With a darn good cup of coffee.

The new Active Transport Minister also wants work to start on a major walking and cycling link between the Sydney CBD and Parramatta.

Male teachers, who make up barely a fifth of the workforce, are more likely to leave the profession over poor pay and lack of job status.

The best photos from the international wires at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics games underway in China

One of the most significant murder trials in a generation for its bearing on race, power and policing in modern Australia is set to begin in Darwin.

While avoiding a long, deep recession, a report shows the pandemic is leaving its mark on Australia’s largest city on the roads and elsewhere.

George, 12, was among more than 400 children taking part in Melbourne’s Midsumma Pride March. His family walked with their arms around him.

The National Association of Testing Authorities turns 75 this year, and after decades of keeping a low profile they’re finally speaking up.

Angry Nationals MPs will tell Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce to “lift his game”, Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews is due to front ABC TV this morning and health experts say Australia needs a plan for the next COVID-19 variant.

Victoria’s annual Midsumma Pride March once again saw tens of thousands LGBTQIA+ community members and supporters celebrate diversity along Fitzroy Street in St Kilda.

The NSW government has left open the possibility of mandating COVID-19 boosters for healthcare workers, but the state’s health minister says he’s still hesitant to impose the measure.

Fisheries officers are investigating a serious shark attack at a popular surf break in WA’s south-west just before noon on Sunday.

WA Health has reported a record number of COVID cases with a third dose vaccination blitz set to start tomorrow.

Steven Miles has evoked The Castle’s Dennis Denuto in rejecting calls for a royal commission into integrity issues plaguing the state government.

A man is in a serious condition in hospital after suffering burns while fighting a blaze in Bridgetown as authorities confirm homes and businesses have been destroyed by twin fires raging in the south-west.

Case numbers have dropped below 8000 for the first time in months.

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The original fleet was put out of service when extensive cracking was discovered in the vehicles.

Hundreds of firefighters spent a “hellish” night battling winds, showers of embers and oppressive heat as they fought against a firestorm bearing down on communities in the State’s southwest.

The pandemic’s human toll in Queensland is inching towards 300, with nine deaths in the latest reporting period.

There are now 652 people in hospital with the virus in Victoria, with 28 on ventilators and 73 in intensive care.

In my early 20s I was sexually assaulted in a Christian monastery. My assailant had set themselves up as my spiritual mentor but was in fact grooming me.

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

With more women choosing to be a truck driver, Heather Jones is helping to steer them in the right direction.

There is a wider lesson to be learnt in fixing classroom staffing problems: good ideas can come from the outside.

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

The local Land Council welcomes the move as the Premier says he wants a new pole installed in the next six to 12 months to accommodate the flag permanently.

We don’t know if it will be more deadly, or more infectious - or both. But there will almost certainly be another. So are we ready?

The television host, in denying the Holocaust was about race, has accidentally managed to flag that a black and white paradigm ends up making people more racist, not less.

How have Victoria’s schools fared after the first week in a brave new world?

It is 70 years since King George VI died, causing mourning across Australia. Which begs the question, “what will happen when the time comes to mourn today’s monarch, and a new king is proclaimed?”

An intelligent debate about the size and shape of the National Disability Insurance Scheme needs to be had in a society where one in six children live in poverty.

At least five Melbourne docks workers bullied at work have recently been paid out nearly $3.4 million over claims of threats and violent attacks, being ostracised and called “laggers” and having their work boots urinated on.

Sydney is set for more vertical schools despite concerns about their impact on children’s health and development.

A Chinese labour court has ordered one of Melbourne’s most prominent private schools to compensate a former teacher for wages that were unpaid at its international campus near Beijing.

The best photos from the international wires at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Games under way in China

Liberal National Party senator James McGrath says Australia must stand up to China, but Labor senator Murray Watt believes war rhetoric has inflamed the situation.

The Australian practice of detaining people for years when they have committed no crime is unjust.

The NSW government will bolster a federal commitment to supply tests to disability residential care homes, but the sector is disappointed NDIS participants who do not live in residential care were left out.

An advertising campaign urging people to get a booster shot will be launched on Sunday, as NSW continues to lag other states and territories.

Conservation groups have welcomed the state government’s purchase of a 35,000-hectare property in the state’s north to protect the region’s unique ecosystems.

Residents at a seaside community north of Brisbane are devastated their council is about to demolish an 85-year-old art deco bayside pavilion.

There are more than 14,000 people in NSW with Ukrainian ancestry. The threat of war casts a long shadow over the students and parents of a school in suburban Sydney.

Huge cracks run wide and deep, threatening to send massive sheets of rock and sediment cascading onto the beaches below.

The state opposition wants to broaden its appeal after its 2018 law-and-order election campaign disaster.

He has copped plenty of criticism, but WA Premier Mark McGowan wants to continue protecting his state’s population from the worst of COVID until vaccination rates are high.

Protesters gathered on Saturday, February 5 for a Convoy to Canberra march on Old Parliament House to protest against vaccine mandates.

A driver has escaped with only minor injuries after a significant blaze closed inbound lanes on the M80.

A conga line of knobbly knees, sneakers, boots and bare feet with painted toenails - the sign that the Puffing Billy is back to normal.

Victoria Police have increased patrols of Ashwood reserve after three men were allegedly assaulted by teenagers posing as an adult man on a dating app.