There’s a reason why that calendar is complimentary.

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons is urging the Victorian government to allow elective surgery to operate at full capacity again now that coronavirus hospitalisations are declining.

Teeth from dozens of Australian children helped scientists confirm a theory about how Neanderthal children developed.

The Gold Coast and Goondiwindi clusters have officially ended, while the border reopening is on track after the state passed another vaccine rollout milestone.

What we know so far about leaving or entering Queensland for business or a Christmas getaway during the peak holiday season when the state hits its 80 per cent fully vaccinated target.

More than 10,000 feral horses will be removed from the Kosciuszko National Park within six years under a new management plan introduced by the NSW government.

The man arrested over the disappearance of two Victorian campers is an airline pilot, landmark sexual consent laws have passed NSW Parliament and the debate continues over the federal government’s draft religious discrimination bill.

NSW Police will usher in a new era as Karen Webb is appointed to the top job, with the incoming Commissioner calling for a “proportionate response” to drug use and ensuring victims of domestic and sexual violence can trust police.

Her family has 15 business days to lodge any objections and after that, the court will be asked to sanction the possession and sale of assets.

The man arrested over the mysterious disappearance of campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay had firearms and had previously been questioned by police over the matter.

When police finally tracked down the 36-year-old, he was fined $1334 and ordered into hotel quarantine.

WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson said vaccine hesitancy surveys since the 75 per cent workforce announcement in October showed hesitancy had increased in “moderate terms”.

Indigenous people make up 1 per cent of the country’s health practitioners, despite representing 3.3 per cent of the general population.

The closure for good of the school north of Shepparton will be an emotional one, not leat for generations of the Hendy family.

Nicola Forrest and other high-profile women from across the business and political spectrum are demanding big investment in childcare and gender equality.

A Carnarvon man has been charged with the murder of his 18-year-old daughter after he threw her across a room as a baby and caused serious brain injury.

It was the darling of environmentally conscious consumers for many years, but Powershop Australia has been taken over by Shell, causing an ethical quandary for some customers.

As much of Melbourne prepared to watch last year’s AFL grand final, Ayse Leila Laz stole a Honda Civic and sped into the city, running 17 red lights in less than an hour.

The private school has pleaded guilty to failing to provide or maintain safe systems of work.

WA Police acting Commissioner Col Blanch said there were “a lot of angry people” on social media, with an unprecedented level of threats being made online amid the pandemic and mandated COVID-19 vaccination.

Pop-up vaccination clinics will hit Aldi and Woolworths stores over the next three weeks, as well as Optus Stadium, to encourage people to get the jab.

Cherry lovers should expect prices to go up, with recent bouts of heavy rain – linked with the recently declared La Nina weather pattern – damaging crops as harvesting gets under way.

Counter-terrorism police had a “very real fear” prolific social media user Wade John Homewood would inspire violence with alleged extremist material.

Housing affordability has become a key issue in council elections as an all-women field of candidates for Sydney lord mayor make their case to voters.

Today on Please Explain, economics correspondent Shane Wright joins Jess Irvine to discuss whether the looming federal election means more personal income tax cuts are on their way.

The confusion about a potential $150 cost for a private PCR test, required by anyone travelling to Queensland from hotspot states under easing border restrictions, came to a head.

The Wallerawang power plant’s two chimneys have towered over the town for decades, but on Wednesday they were demolished as the town looks to the future.

The federal government minister has been awarded $35,000 in damages after he sued over a six-word tweet reading “Peter Dutton is a rape apologist”.

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, protesters parked their Subaru Forrester and caravan across the two-lane Burrup Road near King Bay Road.

Onlookers captured the broad daylight kidnapping on mobile phones, with a man pictured being forced into a van.

Karen Webb will replace Mick Fuller at the helm of the oldest and largest police force in the country.

Helping businesses in Sydney’s two main CBDs recover from the pandemic is shaping as a critical issue in next month’s local council elections.

More than 95 per cent residents of all five towers at the Richmond housing estate, home to at least 2000 people, have now received at least one vaccination.

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The government would better serve Victorians by restructuring the Health Department and funding it properly.

A teenage girl has been charged with murder after a 16-year-old boy died after an alleged stabbing.

The court heard that the learner driver - understood to be the first child charged under WA’s emergency COVID laws - was desperately trying to come home to Perth to see his mother who had been diagnosed with cancer.

A former school parent, among four others, first raised a complaint against suspended principal Lois Joll to the Department of Education in 2011, with Sue Ellery also approached in opposition.

Nationwide, tens of thousands have marched in the streets for their right to shun safe and effective medical treatments.

Barry Urban’s tall tales earned him a fitting nickname during his time as a policeman in the UK, but his former colleague says the disgraced MP needs professional help – not jail.

The world today is more complex and integrated than it was during the Cold War with more connections through trade, finance, space and technology.

There’s evidence some social groups and organisations are overstepping the mark.

Have the good folk charged with selling James Packer’s 108-metre mega-yacht landed a whale?

NSW Premier Dom Perrottet concedes solving the complex problem posed by the construction of a new harbour tunnel will not be easy.

The future of MPs who were allies of disgraced MP Adem Somyurek has emerged as the latest flashpoint in a rolling war in Victorian Labor.

Junior doctors are set to launch legal proceedings against the state government on Wednesday over unpaid wages as pressure mounts on NSW Health over its alleged treatment of trainee medics. 

Adults became more physically active during COVID-19 lockdowns while children, especially teenage boys, became worryingly sedentary, a survey has found.

With almost 90 per cent of Victorians vaccinated against COVID-19, public health experts say the time has nearly arrived to release the restrictions on unvaccinated people.

Children aged up to nine now make up the largest proportion of new cases in Victoria, and education clusters are by far the most common.

Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie’s speech about alleged vaccine ‘discrimination’ brilliantly and powerfully exposed the hypocrisy of One Nation’s position.