The state issued an alert late on Friday with an urgent call for Library patrons to get tested as testing confirmed transmission at the Club Bootylicious event.

The week in photos from the award-winning SMH and AFR photographers.

The weather bureau said hailstones larger than 20¢ coins hit Melbourne’s inner east as the SES responded to about 1600 calls statewide.

The Prime Minister is in Cairns today to announce additional funding for the Great Barrier Reef, NSW is pressuring the Commonwealth for greater economic support and Ukraine’s top diplomat in Australia is confident armed conflict with Russia can be ...

Further details of how the school year will run in WA emerged on Tuesday and Friday this week with new close contacts rules the latest to be defined.

The COVID-19 death toll has climbed throughout January and was into the 90s on Friday.

A new study has shown for the first time that killer whales successfully hunted and killed blue whales on three separate occasions off the coast of Western Australia.

Health authorities expect the number of hospital patients with COVID-19 will drop significantly over the coming weeks, prompting discussions about elective surgery.

Public hearings for the commission are yet to commence after a year of COVID-related delays, raising questions about the leadership of the organisation.

A family and divorce lawyer fighting sexual harassment allegations says he posted the female solicitor’s number online accidentally during a drug and alcohol-fuelled spree, VCAT has heard.

Tim Farriss has been ordered to pay costs after unsuccessfully suing a boating operator over an accident that severed a finger on his chord-playing hand.

Police have said the deaths of a married couple in Brisbane’s south-west had evidence of violence, after initially suspecting they perished in a house fire.

Disgraced former television presenter Andrew O’Keefe has lashed out at journalists after he was charged over allegations he attacked a woman.

Depending on where you live in Greater Sydney, you could be paying up to 191.1¢ a litre to fill up the tank. See how the price has changed over 12 months, and where you can get the best deal near you.

The former television presenter has been refused bail in a Sydney court after he allegedly punched, kicked and choked the woman at an apartment this week.

After weeks of reports on the state government’s secrecy around its Omicron modelling, a University of WA pandemics and vaccination expert has provided his own.

Yvette D’Ath says unvaccinated people are far more likely to get sick and die of COVID-19, despite claims only small numbers are doing so.

Staff went the extra mile to make sure every NSW school had received rapid tests by Friday, including one principal who made the ferry trip across Port Hacking with RATs in tow.

There was a jarring moment on a post-pandemic visit to New York: the radically changed skyline as you look down on the city from Central Park.

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Some of Central Australia’s most influential Aboriginal groups have written an open letter to the NT Chief Minister demanding an immediate lockdown of the region.

For two years, the teacher’s emails went into increasingly personal territory. Finally, he declared “difficult to explain” feelings, and sought a meeting.

Today on Please Explain, Indigenous affairs reporter Cameron Gooley joins Nathanael Cooper to look at the outbreak in central Australia.

The Crime and Corruption Commission is at the centre of a political furore but will have an acting chairman for three months.

Men are not entitled to our smiling niceness simply because they are men.

In addition to the 35 COVID-19 deaths reported, NSW has added 35 deaths to its tally on Friday, following a delay in reporting some deaths in aged care facilities.

The legal win for the Crime and Corruption Commission came on the last day in office for outgoing CCC chair Alan MacSporran.

At the start of the pandemic, there was only one drug approved for use against COVID-19 in Australia. Only two years later there are eight treatments with more to come.

Last year, Jo Dyer found herself in the middle of a firestorm that ended the then attorney-general’s Canberra career. Now, she’s re-entering the political fray.

For years, an inner Sydney laneway was a rat-infested dumping ground and spot for drug addicts to shoot up. One couple made it their mission to turn it around.

Queensland has marked two years since its first case, recorded nearly 10,000 new cases and 18 deaths, but COVID modelling shows it could have been even worse.

Sex Assault Squad detectives have charged the man over the two separate incidents, one in May 2021 and the other in December.

Time to check WA’s potential exposure sites list again as venues in Perth, Mount Lawley, Leederville, Welshpool, Mandurah and more are added to the growing list.

The would-be luxury apartment developer claims the Marine Parade site owner breached agreements by selling the land for $13 million in November with no warning.

Unless WA wants to end up in the same position as some eastern states with tens of thousands of cases a day, it’s got to put public health measures in place now – it cannot wait, University of South Australia professor of biostatistics Adrian Est...

The annual Australia Day fireworks-driven extravaganza is up for review before next year as Perth Mayor Basil Zempilas suggests it could be time for a pause or refresh of the event.

Researchers have identified the way to target bacteria that exists harmlessly in almost all people, before flaring and causing serious illness.

During the past 12 years, there have only been two big policy announcements – both made from opposition – that have captured public attention sufficiently to translate into an election win.

In an ideal world, Russia would drop its support for the separatists and stop hassling Ukraine. But that is a fantasy.

COVID-19 has shown us that the four-day working week is a sensible, exciting and well-established idea whose time has finally come.

Dominic Perrottet said he was working closely with his Victorian counterparts to develop a response to the economic downturn brought on by the latest COVID-19 outbreak.

Industry bodies have been lobbying the government for aid throughout January as people stayed home due to widespread transmission of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

Infantile paralysis outbreak; neurotics, criminals and guns; and of pluck and courage

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Large parts of Victoria, including Melbourne, were on high alert for heavy rain, damaging winds, thunderstorms and hail.

An Australian-led group of researchers discovers an immunotherapy for cancer can also “wake up” HIV in the body, allowing the immune system to target it again.

LNP leader David Crisafulli says the Premier has “no other choice” but to order an inquiry into the Public Service Commission’s actions.

While smart leeches treat us like suckers.

A pandemic needs people to be selfless and the return-to-school COVID safety measures provide a perfect opportunity for children to learn to be altruistic.

Television and film producer Bruna Papandrea has called on Australians to support former Australian of the year Grace Tame after she left an Australian Open event abruptly before it started on Thursday.