The list of two weeks’ worth of exposure sites has also been erased from the Queensland Health website, as case numbers overwhelm the system.

On a clear blue day.

The sub-tropical low continues to move towards the southern Queensland coast, creating unusually high tides and dangerous surf.

Carol Lisle, 84, was last seen at an aged care residence in Halls Head on Sunday and is believed to be with Ralph ‘Terry’ Gibbs.

More than a million Victorians will be able to get a third jab against coronavirus from Tuesday when the state government launches 28 pop-up vaccine sites.

A major pathology company has shut testing sites across Sydney and Prime Minister Scott Morrison has ruled out providing universal free rapid antigen tests despite reports of sharp price rises of the home testing kits.

Ambulances with patients waited outside WA hospitals the equivalent of six years in 2021 but the state government says the health system is well prepared to deal with COVID-19 when borders open.

Opposition leaders in NSW and South Australia have looked to Victoria’s alternative government - they don’t like what they see.

The NSW government is pushing ahead with big events this summer, as COVID-19 cases skyrocket, hospitalisations rise and many people choose to stay home.

Emergency services are warning of a risk to lives and homes in Floreat after a fire started near the intersection of Perry Lakes Drive and Oceanic Drive on Monday afternoon.

Australian students have exceeded the global average scores of International Baccalaureate diploma students, with a pass rate of 98 per cent.

A report is being prepared for the coroner after a man in his 40s was pulled from the water and died at Trigg Beach on Monday.

Unions say NSW hospitals are continuing to be stretched by rising COVID-19 infections even if their primary presentation is not the virus.

In the lead up to the federal election, major parties need to tackle the housing affordability issue head on, and explain how they will reduce inequality and level the playing field for younger Australians.

A software glitch has hit Victoria’s system for giving coronavirus vaccines to children, as authorities urge others to take up booster shots to shield against the rapidly spreading Omicron variant.

Despite a stressful year and months spent worrying whether their exams would go ahead, NSW students shone in the 2021 International Baccalaureate.

From toilet paper to masks, and now rapid-antigen tests, NSW is experiencing another period of COVID-19 induced price gouging and panic buying as the government rules out providing free at-home tests for all.

Nightclub closures and event cancellations will be lifted on Tuesday but proof of vaccination requirements at high-risk venues and events will be extended across the city.

The Premier and Chief Health Officer have pleaded with Queenslanders to get vaccine booster shots once eligible.

As a teenager, Berry Wormald hosted future prime ministers and got to know Errol Flynn.

Fares on the airport rail are also expected to be comparable to other airport services across Australia.

The Australian Open is on track despite warnings of a super-spreader event in Melbourne, NSW is keeping QR codes in place for the time being and changes to close-contact rules for aged care staff could soon be implemented amid worries of a staffing �...

State-run hubs, GPs and pharmacies are all on board to get jabs in arms to maximise protection against the Omicron variant and rising community case numbers.

Today on Please Explain, Executive Editor Tory Maguire joins Nathanael Cooper to look ahead at the year in politics.

The state coroner will investigate a “probable COVID-19” death that was recorded in Queensland as part of 4249 new cases of coronavirus on Monday. 

There are 1204 people in hospital, including 95 in ICU after more than 1000 admissions were recorded on Sunday for the first time since the peak of the Delta outbreak.

You’ll find them loitering at skate parks. Shopping centres. Train stations. They are easily identified by their crude dialect, volatile social practices and eccentric dress code of polo shirts, Nike TNs and bumbags. They are eshays.

As more Australians get COVID-19, there is plenty to be learned from those who’ve come through the other side about how they managed the virus in isolation.

Ex-tropical Cyclone Seth is in the southern Coral Sea and is expected to approach Queensland’s coast during the first half of the week, bringing damaging wind gusts, high tides, and dangerous surf.

The state government has confirmed that the Service NSW app is sending a new push notification alert every time an additional person who attended a venue later tests positive, but without detailing which venues the additional cases attended.

Plans for the Australian Open remain on course, despite several players returning positive diagnoses upon arrival and a surge in local cases which could threaten crowds for the Grand Slam event.

The Defence Department has a plan to mitigate flash flooding on the inner west site so that the council will approve its subdivision, but it only reduces flooding by 10 to 20 per cent.

It will take serious tax reform to secure our long-term prosperity, but who will dare?

A cancer specialist who has run a COVID ward describes the challenges on the pandemic frontline.

This isn’t about “hindsight heroism”, as the Prime Minister puts it; there has been a foresight failure.

There may have been some tears, but we realise we were privileged in many ways when it came to fighting COVID.

“I was worried that I would have to make a choice between myself and the baby.”

Federal government data shows more than 1180 COVID-positive aged care residents across Australia.

Household bulky rubbish collection volumes have risen as much as 75 per cent across Sydney since 2018-19.

The Premier says the public health system is coping, but as cases mount and staff exhaustion escalates, how long before the crisis becomes a catastrophe?

In 1923, in a state of 2.2 million people, 231 people died on the state’s roads. In 2021, 270 people died in road accidents.

Although rain upset the New Year holiday for many Sydney people, there has been little relief from drought conditions in the rest of NSW.

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

Arac attacks and a new tactical low.

Many are taking their COVID-19 safety into their own hands. Others are striving to find a way to proceed with a life as close to normal as it can be.

NSW is keeping QR codes in place for the time being, despite some experts doubting the usefulness of checking in given the high rate of COVID-19 in the community.

Several doctors and nurses at the QEII hospital have tested positive to COVID-19, forcing the cancellation of surgeries ahead of an expected surge in hospital admissions across Queensland.

Emergency services were called to Pump Station Road at Wappa Falls, near Yandina, after the man failed to resurface about 2pm on Sunday.

As the nation prepares for elections, it is incumbent on those in positions of power to avoid inflammatory rhetoric.

The fallout from Sophie Foster’s big day underlines just how difficult it has become for restaurants to keep their doors open. Says one restaurateur: ‘You can’t just stand up and say don’t worry about case numbers’. Now they want help.