Victorian authorities are expected to announce today when the state might come out of lockdown, the mother of two Sydney removalists who spread the virus interstate has been found dead and there are three new cases of COVID-19 in South Australia.

Senior Constable Neil Punchard had his punishment reduced to 140 hours of community service last year.

WA Premier Mark McGowan says the COVID-19 danger level in Australia is very high but he will not go overboard by banning travel from every state and territory despite the Delta variant spreading through the country.

Venues including a Mooloolaba restaurant, the nearby Sunshine Plaza, a number of buses and trains to Brisbane, the domestic airport and flight VA791 to Cairns are the latest places of concern.

Mental health and wellness this year overtook the cost of living as the most important societal issue.

More than 720 residents in the Dandenongs, which bore the brunt of last month’s storms, are again without power as flurries of snow are forecast for the ranges on Tuesday evening.

Geoffrey Fardell, who was murdered by his cellmate in 2019, was looking forward to being released and had made plans for the future, his mother said.

Victoria’s lockdown has been extended for a further seven days as 13 new cases were recorded, including four revealed on Monday.

Victorian authorities are providing a dog-walking service for the pooches of locked-down apartment residents.

A Brisbane traveller used a bed sheet rope to escape from a fourth storey room he was being kept in for hotel quarantine in Perth after he was told he could not stay in WA.

Bruce Saunders, 54, died in November 2017 after falling into a woodchipper. Three people were charged with murder.

The developer of the apartment building on Sydney’s northern beaches has been issued orders to fix serious defects.

Police have arrested a former member of the Defence Force and seized potential bomb precursors during a major operation in Picton, south of Sydney. 

A Queensland woman in her 20s has sparked a new flurry of contact tracing after travelling through the state while infected with what was likely the Delta strain.

The Naked City podcast, with John Silvester, returned this month with season four. Here, “Sly”, a journalist of more than 40 years’ experience, remembers his first days on the job and how the life of a crime reporter has evolved.

Adrian Fini has defended his company against accusations he is trying to take a shortcut to push through a new resort near Yallingup in the South West of WA.

From 11.59pm Tuesday for at least two weeks even Victorians wishing to return home will be locked out of the state after warnings about tighter restrictions

Detectives have charged a second man with murder after the death of 27-year-old Gold Coast mother of three Kelly Wilkinson. 

A man living in NSW has been arrested after a body in an esky-size box was found in a Hamilton apartment that he was leasing.

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Premier Gladys Berejiklian has promised the construction industry that it will reopen on July 31.

Today on Please Explain, Europe correspondent Bevan Shields joins Nathanael Cooper to talk about day one of freedom.

Porsche driver Richard Pusey’s new lawyer told the court on Tuesday he was preparing a bail application to be heard on August 23, which he expected to be a lengthy hearing.

The counsel assisting the royal commission into Crown has found that the gaming giant is not suitable to run a casino due to its ‘flagrant’ and repeated breaches of the law.

Of the new cases, 21 were in the community as 63,000 tests were conducted in the 24 hours to 8pm on Monday night.

Worn out students and staff are feeling the cumulative negative effects of five separate bouts of remote learning.

The Victorian Building Authority handed out 257 fines in the last 12 months, raking in $127,472 from plumbers who failed a drainage inspection.

The daughter of Melbourne underworld figure Mick Gatto has launched defamation action against an apartment owner who claimed her property management business was run by criminals.

The federal Liberal minister and his barrister have asked Jo Dyer’s lawyers to produce timesheets and other documents explaining how the costs were incurred.

Five seven-day lockdowns versus one six-month lockdown? Rather than prolonged lockdowns drawn out over months, scientists think snap lockdowns could be enough to curtail Delta outbreaks if they are enforced early.

A new report shows Islamophobia is most common when dealing with law enforcement, in the workplace or when seeking employment, at shops or restaurants, and online.

Eddie Obeid, Ian Macdonald and Moses Obeid were found guilty over a rigged coal exploration tender that resulted in the Obeid family receiving a $30m windfall.

There’s calls for more to be done to manage this feral species, which new modelling has shown produce carbon emissions equal to more than a million cars every year.

A team of six medical research experts issued the damning indictment of taxpayer-funded COVID-19 research and called for reform of the sector.

Sydney councils are divided, with Bondi residents copping fines if they overstay their welcome while people in Randwick, the CBD and the inner west might be shown a little leniency.

Bella was only 10 years old when a moment in a principal’s office triggered her long struggle with self-harm and suicidal thoughts.

A family has been forced to leave their local public school and pay private school fees after two teenagers linked to a youth gang known to terrorise the area allegedly assaulted their child.

Images of maskless revellers enjoying the sunshine at Manly on Sunday, apparently in contravention of the health orders, raise questions about whether Sydneysiders are experiencing the lockdown in the same way.

While Twitter was love bombing Hamish Macdonald yesterday, it was the scrutiny and abuse from that very platform that was a key factor in his decision to quit.

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MP bashed for exposing fraud, hopes high for bread and beer and militia for Moscow Olympics.

Fifty years ago, the City Council revealed its vision for the Sydney of the year 2000 - incorporating monorails, moving footpaths, rapid transit tram-train systems and a small airport at Central Railway.

Victoria’s strict bail laws mean women are being pointlessly funnelled into and out of prisons in the midst of a global pandemic.

Arrivals to Australia have been recently halved to just 3000 a week. With so many Australians desperate to return home, why was a woman here to generate controversy and ratings for a TV show allowed in?

NSW has recorded its fifth COVID death, Western Australia has recorded eight new cases after cargo ship crew members tested positive, and Victoria’s exposure sites have grown to more than 300.

As the state recorded 16 new local cases on Monday, Premier Daniel Andrews said a decision on the length of the state’s lockdown would be announced on Tuesday.

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The inner-city suburb of West End could see yet another above-height residential tower development, with plans submitted for a 12-storey apartment building.

The Brisbane hospital’s parent company launched a damages claim against the truck driver, after the repair bill totalled $170,000.

Maureen Deboick says she’s not telling people to boycott the jab, but wants them to be aware of the potential side effects.