The election promise plan to allow regional pharmacies the ability to diagnose and prescribe more medications, in an effort to help stretched health systems, has reignited a longstanding dispute with GPs.

Florists, including a Brisbane owner, are closing their doors on Valentine’s Day as prices and supply chain issues are too much to bear.

Paania Frauline Lawrence pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Friday.

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

Both young Australian men, one alive and one dead, have become symbols of incompatible ideals of justice.

We live in one of the world’s best cities. It can be maddening at times, wildly expensive always, but a joy to call our home. The pandemic has cost Sydney lost a little of its mojo. It’s a diverse and complex city, and I want the Herald to cover ...

Top Australian health officials now say people need a third coronavirus vaccine dose to be considered up to date, but stopped short of using three shots to define “fully vaccinated”.

After surviving a fire and a heart scare, veteran flower grower Kevin Moneghetti is primed for another Ballarat Begonia Festival.

Greg Sposaro doesn’t know why police entered his property late one Friday night. But he says when an officer came for him, he feared for his life.

Former federal Liberal leader Andrew Peacock has been remembered with great fondness by the party faithful as a man of charisma, decency and sartorial elegance.

One of Western Australia’s most prominent business figures and his son have pleaded guilty to entering the state without getting a G2G pass or undergoing isolation.

Melbourne’s public hospitals could open up to thousands of non-urgent elective surgery patients from Monday week, the national medical association says.

A new playground in Sydney’s inner west is being praised for its creative design. But some parents think it poses a safety risk.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is coming under increasing pressure to set a date for a return to the office.

War veteran Ben Roberts-Smith told a fellow Special Air Service soldier he shot a young Afghan man in the head and it was “the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen”, the Federal Court has heard.

Healthcare workers had to wear incontinence underwear during their shifts because they were unable to get to the bathroom, a parliamentary hearing was told.

Foreign workers on Australian farms have allegedly been threatened with dismissal and deportation after giving evidence about their working conditions to a parliamentary inquiry.

A group of publishers including The Australian have apologised to Justice David Thomas, after falsely claiming he got his job thanks to his brother’s political donation.

Infrastructure that separates pedestrians from bicycles and e-scooters, and in turn from motor vehicles, needs to be expanded.

The NSW Police previously announced a $1 million reward for new information about the deaths of Evelyn Greenup, Colleen Walker-Craig and Clinton Speedy-Duroux.

A 70-year-old Perth man has died after contracting COVID-19, WA Premier Mark McGowan announced in a “tragic update” on Friday.

Taxi services say they are regaining many of the customers they had previously lost to the rideshare apps. 

Debate over religious freedom has raised questions about how single-sex schools respond to transgender students, but there are few answers.

Grant, the father of former NSW police minister Troy Grant, was drunk when he fatally ran over scientist Tony Greenfield in 2019 and did not stop.

Footage of a new person of interest has been released after charges were dropped against another man over the murder of a married couple south-west of Brisbane.

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Emergency services were called to a motel north of Brisbane about midnight and detectives seized weapons and a vehicle from the property.

The Queensland government, which will pour in half the $200m funding pool, boasts it will be better placed than anywhere else to snap up returning travellers.

Today on Please Explain, culture editor-at-large Michael Idato joins Nathanael Cooper to look at Neighbour’s history, impact, and its future.

Former TV host Andrew O’Keefe has pleaded guilty to drug possession amid a fresh charge that he breached an apprehended violence order. 

The statewide code brown put in place mid-January when the healthcare system was buckling under the Omicron wave will end on Monday at noon.

In a growing trend in libraries across the world, you can ‘borrow’ people to hear their stories.

Elaine Walters says the discussion has been hijacked by those who think use of illicit drugs is normal, addiction unfortunate and decriminalisation inevitable.

When asked to comment about Banksia Hill’s hellish conditions creating “monsters”, Premier Mark McGowan donned his state defender cape against the evil tyranny clearly wrought by children as young as 10.

The most significant difference between the beach set designed by Damien and Aiden MacRae and Lego was the lack of sunscreen and hats in the official version.

Guide to poisoning your chalice.

Queensland is seeing a steady spread of COVID-19 in schoolchildren, but health authorities have played down concerns, saying the result was in line with expectations.

Fremantle’s $270m redevelopment has awakened in the city centre. Bars, shops, cafes and now an amusement precinct complete with bowling alley, mini-golf and arcade machines are up and running at FOMO after COVID-19 put a hold on leases.

Banksia Hill Detention Centre has been labelled “a tinderbox” by the state’s prison officers union after a Perth court revealed children being locked down for months by chronic understaffing, but the Minister says he has not been told about it.

Almost 32,000 lightning strikes have been recorded in Sydney since Thursday afternoon, with the potential for further storms on Friday and up to 20 millimetres of rain.

Former foreign minister and NSW premier Bob Carr talks about philosophy, literature and the attributes and shortcomings of today’s politicians.

Geoffrey Rush is back after what we can only politely refer to as a career hiatus since he won his 2018 case (bar one part in the small Australian film Storm Boy).

Two years after US President Joe Biden declared transgender equality the “civil rights issue of our time”, the issue is now at the centre of Australian politics.

The best thing the Quad can do now is kick the ball through the goalposts it has already erected rather than making flashy new commitments at the expense of real progress.

Considering the recent pact of Russia and China to collaborate against the West, deliberating on a “China strategy” at the Quad meeting remains crucial to maintaining regional stability and a rules-based order both within the Indo-Pacific and els...

The sooner authorities put pedestrians first, the sooner commerce and the community will flow back to the CBD.

Lord mayor Clover Moore wants all public sector workers back in the office three days a week – and she’s joined a campaign encouraging the private sector to make the same move.

Obstetricians are examining whether fewer in-person check-ups and the use of telehealth during lockdowns contributed to the shift.

Obstetricians saw a rise in stillbirths during the first year of the pandemic, and warn that disrupted and reduced access to maternity services during lockdowns may have contributed to the change.

The best photos from the international wires at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games in China.