Versatile Mini Minors once the car of choice for both bank cash deliveries and gold theft getaways.

The Queensland Maritime Museum was due to reopen on January 9 and 10, but Brisbane's three-day lockdown was declared.

However, the Information and Privacy Commissioner did hand over its report on the matter to the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the State Archives and Records and Authority.

The coronavirus crisis has hampered international travel for the past 10 months and countries all over the world are feeling the effects.

In Australia children as young as 10 can be held criminally responsible for their actions, which means they can be convicted by the courts and jailed.

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said the "ace in the hole" was the AstraZeneca vaccine. More than 50 million doses of the vaccine will be manufactured locally, and it will be used to immunise the majority of the population.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said there was “no reason” why travel bubbles couldn’t be opened between the Pacific and New Zealand well within the next 12 months.

Twenty more refugees have been released into temporary accommodation on the outskirts of Melbourne, as 14 others remain detained at the Park Hotel in Carlton.

The former Queensland Crown prosecutor is in custody on fraud-related charges following his arrest in Port Moresby.

A landlord and his friend faked a phone call to a fictitious standover man and put cable ties and a chained bike lock on a table after the tenant sublet without permission.

The Bureau of Meteorology predicts Cyclone Lucas, currently a tropical low about 375 kilometres northwest of Broome, could develop and impact the coast on Friday afternoon. 

John Wilfred Warner, 79, and his wife Carole were driving with two relatives on the Mornington Peninsula when their vehicle was hit by a police car. He died a month later.

Australia's post-pandemic job's recovery continued to December but NSW bucked the positive trend, shedding 17,100 jobs in the month.

The fire scorched 87,000 hectares - more than half of the island - and led to mass evacuations of residents and threatened homes.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says any plan to move hotel quarantine to the regions needs to have a "net benefit" for the communities affected.

A caller to radio station 3AW said police gave the man "every opportunity to stop" before he was shot.

Brisbane City Council will bore under the street to make room on Adelaide Street for non-vehicle traffic.

The 29-year-old man was deported on Tuesday after local police officers found the illegal rave.

Britain suffered its worst day in the pandemic, with more than 1800 deaths recorded in 24 hours, as Boris Johnson's chief scientific adviser warned some hospitals now look 'like a war zone'.

The lawyer for a German Olympic rower who allegedly killed a Sydney father in a hit-and-run says there is "no evidence to support" the charges, which have "ruined" his client's life. 

Murphy’s first task was to send the young INXS out on the road for a punishing schedule of live dates.

The Premier has urged people who are planning to attend rallies on Australia Day to reconsider, with a reminder large gatherings are still banned under coronavirus rules.

NSW has recorded a fourth consecutive day without a local coronavirus case, as the federal government reveals further details of the vaccine rollout.

Masks will no longer be mandatory in Brisbane, dancing will be back and people can have more visitors to their homes as restrictions are lifted from Friday.

The two-vehicle crash occurred at Crestmead on Wednesday night.

Western Australia's Police force lost six years worth of emails sent to an address set up to receive correspondence from sexual assault victims, documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws have revealed.

A sexual abuse victim was groomed, abused and raped by a priest in the 1970s and, after being forced to tell his story in court, was offered a record sum.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has called on the federal government to reconsider the long-term suspension of international travel and suggested a Pacific or New Zealand bubble could be established this year.

Forests appear to be bouncing back strongly one year on from the Black Summer fires, but experts warn appearances can be deceiving.

Just 38 per cent of year 10 students and 53 per cent of year 6 students have achieved the proficient standard for their knowledge of democratic processes, the legal system and national values, according to new assessment data.

 Donald Trump was both the cause and the symptom of the US social and economic decay.

Our cities are in peril – COVID-19 is gutting them of their workers and vibrancy, but we need to resuscitate their beating hearts.

The Morrison government is quietly pushing ahead with two bills that will allow government to alter, delete or add to your internet content even if you haven't been convicted of anything.

Up to 183,000 people had signed the New Guard Petition to the King to dissolve the Lang administration.

Ten-thousand at-home COVID-19 testing kits have been shipped off to California.

The Archdiocese of Brisbane purchased one of Brisbane's oldest hotels in 2019, but an unexpected closure by its operators last year has left the hotel empty.

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In these parts, apples in December are a gas.

During his time in prison, a notebook has been found in the murderer's cell, in which he wrote he would love to kill his own mother.

Entering her fifth year as Premier having narrowly survived an ICAC scandal, Gladys Berejiklian says she has no intention of leaving the top job during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Darren Wick will serve nine months in community detention after pleading guilty to driving while more than four times the legal blood alcohol limit in October.

They are also 10 times more likely than non-indigenous children to be on a community-based supervision program in Victoria, new research shows.

The driver of a white van tried to flee police who had their weapons drawn on him after he failed to stop in Bankstown.

Three guns, ammunition, batons, knuckledusters, a slingshot and a pair of nunchucks were allegedly found at the Logan home.

Tennis Australia has conceded Craig Tiley spoke in error when he said the Victorian government would be subsidising hotel quarantine for Australian Open participants.

A magistrate has ruled the seriousness of alleged offending around the death of a seven-year-old boy means the case should be heard by a County Court judge.

Keen travellers have snapped up 40,000 regional travel vouchers issued by the Victorian government within half an hour of them being released.

Scott Douglas Bartkowski responded and went to meet the fictitious mother and daughter near the Sofitel Hotel on the Gold Coast.

Two chefs will grow all their own food, from yabbies to honey, for three months as they take up residence in a $650,000 privately funded eco home at Federation Square.

The 15-year-old's body was pulled from the water at Kentlyn Basin along the Georges River near Campbelltown just after 5pm.