Around 12 million Australians are waking up in lockdown this morning, the Australian Medical Association is urging people under 60 to wait for the Pfizer vaccine if they can and homegrown tennis star Ash Barty has advanced to the second round of Wimb...

A woman was pulled from the passenger seat and taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after the crash on Wednesday afternoon. The driver of the car died at the scene.

A Melbourne mother of three who kept a woman as a slave in her Mount Waverley home for eight years is behind bars and her husband also faces jail time.

Brett Armstrong alleges he is now an incomplete quadriplegic after being thrown to the ground in 2016. He is seeking aggravated damages in the NSW Supreme Court.

Two Virgin flights between Brisbane and Sydney and an inner-Brisbane apartment building are among new sites of concern for health authorities.

A young German woman who was sexually assaulted by a NSW horse breeder on his farm says he was controlling and once gave her dinner to his dogs.

The Federal Court heard on Wednesday that Melissa Caddick’s parents had contributed more than $1 million towards an Edgecliff property purchased by their daughter and had a right to live in it.

A Yarra City councillor and member of the Australian Greens has been charged over her alleged part in an altercation with another woman outside a South Yarra club in April.

This comes after Prime Minister Scott Morrison said anyone could receive AstraZeneca at a GP clinic despite vaccine advisory group ATAGI recommending Pfizer as the preferred shot for under-60s.

Annastacia Palaszczuk warned young people to ignore the Prime Minister’s encouragement of the AstraZeneca vaccine and to instead wait for Pfizer.

Today on Please Explain, AMA Vice President Dr Chris Moy joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss the decision to indemnify doctors and the risks associated with the AstraZeneca vaccine.

One woman’s partner would wake her up several times in the middle of the night by pushing her out of bed, pulling her hair or pouring freezing water on her.

The founders of an Instagram news channel conducted a poll and found young Australians are overwhelmingly ready to be vaccinated against COVID.

The Victorian workers compensation scheme is pursuing damages from James Packer following an alleged assault at Crown Casino.

Premier Mark McGowan said the 37-year-old man frequented the same gym as two other positive cases and had been in isolation prior to becoming infectious. 

Fire crews and police responded to multiple triple zero calls just after 1.30am when smoke was seen coming from a two-storey brick home on Montana Way in Macquarie Fields.

Ramin Harirchian was jailed for the offence more than 18 months ago. His medical registration was suspended again on Tuesday.

The NSW Premier thanked the consistently high number of people for getting tested, as well as health staff who had conducted tests during Sydney’s recent wet weather.

Toby Loughnane, 45, was arrested the day after Brunswick woman Maryam Hamka, 36, was reported missing to police and charged with offences unrelated to her disappearance.

Isaac Greener and his family just battled wild weather and power outages; now, they’re battling yet another lockdown while on holiday.

Victoria’s restrictions will not ease for at least another week after South-East Queensland and parts of Western Australia were declared “red zones” at 1am.

Skye Anne Wallis, 33, surrendered to police near where Senior Constable David Masters was hit and killed by a stolen car.

The thick fog is also making driving conditions dangerous for those on the road despite the lockdown

Queensland declares Alice Springs a hotspot, on day one of the state’s three-day lockdown.

The former High Court justice will assess whether criminal and disciplinary charges should be laid against police, as well as barrister turned informer Nicola Gobbo.

The infected Brisbane hospital receptionist who tested positive for COVID-19 before a snap lockdown was called was offered the vaccination but didn’t “take the option up”, Health Minister Yvette D’Ath says.

As millions of Qld residents are plunged into lockdown, the Premier’s anger that an infected hospital worker had not been vaccinated may be misplaced.

Experts are urging people to be aware of more subtle COVID-19 symptoms to check if they have caught the Delta strain.

Simone Walker was denied an induction even after passing 41 weeks and was told to try to break her own waters. A traumatic birth followed, threatening her baby’s life.

Why are some people contracting the Delta variant after “fleeting” contact but others – including the partners of community cases – are not?

Senior Constable David Masters died at the scene after being hit while trying to stop a suspected stolen car with road spikes along the Bruce Highway at Burpengary, north of Brisbane.

There are so many good reasons why it’s worth taking a small risk to be immunised with AstraZeneca.

If there was ever a time to bring in no-fault vaccine injury compensation it’s now.

The purchase of the Limerick Arms Hotel in South Melbourne pub gives the 134-year-old club a solid base after an uncertain few years, but debate over the organisation’s future is set to rumble on.

Governments need to act with greater urgency to vaccinate First Nations people.

Two commuter car parks promised to marginal Liberal electorates in the lead-up to the 2019 federal election cost more than four times the recommended benchmark.

Four years ago, Daniela Minns entertained her three children for three days while trapped inside a holiday apartment with no electricity, water or internet during a cyclone. It was perfect training for a lockdown.

A new analysis has found childcare is unaffordable for 39 per cent of Australian families.

It is easy to suspect that the Premier’s “fury” over the slow vaccine roll-out is primarily to detract from her own mistakes.

Former pollie Cory Bernardi is not happy about being locked up in quarantine, but at least he has a new venture to occupy him with some intriguing partners.

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

Sydney’s consumption of crystallised methylamphetamine reached a record high in December as regional consumption dropped significantly.

Fenech robbed, Dawkins attacks Hawke as ‘weak’, and Pro’s organ up for auction

Eighty years ago, HMAS Waterhen sank after a bombing attack, becoming the first ship of the Royal Australian Navy to be lost by enemy action in World War II.

More than 1300 students and staff from a high school in Sydney’s eastern suburbs have been sent into self-isolation, Perth and the Peel region have been plunged into a four day lockdown and anyone under the age of 40 is now able to request the Astr...

A dust diseases lawyer says work needs to be halted at a key Brisbane tunnelling site until the fears of workers and residents can be properly investigated.

Queensland is in its third snap lockdown this year, but experts warn that this one is more important than ever.

Queensland placed a healthy mine worker in a Brisbane quarantine hotel teeming with COVID-19 then blamed a teenager for the latest outbreak.

While Boy Scouts receive a crummy reward.

A worker has died after an accident at a construction site in Sydney’s west.