Sydney’s lockdown is extended by another four weeks, Victoria’s restrictions have eased and Queensland police have taken action against a couple behind the state’s latest coronavirus scare.

Some parents in the Dandenongs were putting earphones over their children’s ears on Tuesday evening, so they didn’t have to hear the wind.

“Even if I die, I will tell the truth,” an earlier witness told the war veteran’s defamation trial against The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

The Commercial Tenancy Relief Scheme will force building owners to make concessions to business tenants who can demonstrate a significant loss of revenue due to Victoria’s COVID-19 lockdowns.

Cheap tests are available to screen for blood clotting in the extremely rare event that follows an AstraZeneca vaccine. This knowledge should embolden people to get the widely available jab.

Victoria’s ski resorts can accept visitors again but the 12-day lockdown is estimated to have cost them $112 million.

Residents have rallied against a $22 million plan to build the industrial facility opposite hundreds of apartments in Pyrmont.

Police are monitoring the online planning of further anti-lockdown protests and are pre-emptively approaching organisers to warn them against going ahead with the “selfish” events.

The new community case, reported on Victoria’s first day out of lockdown, is believed to have worked at the Moonee Valley Racecourse drive-through coronavirus testing site for two days while infectious.

Following an “administration error”, 159 people will get another shot after up to six of them were given an “ultra low dose” of the vaccine.

The Federal Court varied suppression orders on Wednesday to allow redacted parts of the ABC’s defence to be given to the South Australian Coroner.

Richard Jason Reay murdered his cellmate in a ‘callous and sadistic’ way in a NSW correctional centre, then claimed he acted in self-defence, a judge said.

Even after lockdowns, dry cleaners in Melbourne are only ever recovering to about two-thirds of normal because the businesses are dependent on office workers, weddings and events.

Parliament represents a multi-faith community and should not be symbolically tied to one faith.

Queensland has reported one new community case of COVID-19 who had been staying at a hostel after leaving hotel quarantine, with 19 cargo ship crew members also testing positive.

The 41-year-old man, who was charged with six offences related to child exploitation material, has been released on bail.

Children mistreated in facilities like the infamous Don Dale detention centre have won a $35m payout after the NT government reached a record-breaking settlement.

A Jit Khan, 34, was on his way home from Perth to Katanning on Tuesday morning when his grey Triton became stranded in rising floodwaters on Ballagin Road in Piesseville.

The man travelled on a fishing charter overnight to Exmouth, where ambulance crews took him to hospital.

Year 12s can go back from August 16 and construction can resume in some areas. Meanwhile, people in three more LGAs can’t leave for work unless exempted and a “singles bubble” has been introduced.

Today on Please Explain, social affairs editor Jewel Topsfield joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss the impact of the pandemic on young people.

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 shopping.

Ron Sharp wanted something different to traditional church organs built simply to “make a loud noise and accompany the hymns”.

An accommodation provider in Victoria falsely claimed that vaccinated guests might infect her family and lead to fertility issues.

One of the men yells, “bro, watch the car”, as a Mitsubishi heads towards them, while two of the men rush off the road. A bang can be heard as one of the men is hit by the car.

The war veteran’s barrister said the defamation trial could not keep “dragging on” amid the COVID-19 pandemic and needed to be concluded as soon as possible.

It might feel unfair, but vaccine passports are a good idea – even if you can’t get one.

New restrictions include limiting shopping to a 10-kilometre radius from a person’s place of residence if the item is available locally.

Cafe tills are ringing and school bells chiming once again across Victoria as the state cautiously emerges from its fifth coronavirus lockdown.

Abe Saffron was a blackmailer, extortionist and arsonist, all with the help of the heads of New South Wales police.

A man has been shot dead during a brawl west of Brisbane, where several people were wielding bats and casualties were taken to hospital.

The Queensland government has released concept images of its 2032 Olympic Games Athletes Village pitched to do for the Northshore Hamilton area what Expo 88 did for South Bank.

George Thompson, 26, who remains in the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital on Wednesday, has been identified as the man fined for multiple COVID-19 breaches.

The past 18 months of the pandemic have dulled our senses, lowered our horizons and curtailed our ambitions, and are a reminder that there is more to life than COVID.

Strong winds and showers have battered Melbourne, with more rain and blustery conditions to hit in the afternoon.

NSW Police have arrested a suspected gunman who allegedly produced a firearm when officers attempted to question him after stopping his vehicle in Sydney’s west.

The Victorian Transport Association says many drivers are shunning strict testing requirements designed to shield against the NSW coronavirus outbreak.

Law enforcement agencies are looking closely at employees of the companies that import and distribute goods around Australia for links to major organised crime.

More than 400 GPs have received compliance letters and many have been asked to pay funds back to the government after consultations fell foul of strict Medicare rules.

Hopefully, the last 18 months will not provide the template for the uncertain times ahead.

Governments have poured tens of millions into Indigenous suicide prevention but rates continue to soar. A WA psychologist explains why none of it has worked.

We live in strange times indeed when both the government and the supposed alternative government have scant polices to address two of the key inter-generational issues of our time: global warming and housing.

First it was the United Australia Party, then the Palmer United Party, now it’s Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party. Where to next?

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

Kempsey floods, waistcoats abolished, and for the air-raid shelter.

Forty years ago, as Prince Charles and Lady Diana prepared to wed at St Paul’s, the students at one Sydney primary school were rehearsing a Royal wedding of their own.

A new Mission Australia report details the impact of lockdowns on young people in 2020, and warns the strain is far from over.

Victorian schools are set to re-open, Sydney will give the green light to walk-in AstraZeneca jabs at mass vaccination clinics and there are now more than 50 high-risk exposure sites in Queensland.

Victorian health authorities say people will be able to return to ski fields from midnight, but they will need to test negative for COVID-19 before hitting the slopes.

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