Melbourne is enjoying its first weekend out of lockdown, as Sydney GPs warn those who got their AstraZeneca shots close together not to skip their booster. More than 14 million fully vaccinated Australians will be able to travel internationally from ...

Melburnians have taken their first steps back into life after lockdown six. Some people only dipped their toe into the pool, others jumped right in.

Sought after Christmas presents are tipped to be in short supply because of a freight lag on imported products.

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The 36-year-old went from planning on changing nappies to enduring surgery and chemotherapy after being diagnosed with breast cancer while still pregnant.

A twist in the search for four-year-old Cleo Smith has led forensic police to shift their attention to her family home.

The man died at the scene while the rider is in critical condition in hospital after a car hit them from behind, police believe.

Northern Beaches mayor Michael Regan is urging councillors to consider using drones and laser displays instead of fireworks to ring in the new year.

A $90 million hot springs development is set to open on the Mornington Peninsula next year, directly across the road from the existing Peninsula Hot Springs.

Livestock shortages, restaurant reopenings and long-awaited social gatherings are set to push beef prices even higher.

Health Minister Roger Cook called “despicable” the threats to Premier Mark McGowan over increased mandatory vaccinations.

Quoting everyone from Buddha to Yoda, strangers write to year 12s telling them in their own words: ‘You’ve got this.’

Victoria has recorded 1748 new local cases of COVID-19 and nine deaths, as the Victorian government considers additional freedoms once the state hits its 80 per cent double vaccination target.

An unvaccinated woman in her 70s died at Hornsby Hospital overnight, while a man in his 60s who had been double vaccinated died at the Albury aged care facility where he was infected.

The former Labor powerbroker has arrived at Silverwater’s Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre, where he will begin his sentence of three years and 10 months.

Queensland recorded no new cases of COVID-19 on another “Super Saturday” as schools open for pop-up vaccination clinics.

A legal challenge to Victoria’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate launched by a teacher and her husband has been dramatically expanded to include more than 100 plaintiffs from a broad range of occupations, including an employee of CSL which manufactures the...

Young people who have come of age in the shadow of the pandemic have had two formative years stolen by lockdowns. As they finally emerge, they are raring to go.

Some of the Obeids’ ill-gotten gains were used to expand the family’s vast property interests, now worth millions and spanning the globe.

The state government is considering enshrining power for Victorian Traditional Owners in decision-making processes as part of its nation-leading treaty negotiations with First Peoples.

Doctors have warned the hundreds of thousands of people who brought forward their second AstraZeneca dose to within eight weeks of the first during Sydney’s Delta outbreak not to delay their booster shot.

Once a creative vein of Sydney, Oxford Street is sick. Perhaps only after her death rites are given will resurrection be possible.

Hopes among the former premier Gladys Berejiklian’s supporters that she’d emerge unscathed from the ICAC proceedings are fading rapidly.

About half the Indigenous artists who painted works sold 21 years ago to provide dialysis to remote Australians with kidney disease have since died of renal failure. Now, an exhibition will highlight their work.

The Quobba Blowholes campsite was a place of serene safety for the residents of nearby Carnarvon until a four-year-old girl went missing, presumed abducted.

Whether you’re longing to go back to nature or go forth into foodie heaven and hardcore indulgence, here are 52 ways to celebrate that release from captivity.

Why doesn’t the government pass legislation to liquidate all the Obeid family assets, pay the outstanding tax and keep the rest?

Welcome to Freedom Friday. When the clock struck 11.59pm on Thursday and Victoria’s lockdown lifted, the dormant city of Melbourne sprung to life.

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

Can I go trick-or-treating this year? Find answers to the questions readers have about the road map out of lockdown.

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Family and friends of JC spilled out onto the District Court steps to vent their anger at the verdict while police were forced to form a guard for the officer’s defence team.

The teenager says she feels as if her trauma “wasn’t actually bad enough” for officers to protect her from ongoing harassment.

Queensland has a roadmap to reopening but there are concerns tourists will be coming back too slowly, with long-term ramifications for the industry.

Annastacia Palaszczuk has for months promised to “keep Queenslanders safe” while staunchly defending her border policy. But things have changed.

Melbourne’s sixth citywide lockdown has come to an end, the WA government has offered a $1 million reward for information on missing girl Cleo Smith and NSW’s ICAC inquiry into Gladys Berejiklian continues.

Questions have been raised about the Office of the Independent Assessor’s investigative methods and complaint handling, amid a workload ten-times more than first anticipated in 2018 under Belcarra reforms.

Search efforts around the Blowholes campsite where Cleo Smith disappeared from on Western Australia’s remote and rugged Coral Coast were wound back on Friday.

A WA Police officer who fatally shot a Geraldton woman while on duty has been found not guilty of murder.

The woman who became the subject of memes after her husband gifted her a yellow Lamborghini was defamed by a Seven News report that suggested her charity was dodgy, the Federal Court has ruled.

Psychologists are urging us to get out and reconnect with dear friends and family in real life - but with a couple of conditions.

Cricketers across Melbourne will return to training this week, as the countdown begins for Victoria to hit the 80 per cent double-dose vaccination target and their season to start.

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Fresh enquiries by police come after Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said the Gold Coast ride-share driver was likely to need intensive care, but no new community cases had emerged.

The actor is suing the ABC and The Sydney Morning Herald for defamation, with the case due to go to trial in May next year.

A man in his 20s was killed after he was trapped under the bus following a crash in Woodpark, near to Smithfield, in the city’s west.

The department faces a large fine after admitting to workplace safety breaches at its youth detention centres, where a guard was bashed with a guitar and another officer had hot water thrown in his face.

The Premier’s phone rang throughout the night, with constant threats to himself and his family to the point where he was forced to turn it off.

The chance to lead this great masthead was - and remains - an extraordinary honour.

More than $60 million will be refunded to motorists as the NSW government moves to phase out its $40 E-Toll deposit system.