A handful of travellers from overseas will touch down, board a bus and become the first to stay at the quarantine hub outside Toowoomba.

Nine accountability bodies collectively keep watch over some of the most sensitive issues in the state. But their functions, and future, are difficult to untangle.

Brian Mulheran of Citipointe Christian College has never shied away from a fight. Gay rights’ campaigners fear the battle for the hearts, minds and souls of students is far from over.

Work has already started, but a Labor win at the federal election will still mean changes for the powerful Olympic organising committee.

At Marrickville High, seven out of 10 students are boys, so the school is piloting a new approach to try to entice more girls into STEM subjects.

A note from the Herald’s new editor Bevan Shields

Teachers will also receive a 2 per cent annual pay rise under the new agreement with the Victorian government.

Temperatures have stayed under 25 degrees since Wednesday when a high of 21.3 degrees was recorded. 

After shooting one man dead, Norden Wilio bundled his mortally wounded friend into a shopping trolley and pushed him 500 metres to an acquaintance’s house.

The Department of Education says no Victorian schools have closed because of coronavirus outbreaks or staff shortages.

Two of the accused allegedly almost collided with a police car in a stolen Mazda after forcing their way into a Reservoir home.

There are plans to elevate the study of Western heritage in history, the Australian Maritime Museum insists a United States shipwreck is indeed Captain Cook’s HMB Endeavour and a second SAS witness is set to appear in court today as part of Ben Rob...

New exposure sites at Canteen at Trigg Beach and QT Perth on Murray Street were also both confirmed on Friday.

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

I worked in Britain to defeat Margaret Thatcher’s homophobic law. Now I fear it’s all coming back - here in Australia.

Doomsday prepper James Greer was arrested by police on Friday after a loaded modified rifle was found in his vehicle at the Convoy to Canberra protest.

The NSW Education Minister said school attendance rates had been strong across the week and, as of yesterday, 86 per cent of students across the state were at school.

If you’ve been moving around Melbourne in the past couple of days, you might have noticed swarms of brightly coloured electric scooters buzzing around the inner city.

Swinburne University has threatened to use debt collectors to pursue its own casual staff after accidentally overpaying them.

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An elite soldier says he told Ben Roberts-Smith during a tense coffee meeting in Canberra that he would not lie about alleged events in Afghanistan if he was called to give evidence.

A 2016 Audi R8 V10 and 2016 Mercedes-Benz CLA45 AMG will be auctioned online later this month, as court-appointed liquidators sell assets belonging to Caddick and her company.

More than a third of ambulance triple zero code-1 emergencies are not being responded to within the recommended 15 minutes.

Today on Please Explain, former press gallery journalist, now national correspondent, Matthew Knott, joins Nathanael Cooper to look at the relationship between journalists and politicians.

Police allege the woman attended a GP clinic in the Great Southern region in January and left with a drug to use to end the girl’s life, and that the GP was aware of her intention.

The Australian Federal Police allege Felix Lara, 37, sexually assaulted the woman in New Caledonia in 2015.

The Omicron wave has laid bare the structural deficiencies in our aged care system, and we now need a plan to solve them.

Of almost 300 Victorian aged care facilities with active COVID-19 outbreaks, only seven have been spot-checked by the national industry watchdog.

There are 2494 COVID-19 patients in NSW hospitals, including 160 in intensive care. Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant says “we’ve blunted the peak” of the wave.

Requirements to check-in at venues using QR codes are being questioned now that authorities are no longer contact tracing COVID-19 cases. 

Deputy Premier says the high death toll in aged-care facilities was partly the federal government’s fault, as state stockpiles RATs.

The former television presenter allegedly had 1.5 grams of cannabis when police went to his home and arrested him at 4.30am.

Police enter the makeshift campsite associated with the 'Convoy to Canberra' with camping equipment beginning to get removed and cars towed

Hackers are here to stay and those who ignore basic cybersecurity on their devices, or their kids’ devices, do so at their peril. But help is out there, too.

The West Australian Premier stuck to his arguments about avoiding COVID-19 deaths on Thursday as he faced further grilling on the other impacts of closed borders.

Research suggests a genetic cause for why some people love the great outdoors, and have an affinity for nature.

Rural health matters and rural people deserve more. Of everything. 

Artists may yet rise to defeat the oligarchs of music production.

Problems in Victoria’s hospital system emerged long before the pandemic struck.

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister writes that there is much Australia can do – short of military involvement – to help his country in the face of a looming Russian threat.

A new draft removes references to the Anzac legend as ‘contested’, cements the importance of physics and reverses controversial changes to maths.

After a marriage of 13 years with Tennis Australia, big bank ANZ is calling it quits.

Next week private hospitals and regional public hospitals can resume non-urgent elective surgeries. But a major suspension will remain in metropolitan public hospitals, which are under red alert operations and managing more than 2500 coronavirus pati...

London’s Marble Arch Mound may have been closed after just six months, but an Australian reshaping the West End says it is vital to push the boundaries.

WA has been averaging less than 20 community cases of Omicron in the past two weeks, figures which are minnow-like compared to the caseload in eastern states, but a self-lockdown by large companies has resulted in immediate impacts on traders in the ...

Niki Savva says that Scott Morrison has one last chance in his efforts to reignite his election campaign before either the voters or his party remove him.

A range of regular transactions have been identified by the national financial tracking agency as potential indicators of a woman in sexual servitude.

Roman Catholics to fast again, and scientists attempt to alter the weather.

A study had shown that the backyard mosquito was the villain of the heartworm disease epidemic afflicting tens of thousands of the city’s dogs.

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