week of opposition to the Victorian government’s proposed pandemic laws.

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

Protesters have rallied both against and in support of the state government's new pandemic laws in Melbourne.

Sydney anti-vax protests

Melbourne’s statue population suffers gender imbalance with only nine of real women of the 580 statues in Melbourne.

Tens of thousands of anti-government “freedom” protesters have taken to the streets across the country, after a dramatic week in Victorian politics.

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Many temporary visa holders who have made a life for themselves in Australia feel trapped and stuck in limbo. If they leave Australia, they forfeit their visa rights.

Victoria has reported more than 1000 new cases of coronavirus on the first weekend after a further easing of restrictions that take Victorians close to pre-pandemic life.

The state’s vaccine rate continues to rise, with 94.3 per cent of people aged over 16 having had one dose of the vaccine.

NSW Police will allege that the 68-year-old sexually touched a 15-year-old client when she went for a haircut at a salon in Asquith.

The Crimes Act will now contain an offence of causing the loss of a foetus, which can attach to a range of other criminal offences like dangerous driving or grievous bodily harm and increase the penalty by up to three years.

Teaching salary levels send the wrong signal to young people considering a career in education.

In early 2019, organised crime intelligence analysts working in a drab government building in Canberra began a debate about whether a 36-year-old Australian businessman posed a major risk to national security.

In a week when nearly all remaining COVID-19 restrictions were lifted, the Victorian government was desperately seeking new emergency powers.

Voters thought John Howard had lied to them, too, but in 2004 they trusted him to run the country more than the alternative ... until they didn’t in 2007.

The free world’s adversaries will develop competing artificial intelligence systems with little concern for individual liberties or democratic values.

The Prime Minister will struggle to be all things to all people. And he hasn’t really thought through how Australians might receive the words “Can-Do Capitalism”.

An extraordinary turn in the seven-year investigation has brought police full circle – back to a person of interest who was ruled out years ago.

Explosive testimony and a trove of confidential documents have lifted the lid on the enormous risks to the state from an obscure rail entity.

“The general mood [among high-ranking defence officers] is that it has been squibbed,” said one senior officer engaged with the Afghanistan inquiry reform process.

Previously unreported investigations into a former SAS soldier might have been compromised because police obtained information they may be prohibited from using.

They lived on a dirt floor in Vietnam while pursuing their dream to change the world, but now investors are beating a path to the door of Lyndal Hugo and her wife Amanda Cornelissen.

Some of Australia’s most prominent “freedom” activists involved in the protests unfolding in Melbourne plan to stand with former liberal MP Craig Kelly as candidates for Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party.

The Victorian government has almost finalised a suite of new powers to impose major projects and higher-density development onto large sections of Melbourne.

An online campaign quashed Sheridan’s show before it even began - and left him suicidal. A case of rebalancing bias – or cancel culture gone mad?

The former top judge and prosecutor will need every ounce of his renowned legal acuity if he is to successfully investigate Australian special forces soldiers.

The PM can in one breath briefly state how violent demonstrations are not part of our political process and then in the next, add that he sympathises with the sentiments behind them.

The renewed search for missing NSW boy William Tyrrell has entered its fifth day, Victoria recorded more 1200 COVID cases and Tim Paine has quit as Test captain after sexting revelations.

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As the big southern states open up, Queensland could fall behind if the government refuses to budge on sending international students into quarantine at Toowoomba.

While Qld-based Commonwealth MPs agitating on vaccines have expressed cautious approval of the Prime Minister’s messaging change, their large social media followings appear less receptive amid concerns the Coalition is courting fringe protest eleme...

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.

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...

Herald letter writers are a community who clearly enjoy each other’s company - in print and online. This week, they have provided us with an insight into what keeps them writing.

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.