The bouquet of the season.

Paramedics have been dealing with record call-outs as those managing symptoms at home seek advice and assistance.

The man spearheading Queensland’s present response to the pandemic says the virus would be here “whether we opened the borders or not”.

People in Melbourne’s west are being told to prepare for wild weather as thousands in western Victoria are without power after heavy rain and strong winds lashed large parts of the state.

Festival director Olivia Ansell is facing a baptism of fire for her first event.

Seven months after collapsing on the field during Denmark’s Euro 2020 match, star midfielder Christian Eriksen said he hopes to play in the 2022 World Cup, which begins in November in Qatar.

Queensland residents have been left waiting hours for COVID-19 tests, with frustrations boiling over in queues.

Concession cardholders will receive 10 rapid antigen tests, but universal free access has been ruled out, while tennis star Novak Djokovic has been granted a medical exemption to enter Australia despite not being fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

The surge in demand for rapid antigen tests has been an added stress for those trying to visit loved ones in nursing homes.

The daughter of the engineer who oversaw the reconstruction of the GPO clock tower in the 1960s says his collection of papers, photographic slides and technical documents should be preserved for the nation.

A year on from Washington’s Capitol riots, President Biden’s inauguration promise to display “tolerance and humility” towards his political and ideological enemies is ringing hollow.

More people tested positive to COVID-19 in NSW on Wednesday than there were fans on the first day of the Sydney Test, as an outbreak decimated the Brisbane Heat’s playing ranks.

Elective surgery has been halted again as pressure mounts on Victoria’s hospitals, ambulances and testing systems amid escalating omicron infections.

England’s bowlers have been constantly lectured on their length. But no one was mentioning luck, which they finally got at the SCG.

About 6.6 million Australians on concession cards will be eligible to pick up 10 free rapid antigen tests after national cabinet agreed to a series of changes to testing.

Steve Smith and Usman Khawaja have the chance to be home town heroes after a surprising England fightback.

From the light towers that allowed day one of the fourth Ashes Test to get to as many as 46.5 overs under grey skies, to ignoring Bangladesh for 19 years, or pushing the BBL through COVID-19, Kerry Packer’s stamp is everywhere.

Ahead 3-0 in the series, Australia arrive in Sydney full of confidence as England look to restore some credibility.

The American and two-time Australian Open quarter-finalist will miss this year’s Melbourne major as the vaccination mandate for players continues to affect the draws.

Parents trying to book vaccine appointments for 5 to 11-year-olds on Victoria’s new system are reporting mixed results since it launched on Wednesday afternoon.

Ambulance Victoria said the situation had been exacerbated by the number of paramedics in isolation, with 500 Ambulance Victoria staff currently out of work while awaiting COVID-19 test results.

Company says some pharmacies have been selling the sought-after testing kits at excessive prices.

Phil Sweeney loves nothing more than pinching feature races from his bigger city rivals around the Riverina.

Everything you need to know to pick a winner on an eight-race card.

The premiers are among the worst affected, but Peter V’landys insists the code’s testing regime will give it every chance of not postponing matches.

Sledging matches, crocodiles, beer bottles and Omicron were all part and parcel on the first day of a very strange Sydney Test.

US President Joe Biden urged classrooms to remain open: “We have all the tools to keep kids safe.” But more than 3000 schools have delayed in-person learning.

The artist, whose memorable portrait of the late actor David Gulpilil was at the centre of a legal battle, died on Tuesday night.

Former Australian tennis star Sam Groth has accused Novak Djokovic of “laughing in the face of Victorians” after the world No.1 was given a medical exemption to play in the Australian Open.

Huarong proved to be too big to fail for Chinese authorities at a time of slowing economic growth and rising debt defaults, but it has been savaged by investors after resuming trade.

It is the first agreement of its kind Japan has truck with another country.

The man attempted to drive his partner, who has Parkinson’s disease and dementia and uses a wheelchair, through outback WA as temperatures soared in the car.

An interactive map shows COVID-19 case numbers in your postcode, while an analysis of data points to high infections in suburbs populated by Sydney’s youth.

Save Sydney’s Koala committee member Pat Durman said that, while people could often go to zoos and pose beside a koala, taking the marsupials to hotel rooms or homes was unacceptable.

Health authorities say there were five new community COVID-19 cases recorded in WA – including the worker from the Lucky Shag announced on Tuesday – as another quarantine hotel security guard and someone connected to the Delta-variant cluster wer...

An offshore worker who stopped by Divers Tavern in Broome before heading home to Queensland has tested positive to the virus and the pub is now an exposure site among several new locations in Perth including Yagan Square on New Year’s Eve and Day.

The mudi descended from long lines of Hungarian sheepdogs. The toy is “aristocratic”.

Firebite and The Tourist join a long line of TV shows that depict the outback as a harsh but empty place filled with unpredictable menace.

A documentary series on the medical revolution that changed the world - vaccination - is must-watch viewing.

Tonally and thematically, The King’s Man starring Ralph Fiennes is all over the place.

The Yellowstone origin series is a western that celebrates the American frontier, and illustrates the unspeakable torment of the settlers seeking a better life.

Shortages on some shelves are likely to last for weeks as retailers big and small grapple with large numbers of staff in isolation.

Police are seeking assistance to identify a man who allegedly stuffed wheelie bins full of luxury goods from a Sydney store in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

To watch the Serbian stretch every sinew to return a tennis ball before reverting to form with a snap like a rubber-band, is to witness the most extraordinary of athletes. But there has never been anything rubbery about the reactions to him.

Jason Yat-sen Li will defend Jodi McKay’s old seat of Strathfield against Liberal challenger Bridget Sakr at the byelection.

Beaches along the eastern coastline have experienced heavy erosion and scientists fear climate change will only make these events more frequent and more intense.

Five more matches have been postponed across the A-Leagues due to coronavirus cases, adding to a fixture backlog that could cut short the men’s season.

The man charged with arson at Old Parliament House, Nicholas Malcolm Reed, immediately went back to the historic building just 15 minutes after a court appearance in which he was banned from doing so.

The investor claims mean former Sheffield United sponsor Union Standard International is one of the biggest investment scheme collapses in years.

Australia’s self-proclaimed ‘queen of honky tonk’ is chased night and day by her demons yet still dreams of making it big in Nashville.