A new digital border pass recording travellers’ COVID-19 vaccination status is key to plans for reopening the international border, while experts warn that rising coronavirus infections in NSW and Victoria are putting hospitals under pressure.

She’s got the support of Labor Party heavyweights, but many voters on the streets of locked-down Cabramatta have never heard of Kristina Keneally.

Reports of builders breaching public-health orders emerged this week and the usual cries of favouritism rang out, but officials know the economy can’t be built on Zoom alone.

The Rural Doctors Association of Victoria and the Australian Hotels Association have separately called for public-facing hospitality workers to be a focus of COVID-19 vaccination programs.

Two new close contact bus journeys have been identified across the suburb on September 8 and 9. A number of Westfield Garden City shopping centre sites have now been updated.

The second of the three sisters who allege they were sexually abused as children by Malka Leifer is giving evidence in the court hearing that will determine whether the former school principal stands trial.

The man,59, has pleaded guilty to stealing donations intended for cancer research during a string of thefts from funeral services.

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Struggling tourism operators, plus businesses in the NSW-Qld border bubble, will get $52.8 million in extra support under a new state and federal government agreement.

Samuel McPaul died when his fire truck flipped during a “fire-generated vortex”, with the fire beginning from a lighting strike the day before.

The alleged male driver of the truck, who was uninjured, was arrested and is assisting police with their inquiries.

Today on Please Explain, senior economics writer Jessica Irvine joins Nathanael Cooper to look at whether a three-day weekend could be on the cards.

A man in his 20s has died from COVID-19 as construction union boss John Setka rejects mandatory vaccines for the industry.

More than 73 per cent of the eligible population of regional Victoria – almost 960,000 people – have received their first shot.

Climate change increases the risk of conflict and Australia will not find lasting national security without adequately addressing it.

NSW has reported 1127 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths, with authorities saying it is too early to determine whether case numbers have reached a peak.

A motivational speaker and author whose baby daughter drowned in a bath has had a charge of child homicide against her withdrawn by prosecutors.

Queensland now appears to have squashed the most recent schools cluster with just one new case recorded on Tuesday.

Victoria’s schools regulator is investigating whether Fitzroy Community School has breached its legal duty to keep children safe.

Kura Perkins said all she remembered was dancing with friends at Freo.Social on Friday night and having a few drinks before things “drastically went downhill”.

The international student handed over almost $40,000 after being targeted in an elaborate scam.

Paramedics were called to various locations in the Brisbane suburb of Runcorn after a fight broke out.

The teenager was charged with acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm.

Hundreds of critical workplaces continue to be affected by COVID-19 links as warehouses and distribution centres conduct contact tracing in-house.

People want to memorialise him, but Morant was no Man From Snowy River put up against the wall by those Pommy bastards. He was a vicious Pommy bastard put up against the wall by men from Snowy River and others who risked their lives to stop his atroc...

The state government has put the building industry on notice to comply with public-health orders after construction sites emerged as coronavirus hotspots.

Visitors will be able to sleep in a former jail cell and stroll notorious H Division when three former Pentridge Prison blocks open to tourists.

UWA professor George Milne said achieving a 90 per cent vaccination rate prior to opening up to COVID would still require a six-week lockdown to prevent a burst of cases.

Residents of the so-called “LGAs of concern” could only despair as they watched other Sydneysiders enjoy weekend, seaside freedoms denied to them.

Deputy Premier Steven Miles will on Tuesday outline the guidelines for doctors at faith-based hospitals, such as Mater and St Vincent’s.

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Hundreds of teenagers queued for hours to get a seat at the Australian premiere of Rock Around the Clock, a film which had caused riots overseas.

So which political party did Robert Menzies, Joseph Lyons and Billy Hughes all belong to? According to Clive Palmer, it was his.

But punting on the Premier pays off.

A regional NSW local government area is back in lockdown as the state is expected to reach its peak COVID-19 infections in the coming weeks. Meantime, the principal of a Melbourne independent school has defended allowing children to return during loc...

The construction industry faces a compliance blitz as authorities warn break rooms could be the most dangerous workplace setting.

A survey of 150 community organisations in Queensland shows digital technology is a driver of exclusion - not inclusion - and is worsening social dislocation.

Nine rabbis and seven doctors have written to Premier Daniel Andrews and top health officials imploring them to let small groups gather to pray during the holiest day in the Jewish year.

Melbourne’s mainstream Jewish schools have been urged to consider merging as high fees and demographic changes threaten to make them unviable.

The mother of a six-year-old girl killed in the incident says her family has been shattered by the loss of Olivia.

Vaccine liaison officers and culturally safe health messaging to be rolled out to areas with low Indigenous COVID vaccination rates under new government plan.

His parents Nicola and Peter Hodgson say they can feel the love and affection of the WA community as their son is in a critical but stable condition in hospital.

Police say the man was standing in the middle of a road in Bankstown on Monday when he was asked to move before becoming aggressive.

NSW Treasury secretary Michael Pratt said his department didn’t have “line of sight” over every grant despite the top bureaucrat personally signing off on the $5.5 million grant.

Holding those responsible for shoddy work, and restoring public confidence in apartments, is critical to helping to address key challenges facing Sydney.

Unless restrictions are reimposed, NSW’s road map to reopening would lead to all the state’s ICU beds being full for five weeks over Christmas, modelling by OzSAGE projects.

Hospitals have paused elective surgeries for all but the most urgent patients, who are at imminent risk of death without medical intervention, as waiting lists’ blow out to record levels.

The woman has told the NSW District Court trial of Brendan Leigh Russell that she was hospitalised after his operation which left her “in extreme pain”.

Adam Woodward, 35, was murdered outside Brothers St Brendan’s Leagues Club in Rocklea in Brisbane’s south in 2018.

Councils in Sydney’s north are divided on plans for a new harbour tunnel that will connect Sydney’s northern beaches with the inner west.