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Greater Brisbane residents will be able to emerge from their three-day hard lockdown on Monday night after Queensland recorded no new locally acquired cases.

The warning is in place for people in the vicinity of Karnup Road, Young Road and Kwinana Freeway southbound in eastern parts of Baldivis in the City of Rockingham.

The woman in her 60s had been travelling with the two men along a national park trail west of Maryborough, when the group was split about 1.30pm on Sunday.

Officers discovered Peter McCarthy, 77, a retired solicitor, dead with severe facial and head injuries during a welfare check on December 20.

The man is also expected to have contracted the more contagious UK COVID-19 variant, with two sites of concern — a Bunnings and bottleshop — now flagged by contact tracers.

The Deputy Premier, who was acting Premier while Gladys Berejiklian took leave, said the deaths made him "more cautious".

Under a new "traffic light" system to enter Victoria, there is no indication when people from Greater Sydney will be able to travel south of the border.

When a snap lockdown thwarted plans for a weekend away, Eugen Schledewitz and his fiancee Kelly Bang decided to pitch their tent in place they had never camped before.

Firefighters were called to Parramatta Road at 6pm, where they found a bus well alight.

Melbourne has sweltered through its hottest day in almost a year as temperatures across the state nudged 40 degrees and fire services dealt with a number of fast-moving grass fires.

The boy attended an Armadale centre on Thursday and tested positive to COVID-19 after arriving in Israel on Saturday, but the Chief Health Officer suspects it could be a false positive.

The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have helped increase the pace of construction on Sydney’s multibillion dollar rail project.

Two out of control grass fires in Melbourne's north-west have been brought under control after residents of Taylors Lakes were told to leave their nearby homes.

Two photographs 10 years apart tells the story of Grantham as Brisbane Times remembers the decade since the 2011 January floods.

Teachers Federation president Angelo Gavrielatos said some regional school principals were desperately advertising for staff on social media.

How long will people continue to comply with the measures necessary to overcome the virus as complacency and fatigue set in?

There is also a risk of flash flooding on the central and north coast, as well as a heatwave in western Queensland.

The bodies of Kaoru Okano and her three young daughters, aged 3, 5 and 8, were found huddled together in an en suite after fire ravaged a townhouse.

The idea that a drowning person splashes and calls for help is mostly a myth. How do you spot someone in trouble? What are their chances of surviving once you do? And how well should a child be able to swim?

Queensland recorded no locally-acquired cases on Monday, and across the weekend, easing fears of an outbreak of the highly-infectious UK virus strain.

A motivational speaker and author charged over the death of her seven-month-old daughter in a bath will fight to have her charge of child homicide thrown out.

David Savage has been charged by federal police upon his release from hotel quarantine over his alleged role in the international Unaoil scandal, which involved bribery of senior officials in oil-producing nations to secure lucrative contracts.

Western Australia's top-performing schools have been revealed, with the usual suspects dominating the top 20 in what was a particularly tough year for students.

A doctor who has refused to help investigating police might be ordered to give evidence in the court case against two midwives charged over the death of a Melbourne mother following a home birth.

Premier Daniel Andrews has announced the introduction of a "traffic light" system that will be used to categorise the COVID-19 risk of each state and territory.

An interview the AFL conducted with the woman who alleges she was indecently assaulted by Collingwood star Jordan De Goey is set to be made available to the footballer's lawyers as he prepares to contest his criminal charge.

In an Australian first, a new Victoria Police unit is working to cut off access to illicit weapons and says it has already netted 80 firearms since its inception in September.

The 53-year-old man was arrested in early December after raids at a home in Nimbin in NSW and was charged with using a carriage service to threaten to kill and two counts of use carriage service to menace, harass or offend.

Introduced in 2018, the voucher provides parents of children aged 4.5 to 18 years with access to a $100 voucher to reduce the cost of sports registration.

Video footage has emerged of a man abusing a McDonald’s worker in Kellyville on Saturday night after he was reportedly asked to provide his details for contact tracing.

Mark McGowan said despite Queensland recording no new locally-acquired COVID cases for three days, he couldn’t commit to opening the border without appropriate health advice and pointed to the general “buffer period” enforced when considering o...

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A 26-year-old was hit on the head at Delwood Beach, Fairlight, during an argument between his friends and another group on Sunday afternoon.

The full list of new COVID-19 restrictions as lockdown lifts at 6pm.

Victoria Bridge has been a key link between the CBD and South Brisbane since the 1860s, but soon only buses, pedestrians and cyclists will be allowed to use it.

One of WA's richest women has purchased her third property in Wannanup at the same island quay community at the Eastport canals.

Booking apps, ongoing work-from-home arrangements and flexible leases are some of the trends hitting workplaces in the Perth CBD as Western Australia tentatively explores what offices look like in a post-pandemic world.

The 20-year-old victim was attacked in the street while walking from a friend's house with two women, and later died in hospital from his wounds, police say.

A look at Harry's legacy on residential architecture to mark the 70th anniversary of the first home he built, Rose Seidler House, at Wahroonga

Australia's oldest Irish pub, across the road from the Sirius building, has approval to build a rooftop bar and restaurant for up to 150 patrons.

They blame land clearing for forcing kangaroos and other wildlife from their habitats and onto their properties.

Science says the switch to renewables needs to be fast but workers say it should also be fair. In the first of our explainer series Future Power, we ask how did Germany do it? And could Australia have a 'just transition' too?

Your correspondent seems to have inside information if he can claim that "there was no planned attempt to replace the government" at the US Capitol.

The Trump administration has embodied a particular American cultural current with which Australians are intimately familiar.

Palliative care advocates say terminally ill patients and families in western Sydney are missing out on acute and holistic end-of-life care.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today's interactive superquiz and target.

Australians’ biggest worries have shifted amid the uncertainty and upheaval of coronavirus pandemic.

Australian charities have experienced a mixed response during the coronavirus pandemic.

Law enforcement needs to take white-collar crime as seriously as it does other misdeeds.