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With the state borders fully open, interstate interest in Queensland remains high, particularly in the real estate market.

Queensland Health data shows a significant portion of infection growth across the state is still being driven by two key hotspots, where peak case and hospital impacts will be felt first.

The NSW Education Standards Authority accidentally published a list of top HSC achievers three days early.

Police say two young girls were also injured in the incident, when they fell off their horses at Aireys Inlet.

Fleur McKinlay runs Soul Garden holistic beauty salon in Mundaring but had to close the shop on Saturday after she had a client who was infectious with Omicron.

The class of 2021 will get their HSC results on Thursday, but their certificate will not recognise the hardship they overcame to get it.

Thousands visited Sydney’s beaches on Monday as the city was treated to a reprieve from La Niña’s wet season with temperatures close to 30 degrees.

Queensland authorities say there are no plans to close aged-care facilities to visitors amid what the Chief Health Officer described as the “very different situation” posed by Omicron.

Unions say safety measures must be improved at Australian workplaces in response to the fast-spreading Omicron variant.

Early data shows cases in the NSW Omicron wave have been less likely to enter hospital than people the same age who caught COVID-19 in mid-2021.

Exposure sites have been added from Midland to Margaret River and health professional associations are calling for immediate social restrictions to slow down spread of the virus.

Novak Djokovic won’t be defending his Australian Open title today, Anthony Albanese has outlined his election pitch to voters and total COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the country.

Senior bikie Toby Mitchell has asked a court to grant him the right to go to licensed events after police rejected his request to attend the Australian Open.

The last time Sikahema Aholelei spoke to his family in Tonga was on Saturday night at the very moment the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted.

Melbourne nurse Sarah McDonald, 24, said the wait to be reunited with her fiance in Perth had been riddled with anxiety and she didn’t want to get her hopes up in case her February 5 arrival in WA didn’t go ahead.

A shire of fewer than 500 people is Queensland’s only holdout against the current wave of COVID-19 infections, but the region’s mayor says he expects that to change.

Heritage NSW has warned the proposal would have a “substantial impact” on the hotel building, which opened on Sussex Street in 1902.

Vulnerable women with steady but low incomes could rent and then buy their homes under a new model of property development.

The state has reported 22,429 new COVID-19 cases and six deaths as the Chief Health Officer says infection numbers might have peaked.

The pandemic has proven how consumers need more than just disposable income to go out and spend. They need certainty.

Jude Craig Wright, 19, was charged by officers attached to Strike Force Vulcan over nine bushfires lit in several suburbs between December 23 and January 15.

Australia – a country known to me as a backdrop to hakas, Hadlee and Crocodile Dundee – suddenly became my home.

Queensland’s schooling year will no longer be extended to allow extra time for students and teachers in December.

What the hell is padel? There will be exhibition games at the Australian Open tennis, and the first Melbourne club has just opened.

Healthcare workers battle exhaustion amid rising hospitalisations, while the Health Minister says the unvaccinated need “to give a damn about someone other than” themselves.

I greatly enjoy Wordle, and if I posted my scores, you’d be impressed. But I’m not interested in anyone else’s score.

The numbers come just days after the Queensland border was removed, in a bid to free up police officers to bring them back to the frontline, after more than 400 days on the state line.

While state government modelling has not been shared publicly, emergency clinicians say they are expecting a peak six weeks after February 5 – and that they aren’t ready.

WA Premier Mark McGowan said COVID-19 is likely circulating in the community undetected as a cluster linked to a massage spa in Applecross grows, and WA’s active Omicron cases rise to 81. 

Today on Please Explain, explainer reporter Sherryn Groch joins Bianca Hall to take a deep dive into the mindset of these fascinating and increasingly threatened apex predators.

The decision of Scotch College to withdraw the appointment of its new principal raises important questions of governance and probity relevant to the entire independent school sector.

Some are still experiencing the pandemic in consequential ways, but the government does its best to pretend COVID is all but behind us.

More than 3000 of NSW’s $5000 alfresco dining rebates remain on offer, with 1813 businesses registered to claim back their eligible expenses from late February.

A flotilla of Allied X-craft mini-submarines were deployed to the Pacific to cut underwater telephone cables and disrupt Japan’s communication.

New data contained in private schools’ annual reports reveals the majority of that funding was received by just 10 schools, while all 33 schools that received the wage subsidy also posted a surplus in 2020.

The defects were discovered in 10 new River-class ferries after they arrived in NSW from Indonesia, the government has confirmed.

What a sorry excuse for a Prime Minister we have. Deborah Snow’s interview reveals a man who has done nothing, aspires to nothing, apologises for nothing and takes responsibility for nothing.

As NSW recorded more than 20 new deaths and 34,000 cases on Sunday, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard warned lower vaccination rates in northern NSW are causing serious concerns for hospital staff.

Heat wave deaths rise to 113, art in motoring heaven, and food offences.

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

Can you get in a sneaky swim without going near the water?

A proposal by the NSW government to recruit an army of retired teachers and others to address staff shortages when school returns has been attacked, with a few exceptions. 

Police and rescue crews are still searching for missing nine-year-old Charlise Mutten, who was reported missing in the Blue Mountains on Friday.

Griffith University wants to bulldoze the building out of which came Australia’s first environmental studies degrees – and its architect is furious.

University of Auckland Professor Shane Cronin, a volcanologist, says there will “almost certainly be more eruptions” in the next few days and weeks.

There is new advice for exposure sites in Bentley, Bull Creek, Cannington, Jandakot, St James and Success, and new higher risk sites identified in Applecross and Mount Lawley.

The Victorian government on Sunday took delivery of the first 3 million RAT tests ordered for the state, but Premier Daniel Andrews said they’ll go directly to workers in critical industries.

As the finishing touches are added to the Wellcamp quarantine centre, the government is pondering who will use the facility, which will charge guests $3220 for a 14-day stay. 

For many Australians, Novak Djokovic has become the embodiment of the adage that one rule applies for the wealthy and powerful and another for the rest of us.