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

In a letter released by the Federal Court on Friday, an anonymous “friend” told Mr Roberts-Smith “I can imagine what you were doing with another lady ... [at the] Hyatt Regency in Sydney”.

NSW police are descending on south-west Sydney this morning to enforce coronavirus restrictions, Ash Barty will be the first Australian woman to contest a Wimbledon final in 41 years and Melburnians are waking up to the first day in months where they...

As tough new restrictions come into effect, the city goes quiet.

Clive Palmer’s headline double-act of sacked sporting stars will debut for the Southport Tigers on Saturday evening at the Gold Coast’s Owen Park (field 1).

Metropolitan and some regional businesses will be able to access $3000 grants from the WA government to cover losses from the state’s four-day lockdown as the premier flags further travel restrictions for people trying to leave New South Wales.

Commenting on stories is without doubt the most popular and also frustrating part of being a Herald subscriber, if the feedback is anything to go by. Last week alone we received 60,730 comments on 565 articles.

Kabul Mixed Business owner Mohammed Rajabi has run the corner store for 12 years but he will permanently shut the doors next week.

Hanna Dickenson swindled money from family and friends by claiming she had cancer. Police allege she also falsified a reference provided to the court.

Rob Stokes says he is unapologetic about his new approach to urban development, in which rules give way to principles of design.

NSW Police launched a major high-visibility operation across Sydney’s south-west to ensure compliance with all COVID-19 public health orders.

A spokesman for the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) said the watchdog was reviewing its rules around vaccine incentives.

The NSW Deputy premier is suing YouTube personality Jordan Shanks-Markovina for defamation over two videos posted last year.

Fermoy, established in 1985 and acquired by the Young family in 2010, built a new cellar door in 2013 to drive domestic sales and has tried to keep a low profile.

Homosexuality was illegal and gay role models non-existent when Michael Yabsley was growing up, and it wasn’t until a health scare in 2019 that he embraced his true self. Now, the former Liberal Party powerbroker wants to show others it’s never t...

There is a sense of frustration among young people who are bearing the brunt of lockdown restrictions - and now case numbers - while being at the bottom of the queue to get vaccinated.

Most of the apartments in the complex in one of Sydney’s wealthiest suburbs have already been sold off the plan.

Hotel occupancy in Melbourne was just 27.4 per cent in June, mostly only because of hotel quarantine.

Giving teachers priority to get the COVID-19 vaccine would help ease the stress they already experience being on the frontline.

The 53-year-old officer was killed on the Bruce Highway in Burpengary on June 26. Two women have been charged with murder.

COVID testing as tougher restrictions are announced in Sydney.

Media organisations, including Nine, are fighting to gain access to 27 pages of the ABC’s 37-page defence, which are redacted under a temporary suppression order.

A pair of bitter brothers who filmed themselves on an excavator destroying their late mother’s house, amid a feud with their sister, have each been fined $10,000.

Lisa Hunt and Jane McAloon met 30 years ago in Parliament House before pursuing high-flying careers in the public sector. It was in the crucible of personal tragedy, however, that their deep attachment was forged.

Sislin Fay Allen: “I didn’t set out to make history; I just wanted a change of direction.”

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Today on Please Explain, science writer Liam Mannix joins Nathanael Cooper to look at the questions around kids and vaccinations.

The three Singaporean owners are in the midst of a legal dispute over the future of the resort, however the venue’s general manager has reassured customers its business as usual.

“This is the opposite of where we need or want the numbers to trend,” Premier Berejiklian said as she announced NSW will further tighten gathering restrictions and foreshadowed a possible further extension of Greater Sydney’s lockdown.

As the mayor of Fairfield says, COVID is a health emergency not a police emergency. It should be treated that way.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has introduced several new restrictions for the state to come into effect from 5pm Friday after a surge of unlinked COVID-19 cases in the community.

It was more a trickle than a flood, but there were still plenty of Victorian office workers thrilled to return to their desks mask-free on Friday morning as the state’s COVID-free streak continued. 

Can you try a Pfizer before or after an AstraZeneca? What about a Moderna with a Sputnik V? A quick guide to the science.

The man was reported missing by a friend about 7am on Friday and his body was found about 30 minutes later.

New restrictions announced by the NSW government say residents must stay within their local government area, or within 10 kilometres of home for exercise and outdoor recreation.

Queensland has recorded no new cases in either the community or hotel quarantine, giving a strong sign the recent lockdowns have stamped on any spread of the virus.

The Catholic Secondary Schools Association, which provides HSC trial exams to more than 500 NSW schools, has delayed this year’s trial exams by two weeks

Linda Burns, 61, fell ill shortly after receiving the jab. She later died from a catastrophic brain bleed at Royal Perth Hospital.

A proposal aims to drastically reduce the number of people working on international affairs and the politics and societies of the Indo-Pacific. Meanwhile, the area has become more important than ever.

Recent staff and students surveys for one of WA’s biggest universities returned damning responses with many fearful to speak out for fear of litigation.

Sixteen academic jobs will go as part of $40 million in job cut restructures at WA’s richest university.

We need more capacity in our groaning health system, and we need to resolve the gridlock in our social housing system.

Linda Reynolds has warned the National Disability Insurance Scheme faces serious sustainability issues ahead of a meeting with the states to discuss a controversial overhaul of the scheme.

Experts say the situation is worse than in 2020 because the virus is both more transmissible and more dangerous.

It is forecast to grow bigger than Medicare, but the National Disability Insurance Scheme answers to neither federal nor state governments. This is one the most serious governance failures in Australian politics.

The NSW “gold standard” is looking decidedly tarnished.

When it comes to political allegiances, the mining billionaire picks and sticks.

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

Death of Calwell, deadly tides and racing ring-in.

Less than an hour after girlfriend Marianne Faithfull collapsed and was rushed to hospital, Mick Jagger fronted the press to talk about Ned Kelly.