World leaders are struggling to reach a new pact to limit rising temperatures, Victorian state Liberal MP Tim Smith is refusing to quit Parliament and NSW will review its process of awarding taxpayer-funded grants.

The Scots College campuses for years 5 to 12 in Bellevue Hill will be closed on Thursday due to a COVID-19 case detected in the school community.

The teenager was hospitalised with upper-body injuries, which police said were minor.

Sydney’s second city will not have an endorsed Liberal Party presence as the state executive distances itself from several problematic councils in the upcoming elections.

The former government minister, whose sister died earlier this year, has been granted a private examination after concerns for her welfare were raised following a series of damaging allegations this week.

Goondiwindi mayor Lawrence Springborg issued a statement on social media that a recent positive case from New South Wales was being transferred to a COVID ward in a facility in the south-east.

Hundreds more children have been left in state care in Queensland as the pandemic has proven a “pressure cooker for families”, surprising the government.

Professor Edward Holmes has won Australia’s top scientific award for his world-leading work on the evolution of COVID-19.

Lawyers for a group of Victorian workers who are challenging the state’s vaccine mandate have argued it limits people’s right not to have their privacy “unlawfully or arbitrarily interfered with”.

It’s been a library, family home and the headquarters for an espionage inquiry, now St Brigid’s will open as a permanent public art gallery.

Video allegedly taken last month showed cars flanking either side of the road outside the GP’s surgery near Colac, and dozens of people queued up on foot.

The scheme, offering $10 community club vouchers from several vaccination hubs, comes as Queensland reported an eighth day without an active COVID-19 case in the community.

Frustrations grow as 11,000 Victorian households and businesses remain disconnected.

In police body-worn camera footage taken just moments after Cleo Smith was found a detective asks: ‘We’re going to take you to see your mummy and daddy, OK?’

The detective sergeant and another senior officer were charged last week over accusations they tried to illegally obtain information, while on duty, about an internal police investigation.

Former obstetrician Surinder Parhar has been banned from practising medicine for 12 years after “catastrophic” failures were linked to the deaths of babies at Djerriwarrh maternity service.

A former financial officer at a construction payroll company has admitted to stealing almost than $840,000 to pay the debt of a Melbourne sex worker he claims to had fallen in love with.

Family services warned the toddler was at risk, and now he has lifelong disabilities after his mother left him in a car outside a pokies venue for five hours on a scorching summer’s day.

Woolworths took Mosman Council to court after a local panel rejected its plans for a Military Road store as “unsuitable” and “contrary to the public interest”. 

Police want to speak to a man captured on CCTV as they investigate the suspicious death of Paul Browne, 33, whose body was found in a fire exit at Rosebery.

Resources Minister Keith Pitt was not required to assess the potential environmental impact of fracking in the Northern Territory before he awarded $21 million in grants to a gas company, a court has heard.

Today on Please Explain, WAToday reporter Peter De Kruijff joins Rachel Clun to discuss the successful search and rescue of missing four-year-old Cleo Smith.

In the nearby Virgo galactic cluster, galaxies are being stripped of their star-forming gas, and astronomers now believe they’ve worked out why.

Mark McGowan revealed a plan was in the works during an announcement for a $400 million boost to WA hospitals over predicted COVID presentations when the state loosens its border controls.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption found Hasan Mamun had taken more than $220,000 in kickbacks from a software company that received $6.8 million from TAFE.

Legislated mandates, technical safety standards and a stable regulatory environment are crucial for a renewable hydrogen market.

Victoria’s Court of Appeal has ruled that the police force should not be made to reappoint former senior constable Simon Mareangareu, who was sacked after he punched a 16-year-old while on duty.

A promise from Prime Minister Scott Morrison to the COP26 summit on Monday to spend $2 billion over five years helping other nations confront the climate challenge, but the statement came as developing countries demanded more action from big economie...

Melburnians share their experiences as the city reopens. Today, in the sixth instalment of the series, skydiving instructor Cody Bekkerus writes about what it felt like to strap himself to a thrill seeker and leap from a plane 4000 metres above St Ki...

It has been revealed that investigators were told to review the adequacy of measures dealing with ‘potential risks’ to rail safety.

Trent Thorburn, 24, has avoided going back to jail after he was sentenced in the Beenleigh Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

This news has elevated us all: Cleo Smith has been reunited with her family after 18 days of agony.

The High Court of Australia has paved the way for some working holidaymakers from overseas, including Norway and Britain, to receive a refund of the so-called “backpacker tax”.

Cleo Smith found alive and well

WA acting commissioner Col Blanch said police body-worn cameras captured the moment detectives found and embraced the little girl.

“You wouldn’t see too many tears from commissioners these days,” Mr Dawson’s counterpart in NSW, Mick Fuller, said.

WA Police found missing four-year-old Cleo Smith in a locked house in the West Australian town of Carnarvon after an 18-day search of the state’s north-west coast.

It comes after spectators returned to Flemington Racecourse on Tuesday for the first Melbourne Cup with a crowd since the start of the pandemic.

Dramatic video showed the structure supporting the platform suddenly separating at the head height of two workers, who scrambled for their lives to avoid the platform and numerous steel cables.

Perth Children’s Court heard two female students, aged 13 and 14, had used social app Discord to message one another about a plot to kill over the space of two weeks.

Labor Party oppositions don’t just fall into office, which is why the Opposition Leader’s risk-averse strategy is such a huge risk.

The French President’s statement is bracing, like someone dunking your head underwater. It got me thinking about how Morrison-speak makes everything so hazy it’s like living in a Godard flick.

A new position statement by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists should encourage more conversation about complex issues.

Let’s be real, the 2021 Melbourne Cup was very much the Cup Day to be celebrated in absentia.

Victorians are gearing up for another Melbourne Cup, the NSW government is optimistic about hitting a 95 per cent vaccination rate and the PM has hit back at French President Emmanuel Macron.

Scott Morrison’s reaction after being called out as dishonest by French President Emmanuel Macron was to spin it, mendaciously, as an attack on Australia.

Adolescent girls from socio-economically advantaged backgrounds drove the biggest rise in mental health admissions and visits reported by Sydney’s two children’s hospitals in five years, according to data collected after the pandemic’s first wa...

Cancer victim to sue tobacco firm, insurers look at AIDS risk and South African police above law.

40 passengers died when a ferry, the Greycliffe, was rammed and sunk by the mail steamer Tahiti. It remains the deadliest incident on Sydney Harbour.

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