Evacuation warnings are in place for parts of Western Sydney as floodwaters continue to rise.

An urban planning expert says south-east Queensland is well poised for growth over the next few decades, but the digital future has to be planned for.

Large swathes of south-east Queensland were lashed with rain on Sunday, flooding homes and roads, with some Gold Coast suburbs copping 113mm in just one hour.

Rain continues to lash NSW, with flood warnings and evacuation orders in place across Sydney, the Mid North Coast and the Hunter Valley.

Every vial contains eight doses – meaning if a patient does not show up for an appointment, Dr Shiu’s team must scramble to bring someone else in before the vial goes bad.

At a Melbourne cemetery on Sunday, 11 people attended the consecration of a gravestone for Kurt Kriszhaber, marking the culmination of a three-year quest led by a Florida museum worker.

Residents in parts of western Sydney are being ordered to collect their belongings and head to higher ground before they are cut off by rising floodwaters.

A $330 million tutoring program has exacerbated a shortage of casual teachers across NSW, which educators describe as “chronic and worsening”.

The relentless news cycle exposes us to a barrage of bad news stories, filtered through editors and algorithms.

One of the men is in a serious condition while the other is stable as police launch a manhunt following the shopping centre shooting on Sunday afternoon.

A man has been charged with the alleged murder of 49-year-old Min Sook Moon, whose body was found in a western Sydney park on Saturday.

The Mitchell family live in three houses on the same street in Telegraph Point. Their houses, cars and belongings have all been lost in the floods.

A court has found oil from one of Australia’s largest spills off the coast of WA destroyed the crops of Indonesian seaweed farmers more than 200km away.

Schools and parents must get better at educating young men about consent.

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

Victorian Opposition Leader Michael O’Brien has announced his new frontbench, with MPs Brad Rowswell and Matthew Bach elevated in the shuffle.

We need to restore our floodplains and stop building in their path. Raising the height of Warragamba Dam will not keep many thousands of Sydney residents from danger.

Giving teachers the chance to learn from each other, plan and problem-solve means better student outcomes.

Non-government schools have been slow to open in areas where the number of school-aged children has exploded, according to an education data expert.

Yogi, a chocolate Labrador, was trained inside a NSW jail to help an ex-cop with his PTSD. It’s a program now being considered for Victorian prisons.

The Amityville Horror, by Jay Anson is estimated to have sold some 10 million copies.

Victoria can expect temperatures in the low 20s for the next few days, with rain to be consistent company across the state.

Severe storm cells bringing heavy rain and potential flash flooding were surging towards Brisbane on Sunday afternoon.

Jordan Marden spent her seventh birthday hunkered down with her schoolmates as 13 staff cared for them at Kendall Public School after floodwaters cut off a key thoroughfare and their worried parents waited on the other side of the river.

There was something different about how the Swans celebrated their victory on the weekend.

As a Mindless Blatherer, there’s nothing worse than being stuck at a dinner party next to a Heavy Topic Pontificator.

Victoria has reached its 23rd day in a row of no new local cases, with the number of active infections dropping to one overnight.

Mike Ellis still shakes his head about the second-half heroics of Perth Wildcats teammate Tiny Pinder while WA Police waited courtside to arrest him after an NBL semi-final.

For the next 12 to 18 hours the Bureau of Meteorology has said there is no letting up in rainfall. Areas worst hit are expected to be the Mid North Coast, Blue Mountains and surrounds including western Sydney, parts of the Northern Rivers and Illawar...

Two bushwalkers have been rescued after they became stranded due to heavy rain in the Blue Mountains.

If you wanted a flying theme, why not draw inspiration from our first Indigenous fighter pilot?

The Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton was a field hospital for thousands who fell ill with the Spanish Flu in 1919. Come Monday, a new phase will begin.

They are our health workers, our over-70s, our health compromised. From next week they are among the millions to be vaccinated under phase 1b or the national rollout.

Clear and direct teaching about consent will become mandatory in state schools beginning from term two.

A leading detective with Melbourne’s sexual offences investigation team says education is critical in busting misconceptions around sexual consent, particularly for young people who think they can’t say no when they are in a relationship.

My faith is Zoroastrianism, the oldest monotheistic religion in the world, originating in ancient Persia.

It’s a problem few of us face when taking ownership of a new property: what do you do with a 20-metre tall statue of the Buddhist deity of compassion? It’s a dilemma facing the new owner of a temple that fell on hard times.

Conservatives are failing to connect with women, and the PM and the Liberal Party are paying the price.

On Monday more than 100,000 people poured onto the streets to march against sexual abuse and harassment of women. But now comes the tricky part: what next?

An investigation into alternatives to synthetic grass should be a short report into the natural and environmental benefits of real grass.

Rebekah Giles has become the go-to lawyer for powerful people whose lives have been blown apart by scandal

Mark Scott has an “expansive mind and strategic brain”. But was he the right man to lead NSW’s public schools?

Jack Earl wrote in the boat’s log: “Kathleen my thoughts are constantly around you.”

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The NSW government has rebuffed calls to end the use of shark nets to protect beachgoers from shark attacks.

A council in one of Sydney’s most multicultural areas will not support an anti-racism campaign after its mayor used his casting vote to reject the proposal.

New planning controls designed to boost affordable housing may backfire if developers pull out of the co-living market.

A spiritual training organisation that is often referred to as a “cult” has always maintained that claims of sexual abuse against its founder were baseless. But two women who say their lives were ruined by Kenja are speaking out for the first tim...

Unicef has criticised Australia’s response to natural disasters as lacking coordination and called for a sharper focus on protecting children as the most vulnerable group in a crisis.

Podiatrists and physiotherapists are reporting a surge of patients suffering overuse syndrome after taking up exercise during the pandemic.