Wave to your mum when you see the Google car driving by.

Chief Health Officer John Gerrard says the state’s high vaccination rate may mean only hospitalisations will need to be reported from the new year.

One person has died and two others have been critically injured after a a “microburst” , a severe storm downdraft often with winds strong winds.

The nursing union has called for people to be patient with testing staff and accept that wait times will be longer with demand expected to increase in the lead up to Christmas.

By May, it will have been five years since more than 250 leading representatives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people signed the powerful Uluru Statement from the Heart.

There’s a new choir for those who would prefer singing Metallica songs to All Things Bright and Beautiful.

Regional health services will offer boosters to Melburnians on holiday and ramp up testing as they brace for the arrival of Omicron.

At 7.30am last Monday, I woke up to a text message alerting me I had tested positive to COVID-19.

Temperatures in Sydney hit tops of 35.8 degrees on Sunday, with hot and humid conditions expected to continue into the night.

Greatly increased transmission rates and uncertainty about the new variant means that for the next few weeks we must rethink our opening-up plans.

Most cardiac arrests happen in the home. Would you know what to do? How tricky is CPR to learn and what’s it like to have to use it?

A new rooftop bar at the State Library of NSW will open a part of the library - and its views of Sydney harbour to the east over Fort Denison - only seen before by employees and those in the know.

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Giant hail, flooding, monster waves and tornadoes in 2021- by Herald photographer Nick Moir

Police confirmed another child had died of his injuries at Royal Hobart Hospital on Sunday.

The Premier continues to resist calls to reintroduce mandatory mask-wearing indoors as the state’s COVID-19 daily numbers skyrocket, with a total of 14,050 cases of COVID-19 now active.

Melbourne’s “latte lines” have been mapped showing suburban access to jobs, education and services differing by a factor of 10 in some places.

I’m going to let you in on a secret: I finished year 12 fifteen years ago, and my score was nowhere near what I needed it to be.

Police have recovered a body believed to be that of a 19-year-old swimmer who went missing off Lennox Head in northern NSW on Friday. 

AJ Coutts was a 15-year-old ward of the state when he was placed in state care at the notorious Warminda Hostel in East Victoria Park in 1978. The hostel was described as a ‘place of horrors’.

Police have retrieved the bodies of four people – including two children – after the aircraft reportedly suffered engine failure just after take-off on Sunday morning.

Victoria recorded 1240 new coronavirus cases and four deaths on Sunday. There are 392 people in hospital with the virus, with 41 on a ventilator.

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Thousands of Sydneysiders flocked to the city’s beaches on Saturday, with the city expected to reach 36 degrees on Sunday.

There were always rumours that Big Red’s heart might be a ring-in, the equine equivalent of the Shroud of Turin. It only adds to the mystique.

Many infectious diseases experts are warning that failure to urgently take simple steps to reduce the spread of Omicron could result in the need for lockdowns or other drastic measures later.

Youth advocates fear a rise in knife crime among young people this summer will cause bloodshed on the streets of Melbourne with kids as young as 10 reporting to social workers that they’re carrying knives to and from home, fearing they will be atta...

Ultimately, it is Labor or the Coalition who will form government and voters get to pick a side. Protest votes simply outsource that decision to others who will do it for them.

Imagine if our leaders were “family”. Jon Faine does in an end-of-year letter outlining the shenanigans of the clan. (Occupations have been changed to protect ...well, no one.)

The collective mood might be glum, but it’s time to focus on what’s important, like seeing our loved ones and not seeing the inside of an ICU.

The hospitality industry is shedding customers amid fears of contracting COVID-19 or being forced into isolation ahead of Christmas.

One cannot think of a worse way to finish this terrible year than the deaths of five children, one week before Christmas, in a place where they were meant to be safe.

Sultani rose from a stable and safe upbringing in Sydney to the ringleader of a murder squad that took down three gangland figures.

At a time when our approach to who gets to come into this country and who doesn’t has become so fraught, Jesus Christ’s place is among those on the margins.

There were at least 68 different wellbeing programs in operation across NSW primary schools, but many of them had little or no evidence of effectiveness.

Vacation care will help families through the summer holidays after months of lockdown left parents exhausted and children craving social opportunities.

It may not look that different but the Royal Australian Navy’s new uniform could make a great difference in a fire and is cooler to help with heat fatigue.

Clearly in panic mode, Scott Morrison has cast aspersions on the “Voices Of” candidates because they are only contesting Liberal seats.

Sydney’s latte line has been redrawn showing that suburban access to jobs, education and services differs by a factor of ten in some places.

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The rollcall of residents sounds like the beginning of an old joke: a Catholic priest and classical tantra meditation expert, a Buddhist, a Hindu, a Muslim and a Yogi (walk into a bar…).

Those found drunk in public in four Victorian communities will be offered transport to a sobering up service, a loved one’s home or to hospital instead of being taken into custody in the new year, the state government has announced.

A woman who suffered a severe genital injury during a Brazilian wax is suing a popular Australian salon chain after she required surgery.

Due to high rates of vaccination in Victoria, many cases in sensitive settings like schools and nursing homes are no longer prompting shutdowns.

Long-serving Nationals MP Melinda Pavey has been dumped as a New South Wales minister and two Liberal ministers resigned ahead of a widely tipped reshuffle by Premier Dominic Perrottet.

Dozens of people who attended The Cliff Dive in Darlinghurst last Saturday have been forced into isolation.

Queensland is holding its nerve and will not make any border changes in the face of rising cases, but locals have been urged to be vigilant to the dangers all around.

A 14-year-old has died after slipping and falling into a lake in Sydney’s south-west on Saturday afternoon.

Students at two primary schools are in isolation on the eve of Christmas after attending a camp in South Gippsland that has since become Victoria’s biggest active COVID-19 outbreak.

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