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West Australian Premier Mark McGowan will appear on Thursday night for a press conference at the unprecedented time of 7.30pm.

For the HSC Class of 2021 at Prairiewood High, a rough year has had a happy ending.

James Ruse’s Abigail Carungay got out of bed at 5.45am not for her HSC marks, but for the camaraderie. “I wanted to experience the collective waiting,” she said.

The former Boomer and NBA basketballer was sent a warning from the electoral commission about a video he posted on social media that attacked the state government.

The cost of surveillance testing of Victorian schoolchildren will be split between the Morrison and Andrews governments when students return to school.

General practitioners have been flooded with patients as thousands race to book a booster, leaving clinics struggling to find appointments for the latest wave of COVID patients.

A detective senior sergeant was injured during the incident and taken to hospital with serious leg injuries.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has urged states to ease testing rules, surfing legend Kelly Slater has “no chance” of getting into the country if he’s not vaccinated and in the UK Boris Johnson is resisting calls to step down.

Students have begun receiving their HSC results and band six results will be released here at noon. Follow the news as we celebrate the Class of 2021.

Both the Premier and the acting Health Minister apologised for any distress the cancellation might have caused.

The mercury hit 40 degrees on both Tuesday and Wednesday in Perth’s CBD, and it is forecast to hit 40 over Friday and Saturday.

The mother was arrested at the house in Corowa where she was staying with her parents and newborn, but she was later released without charge.

Ten days since the first shots were administered last Monday, 21.7 per cent of eligible younger children in NSW had received a COVID-19 vaccine.

The number of working holidaymakers has plummeted and is slow to rebound, as the federal government waives visa fees to encourage more arrivals.

Today on Please Explain, emergency physician Dr Simon Judkins joins Nathanael Cooper to take us inside Australia’s collapsing health system.

The ATAR is a good and robust measure of scholastic achievement, but a narrow obsession with an academic ranking does not serve our 21st century needs.

Archibald Duncan Campbell AM, who died on October 11, 2021, served Australia in a distinguished career as a diplomat for nearly 40 years from 1955 to 1993.

One of the new cases has not been linked to any previously known cases and has been infectious in the community. 

Lucy Saywell’s major work is a poem about climate change.

If the powerful checks and balances of our parliament are reduced or weakened, even good people in good governments get tempted to shortcut processes, avoid scrutiny, and put sectional interests before public good.

The Commonwealth’s quarantine facility in Pinkenba will have other uses instead of pandemic purposes ... unless.

Queensland reported 16,812 new known COVID infections on Thursday as authorities revealed more detail about the virus’ so-far uneven impact on the Gold Coast.

Ethan Jones from St John XXIII Catholic College and North Sydney Boys’ captain Thinesshan Thevathasan had a year marred by lockdowns, lost experiences and interruptions. Both are now headed for a career in medicine.

James Ruse Agricultural High has topped the HSC for the 26th time and, this time, with even greater success. North Sydney Boys has returned to second position.

Protesters against mandatory COVID-19 vaccination banged on windows at the Fremantle council building and chanted “no mandate” after a majority of councillors rejected their request for the local government to be “pro-choice”.

Find every student who achieved a band 6 or E4 in the 2021 HSC.

We’ve analysed the data and the top schools for the 2021 HSC have been revealed.

If you buy a new ruler every year, what are you meant to do with the other 12?

There are 2781 people in hospital with the virus, of whom 212 are in intensive care units.

Students, teachers and strangers touched by the tragedy attended the candlelight vigil held at Tweed Heads Public School on Wednesday night.

The Federal Government insists the booster program is ahead of schedule. Others see shades of last year’s slow campaign to get first doses into aged care. 

Mill Park dental nurse Poonam Sharma and her six-year-old daughter Vanessa died after they were stabbed at their home on Kellaway Crescent last Thursday.

The Crime and Corruption Commission’s case against a former mayor has been discontinued by the Director of Public Prosecutions.

The images, showing children among the debris, ash covering cars and homes ripped to the ground, come as HMAS Adelaide docks at Brisbane before heading to the battered island with supplies. 

WA recorded two new local cases overnight and has added six new exposure sites, while the government faces growing pressure to reveal plans for February.

The Age photographers and wire agencies captured all the key moments of this year's Grand Slam

There can be no Australian republic before a referendum to constitutionally guarantee Indigenous peoples a voice in their affairs.

Melbourne Airport bills itself as the freight hub for Australasia, but the Western Sydney airport may change this.

Before a widespread search for missing schoolgirl Charlise Mutten, Mr Stein allegedly dumped her body in the Colo River in the Blue Mountains.

Doctors warn some urgent cancer and heart surgery is already being postponed and within weeks ambulance transfers between hospitals could be limited to people needing immediate critical care.

In an internal video to staff, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital executive clinical director Professor Paul Torzillo has called out the decisions being made by state and federal governments.

Melburnians are avoiding public transport at even greater levels than last year as workers seek new ways to ensure they can commute by car.

The scourge of Omicron has delivered a serious economic blow to the harbour city, but there are measures that can and should be taken to aid our recovery.

Voters, it seems, have made up their minds about Scott Morrison. But indecision over Anthony Albanese may yet be the PM’s best chance at re-election.

Venues with a capacity of more than 500 people have been the canaries in the coalmine as WA readies for wide-reaching vaccine mandates to come into effect.

The calls come after Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson said she was hopeful information on how schools would operate would be released by the end of the week.

Premier, could you please stop telling us that the hospitals are coping because they aren’t.

A group of experts is calling for Australia to produce its own network of satellites to reduce reliance on foreign space capacity.

NSW is bracing for the immediate impact of Omicron on the state’s classrooms with fears of staff shortages prompting the government to try to entice part-time teachers to take on full-time work in schools.