A returned traveller who used a nebuliser at the Holiday Inn before testing positive to coronavirus says he was repeatedly given permission from Victorian health authorities to use the medical device while in hotel quarantine and has been left feelin...

Victorians face restrictions on their movement and businesses will have to close their doors as the state grapples with the outbreak.

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A previous NSW Health announcement that would have sent anyone who was in Victoria in the past two weeks into lockdown has been walked back.

Harry Little is on trial in the NSW District Court accused of dangerous driving after he crashed his police car into Gai Vieira’s car at Cronulla in 2018.

Michelle Petersen, 48, and her daughter Bella, 15, had been at the baptism of her eight-year-old son Rua just hours before being killed by Teancum Vernon Petersen-Crofts, 21, three years ago.

One couple, three wedding dates lost to lockdowns and a last-minute scramble to rearrange it all.

The 69-year-old was reported missing by his wife on Thursday night when she could not contact him via radio.

Harbour sludge to be dug up for new tunnel contains alarming levels of toxins.

Investigators have issued a public alert in the hope of finding the baby who they believe may be with his father who is wanted by police.

It's the Year of the Ox.

Victoria will begin a “short, sharp” lockdown that will last for five days from 11.59pm on Friday. We’ve done our best to chase down the answers to everyone’s questions about the latest restrictions.

States clamp borders shut while regional communities prepare for influx of Melburnians to beat the snap lockdown.

Karl Howard allegedly attacked two women in Sydney’s inner west, skipped around and threatened them, a court has heard.

A majority of members of The Australian and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation maintained an earlier decision to rate 100 per cent juice according to sugar content, and not give it extra points simply for being juice.

The Opposition Leader said the Prime Minister had deliberately handed responsibility to the states so he could blame them when issues arose.

The 84-year-old man was discovered near Hughenden after a search led by an Australian Maritime Safety Authority jet.

It will be alleged the man accessed and uploaded child abuse material via Dropbox and Kik Messenger.

Police from the missing persons squad found what are believed to be Ms Parfitt’s remains in a mine shaft in Snake Valley in December.

A week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial Review photographers. Follow us on Twitter @photosSMH

Almost a million students were sent home on Friday for what is hoped will be just three days of remote learning during the state’s snap stage four lockdown.  

A woman accused of being involved in an alleged sexual slavery operation, in which several women were drugged and tattooed as property, has appeared at a Brisbane court.

Use our interactive map to see where your 5km lockdown limit finishes from any address.

Hundreds of Victorian small business owner and their landlords are calling the government’s tenancy helpline each week.

A police officer found to have encouraged a colleague to spray a hose in the face of a handcuffed man has told a court he intended to film the incident for “evidentiary purposes” rather than for his own amusement.

Victorians are told their quarantine system has been improved to the point it is second to none. Yet here we are again, back in lockdown.

Joon Seong Tan, 35, faced court on Friday charged with the murder of Ju Zhang. The court was told police were going through 3500 hours of CCTV footage.

Queensland borders will close to greater Melbourne for a fortnight as contact tracers work locally to find anyone linked to the southern cluster.

Mr Carbone was jailed in 2018 for the murder of Bradley Dillon following a trial in the NSW Supreme Court, however his conviction has been quashed.

The end of lockout laws in Kings Cross this week signals a further gentrification of the area - not a return to its wilder days.

The famous land-owner was a relative of Dame Nellie Melba and his property, Wave Hill, is now famous for the walk-off land strike by the Gurindji people in the 1970s.

The bus driver, a man in his 30s, allegedly had a liquid thought to be bleach thrown through his window from a passing car.

Mohammed Skaf, who continues to deny responsibility for a series of disturbing gang rapes, is making his latest parole application after 21 years in prison.

Controversial former mayor Sam Aziz has agreed to forfeit more than $200,000 to the state government after a legal bid by authorities to stop the sale of his house over concerns it was tainted by corruption.

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Not only do international students have to study hard they are often burdened with heavy obligations to family back home and a high cost of living that forces them to take employment in COVID coalface positions such as security or cleaning.

Perth City Apartment owner Eddie Kamil said the hotel was more than $20,000 out of pocket and warned the business was running out of cash to continue housing and feeding the rough sleepers.

You might never have a reason to look up when you’re walking down the Hay Street Mall. But all that’s about to change, says a major international design firm.

Sydney’s public transport patronage remains 43 per cent lower than February 2020, but road traffic is sitting at 98 per cent of pre-coronavirus levels.

A shake-up to Australia’s health star rating system has the nation’s citrus growers juiced over concerns a bottle of 100 per cent OJ could soon be slapped with a rating below that of Diet Coke.

NSW hospitality venues will be allowed twice as many customers from Friday while Queensland and South Australia tighten their borders in response to Victoria’s growing COVID-19 cluster.

The COVID-19 cluster linked to the Holiday Inn has swelled to 13 as the state government bows to pressure and rolls out N95 masks to more hotel quarantine workers.

Like King Canute, Scott Morrison is trying to push back on the inevitability of the rest of the world setting a zero emissions target.

The Australian pharma giant says it can make an updated version of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to cover any virus variants that might arise.

The first batch of the vaccine that will bring us a step closer to ending the COVID-19 pandemic is sitting in a freezer at CSL’s Parkville laboratories.

Poisoning the Hawkesbury, even a child can bomb Baghdad, and Letters to the Editor.

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

This year the pandemic has somewhat dimmed the wattage of available stars at the Australian Open.

The Premier might be right to question the motives of some groups criticism, but so far the ‘belt and road’ agreement has not produced the promised benefits to Victoria.

Reeling from a NSW judicial inquiry, the gambling giant’s donations of $1.8 million to federal candidates over the past decade have raised concern about the company’s hold on politicians.