The workplace umpire has rejected dozens of challenges from workers over vaccine status, even as vaccine mandates look likely to soon lift.

The mailout campaign is stepping up in well-heeled Goldstein, where Liberal incumbent Tim Wilson, under threat from independent Zoe Daniel, is painting a frightening picture.

Christian Porter is appealing a decision which barred his barrister from acting for him in his now-withdrawn defamation case against the ABC.

Scott Morrison says Labor is misleading pensioners, Anthony Albanese has accused the government of telling lies about power prices and both leaders are preparing for the first televised debate of the election campaign.

NSW Labor leader Chris Minns has signalled a preference for locally-built buses and trains in a “Made in NSW” pitch to voters.

Masks on public transport and at airports are tipped to be the next pandemic restrictions to go in NSW, after the state wound back a raft of coronavirus rules including abolishing compulsory isolation for close contacts.

In Chisholm, a must-win marginal seat, the votes of Australians of Chinese heritage could sway the result. So, what are they saying about the debate about China?

Police say a man threatened a woman with a knife at a shopping centre, then stole her car before crashing it a few hours later and fleeing the scene.

People living in Chinese-speaking households make up a substantial portion of the voting public in Chisholm. Their approach to the election is crucial for both parties.

Police are investigating after a teenage girl was struck and killed by a car while walking on a road at Mornington Peninsula.

The state government will ease rules for large productions to allow preparations to begin for a return to the stage.

The Premier announced he was a close contact on Wednesday and said he would be working from home during his isolation period.

Goodchild led the SSO trumpet section with authority, passion and good humour.

Vinod Parihar, 41, was the approved manager at The George on the night of the offending, and allegedly helped his co-accused Farooq Latief, 25, organise the party that was a serious breach of a direction under state of emergency laws.

In 1990, widespread areas of Australia were awash as floodwaters swirled across three states. Emergency services were out in force across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland as thousands of homes were evacuated and roads and rail cut off.

Zoe Dwojacki was celebrating her 18th birthday with a joy flight in a hot air balloon when it was forced to make an emergency landing in a Melbourne street. Her father Darren caught the terrifying moment on camera.

Household contacts will no longer need to isolate for seven days but will need to undertake daily rapid testing before coming into contact with anyone outside their homes.

The girl, who police said suffered from health conditions, was later declared dead.

When we last caught up with our independents, the climate-minded crew were outpacing the major parties in their social media ad spending. But now there’s been a sea change.

The move among professional elites to celebrate the Australia Day public holiday on another day as a gesture of solidarity with First Nations people has me scratching my head.

If you have a beef with a company, forget about formal complaint processes. Social media will save you.

Reaching the milestone would make the state one of the first places in the world to eliminate HIV before the global target of 2030.

If it does not at least hold the line, the Liberal brand is at serious risk of becoming a spent force in the west.

An analysis showed the state’s Omicron wave has recorded more than 300,000 cases and 96 deaths since the start of the year, however only 28 people had been admitted to intensive care.

Is Scott Morrison’s “captain’s pick” a strategic move – or a sign of his stubbornness?

One of America’s most wanted men was killed in a police gun battle yesterday.

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

Wind gusts above 90km/h are expected to hit greater Sydney, the Central Coast and the South Coast late on Tuesday night.

While fifth columnists take the cake.

NSW and Victoria will end one of the last major remaining pandemic restrictions as both states pass the peak of the latest Omicron wave.

Close to 5 per cent of Australian International Baccalaureate graduates received a perfect score last year, compared with 0.09 per cent of VCE graduates.

For an unfortunate few, COVID has struck not just once but twice, or even several times over.

The prime minister continues his tour of Perth, Labor promises to review the NDIS if elected and the Liberal candidate for Warringah says she is “not going anywhere”.

Were there or were there not men pulled from the tunnel? In this crucial incident in the Roberts-Smith defamation case, two versions of the story cannot be reconciled.

The Victorian Supreme Court retrial of a man accused of the 1998 murders of two police officers in Moorabbin has focused on statements and witness accounts of Senior Constable Rodney Miller’s final moments.

Riley Shortland, 8, and Alex Raichman, 11, died in separate accidents in 2017 and 2018 when one was hit by a truck and the other by a train.

Victoria Police says it has logged about 8000 offences in the first five days of an Easter road safety blitz, including one motorist clocked doing more than 250km/h on the Calder Freeway at Woodend.

While a Queensland court decides whether “anti-paedophile” campaigner William Russell Pridgeon broke the law, a NSW court has restored his medical registration.

The fraudster’s husband lodged a claim in court for a stake of his missing wife’s millions, including her home, jewellery and Gucci wedding dress, sparking outcry from victims.

The former Australian Test cricketer has applied to have domestic violence charges dealt with under mental health legislation.

The inspector of custodial services linked the lack of hours spent outside a cell by children to an increase in suicide attempts.

A Ballajura man faces 134 child abuse-related charges after a forensic analysis of devices seized from his home earlier this year.

A friend and former comrade of war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith is the first SAS witness to give evidence in support of the decorated former soldier in the Federal Court.

Eighteen months after vowing to air-condition all state classrooms to cool kids and help combat COVID, the government has met its target two months early.

Former Olympic swimmer and broadcaster Neil Brooks and his wife have been ordered to return to Australia to face a $1.95m fraud case, despite being unvaccinated and unable to enter the country.

Lloyd James was head of television at SBS in a time of innovation and agenda setting.

Thirty-five years ago, koalas were returning to suburban Melbourne, making their way along the river banks of the Yarra Valley Metropolitan Park as far in as Templestowe. The park’s rangers said it was the closest koalas had come into the city for ...

The coveted Coburg North reserve was the latest battleground caught between the needs of professionalised organised sport and local residents wanting open space protected in their neighbourhoods.

Footage already obtained shows multiple people filming the incident on their phones who have not yet come forward, police said.

If the Russians capture the city, it will release resources to their new push on the east.