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Conservation groups have welcomed the state government’s purchase of a 35,000-hectare property in the state’s north to protect the region’s unique ecosystems.

Residents at a seaside community north of Brisbane are devastated their council is about to demolish an 85-year-old art deco bayside pavilion.

There are more than 14,000 people in NSW with Ukrainian ancestry. The threat of war casts a long shadow over the students and parents of a school in suburban Sydney.

Huge cracks run wide and deep, threatening to send massive sheets of rock and sediment cascading onto the beaches below.

The state opposition wants to broaden its appeal after its 2018 law-and-order election campaign disaster.

He has copped plenty of criticism, but WA Premier Mark McGowan wants to continue protecting his state’s population from the worst of COVID until vaccination rates are high.

Protesters gathered on Saturday, February 5 for a Convoy to Canberra march on Old Parliament House to protest against vaccine mandates.

A driver has escaped with only minor injuries after a significant blaze closed inbound lanes on the M80.

A conga line of knobbly knees, sneakers, boots and bare feet with painted toenails - the sign that the Puffing Billy is back to normal.

Victoria Police have increased patrols of Ashwood reserve after three men were allegedly assaulted by teenagers posing as an adult man on a dating app.

Five minutes after police stopped pursuing a car, its driver collided with five other vehicles – landing himself and four others in hospital.

Almost 70 years on, we tracked down the children who were a little too keen to the welcome the Queen during her first visit to Australia as a reigning monarch.

Victoria has recorded its highest number of daily COVID deaths this year, accounting for almost half of the 83 COVID-19 deaths reported nationwide on Saturday.

The 22-year-old man’s body was pulled from the water near Ocean Boulevard in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Premier Mark McGowan announced 21 of the cases had been linked to outbreaks and the remaining four were still under investigation.

Thousands have descended on Old Parliament House as the Convoy to Canberra participants continue to protest against vaccination mandates.

A crowdfunding campaign that raised almost $180,000 to protest vaccine mandates has been shut down, amid concerns about the spread of misinformation on digital platforms.

As the death toll mounts, Queensland’s Chief Health Officer warns elderly people are getting “lost in the system”.

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If you head to Fringe World this weekend and get a beer you’ll be asked for $2 extra. But don’t get mad, you’ll get it back – or something even better.

There are 2337 people in hospital with the virus, of whom 152 are in intensive care units.

They’re community owned, but Victoria’s last remaining bush nursing hospitals face an ongoing financial struggle to survive.

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‘Even with a great job I can’t save enough,’ says Sophie Kerrigan as a poll shows Sydneysiders overwhelmed by cost of living and housing woes.

Australia needs to step up, and lend a helping hand to Ukraine. One day, we too may need to call on others for help, and hope that they come.

It’s not what it said so much as the timing of the leak - amid a bitter internal Liberal Party brawl in the countdown to the federal election.

Why paint women as passive in order to have a public conversation about the social pressures placed upon them to appease the male ego?

A $35,000 treatment which pumps electric pulses into the spine of patients with chronic back pain is leaving some incontinent, unable to walk or, in a few cases, dead.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says the state will make wholesale changes to the way it approaches Aboriginal affairs, or it will fail its 2031 commitments to Close the Gap.

This week saw that the SAS’s code of silence broken wide open, as hearings resumed in the high stakes Ben Roberts-Smith case and the courtroom, media and the public witnessed for the first time soldier turning against soldier.

All states have approved revisions to the national curriculum except WA, which, along with the Commonwealth, says history is too crammed and maths is too easy.

Waterproof, windproof, shockproof but sadly, not idiot-proof.

Why does the current government show such anxiety about new and developing historical insights? These insights are exciting and enriching, not alienating.

The Aboriginal flag will be a daily feature of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as part of measures by NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet to acknowledge traditional landowners.

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The temporary ban came into effect in 2018 after a steam train on the scenic railway in the Dandenongs collided with a minibus.

A handful of travellers from overseas will touch down, board a bus and become the first to stay at the quarantine hub outside Toowoomba.

Nine accountability bodies collectively keep watch over some of the most sensitive issues in the state. But their functions, and future, are difficult to untangle.

Brian Mulheran has stood aside as principal of Citipointe Christian College. But gay rights’ campaigners fear the battle for the hearts, minds and souls of students is far from over.

Work has already started, but a Labor win at the federal election will still mean changes for the powerful Olympic organising committee.

At Marrickville High, seven out of 10 students are boys, so the school is piloting a new approach to try to entice more girls into STEM subjects.

A note from the Herald’s new editor Bevan Shields.

Teachers will also receive a 2 per cent annual pay rise under the new agreement with the Victorian government.

Temperatures have stayed under 25 degrees since Wednesday when a high of 21.3 degrees was recorded. 

After shooting one man dead, Norden Wilio bundled his mortally wounded friend into a shopping trolley and pushed him 500 metres to an acquaintance’s house.

The Department of Education says no Victorian schools have closed because of coronavirus outbreaks or staff shortages.

Two of the accused allegedly almost collided with a police car in a stolen Mazda after forcing their way into a Reservoir home.

There are plans to elevate the study of Western heritage in history, the Australian Maritime Museum insists a United States shipwreck is indeed Captain Cook’s HMB Endeavour and a second SAS witness is set to appear in court today as part of Ben Rob...

New exposure sites at Canteen at Trigg Beach and QT Perth on Murray Street were also both confirmed on Friday.