Year 12 student leaders across Sydney want the class of 2021 to be given the choice of sitting their final exams or receiving an estimate.

Two brothers and a friend who planned to shoot and kill innocent members of the public in Melbourne have each been jailed for 10 years.

An additional 1500 workers will arrive to fill shortages on farms, but the agriculture lobby says a long-term quarantine plan is needed and huge workforce gaps remain.

The fire that killed Robert and Patrick Salway ripped the roller door from their shed and uprooted established trees.

A Frankston police station custody officer has been fined $20,000 for sending footage of vulnerable people in the cells to his friends and laughing about it.

Alexander Page has been ordered to pay Sydney Seaplanes’ costs after the operator of the aircraft that crashed on New Year’s Eve in 2017, killing all six people on board, won an appeal against his lawsuit.

For years it was the stuff of rumours and tall tales. Now the super-sized swamp yabby has been formally named as a new species.

It is an outstanding feat for WAtoday to achieve this many media award nominations in Western Australia, let alone dominate two whole categories.

Police say Daniel Gordon Benson had been refused a working with children’s check in 2016. He was granted bail on Tuesday under strict conditions.

In trying to be everything to everyone, Guy Sebastian has plumbed a low not seen since his bad juggling in his Elevator Love video.

We are being indoctrinated into believing that the increasing COVID-19 death toll is confined to the infirm. It’s a cynical fiction, and a dangerous one.

The federal Health Minister has rebuffed criticism from Victoria’s Premier, say the state had received a higher per capita vaccine allocation than NSW.

The Victorian Student Representative Council’s call for year 12s to immediately return to face-to-face lessons has been backed by new Opposition Leader Matthew Guy.

The PolAir helicopter was running low on fuel as it came over the tree canopy during the search for missing three-year-old Anthony “AJ” Elfalak. But a small movement captured the crew’s attention.

Groundbreaking animator Anne Jolliffe said, that as a woman in the business, “she had to work twice as hard as the men, be twice as good, and to fight”.

Today on Please Explain, senior writer Wendy Tuohy joins Bianca Hall to talk about the national women’s safety summit and why young women are leading the way.

Donald Westlake could launch a sequence of breath-taking pyrotechnics that few other clarinet players could match.

It is alleged the woman breached the self-quarantine direction four times from Friday to Monday by visiting family members in the Fremantle area as well as a pawnbroker in Perth.

Between Australia’s success in skateboarding at the Olympics and exercise restricted to outdoors because of COVID-19, councils are investing in new facilities as Sydneysiders embrace the sport.

The move comes following the escalation of case numbers in NSW and officers’ role on the front line of the state’s COVID-19 response.

The number of people coming forward for vaccination in Sydney’s east has slowed, despite more than 80 per cent of people having received a dose in parts of the city’s west.

A 43-year-old man who had been in an on-and-off relationship with the woman, Angela Silk, for about a year, was assisting police with their inquiries.

Sydney’s hospital system is preparing for cases to peak, Victoria has a new Opposition leader and New Zealand is gearing up to ease coronavirus restrictions tonight.

A former Liberal Party candidate charged with preparing an act of foreign interference after an investigation by the country’s spy agency ASIO and federal police will contest the allegations against him.

Premier Mark McGowan said he wasn’t aware of a reason why the street parade could not take place following reports the AFL was concerned about a terrorism risk.

The chief health officer has warned vaccination rates in older people are still too low despite record increases in coverage in Sydney’s west.

Yvette D’Ath has accused the federal government of “playing politics” and failing to allocate enough vaccine doses to Queensland, which now has the lowest first-dose jab rate in Australia.

A major Brisbane hospital is in ‘code yellow’ because of bed shortages and high level of demand.

An analysis of the vaccine rollout on the 7.30 Report on Monday night found New South Wales’ share had increased 12 per cent above its population share at the expense of other states.

Police are treating the death in Brisbane’s south as suspicious.

NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman said the Coalition was ensuring its laws “reflect modern community values” by introducing a bill to add religion to the state’s anti-discrimination legislation.

Technology that has its origins in investment from NSW could help decrease the COVID load on hospitals.

Most bronze plaques commemorate the famous, or the dead. Now a new community art project will commemorate the memories of 10 ordinary people.

News Corp’s shift on emissions coverage reveals something about the nature and limitations of the power of the Murdoch organisation.

Staff at an independent school in St Kilda have been warned they will be stood down if they do not return to campus to teach students on-site at the beginning of term 4 and in any potential future lockdowns.

The disruptions to officer ranks are adding to the challenges already facing a workforce stretched as it enforces pandemic restrictions on top of regular duties. 

A death from COVID-19 should not be any more tragic than a death from influenza. But the numbers of fatalities we are prepared to accept will influence our pathway out of the pandemic.

He may be leaving the workers’ compensation insurer, but in characteristic close-knit icare fashion, veteran executive Don Ferguson isn’t going far.

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

Problematic mung beans, regular shorts, and don’t patronise me, says Mortimer.

25 years ago, Bondi irrevocably lost its innocence with the brutal murder of British tourist Brian Hagland. 

Victorians could have extra freedoms in less than a fortnight, more than one in 10 people in NSW with COVID-19 are ending up in hospital and additional Pfizer vaccines have arrived from England.

Shinbones don’t pass the mum test.

A six-year-old Perth girl has been hailed a superstar for calling triple zero to save her mother’s life while she sat on the floor unresponsive and struggling to breathe.

Doctors are urging Victorians not to wait for the Pfizer vaccine, warning that many people who have had blood clots or strokes still wrongly believe the AstraZeneca vaccine is unsafe for them.

But Queensland authorities will not look at options such as drive-in clinics until there is another outbreak, as they keep close watch on regions falling behind the state’s own lagging vaccination rate.

Little on day one of the national summit on women’s safety made a dint in scepticism about its potential for real action to end our national epidemic of domestic, family and sexual violence against women.

Former leader Matthew Guy’s backers believe two-thirds of the party’s MPs will vote him into the top job again in a leadership ballot on Tuesday.

Katie Thompson has remembered her husband of six months and “baby daddy”, Timothy Thompson, as kind, caring and adventurous.

A woman who died hours after giving birth at home would have put her beliefs aside and chosen a hospital over a home birth if properly warned of potential health complications, her mother has told a court.