Dubious students stalk their teacher across the ditch for the summer.

Peter Carne was Public Trustee of Queensland in 2009-2014 and 2016-2020. He resigned amid misconduct allegations.

AI developer Max Kelsen has set up an accelerator to help medical AI projects get off the ground in Queensland.

NSW’s regional holiday spots are rapidly spending to keep an intrastate travel boom from going bust.

‘You’ve got to trust in science’: children aged five to 11 are eligible for their first COVID-19 vaccine from Monday.

Callan Park has been wielded as a symbol of the city’s complex and evolving relationship with green, open space.

As well as creating a poor international image, Australia’s treatment of the world tennis No. 1 highlights key problems with our migration process.

Much of the debate over Sydney’s parks has centred on commercialisation, but the dawning moment for many residents last year was the effect passive spaces had on their sanity.

Critical food supply, transport and manufacturing workers could be hauled back to work despite being close COVID contacts as the state government strives to protect supply chains during the Omicron peak.

State and federal governments need to outline now what the start of the school year will look like.

Meanwhile, Victoria’s COVID-19 commander has apologised to the thousands of Victorians who returned an invalid PCR test after waiting more than seven days for their results.

Two staff members of an Australian NGO were severely beaten by the Taliban on December 25 because of their involvement with a foreign organisation.

As I walked down the steep path towards the endless expanse of sand and water on the first day of the program, I felt a familiar lump rise in my throat – that sense of gratitude that settles now whenever I glimpse life as it should be for our kids.

Glenn Conroy has found plenty of pieces of gold over 40 years of metal detecting. These days he’s giving some of it away.

All premises were ordered to evacuate as the CBD prepared to “bear the full impact of the flood” after the levee designed to keep it safe was damaged.  

Perth’s Delta-variant backpacker cluster has increased by one after a close contact tested positive while in quarantine.

Novak Djokovic’s bid to overturn his deportation is due to be heard on Monday, despite a bid by Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews to have it delayed.

While consumers stocked up on surgical masks and hand sanitiser during the earlier stages of the pandemic, they are now flocking to carbon dioxide monitors, N95 masks, air purifiers and oximeters.

Term 1 has been pushed back to February except for students in years 11 and 12, while Omicron hospitalisations are expected to “escalate substantially” from next weekend.

The tennis champion may have picked up the virus at a basketball match where he met with a player who later tested positive to COVID-19.

Poitier was recognised for changing the way in which American society regards black people.

NSW has recorded its deadliest day since the COVID-19 pandemic began as new restrictions come into force in an attempt to curb the virus surge.

To be present with someone who is near death is a precious lesson.

Frustrated medical leaders say Australia’s politicians have turned their back on sound public health advice and “let it rip”.

Extremism experts have raised the alarm about the potential for volatile individuals radicalised by talk of executions and martyrdom to carry out lone-actor attacks, as the ‘freedom’ movement aims to stay relevant in 2022.

No primary school student will be fully dosed when pupils return to school as bookings for five- to 11-year-olds open on Monday and there is an eight-week gap between jabs.

As COVID-19 tears through the country’s young people, share houses have become ground zero.

The cost of compensating injured NSW police has more than doubled in three years to $381 million as the majority of officers who left the force in 2021 were deemed ‘medically unfit’ to continue their careers.

At times, the Premier has reminded me of that lonely accordionist who played in support of Novak Djokovic the other day, with nobody dancing to his tune.

The big day arrives. They park over my neighbour’s driveway, climb out like Teamsters and fling open the back doors. Two Stooges Removals have arrived.

In an average day at Sydney’s Children’s Hospital, Reef Gilmore takes a number steps to reduce his risk of coming into contact with COVID-19.

The bulldozing of Manly’s old aquarium has revived a push to transform Manly Cove by rebuilding its historic harbour pool and boardwalk.

Residents in upmarket Paddington are opposing plans for a new small bar, arguing the suburb is being ruined by drunken louts because there are too many licensed venues.

A draft report into the impact of the pandemic on the housing market finds a “clear Airbnb effect” on rental supply.

For 40 years a group of fit Melbourne gym-goers have been suspected of committing a string of meticulously planned and lucrative robberies. Now for the first time, their full story can be told.

Researchers followed students’ progress in NAPLAN and found there was no difference between the three school sectors.

The 1500-space underground car park is planned to be built as part of a ‘village precinct’ next to the new Sydney Football Stadium at Moore Park.

Despite falls in teenage pregnancy, there are still more than 1000 first-time mothers under the age of 20 each year, and they are more likely to be disadvantaged and need help.

State leaders are riding a wave of trust and the Prime Minister seems diminished, but ultimately the public doesn’t give a rats who supplies them with RATs, they just want them now at a price they can afford.

Drowning is not an inevitable reality of Australian summer. It is preventable, and we can each play a positive part.

The vaccine sacking is a reminder that religious freedom is a balancing act, as adding to one group’s freedoms must inevitably affect the freedoms of others.

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Controversial plans to redevelop the historic home were approved just weeks before the blaze that police are now treating as suspicious.

Artist Fletcher Andersen is breaking the mould with a new venture for his “beautiful passion” - toys. They’re not the mass-produced variety and not just for kids.

There is now a record of more than 26,000 personal watercraft registered in Victoria, up 36 per cent since 2015. Amid COVID-19, sales have spiked.

The man and his girlfriend had been walking along the cliff when he lost his balance and fell 30 metres.

Though a fraction of their usual size, the Barmy Army ensured that they were not forgotten at the Ashes Test as they belted out song after song.

Fans braved Omicron, humidity and the Barmy Army at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Tens of thousands of elderly residents are in lockdown after the number of aged care facilities with active outbreaks more than quadruped in a fortnight.

Police closed off multiple streets in Fortitude Valley until they revoked a PSPA on Saturday afternoon.