The plane is believed to be experiencing mechanical problems with its landing gear.

The City of Sydney is proposing to turn the famous strip into a massive cultural and creative precinct, raising building heights and opening it to hundreds of millions of dollars of development.

Health experts are calling for an advertising campaign to convince vaccine-hesitant people to get their COVID shots, Victoria is set to hand down its state budget, and US President Joe Biden has increased pressure on Israel for a ceasefire in Gaza.

All 13 of the new schools will be located on Melbourne’s fringe, where population growth has surged in recent years, and a further $340 million will be invested to upgrade 52 schools.

Abbot Point in north Queensland is rapidly firming as the likely site for the state’s first space launch facility.

Calls to open Australia’s international borders sparked uneasiness among some readers. Others said there had to be a shift in public thinking.

Staff had planned to administer 102 doses of the Pfizer vaccine during the four-hour clinic, but the demand was such that they picked up extra vials to hit 120.

One lawyer said it was a “regrettable, desperate attempt” to derail the defamation trial. Another said the suggestion of sabotage was “absolutely appalling”.

Mr Foster did not appear in the Downing Centre on Thursday for charges to be dropped. The court was told he had been in his lawyer’s office but disappeared and could not be contacted.

Barbara Eckersley, 69, was found guilty of the 2018 manslaughter of 92-year-old Mary White by a jury in April.

Phone logs and internet searches paint a picture of Natasha Darcy’s plan to murder Mathew Dunbar and cover her tracks, a court was told.

Five everyday Victorians respond to the state budget, handed down by Treasurer Tim Pallas on Thursday.

Today on Please Explain health reporter Melissa Cunningham joins Nathanael Cooper to look at the hesitation around receiving the vaccine in Australia.

A man has been jailed for a “drug-fuelled rampage” in Brisbane where he stole luxury cars, about $100,000 in luxury items and rammed a police car during his final moments of freedom.

As this federal government struggles to build a workforce that will boost the economy while our borders are shut, it is time to finally value – not penalise – our migrant and refugee workforce.

A plan for a second safe-injecting room in Melbourne could face fierce opposition from the city council.

A deeply unpopular apartment block proposal the size of the CBD’s Westpac tower in the heart of low-rise, sleepy Karrinyup will soon face its judgment day.

The Queensland case was among four new reports of blood clots and low blood platelets considered linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine.

People aged in their 40s can now get their Pfizer vaccines at 25 new vaccination clinics across NSW, as Premier Gladys Berejiklian announces the state will administer its one-millionth dose today.

Sydneysiders woke on Thursday from a fifth consecutive May night with a minimum temperature of nine degrees or less - a run not felt since 1967.

With Queensland recording the second-worst jobless rate in the nation in April, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced a plan to address a “chronic shortage” of workers in hospitality.

Virgin CEO Jayne Hrdlicka says her comments hurt people and she wishes she had made her point differently.

The 40-year-old man was rescued last weekend and on Monday travelled to Sydney’s international airport where he took a flight to Singapore.

Shopping for make-up as a woman of colour is an exercise in frustration - and exclusion.

Noelene Katrina Francis, 60, pleaded guilty to supplying dangerous drugs, worth between $119,000 and $190,000, when she visited a Queensland prison.

Religious freedom is a fundamental human right, though it does not trump the right to life or safety. The Sikh ceremonial knife, however, can be made safe for schoolboys to carry.

Australia's oldest and best known portrait prize - The Archibald - 100 years old this year.

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

Among the targeted tourism hotspots looking for reinforcements are Mackay, Cairns, the Whitsundays and Townsville.

Collingwood’s most famous supporter, Jeffrey “Joffa” Corfe, has been charged with two counts of historical sexual offending against a Melbourne teenager more than a decade ago.

The Child Protection and Family Support staffer sent the email on March 22 to colleagues and management at a Perth residential group home detailing their experience of workplace bullying and called for a ‘red flag meeting’.

A former Wesley College student has received a $3 million settlement for institutional child abuse in Victoria, after he was sexually assaulted by two former teachers in the 1970s.

Doing nothing is not an option, Professor Julie Leask says, warning Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage risks being “as low as 60 per cent” of the population.  

A Yarra City councillor has been accused of starting an altercation with another woman outside a gay club in South Yarra, before the councillor allegedly vowed to “make sure all these faggots die”.

Research has found men and women are after different things from their sexual partners at different points in their life, and whether income is a big factor.

It seems that Australia will have to undergo what many other countries have gone through — sky-rocketing numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths — to convince people to get a vaccination.

Deep inside a layer of concrete and a few centimetres of steel sits a lab it is hoped will be key to keeping Australia safe from vaccine-busting coronavirus variants.

Letter to the editor, the best thing for them, and a miscellaneous notice.

Almost 5,000 old bottles went under the hammer in what could have been Australia’s first specialist bottle auction.

Already, there’s a lengthy shopping list of senior mandarins in contention to replace Frances Adamson in DFAT’s most senior post

Four men have been charged after police uncovered a crime syndicate that was allegedly using stolen credit cards to buy luxury cars.

It’s what Eliza would have wanted.

In the days following former cricketer Stuart MacGill’s alleged kidnapping, his partner’s brother and another man allegedly met with a police witness in a bid to get money for a drug deal that had soured.

A top forensic science journal pulled down an article questioning the basis of shaken baby syndrome under threat of almost unheard of legal action.

Toowoomba Regional Council mayor Paul Antonio says he sent a list of questions to the Queensland government and the Prime Minister and is yet to hear responses from either.

The grieving family of baby Malakai Paraone who died at a Perth hospital says broken promises from the WA government led to the ‘avoidable’ death of Aishwarya Aswath.

There were more unpleasant questions in court over Constantine Arvanitis and Selina Holder’s bitter relationship breakdown.

The Victorian government has refused to release a politically charged report into bullying and sexism in Victoria’s fire services, arguing it did not have a copy of the report.

Ambulance Victoria data shows about a quarter of all overdoses in the CBD happened within 250 metres of the intersection of Flinders and Elizabeth streets.

Mark Sanguinetti, 59, from Bilgola Plateau was killed by a shark at Tuncurry beach on Tuesday.