A major staffing crisis is looming at a western Sydney hospital after a COVID-19 cluster in a mental health unit grew to nine cases on Wednesday.

Federal Court Justice Michael Wigney described the campaign waged by former patient Catherine Cruse against Dr Warwick Nettle as “full of falsehoods”.

There’s a term for the sense of grief and shock we feel about the unfolding global warming crisis: climate distress. And ordinary Australians are finding ways to turn sadness into action.

The call comes after patients were turned away from emergency departments at Sunshine and Footscray hospitals on Tuesday when more than 220 staff were forced into isolation.

Police have been sent to a developing situation at Acacia Prison in Wooroloo after reports prisoners had barricaded themselves in a room.

NSW is in lockdown limbo, Melbourne’s coronavirus restrictions are unlikely to ease tomorrow and Brisbane’s first mass vaccination hub is opening today.

Melbourne’s lockdown has been extended for another seven days as authorities scramble to investigate the source of five mystery cases among Wednesday’s 20 new cases.

Opinion is divided on parent and kid-built structures in parks. Are they exciting play spaces or illegal accident traps? 

St Kevin’s College has withdrawn from a multi-school study of boys’ attitudes on masculinity after parents and students objected to a confronting survey.

Tens of thousands of Sydney construction workers began returning to building sites on Wednesday after the NSW government eased restrictions.

Gregory Richard Douglas has been jailed for a maximum of nine years over a string of sexual and indecent assaults involving five young women who volunteered on his farm.

Zoran Radovanovic, 52, who is being treated in Lismore Base Hospital, is believed to have travelled to the area to look at real estate.

A 50-year-old man has been charged with common assault and breaching health orders after he was arrested at a home in the city’s west on Wednesday.

The Reverend Faaimata (Mata) Havea Hiliau, originally from Tonga, has been elected as the next Moderator for the Uniting Church.

The Planning Minister’s plans for a major overhaul of levies to help pay for infrastructure projects has been dealt a setback.

In 2030 – the year our planet is on track to tip over the crucial 1.5-degree global warming threshold – I will be 26.

On this episode of Please Explain, state political reporter Lucy Cormack joins Tory Maguire to discuss the possibility of NSW lifting restrictions at the end of August.

From a Facebook spat involving a French bulldog breeder to court wars over negative Google reviews, defamation cases in Victorian courts shot up last year.

A protester accused of striking a police horse during a Sydney anti-lockdown march has been granted bail.

Robert Crichton-Brown (known as “Ant”), businessman, pastoralist, and sporting hero, has died of coronavirus in London in January, aged 77. He was the younger of two children and the only son of Sir Robert Crichton-Brown, who was best known as th...

An elderly woman has admitted hitting her son with an axe and then suffocating him in the home they shared, court documents reveal.

The Premier said health authorities were concerned by rising case numbers in Sydney’s Bayside, Burwood and Inner West council areas.

Dubbo and the Northern Rivers have this week joined other parts of NSW, including Greater Sydney, under lockdown restrictions.

A man who filmed himself sexually assaulting a teenage girl after plying her with drugs has been jailed for 5½ years.

Mia died on Sunday when her mother fell while being swooped by a magpie in Holland Park, in Brisbane’s south. 

In one of Australia’s most incredible crimes, Edwin “Ted” Eastwood kidnapped a class of nine students and a teacher from Wooreen in Gippsland. This is their story.

Media coverage around the IPCC climate change report has emphasised the “unstoppable” aspect of global warming, and downplayed our ability to act.

Recognised as the longest-serving female police officer in the world, Joy Murphy has more than a few stories to tell about how the role of women has changed within the force.

The West Gate Tunnel project is currently expected to cost about $10 billion, twice the amount flagged when it was announced five years ago.

“Positively, we are starting to see a declining number of cases in the Fairfield local government area and also Canterbury-Bankstown local government area,” Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.

Queensland has recorded four new local cases of COVID, while there is good news for Cairns.

Milligan’s employer, the ABC, was not sued over the defamatory tweets but is expected to pick up the bill.

Patients were turned away from emergency departments at two Melbourne hospitals for several hours overnight after more than 220 staff were forced into isolation due to a growing list of COVID-19 exposure sites in the city’s western suburbs.

Hundreds of bars and restaurants have signed a joint letter asking for early access to Pfizer vaccines for their young workforce in customer-facing jobs.

With its first major political crisis since its election now on its hands, the government has opened the chequebook and it looks like the old health auction is on again.

By refusing to be shamed, I had moved from #lingeriefail to #lingerieinfluencer.

An urban think tank says fully vaccinated people in NSW should be offered more freedoms now.

The NSW Department of Education has hired consultancy firm KPMG to help design a back-to-school plan that will look at different approaches for hotspot areas, the vaccination rates that could trigger a return and which year groups should come back fi...

NSW government departments are being forced to sell land and property to meet a multibillion-dollar target to fund future infrastructure.

LGBTQ+ groups are pressuring the state government to honour an election promise to remove discrimination against some students and staff at religious schools.

Schools, shopping centres and restaurants are at the centre of Victoria’s Delta clusters. Now a WHO adviser says carbon dioxide monitors should join QR codes and masks as standard measures to stop outbreaks.

Two airmen who baled out from bomber aircraft survived with one parachute.

The future shape of an inner-west suburb is set to be dictated by the finalisation of plans by the state government within weeks.

The State Parole Authority rejected Bilal Alameddine’s application based partly on a suspected attempt to travel to Syria six years ago to join Islamic State.

Dear Prime Minister, as a 16-year-old student I know children’s opinions are often ignored, but I’m begging you to listen – on behalf of the planet.

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

75 years ago, a massive manhunt was underway after a detective was shot dead and another brutally attacked while they were escorting two suspected car thieves.

Howard hints at retrospective taxation, churches to get tough on racism and child’s park play injuries.

CBA spared no expense running an international search to replace its corporate affairs and marketing boss. But for the final pick, the bank stayed close to home.

Melbourne’s lockdown is set to be extended beyond Thursday, with just five of Tuesday’s 20 new coronavirus cases having been in quarantine during their infectious periods.