75 years down, onward for the century.

Workers in a range of critical industries in Victoria will be given a month to have a booster vaccine to protect them from COVID-19.

Novak Djokovic’s visa has been overturned in the Federal Circuit Court, NSW’s Deputy Premier has tested positive to COVID-19 and under-12s have started receiving the Pfizer jab.

Thirteen years after farmers started fighting to save the fertile Liverpool Plains in northern NSW they have bought back the land a Chinese miner had planned a mega coal project on.

There are many ways in which this episode has been handled badly, but perhaps the best characterisation of why it has been so unseemly is captured by Dennis Denuto, the lawyer in the movie The Castle – it’s been in the vibe of it all.

The state standards authority has refused to release full league tables for the first time in years, but a partial table online reveals the top 50 WA schools.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison stresses that on the “best medical advice”, we need to “push through” and open up despite being forced to “ride the wave” of Omicron infections.

Young Sydneysiders were given the opportunity to receive their first vaccine against COVID-19 on Monday.

Along with existing restrictions on large venues and nightclubs, Mr McGowan said unvaccinated people would soon not be able to attend cafés or gyms. 

With rapid antigen tests in short supply, but every headache suspicious, it’s hard to decide when to use a precious test.

Queensland Chief Health Officer John Gerrard has reassured parents they should not be anxious about children being infected with COVID-19

The 27-year-old was charged in November last year after an alleged incident involving a woman. He was also stood down by the NRL.

But authorities said the COVID numbers would be higher due to a lack of some private pathology results.

Enchanted forests, balloon artists and goody bags take sting out of jab for many Australian children aged five to 11, who became eligible for their first COVID-19 vaccinations on Monday.

Cleo Smith’s alleged abductor, Terence Kelly, has been charged with assaulting a public officer the day after the four-year-old’s dramatic rescue from his Carnarvon home in WA’s north. 

As COVID hits the workforce, centres without adequate staffing will need to close.

There are 2030 people in NSW hospitals with the virus, of whom 159 are in intensive care units.

A 500-megawatt wind farm south of Rottnest could supply Perth with clean energy if UK firm Flotation Energy is successful.

Which WA crime can get you put away longer than murder? The answer might surprise you.

Today on Please Explain, journalist Mike Foley talks to Rachel Clun about the strange animals Down Under.

Wide Bay Burnett District Superintendent Michael Sawrey said crews, including police divers and aerial support, were still searching for the 14-year-old girl on Monday morning. 

My family has done everything possible to protect my two vulnerable grandchildren over the past 22 months. But on Christmas Eve, COVID-19 finally caught up with them.

The NSW government will rely on rapid antigen testing to keep schools open as it pushes ahead to ensure students start school on the first day of term. Here’s how it will work.

Hugh Gent and his wife Elizabeth have been the doyens of the dog world for decades. Now he is trying to help prospective pet owners do more research before they adopt a dog.

The peak body representing independent higher education providers is urging the federal government to extend legislation introduced in 2020, which outlaws the provision or advertising of academic cheating services at universities to the VET sector.

The NSW government vowed to remove up to 1800 tonnes of soil beneath properties on a former industrial site on Sydney’s lower north shore.

As children aged five to 11 become eligible for vaccinations from Monday, a Queensland expert says their jabs will help stop the spread of COVID-19.

You are not leading non-thinking lemmings, PM and Premier.

Prohibition in America, State funeral of Sir Edmund Barton and unsafe currency.

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

Critical food supply, transport and manufacturing workers could be hauled back to work despite being close COVID contacts as the state government strives to protect supply chains during the Omicron peak.

Dubious students stalk their teacher across the ditch for the summer.

Peter Carne was Public Trustee of Queensland in 2009-2014 and 2016-2020. He resigned amid misconduct allegations.

AI developer Max Kelsen has set up an accelerator to help medical AI projects get off the ground in Queensland.

NSW’s regional holiday spots are rapidly spending to keep the local travel boom from going bust.

‘You’ve got to trust in science’: children aged five to 11 are eligible for their first COVID-19 vaccine from Monday.

Callan Park has been wielded as a symbol of the city’s complex and evolving relationship with green, open space.

As well as creating a poor international image, Australia’s treatment of the world No.1 highlights key problems with our migration process.

Much of the debate over Sydney’s parks has centred on commercialisation, but the dawning moment for many residents last year was the effect passive spaces had on their sanity.

State and federal governments need to outline now what the start of the school year will look like.

Meanwhile, Victoria’s COVID-19 commander has apologised to the thousands of Victorians who returned an invalid PCR test after waiting more than seven days for their results.

Two staff members of an Australian NGO were severely beaten by the Taliban on December 25 because of their involvement with a foreign organisation.

As I walked down the steep path towards the endless expanse of sand and water on the first day of the program, I felt a familiar lump rise in my throat – that sense of gratitude that settles now whenever I glimpse life as it should be for our kids.

Glenn Conroy has found plenty of pieces of gold over 40 years of metal detecting. These days he’s giving some of it away.

All premises were ordered to evacuate as the CBD prepared to “bear the full impact of the flood” after the levee designed to keep it safe was damaged.  

Perth’s Delta-variant backpacker cluster has increased by one after a close contact tested positive while in quarantine.

Novak Djokovic’s bid to overturn his deportation is due to be heard on Monday, despite a bid by Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews to have it delayed.

While consumers stocked up on surgical masks and hand sanitiser during the earlier stages of the pandemic, they are now flocking to carbon dioxide monitors, N95 masks, air purifiers and oximeters.

Term 1 has been pushed back to February except for students in years 11 and 12, while Omicron hospitalisations are expected to “escalate substantially” from next weekend.

The tennis champion may have picked up the virus at a basketball match where he met with a player who later tested positive to COVID-19.