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Council libraries have been deemed too important to deny entry to the unvaccinated from Friday. State-run libraries, not so much.

Experts fear Australia’s vaccination rate may flatline near 90 per cent as recent falls in jab hesitancy slow.

Three entire flights were initially deemed to be close contact sites, but now most of the passengers are considered casual contacts.

Disadvantaged students in WA have struggled with NAPLAN, but the Australian Education Union has said the test is not the most accurate way to assess a child’s abilities.

Victorian shoppers will no longer be required to show proof of vaccination in most retail outlets, but masks will remain mandatory due to stubbornly high coronavirus case numbers and the risk posed by the new Omicron strain.

The reclassification removes WA Police discretion to allow West Australians currently in NSW to return to the state, except for in extraordinary circumstances.

School-run tuition of small groups of students has helped children whose learning was disrupted due to COVID lockdowns exceed expectations on their NAPLAN scores.

Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton expects case numbers in Victoria to follow NSW predictions, but said there was no need to shut the border.

Melbourne’s oldest cinema is being transformed into the city’s newest live music venue.

Unit controller Graeme Edwards died in hospital in November 2018 after a high-voltage circuit breaker exploded on him at the Yallourn Power Station.

It will be alleged the accused 22-year-old submitted fraudulent documentation relating to an election funding application for $24,000.

Bringing forward booster shots to four months would have made half of NSW’s 16 and over population eligible by mid-January.

NSW is removing restrictions for the unvaccinated, federal government grants are under the spotlight and Tasmania’s borders have reopened. 

Councils will be given maximum timeframes to assess planning proposals for new apartment blocks and residential precincts or risk forfeiting hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees from property developers.

Ali Younes, known in rap circles as Ay Huncho, is one of two men wanted by police for their alleged involvement with organised crime.

A range of shoppers and business owners are in Sydney’s CBD to enjoy restored freedoms – but many are concerned about what the future holds.

Queenslanders have been warned to expect a surge in COVID-19 cases sooner than expected as Omicron arrives in the state.

Renters frustrated by their run-down homes are pursuing legal action against their landlords at record levels.

Police allege Robert Lavars sent the mail, sometimes containing both dead mice and faeces, on 28 occasions to government addresses.

Learn more about the ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank), including what it is and what it is not.

The former Australian Test cricketer allegedly sent 66 text messages and made 18 phone calls to his ex-partner in a 2.5-hour period on Tuesday night.

Brett and Bruce Jenkins each have more than 300 fraud charges. They faced a committal hearing in Brisbane on Wednesday.

Work and school woes, and a brush with COVID, were forgotten when a Melbourne family switched on their Christmas lights. 

New public health orders regulating the use of masks and COVID-19 vaccine certificates will come into effect from 11.59pm on Wednesday. Keep reading for a quick rundown of what they mean for you.

A truck driver whose inattention on a road in country Victoria caused a crash that killed a primary school teacher and her son has been jailed for two years and seven months and could be released early next year.

For seven years city commuters heading through Cockburn and surrounding suburbs have been slowed down by two freeway widening projects, the Roe Highway interchange upgrade and work on Armadale Road.

Tertiary Entrance Guide 2021: A guide to the nuts and bolts of accessing your ATAR and VCE results when they are released at 7am on Thursday.

Mourners have heard how ‘the happiest man on earth’ and Holocaust survivor found his voice and shared a message of hope with the world.

The state’s peak tourism body says the time it took officials to make a call on two hot flights is “a very unfortunate early setback”.

Today on Please Explain, political reporter Katina Curtis and senior economics correspondent Shane Wright join Jess Irvine to discuss their astonishing analysis of 19,123 government grants.

Commuters in the inner west and south-west have been warned to expect major disruptions to the rail network over the summer holidays from work on new metro line.

It is unclear whether Nicola Gobbo ever acted for Matthew Johnson, but he is now trying to get his conviction overturned because the former lawyer turned out to be a police informer.

The autonomous region of Bougainville Island has lost a champion of independence and the father of the 2018 independence referendum.

Health authorities are anticipating the state could see 25,000 COVID-19 cases a day by the end of January as the Omicron variant spreads.

Queensland’s Chief Health Officer says authorities took “an extremely cautious approach” after learning a traveller probably had the Omicron variant.

Cracked light rail carriages are one thing. Hot legs, it seems, are something else. Just ask NSW rail workers.

Only some passengers who shared a flight into Queensland with a positive case, suspected to be Omicron, will be forced into 14 days of mandatory quarantine.

Qantas has announced a new direct Perth to Rome flight three times a week from June next year as Western Australia prepares to reconnect the state with the rest of the world.

The Planning Minister will now decide if an adjoining tower should be built beside the Shell House skyscraper at the corner of Flinders and Spring streets - one of Melbourne’s most awarded pieces of architecture.

WA is facing twin COVID-19 scares after three truck drivers in two trucks who separately entered WA from South Australia have tested positive for COVID-19.

The Forrest’s investment company Tattarang publicly revealed a new redevelopment proposal for the site on December 5 following a stunted design-process but has run into a new set of concerns from the council. 

After the annus horribilis of 2020, was 2021 any better? It is debatable and it depends very much upon your frame of reference.

A person who travelled from Newcastle to Townsville via Brisbane on the day Queensland’s border opened has COVID-19.

An inquest into the death of teenager Alex Braes has heard he was left stranded at Broken Hill because of a trouble-plagued transfer system with South Australia.

Omicron is a genuine concern but with our high vaccination rates - combined with sensible behaviour - there is no need to stray from the path towards the new normal.

The eastern suburbs set clearly loves Allegra Spender, and they’re showing their love the best way they know - with money.

NSW Health Deputy Secretary Susan Pearce said it could take up to 12 months to clear the backlog.

International students, backpackers and other temporary migrants are not expected to flood back in after borders reopen to them on Wednesday.

The party’s fresh face in Kew, 31-year-old Jess Wilson, could be forced to fight a byelection in her first foray into the state political arena.