According to NSW Health’s most recent Mother and Babies report, 15 per cent of women who gave birth in 2020 were obese.

Severe cases of a common IVF side effect increased by 40 per cent in just one year as fertility treatments and egg freezing boom in Victoria.

Such an increase would make the state’s target of reducing emissions by 30 per cent of 2005 levels by 2030 “effectively impossible”, the report states.

Suzanne Clarke described a series of disturbing incidents involving her daughter’s estranged husband and killer, Rowan Baxter.

Researchers at Brisbane’s Prince Charles Hospital are recruiting for a clinical trial which hopes to show how treating gut health can help cure insomnia.

Essendon Fields Airport reached its centenary in 2021 but a long-planned open day to celebrate the airport could finally go ahead on Sunday.

The state’s sodden residents have been told there is no end in sight to wet weather that has lingered for months.

As south-east Queensland continues to recover from the recent floods, more rain is forecast, with 100 millimetres possible in just three to six hours.

The discovery of the paddleboard at about midday on Sunday sparked a search of an area near Barrenjoey Headland at the northern end of Palm Beach.

With the war in Ukraine now in its second month, the crisis shows no signs of abating.

A bungling jewellery thief arrested on Collins Street after a foiled $96,000 heist had also stolen historic memorabilia from the office of some of the state’s barristers.

Four people have died after testing positive to COVID-19 as Western Australia records 7197 new cases.

Queensland’s cases and deaths have dropped in the past 24 hours, with the state in the early stages of a second wave.

Miranda is not an influencer and has no idea why she, and the 470 followers on her private Instagram account, were targeted by a deep fake cryptocurrency scam.

Forking out $7 for a cup of coffee? That’s just too much, even for hipster Millennials like me.

Legal experts say changes recommended by a Senate committee to an online defamation scheme do not overcome fundamental flaws in the proposal.

The 56-year-old man allegedly punched a male paramedic and threw an item at the female paramedic driver.

The old Missing Persons Unit was averaging 146 people a year that became long term missing. By last year that was down to 16.

Peter FitzSimons’ new book uncovers the stories of the people, the secrets and the scandals that shaped Sydney’s most recognisable building.

Hannah Fox knows all too well the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Melbourne after RISING festival, which she co-curates, was hit two years running.

We shouldn’t be fighting against what our bodies want, which is bright days and dark nights.

The 66-year-old former minister stared down threats on his position for months, but suggested the death of his friend and senate colleague Kimberley Kitching had changed his mind.

A judge said he was “dumbfounded” by Google’s behaviour, but the federal government is bent on protecting big media.

Dr Ruth Wilson, afflicted by a sadness she could not explain, began re-reading Jane Austen novels. She thought about how the characters’ journeys mirrored her own, and realised the lessons they learned could help her, too.

Did politics get in the way of public health? We need to know what we did right and what we did wrong.

It makes sense that the Premier has taken two weeks of parental leave for the new baby. The newborn phase includes a lot of judgment, by both parents.

A Greens councillor says Woollahra Council is forcing apartment owners to subsidise the council rates of residents who own harbourside mansions.

Waverley Council will employ a community planning advocate to help residents submit objections to building proposals in response to continuing concern about overdevelopment.

A Victorian Supreme Court judge has labelled the conduct of ASIO, Australia’s national security agency, ‘a disgrace’ for missing deadlines and disregarding court orders over the ongoing detention of terror cell leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika.

Niamh Maye was picking apples with friends in southern NSW to earn casual money on a gap year before planning to head home to Armidale. She didn’t arrive. Twenty years later, her family is still searching for answers.

In mid-2018, Luckee Kohli, Daniel Andrews’ local bottle shop owner, organised a meeting with the Victorian Premier.

It would be no surprise to most K-6 school teachers that many children’s basic skills improved during COVID-19.

Commuters will travel for free across Sydney’s entire public transport network for 12 consecutive days during the Easter holidays.

Many women, bold and faithful, put aside their concerns to do the right thing for others. There is no stopping them.

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Strict COVID-19 rules and geopolitical tensions are stunting the return of Chinese students, while universities and accommodation providers report a strong general bounceback.

Working parents want to return to the office, but they also want to decide how often and what time they start and finish.

A Griffith University team says its five-year battle to secure funding for its freeze-dried malaria vaccine stands in stark contrast to the fast-tracked COVID vaccines.

Transport Minister David Elliott said construction equipment would be removed from Church Street in Parramatta by Easter as work begins on the final segment of the light rail line.

A grandmother who scaled a freight train at Marrickville to protest against Australia’s inaction on climate change and two other Blockade Australia activists will face court on Saturday.

Docklands’ Sound Stage 6 launched on Saturday, with the film production facility already booked as the location for a new biopic about English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams.

United States Space Force chief of space operations General John W. “Jay” Raymond landed in Exmouth on Thursday and toured the Learmonth Solar Observatory.

The 59-year-old’s death, at Anglo American’s Moranbah North site, is the latest in a string of fatalities and serious safety incidents in the state’s mines after a “safety reset” two years ago.

The true impact of floods on animal populations remains unknown.

A teenage boy who had pre-existing medical conditions has died after testing positive to COVID-19. A man in his 90s has also been reported.

Some Bass Coast communities will receive stronger protection from development, but Cape Paterson is not among them.

Police said the woman was found on the ground outside her unit, suffering multiple stab wounds. Her three-year-old child was found uninjured, but covered in blood.

New infections dipped slightly on Saturday alongside a further jump in hospitalisations. But authorities say it is too early to predict exactly when the next peak will come.

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Don’t waste anything, use what you have and arm yourself with knowledge; amid the current cost of living crisis these core principles are becoming words to live by.