The tertiary education union is pursuing RMIT University over the serial underpayment of casual academic staff it claims has gone on for almost a decade.

Some say they are waiting for one or both of their vaccine doses administered at NSW Health vaccination hubs to appear on the Australian Immunisation Register.

What does the evidence really say about the threat posed to children by the Delta variant of COVID-19?

Goulburn Valley Health wants more people to come forward for testing amid hesitancy in the Shepparton community.

Frank Hu, also known as Xiaodong Frank Hu, pleaded not guilty to more than 200 charges on Thursday following a two-day hearing in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court.

The state recorded 80 new cases on Thursday and almost half of them were in the community while infectious.

Residents in central and northern NSW are bracing themselves for above-normal fire conditions this spring, despite the likelihood of increased rain in the coming months.

The officer overseeing counter-terrorism operations in NSW also warned the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan could lead to a greater risk of violent extremism.

An Aboriginal medical service in the remotest and hottest part of Australia - and the world - has won an international architecture award for excellence.

The Liberal member for the western Sydney seat of Mulgoa says her constituents deserve better from her political party - the party centred on the “alienable rights and freedoms of all peoples”.

Business is booming for those “in the cave” of Western Australia, where there are few signs of the global coronavirus pandemic.

Today on Please Explain, media writer Zoe Samios joins Nathanael Cooper to look at the challenges faced by local streaming services.

The embattled carrier has flagged the possibility of moving its direct London flights to Darwin because of Western Australia’s ‘conservative’ border policies to the chagrin of state Premier Mark McGowan.

Female judges are among Afghans joining the desperate last days of the Kabul evacuation. A global network of female jurists is working to secure their exit.

Yvonne Weldon vowed she would never get involved with black politics as a young woman growing up in Redfern. Now she could be Sydney’s next lord mayor.

When this “repugnant” man filmed dying police officers on the side of the Eastern Freeway, he became vilified across the country. But he had been on the radar of authorities for decades.

The NSW government has relaxed rules around outdoor gatherings for people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 from September 13.

Regional NSW’s lockdown will also be extended to September 10, Premier Gladys Berejiklian said, following additional cases in the state’s west.

Aidan Jordan Lane, 26, will front Ipswich Magistrates Court charged with offences that carry up to 15 years’ jail.

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.

An AFL premiership decider in Perth would inject a timely economic boost to WA tourism and hospitality industries impacted by the state’s hard border.

Almost 80 per cent of NSW’s intensive care beds are now full, Victorian Labor has clawed back support despite Melburnians spending more than 200 days in lockdown and Queensland’s new border rules have come into effect.

A postcode-level breakdown of weekly cases in Sydney shows the bulk of cases are now being recorded in the Blacktown, Cumberland and Canterbury-Bankstown regions.

Some days, Belinda Compagnon worries about her children’s mental health if they are confined at home. Others, she worries about them catching COVID-19 if they go to school.

A Sydney woman’s husband is one of 200 people in Kabul that a migration lawyer is desperately trying to unite with their families in Australia.

Maha Abdo, who has helmed the Lakemba-based Muslim Women Association for more than 20 years, has called for a more holistic COVID-19 response that involves health and social service workers alongside police.

One of my patients put off making his appointment with a specialist because he feared going near a hospital during lockdown. By the time his cancer was diagnosed, it was too late.

The international scientists who led the World Health Organisation’s mission to Wuhan say that without urgent action the source of the COVID-19 pandemic will never be known.

Charlie Watts was the rock steady beating heart of the Rolling Stones.

NRMA takes on sect, UN turns guns on Saddam and Pablo lifts his game.

On August 26, 1999, a historic motion of reconciliation was passed in Federal Parliament – but for some Indigenous leaders, it didn’t go far enough.

Already a list of applicants hopeful of taking silk in NSW is reading like a royal commission roll call.

Close to one-third of Greater Shepparton’s workforce is in isolation, meaning the close-knit community is struggling to deal with this crisis.

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NSW has surpassed 6 million coronavirus jabs, Victoria and NSW have expanded Pfizer vaccine eligibility and voters have backed Australia’s national vaccination targets.

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The former mortgage broker has been released from prison having served jail terms for filming four dying police officers after a crash on Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway, and other offences including assaulting a woman.

A number of key measures have trended down in recent days suggesting to some experts that the spread of the Delta strain could be controlled.

A NSW farmer was devastated when he couldn’t attend his aunt’s funeral due to border closures. He found an imaginative way to pay tribute to her.

Despite one of his salons being an exposure site in June, Joh Bailey said he is ready to reopen if the government allows for the easing of restrictions for fully vaccinated customers.

The DNA, from a woman who died 7200 years ago on the island of Sulawesi, has given remarkable insight into the movement of ancient peoples through the region.

A mystery illness has been hitting diplomats and spies around the world. But is it an attack or something else?

With more than 50,000 orders in the city so far this year, drone delivery company Wing says “we think Logan is what drone delivery will look like globally”.

Brighton man Toby Loughnane was charged with a single count of murder over the disappearance of Maryam Hamka, who has been missing since April.

An inquiry heard it would take five years to develop “action statements” for all listed species including the glossy black cockatoo, burrunan dolphin, black falcon, and masked owl.

Travellers at the airport have expressed their frustration and disbelief following the shock announcement that the Queensland government would be blocking arrivals from NSW, Victoria and the ACT.

Education Minister James Merlino wants senior students fully vaccinated by October 4, but the state cannot guarantee it will have the supply to do so.

Equine vet Adam Matthews and Mornington trainer Lisa Enright have been questioned by police as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption and illegal activity within the state’s racing industry.

HSC examinations are likely to be delayed again until early November, and some tests may be cancelled.

Police allege the Melbourne man accused of kidnapping two children at Blackburn North was known to his victims.