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A man in his 20s is in hospital after being swept out to sea from rocks at the popular beach in Sydney’s Royal National Park.

The koala’s disappearance sparked a massive search effort in the Bibra Lake bushland the next day, with concerns the elderly marsupial wouldn’t survive long without her medication. 

A week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial Review photographers.

Only Queensland and South Australia have kept their bans for people from Greater Sydney, while the other states and territories have started easing restrictions.

Victoria is predicted to heat up over the Australia Day long weekend, with temperatures set to soar into the 40s across much of the state.

Rough sleepers in Fremantle’s ‘tent city’ have been offered to stay in hotels as the government moves to clear the homeless camp.

Much of NSW could be sweltering under severe to extreme heat into next week.

Much of NSW will be sweltering under severe to extreme heat into next week and areas of Sydney such as Richmond and Penrith possibly reaching temperatures in the low 40s.

A Spanish tennis player in hard lockdown after potentially being exposed to COVID-19 on an Australian Open charter flight says she has now tested positive. Emirates says it will resume flights from London to Australia within days. Follow along for mo...

Google and Facebook threaten to banish Australian users as an inquiry into the use of Australian media content becomes an old-fashioned showdown.

The organiser of Sydney’s Invasion Day rally to be held at the Domain on January 26 has said the march will go ahead and is likely to be well in excess of the COVID-19 legal limit for protests.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s office broke the law when it shredded documents relating to a $250 million grants scheme, according to an investigation.

Sydney doesn't just do salt water exceptionally well - make a splash at these scenic freshwater swim spots.

A tropical low currently looming of the North West coast is unlikely to develop into a cyclone, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. 

A historian challenges Scott Morrison’s interpretation of January 26, but also argues we’ve become a better society because Australia Day is a day of contention rather than unity.

A drug-addled, sleep-deprived P-plate driver has been jailed for nine years and four months over a road crash that killed Rose Kelly.

Critics of the Australian honours system claim it is too politicised, too weighted towards the wealthy, too pale, male and stale. Can the growing movement to make it more egalitarian really make a difference?

About 1500 Pacific Islander workers will come to Victoria as part of a deal struck with the Tasmanian government.

Volunteer crowd marshals will be trained to separate protesters into groups of 100 after almost 5000 people indicate interest in attending Melbourne’s Invasion Day rally on January 26.

NSW and Queensland case numbers have seen both states move from from the ‘medium risk’ category to the ‘low risk’ category, where entry to WA is permitted but two weeks of self-quarantine is still required.

Victorian universities say they are focused on supporting international students, but warn remote learning cannot last forever.

Murray Deakin, who said he thought his grandparents were “vampires” and the officer was a “demon”, was found to have been psychotic due to schizophrenia.

Jason Roberts has made a fresh attempt at getting bail as he awaits retrial on charges he murdered two policemen in 1998, with his lawyer labelling the original decision ‘legally incorrect’.

Wastewater testing does not replace the need for testing people with symptoms of COVID-19 which is the cornerstone of any COVID-19 strategy, authorities caution.

A demolition application lodged for the pre-1911 cottage in New Farm has gone to court over council's method of assessment.

NSW has recorded no new coronavirus cases for a fifth consecutive day, as the exclusion of previous cases led to the state's case total being revised downwards.

Victoria has doubled the number of people permitted to gather in homes to 30 and further eased travel restrictions as it recorded its 16th day with no community transmission of COVID-19.

So the Planning Minister reckons he can fix the “scar through the heart of Sydney”. He should start by seeing the good along Parramatta Road and at least spare those parts from the wrecking ball.

The incident involved heavy machinery occurred overnight at Pinkenba.

As politicians point fingers and dodge blame, pregnant women, elderly people and young mothers are among those who have been sleeping in $12 tents in a park in Fremantle since Boxing Day.

A former AFP officer says normally law-abiding citizens from lower socio-economic backgrounds have been pushed into buying cheap imported "chop chop" because they can't afford Australia's "exorbitant" tobacco excise.

For decades governments have funded programs designed by non-Aboriginal people to bring about change for Aboriginal people. This one promises to be different.

A woman walking in front of the man said he disappeared after a wave broke over the Coffs Harbour wall.

The restrictions eased at 1am on Friday, January 22. This includes masks being no longer mandatory, except in airports and on planes.

Australia's most populous state spent $468 per capita compared to Victoria's $549 and a national average of $518. 

The Australian Productivity Commission's report says the apprenticeship pathway "can be time consuming and act as a major barrier", taking up to four years to complete.

Democracy has prevailed and the "uncivil war" that has bedevilled America since the Civil War will hopefully be laid to rest with Joe Biden's inauguration.

The government confirmed to the Herald on Thursday that planning approval had been granted for the Western Harbour Tunnel and Warringah Freeway upgrade, which is expected to be completed in 2026.

Safety experts have called for an overhaul of Australia’s 'trust-based' mask regulations after hundreds of masks had their registration pulled following a government review.

The mayor of Sydney's Inner West Council writes it's time to hand back democratic power to local government.

When station officer Brett Johnson arrived at Quakers Hill Nursing Home in 2011, he thought he was responding to a fire alarm. It wasn't until he saw a door purging out black smoke that he realised the severity of the blaze.

You'd be amazed how far you can run on a four-metre strip of carpet.

The house of Mr Charles Jenkins, near the toll-bar, was struck by the lightning and seriously damaged.

In 1945, when artist Eric Smith was runner-up in the Archibald Prize, he thought "I'll win it next year". A quarter of a century later, it finally happened.

Today marks the day that the ban on nuclear weapons is enshrined in international law.

Trump is a symptom, not a cause, of populism whose rise may grow significantly into the 2020s fuelled by the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis.

One Melbourne city council says it will lower its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags on Australia Day to acknowledge the suffering experienced by Australia’s First Nations people.