A charity has taken up the lease on the rebuilt Middle Park light rail station building, where it will employ young people who are either homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Coronavirus updates, Sunday, August 15.

During these relentless lockdown days, it is important to grab hold of small victories to nourish our COVID-scarred souls.

The lockdown-driven rise in calls comes as education and child mental health experts warn repeated periods of remote learning are doing cumulative harm to children.

With National Science Week launched on the week, Hugh Possingham says the pandemic has fostered a greater level of science literacy in the public.

Tighter rules to slow the spread of COVID-19 in Greater Sydney and regional areas of NSW come into effect on Monday. Here’s what you need to know.

The statewide lockdown is putting pressure on small businesses regardless of whether they are in a virus hot spot or not.

With police and politicians expressing frustration about breaches of health orders, we asked readers to tell us what they’ve seen.

The “father of evolution” was stunned by what he saw on a visit to Australia in 1836. How did our plants and animals get to be so uniquely quirky?

The death of Derek Wrigley in Canberra marks the passing of a highly significant design champion, a people-focused designer.

Rail staff were on Saturday alerted to a COVID-19 exposure case, which has resulted in more than 20 regional and interstate services being cancelled a day after the entire state was thrust into a week-long lockdown.

A man and woman were cut free and flown to hospital after a car and a bus carrying dozens of people collided south of Brisbane on Sunday.

Victoria’s select-entry high schools educate almost no Indigenous students and just 4.5 per cent of their students are disadvantaged, raising concerns underprivileged teens are missing out on the elite state schools.

There are precedents for Australia giving extra protection to people whose freedom is suddenly threatened in their homelands.

Working in schools is intellectually, emotionally and socially demanding, and the work has become increasingly complex.

The “build first, ask questions later” model in which a rush to build big projects takes precedence over wise planning has become the new normal in Victoria under the Big Build program.

Victorian authorities are particularly concerned about coronavirus transmission in younger people amid evidence some people are stretching social distancing rules.

Designs of the new state-of-the-art ECU City campus have been revealed, showcasing how the world-class university campus is set to reshape the Perth central business district and redefine higher education in Western Australia.

Queensland is limiting all movement from NSW as the state records zero new community cases and just one in hotel quarantine.

The ambulance had not been called to the incident at Wishart early on Sunday morning but was just driving past when officers spotted the vehicle.

Racism destroys people. It nullifies them, deliberately cuts them down for no reason other than the colour of the skin or their cultural background.

The chef tells me government needs to bring them in ASAP to get people back to work.

The relationship isn’t really working out for us right now.

This dreadful week has reminded us how little progress has been achieved on the major challenges facing our nation.

As NSW emphasises vaccination as its key tool out of lockdown, researchers behind modelling underpinning the national reopening strategy say opening with high cases is not part of the plan.

Patients in parts of the state are waiting three years for treatment and key services for children are being shelved as the dental system struggles during the pandemic.

Humans require connection. We’ll need to re-establish it as soon as humanly possible.

It is a Wednesday and my wife, Jenny, is next door, getting ready for the day. From 8.30am until after 3pm she will teach 25 seven-year-olds online.

With daily infections, hospitalisations and deaths increasing, Sydney needs a harder lockdown, tougher compliance and additional compensation.

Politicians might say, “we’re all in this together”, but it doesn’t feel that way to residents of the hotspot south-west suburbs.

“How are you meant to predict a lockdown six weeks in advance?” Consumers are fuming over travel cancellation policies as rolling lockdowns bite.

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

A secret NSW government document revealed even more restrictions, including mandatory outdoor masks, were considered to curb the COVID-19 outbreak.

Tens of thousands of immigrants are calling time on Australia and heading back overseas because of the prolonged border closure.

The crackdown announced yesterday screams of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut – and not even the right nut.

The heritage-listed Paddington Reservoir Gardens is a magnet for bridal couples, social media users and exercise classes - and nearby residents are not happy.

From pottery to piano, learning a language to winter swimming, hobbies are providing a diversion from the stress and boredom of lockdown.

Living oyster breakwaters being trialled in NSW coastal areas could help hold back rising Australian sea levels which have risen at a greater rate than the global average in recent decades according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The restaurant lobby has proposed a relaxation of restrictions in September to allow outdoor dining for the vaccinated.

The sport of powerlifting has been rocked by a sexual harassment scandal involving one of its most influential figures, leaving the national body in tatters and provoking a searing conversation on the treatment of women.

A growing number of mental health leaders are warning the aggressive pursuit of zero-COVID through lockdowns is coming at too high a cost to people’s wellbeing and we must learn to live with the virus, amid surging calls for help.

Local planning panels were created to stamp out corruption, but local councillors say they favour developers and undermine democratic accountability.

Cases have soared in NSW and parts of the state, Melbourne, and the ACT remain in lockdown.

NSW entered a snap statewide lockdown at 5pm on Saturday after recording 466 new cases of COVID-19, which continues to spread across the regions.

The 10-kilometre movement radius in Greater Sydney will be halved in what Premier Gladys Berejiklian described on Saturday as an “extremely concerning situation”.

Earthworks have started for a camp-style quarantine hub on Melbourne’s northern fringe, which is scheduled to open by the end of the year.

The publisher of celebrity chef Jock Zonfrillo’s memoir “challenges” claims in Good Weekend profile.

Police patrolled the Eastern Suburbs beaches today.

In Sydney’s winter sunshine on Saturday, most people exercising outdoors accepted the tougher rules as necessary.

A tale of two Sydneys: ‘We’re in the same storm, but different boats’