The Queensland government insists it has not been putting out mixed messages on how to handle the coming peak of cases.

The Queensland Premier has insisted the state’s check-in app is still needed, despite significant changes to contact tracing in the state and questions about its benefit.

Most West Australians have no first-hand experience of COVID-19, and are not particularly interested in acquainting themselves with it.

The level of vaccine protection would be at its best at the end of March, according to WA’s medical advice, as the government stays quiet on when borders might open.

Police said earlier batches of the armour plates were not affected, but there were concerns over a recent batch.

The British Foreign Secretary warned global partners, including Australia, of the urgent need to work together against global threats from China and Russia, which were enjoying their closest relationship in 70 years.

WA Premier Mark McGowan announced last night that his state’s border reopening would not proceed as planned on February 5, while Prime Minister Scott Morrison has rejected claims by some retailers that the Commonwealth is redirecting supplies of ra...

The girl was with her father at a property in Stanhope Gardens when an unknown man and woman approached and snatched her, police said.

The Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions has been holding discussions with hospitality and retail groups to discuss how making the COVID-19 booster mandatory might affect their staff and customers.

Five weeks before her daughter was allegedly murdered by him, Charlise Mutten’s mother Kallista gushed about her new fiance Justin Stein in a series of messages obtained by the Herald.

In Corowa, in southern NSW, where an infant was found in a freezer, a town grapples with the unknown.

Some Sydney doctors have elected to give children’s coronavirus vaccines at a shorter interval in an attempt to have more kids double-dosed by the first days of school.

Aboriginal people are grossly over-represented in Victoria’s criminal legal system and prisons and will, once again, suffer the most as a result of this government’s failure.

Police are scaling back their search after looking for 14-year-old Krystal Can for the past 13 days without success.

Locations in Booragoon, Melville, Munster, Spearwood, Willagee and Kardinya have all been added to the list, alongside several from Perth, one in Innaloo and one in Armadale.

The week in photos from the award-winning SMH and AFR photographers.

Footage of the alleged incident at Flinders Street Station went viral on social media last year.

The toll of 46 dead is a blow but the Premier is right, there are reassuring signs we are easing past the worst of the Omicron wave.

The man responded to an Airtasker advertisement in July 2019 for asbestos removal at a Paddington house.

In a race to get to hospital in time, Brisbane couple’s overdue baby just couldn’t wait any longer.

The Age photographers and wire agencies captured all the key moments of this year's Grand Slam

Victorian families say they have been left disheartened by the government of Western Australia again “moving the goalposts” on travel into the state.

If William Tyrrell’s abductor was arrested and charged today, media outlets in NSW could not legally report that fact because of a well-intentioned but anachronistic vagary of law.

Unable to hug her mother or her sister through two long years of family illness, grief and separation, Alison Hays had thought the darkness was finally lifting.

Why do we spend so much time on pursuits that leave us unfulfilled?

NSW residents separated from loved ones in Western Australia have been left devastated by Premier Mark McGowan’s decision to back out of the state’s reopening plan.

Today on Please Explain, chief political correspondent David Crowe joins Tory Maguire to explain the political climate ahead of a federal budget and election this year.

Faysal Ishak Ahmed died in an Australian hospital in 2016 after falling down a set of stairs on Manus Island. A coroner will examine his death.

While much of the community is happy with the border bombshell, believing it will save lives, the decision to delay without setting a new date has devastated others.

Australians received a record number of COVID-19 vaccinations on Thursday, as the country passed 6 million booster shots and 56,000 children received their first vaccine dose.

The popular chain eatery was full of lunchtime customers, who luckily escaped being hurt when the device exploded, scattering shrapnel and debris for 10 metres.

The war veteran’s claim his wife lied about accessing his emails was “ill-founded”, a judge has ruled, ordering him to pay her costs.

Photographer James Brickwood travelled with Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese as he visited towns in Queensland.

If you want to socialise while reducing your risk of catching COVID-19, the best advice is to do something outdoors instead.

Heritage trees lining the entrance to Caulfield Racecourse have been destroyed following an amendment announced on Christmas Eve to fast-track a major redevelopment of the area.

The state’s hospitals would be overwhelmed were it not for widespread vaccination, the Chief Health Officer says.

Federal police have launched probe into rapid antigen test price gouging, warning those reselling test kits for more than 20 per cent of the original retail price face jail time.

Police have recovered a knife believed to have been used in the incident.

The story of how WA went from not worrying about Omicron to putting its head back under the doona in the space of a month.

There are now 1096 people in hospital with the virus in Victoria, with 34 people on a ventilator and 121 are in intensive care.

After two years of being exhorted to “do the right thing”, I refuse to be extorted by a system which allows unscrupulous shysters to rip me off for scarce but essential health products.

After two years on the pandemic rollercoaster, it seems our collective reservoir of hope may be finally drying up.

We say we want to get rid of the monarch, yet we’re still searching for someone to crown

In Victoria, transitioning from our reliance on brown coal to renewables would amount to an energy revolution. But it would not be the state’s first.

Despite two years of preparations and a double-dose vaccination rate of 89 per cent, WA Premier Mark McGowan says the state is still not ready for the Omicron variant.

While never publicly mentioned, some of the parlours are listed on escort sites as venues providing sex services, with explicit reviews of services on offer.

As the wait for NSW’s back-to-school plan continues ahead of next week’s reopening, teachers and principals worry they are not being given enough time to prepare.

The prominent Perth name behind a new $280 million seaside resort and community hub on a stunning piece of South West coastline plans to turn the sod in 2023.

Probate records shows the late businessman Geoffrey Edelsten left no money to his ex-wives.

A national survey of 1723 people found more than two-thirds of respondents reported a rise in body image concerns, food restriction and binge-eating.