Mask rules are predicted to keep office workers at home, and diners are tipped to stay away in droves.

Melbourne is bracing for more COVID-19 cases after an outbreak in the northern suburbs, pressure is mounting on the NSW Labor leader and Aung Sun Suu Kyi has had her first in-person court appearance since Myanmar’s military coup.

As part of his defamation trial to refute claims he is a sex addict, Constantine Arvanitis was asked about several messages and letters he sent to three women in 2016 telling them he loved them.

Jo Dyer, who is seeking a court order to stop a high-profile barrister acting for Christian Porter in his defamation proceedings against the ABC, said she believed the allegation should be made public.

Outbreaks are inevitable, but disastrous outcomes don’t have to be. The latest cluster in Melbourne highlights the cracks in our coronavirus armour.

Queensland Health has declared Victoria’s Whittlesea region a hotspot and anyone arriving from the area into the state will need to go into hotel quarantine from 1am Wednesday.

Millions of Australians could receive their Pfizer shots in GPs and pharmacies after a “game-changing” decision by Therapeutic Goods Administration.

Police officer Melissa Hankinson told Perth Magistrates Court her ex-partner Troy Buswell punched her in the jaw and kicked her while she was on the ground.

Mohamed Zuhbi, formerly of Sydney, was charged with six offences over his alleged efforts to support the terrorist group in Syria. 

Lily Ridgeway told police she experiences blackouts “due to what my ex put me through” and doesn’t remember stabbing Jason Adams.

The coronavirus cluster in Melbourne’s north has grown to nine cases, as a Clifton Hill McDonald’s and a CBD restaurant were added as exposure sites.

Sharon McLennan has had enough. As another Sorry Day arrives, she is sick of asking for justice and compensation for the four members of her family who were among the Stolen Generations.

It is highly unusual for medical staff to protest. This is the first nursing union rally in eight years and the first time the doctors and nursing unions have rallied together.

A 53-year-old man was arrested at a unit in Sydney’s CBD on Tuesday morning after allegedly acting as a money mule for a multinational puppy scam.

The $400,000 Ribco Seafarer 36 inflatable was stolen from Rose Bay Marina on May 9.

Up to 400,000 customers were without power after a widespread outage affected people across Queensland on Tuesday.

A man accused of fatally stabbing a tradesman near a Melbourne train station will stand trial for murder, but two other young people have pleaded guilty to lesser offences.

Police have released images of a man they want to question in relation to a string of sex acts performed on Sydney public buses.

Leo Gamble’s knowledge of our local history was unparalleled, and he presented it to the community in several significant books, all of which are eminently readable.

The Aswath family’s representative has accused Mark McGowan of not fully reading the report on Aishwarya’s death, and “demonising” Australians of Indian origin.

Contracting COVID-19 put paid to plans to return to Sydney to resettle with his wife Ana.

Kylie Cay died at home after calling for an ambulance after surviving her partner’s attack by hiding in the family dog kennel. A coroner says her death was preventable and Ambulance Victoria failed her.

The five new northern suburbs cases have been linked through genomic testing to a Melbourne man who is suspected of becoming infected while in hotel quarantine in South Australia.

Apart from its social merit, Victoria’s new tax is an economic investment that will pay for itself over the next five to 10 years, tackling the weak point in an otherwise good health system.

Police are warning of traffic on the Gold Coast Highway.

Today on Please Explain, business reporter Patrick Hatch joins Nathanael Cooper to look at the latest from the royal commission into Crown’s operations.

Spain is trialling a four-day week across hundreds of companies this year, and the benefits for workers and employers are multifold.

The five trusts managing Sydney’s cemeteries - including the Catholic and general trusts at Rookwood - will be axed and merged into one to save the sector from financial collapse

From masks indoors to tighter visiting rules, this is your guide to the Victorian government’s new coronavirus social distancing restrictions.

The Victoria Cross recipient is suing the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age for defamation over a series of stories published in 2018.

WA is yet to announce further restrictions on Victorian arrivals after the Melbourne COVID-19 cluster grew to five on Tuesday morning, but authorities are monitoring.

The City of Melbourne will be more than $26 million in the red in the coming financial year, as it prepares a big-spending budget aimed at stimulating the city’s economic recovery.

A gift of valuable irrigation water granted exclusively to farmers by the Victorian government ignored claims by traditional owners.

Some beaches close in south-east Queensland because of rough surf conditions.

Queenslanders will have to enter 14 days of hotel quarantine if they return from an exposure site in Victoria.

If it is too complicated to compile a simple spreadsheet about safety records, I fear for the people our largest government department is looking out for.

A new survey has revealed which key issues Perth residents would address if they were WA Premier for a day. What would you do?

Higher degree by research students have to declare their personal relationships, including sexual partners, broadly relevant to their candidature.

Forensic science practices and methodologies should not be allowed to continue without a rigorous independent review.

To fix the front-line hospital scandals in regional and country NSW, start with their opaque administration.

A slew of well-known residents and homeowners in the well-heeled enclave are mad as hell over infighting at the local council - and they’re taking action.

Outdoor dining on top of parking spaces is expected to become a permanent fixture for Melbourne’s inner-north, with the introduction of a small daily fee for traders.

A rare coming together of supermoon and lunar eclipse promises a prime time spectacle.

Labor’s gambit to back coal mining in the Upper Hunter byelection did not work and may have cost them votes to more progressive candidates.

Australian students are slipping behind those in comparable nations when it comes to mathematics. But new research shows there are changes we can, and must, make to improve standards.

An analysis of international testing results has found about 47 per cent of Australia’s year 4 students attend schools where a significant proportion of students began without key foundational skills, such as recognising numbers above 10.

Researchers hope two new drugs that block COVID’s access to cells will pass clinical trials and be added to the global toolkit to stop the pandemic in its tracks.

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

Low kindergarten attendance rates are setting Australian children back in maths, with new analysis showing low numeracy in prep is linked with poor maths results in primary school.

Snowy Mountains power station opens, fire hoax at Sinatra show, and a dying art