As DJs, they make great health professionals.

This was farewell to Alex de Minaur for another year and a big, eye-opening hello to the talents of Jannik Skinner.

Three members of a high-profile Sri Lankan asylum seeker family can reapply for bridging visas - but the situation for little Tharnicaa remains unchanged.

Victoria Police have arrested and charged two men with offences including impersonating an officer.

Mark McGowan’s self-serving decision to keep Western Australia’s border shut to other Australians ignores the changed realities of the pandemic.

Lauren Walsh, the head of English at the girls’ school in Rose Bay in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, says “there’s a special magic” to how her subject is embraced.

Teachers and office workers are packing boxes, school maintenance staff are driving trucks and forklift drivers are on site until late at night in a mammoth effort at a western Sydney warehouse.

Healthcare staff have joined more than 1000 signatures on a petition calling for Premier Mark McGowan to reopen the border as promised, saying it made no sense medically to remain closed.

Integrity Commissioner Nikola Stepanov, who the Premier says will take up a new job later this year, had previously raised concerns about the actions of the Public Service Commission.

Daily coronavirus numbers appear to be on a downwards trend in NSW and Victoria, Queensland has overhauled close contact rules for “critically essential workers” and more than 6.6 million Australians are eligible for free rapid antigen tests from...

The Singapore-flagged ship, en route to Melbourne from China, lost 50 shipping containers off the NSW coast in May 2020.

Hanny Papanicolaou had just $11 left in her bank account when she turned up at the home of Marjorie Welsh and launched a savage attack, a Sydney court has heard.

Despite more cases being reported in the city’s west, a smaller proportion of these were determined with the at-home kits.

The news comes as a daycare centre in Thornlie was added to the list of exposure sites and the state urged anyone with even mild symptoms to go and get tested.

The review could spark a new COVID funding stoush between the federal government and Victoria over the cost-sharing arrangements for PCR tests.

The promise of tax cuts for young Australians will only go part of the way to restoring their hopes in owning a home or in building a more certain future.

Today on Please Explain, The Age’s sports reporter Sam McClure joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss the Australian Open, as the competition enters its second week.

Anyone who visited – and even anyone who didn’t, but is feeling symptoms – should get tested and isolate pending results.

The peak body for the legal profession says the states and territories are already investigating “better alternatives” to the federal government’s defamation plan.

Witnesses reported seeing the vehicle drive into the police cars that were blocking the exit ramp at the Westfield Airport West shopping centre last Thursday. 

Premier Daniel Andrews said the tests were on top of a government program launched earlier this month to link thousands of jobseekers with food suppliers looking for workers.

Kelly, 36, was arrested after detectives raided his Carnarvon house at 12.46am on November 3 and found the little girl alone inside a bedroom playing with toys.

Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath says the vaccination rate for 12-to-15-year-olds should be as high adult vaccinate rates, but they are not.

Police allege the teen was in the process of stealing the kits from a testing site in Moonee Ponds.

Queensland has reported 13 more COVID deaths and 10,212 new infections as the children of essential workers return to schools across the state.

Making the world safer and healthier means member states of the World Health Organisation must tackle its long-term funding challenge.

Mr Salameh, 30, was shot dead in his home on Rymill Street, Tregear, during a home invasion on November 30, 2020.

But Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant warned a drop in infections, down from 20,324 yesterday, should be viewed with caution due to lower weekend testing rate.

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

Experts say the Omicron wave has probably reached its peak, with COVID-19 case numbers in Victoria and NSW now likely to be on the downward slope, even with an expected surge as schools open.

Teachers want their administrative workloads reduced and to have time to innovate and invest in developing their professional knowledge all for the benefit of their students.

The Premier’s statements that the public hospital system has capacity and is coping have offended many frontline healthcare workers whose sacrifices have, and continue to be, been immense.

As teachers and students return to school, we must continue to heed the best scientific evidence available - in both health and education - to deliver safe and productive classrooms.

To achieve true reconciliation, difficult discussions about Indigenous dispossession and disadvantage can no longer be confined to the week of Australia Day.

Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson said it would be a wake-up call for frontline staff. ‘We really do have COVID in our community now. This isn’t a practice run.’

Let’s make it as simple and straightforward as possible to get nurses, doctors, midwives and other professionals here. Let’s not wait, Mark Olson said.

Sydney Harbour is the place to be, but if you prefer celebrating locally, there are plenty of events at most suburban Sydney councils.

There was a recovery in the first half of 2021 but since then, the upheaval caused by the Delta variant of COVID-19 has pushed the index lower again.

Experts say the plan to amend the country’s defamation laws will increase legal costs, waste court time and make it harder to get some online comments removed.

Hundreds of live music events have been wiped from the calendar, with local arts-based businesses crying out for a new reopening date.

Internal TAFE NSW documents from November reveal the organisation has been preparing for delays in courses due to start this year.

The state’s environmental watchdog has criticised the plans, warning the “nature and extent” of contamination has not been fully assessed.

Trees and shrubs in gardens and parks today may not survive climate change, new research shows. Some old favourites, including natives, may survive only with extra love, care and water.

The crowd during the Nick Kyrgios/Daniil Medvedev match confirmed to the world we are a bunch of yobbos - now that’s not something to be proud of.

The passport solution, Windsor waistcoat swindler, and a floating bridge

A new bridge will link Brisbane’s emerging health and science precinct with bus and rail services, transforming the city’s inner south.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz and target.

Talal Alameddine, 29, was treated for minor stab wounds and cuts after the brawl between two inmates on Sunday morning.

Predatory worms are the worst.

WA Health has appealed for anyone with symptoms of sickness to be tested for COVID-19 immediately after cases in the community increase.