Victorians are celebrating the further loosening of restrictions as Australia prepares to reopen its international borders after 20 months.

Trick or treat! It's a happy Halloween in Sydney.

Just months after a global energy agency warned against any new production fields, to limit global warming, Origin Energy wants state approval to seek fossil fuels in the Channel Country.

More than 20,000 offenders snapped by cameras were issued with warning letters during the technology’s three-month trial. From Monday, they won’t be so lucky.

Monday also marks the end of Jeannette Young’s run as chief health officer as she is sworn in as the Governor of Queensland.

After six lockdowns, Victoria is regaining its tourism mojo as crowds return to holiday hotspots.

As night falls across Sydney, a group of divers slips into the warm, pitch black, water off Manly. They slowly work their way around Quarantine Station using their flashlights to lead the way, spying a two-metre grey nurse shark, cuttlefish and octop...

With lockdown lifted, children dressed up and enjoyed the chance to take part in some trick or treat walks on Sunday evening as part of the imported US tradition of Halloween.

Rescuers were called to waters at Bulli, north of Wollongong, following reports the vessel had overturned shortly after 10am on Sunday. 

Struggling with labour shortages and a crippled CBD, Melbourne needs a massive wave of new immigrants to help get the city back on track.

NSW residents will be able to travel overseas from Monday, 20 months after international borders were closed.

Sydney’s Inner West light rail network will most likely be out of service for weeks at least, with cracks discovered in every single tram that has undergone a recent safety inspection.

A plan for legislation requiring citizens to present ID to vote has drawn immediate condemnation. The government must say why changes are needed.

Almost 900 Afghan refugees have recently arrived in NSW. Almost half of them are aged under 18.

Government figures show 94.8 per cent of residents in the western Sydney suburb aged 16 and over have had two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

This is the world’s gameplan for averting the worst of climate change: staying within a safe “carbon budget” as we shift to green energy. But how are the numbers crunched? And how will countries divvy it up at COP26?

NSW opens up to tourism which will bring jobs and business, and hopefully not cause an upward tick in COVID-19 cases.

Apprentice jockey Hannah Fitzgerald is in an induced coma at Royal Perth Hospital after coming off her horse just as she won the race.

Born in Richmond, James Dale Fisher began architectural studies at the Royal Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT) and then completed the evening course at the Melbourne University Architectural Atelier.

The pandemic and its long periods of remote learning has had a positive impact on the nation’s trust teachers and an appreciation of their work.

Rather than argue that one method tops the other, we claim that both are needed in quality teaching and learning. Inquiry gives teacher instruction a meaningful context.

A major Australian hospital has admitted to keeping a young disabled man in four-point restraints because there was no alternative treatment or supported accommodation available.

Have you received a text from an unknown number claiming a parcel is waiting for you at a distribution centre? You’re not alone.

But the past fortnight’s dream run of low or no cases has seen a 10 per cent fall in check-in app use, with Queenslanders urged not to become complacent.

As restrictions ease and Victorian families and friends reunite, we face the new problem of not knowing how to make conversation or act appropriately in public places.

A street in Albion has been declared a crime scene after emergency services were called to the scene just after 2.30am on Sunday.

The state hit the much-anticipated target on Saturday but it was officially recorded in Sunday’s data. More than 92 per cent of Victorians over the age of 16 have received one jab.

After months of seeing hardly anyone, Janine Joseph found herself scrabbling with a group of strangers to rescue Botanic Gardens birds who had lost their way.

This year’s Melbourne Cup is about a slightly knock-kneed horse who just won’t stop and a city that desperately needs to get started.

When it comes to pork barrelling, personal connection pays off.

It all seems like an impossible dream to have once been able to be so close to people like that, a stop-breathing-on-my-face kind of close.

For citizens fond of fairness, openness and proper process, it is a grim time.

Former journalist Kellie Sloane this week nominated for the seat of Willoughby, surprising moderate party members who had already thrown their weight behind local mayor Gail Giles-Gidney, while the party’s conservative faction is expected to field ...

Mark Latham wanted it ‘normalised’. But a review commissioned by the government says the Lindfield Learning Village is actually ‘very impressive’.

Silly climate debates and the federal government’s behaviour on the world stage is getting on the goat of one of the nation’s richest men.

Travellers brave onerous new rules to fly overseas to reunite with family as international borders reopen.

Some faith leaders are relieved the unvaccinated can now attend small services but concerns remain about a divided community.

The advent of “Instagram face”, and the normalisation of “mummy makeovers”, boob jobs, and now Brazilian butt lifts and “designer vaginas”, has cosmetic surgery being promoted as proudly aspirational - despite the “lack of transparency�...

As well as juggling school, university and other commitments, young Australians are also trying to tackle a bigger challenge: climate change.

Australia’s governing body for psychiatrists has moved away from endorsing a “gender-affirmative approach” to treat the growing number of young people identifying as transgender, in its first specific policy on gender dysphoria.

My daughter and I were en route to Sydney when Dominic Perrottet announced all quarantine would be scrapped from November 1.

The ABC needs to be filled with the most neutral, dispassionate critics of both - or all - sides of politics.

A South Australian policy to force some interstate visitors into quarantine after the state hits 80 per cent double vaccination could penalise some Sydneysiders because of “rubbery” vaccination figures.

Australians whose foreign national partners are still prevented from entering the country must wait for several months until general inbound tourism resumes.

Planning Minister Rob Stokes has announced an inquiry following “significant concerns within the community”.

A first edition copy of Polidori’s 1819 book The Vampyre, credited with popularising modern vampire fiction, has mysteriously turned up in UQ’s rare books collection

“Sewage and stormwater systems are literally imploding,” said councillor Luise Elsing, warning housing would be an election issue.

Back in 1993, before the Crown consortium won the bid to build a sprawling gambling and entertainment complex along the southern side of the Yarra river, there was another option for Melbourne’s casino that promised less glitz and glamour but more ...

For the uninitiated the conjures visions of a summer of socialising and partying free of lockdowns, with the protection of a COVID-19 vaccination. It can also be code for wanton debauchery.

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