Once you get out of the carpark.

Organisers of the famous open-water swimming race have decided to cancel this year’s event and make it virtual

Health Minister Yvette D’Ath has attempted to explain why the government cannot divert more staff to test people for COVID-19.

As COVID-19 cases surge in Australia, some young people are making light of their diagnoses. Some say they are tackling the stigma, while others say they’re being disrespectful.

The early childhood sector is facing hundreds of closures and bracing for more as an already stretched workforce is hit with COVID-19.

A pair of truck drivers have tested positive to the virus while a staff member for a riverside Perth restaurant has been linked to the Delta-variant backpacker cluster.

Melbourne and Sydney’s emergency departments are under pressure from COVID-19, pharmacists expect the availability of rapid antigen tests to increase in the coming weeks and almost 40 per cent of eligible Australians are yet to receive their booste...

An elderly couple missing from the Mandurah area since Sunday have been found almost 2000 kilometres away in extreme heat and suffering dehydration en route to Queensland.

The 24-year-old had been in good condition when she had been pulled from the water, but the 68-year-old was “cramping badly around the legs.”

COVID-positive patients are again receiving care in private hospitals as the state’s health system treats more people with the virus than ever before.

Desperate consumers are searching high and low for rapid antigen tests as the consumer watchdog investigates price gouging.

Providing free rapid antigen tests is not giving out Christmas presents or free hugs. It is providing a medical essential that will slow the spread of the disease and keep people safe.

The organisers’ decision departs from the advice of the state government, which has pushed ahead with its own event schedule as NSW records 20,000 COVID-19 cases a day.

For months, we’ve heard calls to “learn to live with COVID-19”. The reality of what that means is finally apparent.

Ex-cyclone Seth has smashed the Queensland and northern NSW coastline with “treacherous” conditions and forced the closure of beaches.

Readers from Brisbane to the south of Victoria have expressed frustration at being unable to get their hands on rapid antigen testing kits.

Twenty years ago, a security guard at a fertility clinic in East Melbourne was killed by a gunman. His death would become a catalyst for change.

The former chief executive of a regional West Australian council has appeared in court after allegedly spending $55,000 of ratepayer funds on a sex worker he claimed he needed for emotional support.

Police say a New Year’s Eve event with about 300 patrons that allegedly broke COVID-19 restrictions was a ticketed event organised by a third party.

About one in four Victorians getting a PCR test for coronavirus are returning positive results.

Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Olenka Duma said the Ashes Test match to start in Sydney on Wednesday will face rain delays.

Gowland combined his support for communism and his love for film, distributing foreign cinematic masterpieces.

High numbers of people caught speeding during NSW Police’s 10-day blitz has prompted road safety experts to call for trials of mobile average-speed cameras that can be deployed any time, anywhere.

Bondi Paint Club founder Lisa McLean seeks body shapes of all kinds for life drawing classes - occasionally her students offer to model themselves.

There were 1344 people in hospital with the virus on Tuesday, up from 1205 on Monday.

Several of the sites are linked to a hotel quarantine security guard who tested positive on Sunday, but the majority are linked to the backpacker who travelled into WA from Queensland in mid-December.

Angry Queenslanders are languishing in lengthy COVID testing queues, some at closed pathology sites, amid 5699 new cases of coronavirus.

Today on Please Explain, senior economics correspondent Shane Wright joins Nathanael Cooper to look at some highlights of this year’s cabinet papers.

On Monday, large swells damaged parts of the Gold Coast, including washing away a shipping container full of kegs of beer at the Currumbin Surf Club, while Bribie Island was split in two. 

Nurses feel undervalued and unsupported.

This seems like the worst of all possible times to host the Australian Open, but despite the high number of COVID-19 cases, there’s less reason to postpone the tournament than last year.

It goes against the stereotype, but one in four Australians are weak swimmers or can’t swim at all.

Pharmacies and supermarkets are struggling to keep up with the surging demand for rapid COVID-19 tests, but many expect availability to increase in coming weeks.

Infectious diseases experts say evidence continues to point to COVID-19 being a mild infection for the vast majority of young children.

Some epidemiologists now believe Victoria and NSW could be heading into another lockdown without stronger measures to limit rising case numbers.

Residents of one of Sydney’s most sought-after buildings are living in fear that their postcard views are about to be walled up - literally.

Victoria urgently needs a strategic seed bank and the capacity to recover forests future bushfires to help restore the coupes.

Wentworth Point Public School was only built four years ago, but already it has more students than space and needs an upgrade.

In the space of just four weeks, we have been thrown into a world of COVID confusion where rules are constantly changed, cases are exploding, protections are abandoned and health advice is ignored.

Tasmanian cutter, Wild Wave, first to cross the line in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race was today disqualified for a breach of rules at the start.

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

A bushfire in Floreat has been brought under control by firefighters but is not contained.

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.

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.