Albion resident Jason Powell fears he will lose his city views and therefore $400,000-$500,000 of his property value.

Across a campfire, the Queenslander researching gelada baboons tells Sir David what he can. He doesn’t know it yet, but his life is about to change.

Thousands of police took to the streets and set up checkpoints in Sydney’s CBD on Saturday to quell an anti-lockdown protest, Victoria’s lockdown has been extended into the regions, and curfews will be in place for parts of Sydney from Monday.

The protest disappointed some activists who wanted to achieve the scale seen at a large rally in the CBD last month.

Several crew members on board the bulk carrier are isolating in their cabins after developing flu-like symptoms.

Sydneysiders woke up to the smell of smoke on Saturday as hazard reduction burning lefts its mark across the city.

Some protesters have managed to make it into central Sydney for an anti-lockdown rally.

The man filmed his interaction with Police Minister David Elliott in Baulkham Hills on Friday.

Jill Stansfield’s death marked the passing of a significant figure in the Australian design profession.

Brunswick’s Good Karma Network has been shuttered indefinitely after bad vibes from its inner-city members.

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Robby Hogarth, aka popular Melbourne drag queen Leasa Mann, had an idea as the COVID catastrophe closed in: he would use his online following to help people struggling to pay their bills, no questions asked.

Six police officers were hospitalised and more than 200 people were arrested during anti-lockdown protests that brought chaos to Melbourne’s CBD on Saturday. 

Victoria has recorded 61 new cases of COVID-19, as the state government prepares to implement a statewide lockdown and harsher restrictions to slow the spread of the worsening Delta outbreak. 

Queensland’s Chief Health Officer has urged Queenslanders to continue getting vaccinated telling reporters it is inevitable COVID-19 will cross from NSW.

NSW has reported a record 825 new local cases of COVID-19 and three deaths in the 24 hours to 8pm on Friday.

Priyesh Adatia has described the terrifying moment the car brushed past him and his friends, missing them by just a few inches.

Mounting clusters, mystery cases and now COVID-19 is in the regions, prompting tighter restrictions across Melbourne and Victoria. Here’s your guide to the new rules.

Police would like to speak with a man about an alleged series of incidents involving a 16-year-old girl at Noosa Heads.

To truly top off an AFL grand final at Optus Stadium, we need to bring in the only WA act that could match the historic nature of the occasion.

Our problem isn’t bad regulation. It’s cultural amnesia. We’ve forgotten how to make places we like.

Poor pay, conditions and the pandemic are tipped to cause a shortage of skilled early learning workers within 18 months.

Detectives from the Financial Crimes Squad formed Strike Force Vandean about four months ago following long-standing complaints against Bishop Daniel.

Whether it’s climate change, the pandemic or the Afghanistan evacuation, a determined lack of urgency defines our national government.

The identity of “Volkskrieger” has been one of the key mysteries on Australia’s extremist scene after it emerged he was appointed the local recruiter for extremist group The Base.

An unprecedented look inside Australia’s radical fringe shows their deep links to violent international groups, and what they’ll do if they are banned.

When the Murugappan family were removed from their home at dawn, locals in conservative Biloela were gutted. Then they learnt to crowdfund, hashtag and take to the world stage.

Police have issued an arrest warrant for Anthony Karam, 27, who police say has “failed to isolate as directed by the Public Health Order”.

Vaccination rates for Indigenous people, a priority group, remain alarmingly low in parts of the country. Now, questions are being asked over what went wrong.

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NSW will make coronavirus vaccines mandatory for all health workers, Victorian authorities are concerned about small transgressions in Melbourne and everyone over the age of 16 will be eligible for their recommended COVID-19 jab by the end of the mon...

Queensland’s Chief Health Officer has left the door open for a broader vaccine passport-like system for travel from NSW when the state starts looking to lift travel restrictions.

The state’s proposed laws have been recommended to pass as is, with committee division a sign of the intense debate to come next month ahead of a rare major party conscience vote.

Local politicians have been blindsided by a raft of new rules for west and south-west Sydney, amid concerns about the region’s vaccine rollout.

The NSW leadership is fond of saying we’re all in this together - but we’re not. Not really.

Young men in south-west Sydney who are refusing to heed lockdown laws have sparked the NSW government’s about-face on harsher restrictions, which Premier Gladys Berejiklian says is the state’s last stand against the Delta outbreak.

On trains and in playgrounds with vaccinated older children, younger teenagers say they are keen to get their jab.

The “pay-as-you-feel” venue in Melbourne’s north has been told to move out by early September unless the charity can quickly repay debts through its $150,000 fundraiser.

The activists were charged with property damage and ordered to pay $2000 for writing slogans criticising oil and gas giant Woodside with chalk paint on a pedestrian bridge.

A Cheltenham mother and two of her young children died after their vehicle hit a pole and burst into flames on a busy inner-city road on Friday.

Community leaders in south-west and western Sydney fear for people’s mental health, women at risk and disaffected youth, as they warn a police curfew imposed unequally across the city will worsen social divisions.

In a highly unusual move, the Court of Appeal will cross-examine the scientific basis of forensic evidence used to convict several young men of child homicide or assault.

While officials remain tight-lipped on the outcome of an urgent hearing over complaints against Charlie Teo, the neurosurgeon said he “accepted the Medical Council’s direction”.

Protest organisers are promoting a range of schemes intended to help attendees subvert the major police operation and travel to the event. 

Before he was sacked last November, Rodd Staples raised safety as a “key issue” in the setting up of the $40 billion rail corporation.

Daniel Andrews said he would not rule out locking down regional Victoria after positive cases were detected Shepparton - the first cases outside greater Melbourne in the current outbreak.

Mario Phetmang was lured to a Belmore car park, bashed to death, and dumped on the side of the road in a drug deal gone wrong. His killer then fled to America.

The State Emergency Service says it will move to change the culture of the organisation after an independent report found an epidemic of sexual harassment of women.