The conservation scientists want governments to put frameworks in place to govern if and when species need to be relocated to avoid extinction.

The charges, read out on Friday during the man’s third court appearance, include possessing a silencer and driving a vehicle with false number plates.

Under the bubble rules anyone arriving from New Zealand who travelled there from overseas must have completed two weeks quarantine before flying to Western Australia.

State Treasurer Tim Pallas has proposed a financial sweetener of up to $5000 for people who buy new electric vehicles but critics of the electric vehicle tax say it’s nowhere near enough.

Two men have been arrested and appeared in court, charged with supplying a large commercial quantity of prohibited drugs.

A 33-year-old man has faced court accused of threatening to kill West Australian Premier Mark McGowan.

Security cameras caught a number of workers sitting around “not doing any cleaning” aboard Brisbane trains.

A young German backpacker has told a court Gregory Douglas kissed her buttocks and told her not to be ‘weird’ after a massage allegedly escalated to sexual assault.

There were 48 cases from India in the four weeks to April 24, making up 35 per cent of the 137 overseas cases. Over summer, the United States was responsible for 40 per cent of active cases.

Melbourne’s pop-up outdoor dining and drinking venues could become a lasting feature under a City of Melbourne proposal.

Over his 25 year career, one key political lesson Mark McGowan has learnt is to appeal to the masses.

The week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial review photographers.

Today on Please Explain, the Herald’s Education Editor Jordan Baker joins Tory Maguire to look at the reaction to recommended changes to the school curriculum.

The boyfriend of a Melbourne woman who has been missing for almost three weeks has faced court charged with injuring her before her disappearance.

The Tough Guy Book Club has grown from two blokes chatting in a Collingwood pub to 45 branches and its members are more into discussing Ernest Hemingway’s depiction of masculinity than terrorising neighbourhoods.

Brian Johnston, the man accused of killing Gold Coast mother-of-three Kelly Wilkinson, has awoken from his coma, wrapped in bandages and speaking in whispers. 

Huge opportunities exist to boost Australia’s economic recovery and future prosperity by ensuring women are appropriately represented in the workforce.

WA Premier Mark McGowan has criticised Australians who travelled to India this year but in the same breath urged states and territories to do more to assist “our great friends” on the subcontinent.

She didn’t know it at the time, but an eight-year-old’s life was set to change irrevocably when Gough Whitlam moved into her south-western Sydney street in 1957.

Saskia Havekes is the owner of Sydney’s Grandiflora florist. James Beck is a cellist and founder of musical ensemble Sydney Art Quartet. Their friendship blossomed over a shared appreciation of beauty. 

Ahmed Luqman Talib, 31, from Doncaster East in Melbourne’s north-east, applied for bail in the Brisbane Supreme Court.

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Police Veterans Victoria has found retired police living on the streets and in cars and some who “don’t know where to go and are completely lost”.

A coronial inquest found the treatment of Ms Dhu while in custody was “inhumane and unprofessional”, with police and medical staff believing she was a “junkie” who was faking her illness.

The family of Doreen Langham has vowed to keep fighting for justice as hundreds mourn the woman whose body was found burned in February.

A first edition of To Kill a Mockingbird and an 1880s collection of Jane Austen novels will go under the hammer at the University of Queensland.

A young woman allegedly raped by footballers Jack de Belin and Callan Sinclair was captured on CCTV “enjoying herself” in their company afterwards, a jury has been told.

As the state government announced $2,000 cash grants for affected small businesses, the peak business lobby group said the survey results should be used to inform a more generous scheme.

Kaufmann was of interest to ASIO in Australia and the Stasi in Germany.

Education experts say the introduction of specific consent and power content in the curriculum is a positive development but could go even further.

Victoria has detected COVID-19 in wastewater at least 13 times in the past month despite there not having been a single case of coronavirus in the community for 63 days – but experts say the testing program is working well.

Tucked inside the kitchen cupboards of most Australian homes is a lasting reminder of the remarkable life of Brian Myddleton Davis.

Victorian health authorities remain “alert but not alarmed” at the prospect of a new COVID-19 case after the discovery of viral fragments in wastewater sparked an order to more than 240 people to immediately retest.

Ghassan Amoun, formerly of the Brothers for Life gang, was arrested for allegedly breaching a serious crime prevention order restricting his activities and communications. 

Gang rapist Mohammed Skaf’s latest bid for parole has been delayed by four months as authorities wait to see if his prison classification is downgraded. 

Despite no further coronavirus cases being found during Perth’s two recent snap lockdowns, Mark McGowan has defended the measure as one of the only options the state has.

The Federal Court rejected the businessman’s claims that he had written his own lyrics and used the melody of an 18th century hymn in political advertisements.

Defence Minister Peter Dutton also said hotel quarantine was “doing a good job” and described numerous leaks that led to snap lockdowns around the country as “small blips”.

An 18-year-old man has been arrested at a home in Broken Hill after allegedly deliberately ploughing into two pedestrians in March.

This is a year-by-year, generation-by-generation need; understanding true consent is a lesson that needs to be taught and reinforced, Dr Rosanna Capolingua.

WA’s traffic agency is seeking to use the same section of the Aboriginal Heritage Act which paved the way for Rio Tinto to destroy ancient caves at Juukan Gorge last year.

The budget will have the sort of big spending and big deficit that the government would ridicule in a world without COVID-19.

The announcement of a national curriculum proposal to teach school students of this continent’s invasion is an important day in our history.

Victorian doctors are reporting rising rates of vaccine hesitancy in their elderly patients due to the risk of a rare clotting condition that has been associated with the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Doctors are threatening to quit en masse from a hospital with understaffing leaving them in “crisis” conditions.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian says NSW will go it alone on fast rail instead of waiting for consensus from state and federal governments and signalled a renewed focus on asset recycling to bankroll future infrastructure projects.

Up to 1800 tonnes of contaminated land affecting six waterfront properties in one of Sydney’s wealthiest suburbs will be sealed up and shipped to the US in a NSW government resolution that ends decades of anxiety over the harbourside blight.

Researchers have used detailed computer models to determine the major ancient superhighways the first Australians used to populate the continent.

The fact the government is even thinking of putting big pharma profits before people’s lives is unconscionable.

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