Maritime Safety Queensland have caught multiple people trying to enter Queensland by sea.

A woman has died in Sydney’s south-west from COVID-19, Victorians have woken up to all of regional NSW designated a ‘red zone’ and Euros finals fever has hit Australia after a series of tense penalty shootouts.

Officers plan to patrol the border with NSW for at least another month, as the police union urged the Victorian government to find more sustainable ways to use police resources.  

A woman who accuses an equestrian rider of rape was allegedly told by the sport’s officials to stay away from a competition because her presence would make him feel uncomfortable, a court has heard.

Western Sydney remains an area of concern for NSW Health, particularly the suburbs of Fairfield, Smithfield, Bossley Park, Wakeley, Bonnyrigg, Glenfield and West Hoxton.

Two members of a Victorian family who returned from Sydney in early July have tested positive for COVID-19 as authorities reveal two removalists who worked in Melbourne last week have also tested positive.

Corrections officers are working to control a riot at Parklea Correctional Centre as helicopter pictures showed smoke and flames billowing from the prison.

Authorities warned the community not to disregard the threat from this front during the predicted lulls in conditions, to drive slowly and watch for fallen trees. 

Dianne Jolley is accused of sending a series of threatening letters to herself, including a card which contained women’s underwear.

A quick guide to what we know about shortening the interval between doses of AstraZeneca.

Shane Bowden, 47, was sprayed with 21 bullets in the driveway of his Gold Coast unit on October 12, 2020.

Two newborns were given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen from the same gas outlet in an operating theatre at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital, a coroner has been told.

The government’s COVID-19 advertising campaign has to compete with an avalanche of content for our attention. We don’t have the time to waste on lukewarm ads.

But it’s a pity the government’s COVID ads used an actor rather than a COVID survivor.

Why are cyclists so intense? To answer this question, all I had to do was become one of them.

My Ut Trinh, 53, is charged with eight counts of contamination of goods with intent to cause economic loss.

Parramatta mayor Bob Dwyer said the case against developer Grand Epping was a “win for the community” and sent a message that illegal behaviour would not be accepted.

The man was charged with high-range drink-driving in Marrickville early on Monday and fined for not having a reasonable excuse for being away from home.

Crews restored power to affected customers about two hours after an external party hit the underground supply cable while digging or drilling in Kingsford.

Today on Please Explain, senior economics writer Jessica Irvine joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss how working from home has impacted productivity.

The government’s confronting new ad may finally get people to take action against COVID but could have unintended consequences.

It’s too early to call the predicted storm a ‘fizzer’, according to a Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster, after the first edge of the massive front crossed the coast on Monday morning.

From Tuesday, masks must be worn inside apartment building common areas in Greater Sydney, and on construction sites across NSW.

Health authorities insist there is no risk from the NRL bubble moving to Queensland, as the Premier puts off the possibility of a Brisbane Grand Final for now.

The Federal Court weighs in on what legal protections citizen journalists posting online have in the face of defamation action.

The figure is more than triple the highest daily case number seen during the city’s Crossroads or Avalon clusters last year.

Queensland has held off on hard border closures with NSW, but Queenslanders in the southern state have been urged to leave immediately.

How will Premier Mark McGowan convince the WA public that a little bit of COVID in WA isn’t such a bad thing?

Of the 11 citywide lockdowns imposed across Australia since Melbourne’s second wave ended, three were in WA over a total of six cases.

A report commissioned by the City of Melbourne projects the CBD will return to its pre-COVID-19 peak of about $74 billion gross regional product by the second half of 2024.

Australia is the second-biggest market in the world for a new online high school that offers global qualifications and accelerated learning.

An aged care business operated by two former bankrupt brothers convicted of appalling animal cruelty has failed to return deposits to the families of former residents, which raises serious concerns about the firm’s future.

Alarm bells sounded for senior managers within a Sydney club over an invoice for “relocation of machinery.” Not only did Marconi have no machinery to move but the club was shut down during the pandemic.

In-person, postal and online voting will be available and a failure to vote will set you back $55.

Controversial changes in 2014 that gave each business two votes have forced the council to bear the cost of maintaining a register of non-residential voters.

The NSW Rural Fire Service investigated itself and concluded that the Mount Wilson backburn was the result of “careful planning”.

Yes, the Premier showed mettle in extending the lockdown, but let’s not forget the Premier’s earlier boast that NSW was “braver and bolder” than other states in dealing with COVID-19.

Researchers are calling for maps of dengue fever risk areas to be updated following an outbreak in Rockhampton in 2019, the first in 65 years.

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

Mrs. Mabel Jones will start droving with her 500 head of stock when she is forcibly evicted from her 1035-acre Boorowa farm.

When the Communist Party of Australia was declared an illegal organisation by the Menzies government, members Horace Ratliff and Max Thomas were jailed.

Former chief justice of the High Court Robert French is about to reinvigorate the moribund republican debate.

We are all now having properly to face the fact that we don’t know what stage of this pandemic we are up to.

“Ms” is apparently quite difficult for a lot of men. They tend to start strong, lose confidence halfway through the “mm” and then ultimately bail out before swallowing the whole thing in a frightened “zzz” noise. I can offer a solution.

No doubt which sense memory lingers longest.

A woman in her 90s has died with COVID-19 and NSW has recorded 77 new local cases, with 33 infectious in the community.

Families are bracing for a return to remote lessons as the Premier warns online learning may last longer than the four days she initially predicted.

Bayside City Council has spent $3 million on a new mega-playground that includes a three-level castle, a DJ booth and flying foxes.

The trial of 53-year-old former strawberry-farm supervisor My Ut Trinh is set to begin on Monday in the Brisbane District Court.

When frazzled parents contemplate juggling work while caring for their children, the scales often tip in favour of sending their children to school. But it is not safe to do so.