The new coronial inquest into the 1973 firebombing that claimed 15 lives at the Brisbane nightclub starts on Monday, despite the recent deaths of two key witnesses.

Jack Chen, 60, has been remembered by his hiking group leader as “a good person” after a bushwalk through rugged terrain near Wentworth Falls ended in tragedy.

One body was found on Saturday and the second on Sunday afternoon, but officials were yet to determine their identities or how the blaze began.

Under the trial, women seeking the morning-after pill or abortion drug RU486 would be offered counselling by pharmacists about long-term contraceptive options.

I am an intensive care nurse but I have been helping out a friend lately by working in their map shop. It’s been an eye-opening experience.

A Brisbane man who has spent years sending letters espousing offensive views about immigration and multiculturalism has been using the electoral roll to obtain recipients’ home addresses. 

Western Australia will be largely free of single-use plastics by the end of next year, a schedule making it a national and global leader in this space.

WA’s most senior health bureaucrat has written to the federal government passing on the advice from the doctors treating the four-year-old asylum seeker.

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There was one new case of COVID-19 reported in Victoria this morning, with the person already in quarantine during their infectious period.

A kids’ show single-handedly inspired my passion for home decorating. But I had to hide it for most of my adult life.

Almost 40,000 homes remain without power and emergency services say they still don’t know the full scale of destruction from Wednesday’s wild weather after phone and internet outages left people unable to call for help.

A £5 coin minted in Melbourne in 1921 and a George V Sovereign minted in Sydney in 1920 sold in a Monaco auction for about $1.5m each.

Although derided by outer Melburnians (and those in the city’s west), there is no doubt that the psychological barrier of the Yarra River is alive and well.

Midwives at the major Perth hospital say staffing shortages are putting mothers and newborns at risk, but that managers have ignored their alarm bells.

A relatively small upgrade to the CBD that has people like me feeling more confident to leave their car at home and ride to work.

The glaring problem with defamation laws is that ordinary citizens have no hope of litigating to protect their reputations.

Australia can’t rely on parents to teach their kids maths basics.

Experts who have spent decades studying the flu in Australia have never seen anything like it, but they have warned the strange phenomenon may not last.

Members of the Coral Nurture project are taking living donor corals and fixing them to dead coral to help preserve life. “I didn’t want to feel helpless anymore,” says scientist Christine Roper.

A Sun-Herald analysis of the schools attended by more than 50 of Sydney’s powerbrokers - men and women who influence the politics, business, and culture of the city - found almost 10 per cent attended the same school.

As the nurse asked which religion I belonged to, I thought for a heartbeat before saying “Hinduism”, secretly wishing one of the options could be “it’s complicated”.

Older people are not “refusing” to leave their homes to make them available to prospective buyers. They have the right to retain their homes as long as they wish.

Australia’s top mental health advocates and researchers have described Scientology’s years of harassment and said their anti-psychiatry campaigning harmed the community.

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The time your garbage gets collected depends on where you live, as Sydney councils try to juggle residents’ sleep with morning road congestion.

Increasingly, Australians are wondering when they will see the perks that ought to come with vaccination, such as freedom of movement around Australia without fear of being caught by border closures or lockdowns.

“Aboriginal people have been wanting to have this discussion for 250 years, so I think it can only be positive,” the author said.

Bishop Peter Hayward said the new guidelines were about having respectful conversations, “not some kind of woke dictum”.

Sydney renters in the inner city, eastern suburbs and northern beaches have reaped the benefits of a slump in the holiday rental market during the pandemic, as Airbnb landlords converted their properties to traditional long-term lettings.

Victims of Crime Commissioner Fiona McCormack agrees with sexual assault survivors who say the State’s justice system is designed around the rights of the accused, not victims.

A surge in the use of buy now, pay later in online shopping through the pandemic has prompted consumer advocates to again call for tighter regulation of the products.

Inundated with questions from the public at the start of the pandemic, Queensland Health turned to artificial intelligence to dish out the answers.

A 22-year-old who choked his partner until she thought she was going to die was given two years’ jail with immediate parole – a sentence the Crown argued was “manifestly inadequate”.

Scientists are trying to piece together the Great Barrier Reef one steel frame at a time.

Women over 50 have been found to be the most vaccine hesitant, but after talking it through they are showing up in droves. Though for some, the subject remains fraught.

Victorian health authorities must be smarter about their approach to lockdowns when the next coronavirus outbreak inevitably emerges so that unnecessarily long and punishing COVID-19 statewide shutdowns are avoided.

After the pet adoption boom during the lockdowns of 2020, at least one organisation has seen a drove of cats and dogs that were adopted out last year now coming back as surrenders.

Some venues based in CBD office buildings and caterers remained down, while suburban cafes and restaurants had recovered thanks to people working from home.

Saibai Island may be a blip on the radar from above, but it's home to hundreds of Indigenous Australians with a rich history dating back thousands of years. It's also the frontline in Australia's fight to keep COVID-19 out of the country. Photos by K...

Three new places have been added to the current list of exposure sites, including a McDonald’s, Woolworths and a child health services centre.

The story of Biloela and its most famous family, who “just wanted a safe, happy life with their kids”, is again burning on Australia’s collective tongue.

At the age of just six, gold-medal swimmer Brenden Hall almost lost his life to chicken pox. Instead, he lost his leg.

A minor flood warning is still in place for Traralgon as more than 59,000 homes enter Sunday without power and a number of Victorian towns face days without internet or phone access.

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NightQuarter on the Sunshine Coast was ordered to close on Friday night, while 50 of border-breaching couple’s close contacts test negative.

Victorian alpine ski operators say while they’re optimistic about this season, they’re desperate for Melburnians to return after a ‘quiet start’ on opening weekend.

Flamboyant Doctor and former owner of the Sydney Swans, Dr Geoffrey Edelsten, has passed away.

The former foreign affairs minister and longest-serving NSW premier laments what has become of the language of politics.

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