And today’s that day.

A 51-year-old Beaconsfield man and 46-year-old Bunbury man were both charged in separate incidents after declining to wear a free face mask offered by police.

Queensland’s youth justice system has been in sharp focus after a number of recent high-profile incidents, with the LNP calling for immediate action when Parliament returns.

The number of homes destroyed by the fire keeps growing as firefighters assess the devastation caused by the massive blaze in Perth’s north-eastern suburbs.

The sheer number of quarantine and frontline healthcare workers in NSW makes allocating the lion’s share of vaccine doses to the state a simple equation, several state and federal public health and policy staff told The Sydney Morning Herald.

Bradley Edwards had until 4pm Wednesday to lodge an appeal over Justice Stephen Hall’s decision to find him guilty of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon’s murders.

John Barilaro has repeatedly said he would reveal his plans for his future in the first quarter of this year.

Queensland MP disappointed by High Court decision warns contractors will start laying off staff and children will be pulled out of schools as workers move out of the region.

The Health Minister says nine COVID-19 vaccination hubs will be established in some of Victoria’s major hospitals as the state marked four weeks without community transmission.

A woman who was stabbed multiple times has been found in the boot of a car after police received reports of a hand waving from its tail light section on the Hume Highway.

Perth residents in north eastern fringe suburb of Bullsbrook have braced themselves for a horror night, with a looming bushfire stretching 100 kilometres wide and raining embers bearing down on their eastern housing estates on Wednesday afternoon.

Chan Han Choi would tell people he was connected to Kim Jong-Un, called North Korea his “motherland”, and communicated in code in a bid to sell North Korean missiles and other materials, the NSW Supreme Court has been told.

The stronger-than-expected recovery from the COVID-19 recession should give the Federal government confidence.

One of the pair captured lighting the fire on CCTV, released by police, can be seen running from the blaze appearing to shake flames from their hand and foot.

A trial run by the Mater Hospital in Brisbane is hoped to prove the efficacy of a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, which disproportionately affects babies.

A viral video of an international student being slapped on Tuesday draws attention to a much wider problem of exploitation - and that will hurt Australian universities already suffering from the pandemic.

Secret jailhouse letters traded between a convicted terrorist and a Melbourne woman accused of recruiting for Islamic State have been read aloud in court.

The fire is travelling towards a Queensland state forest and firefighters warn they might not be able to save every property.

The WA government is working on the hypothesis that the security guard who sparked the WA lockdown became infected with COVID-19 without interacting directly with the guest who gave it to him.

Western Australia is dealing with twin emergencies – a coronavirus lockdown and raging bushfires – as Perth residents enter their third day of a five-day hard lockdown.

AstraZeneca says it is awaiting fresh data on its vaccine’s ability to combat a new COVID-19 variant after clinical trials for rival inoculations showed reduced effectiveness against the emerging South African strain.

Cindy Leigh Miller, 44, died in her sleep at the Ipswich Watchhouse early on April 21, 2018.

Victorian health authorities are investigating a potential transmission of the UK variant of COVID-19 at the Park Royal Hotel.

A wave of exhibition and conference cancellations, including the scratching of the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, has left the sector bracing for more economic pain.

Glenn Waller earned the respect of Vladimir Putin, who saw him as a skilled communicator

In today’s episode, Zoe Samios discusses the news media bargaining code and what could happen if Google is forced to pay for news content.

A company director and former ABC deputy chair imagines what the Collingwood chief might have said to address racism at his club.

The Queensland men were last seen on the morning of their departure in the state’s north, with apparent engine trouble on the 4.8-metre vessel.

Melbourne’s pop-up outdoor dining and drinking venues could remain at least until the eve of winter, while the city undertakes detailed economic analysis assessing the benefits of the experiment.

The cost of travelling on Sydney’s public transport has risen by more than 10 per cent after the government changed travel concession rules and peak-hour windows.

WA authorities have identified the ignition point of the Wooroloo bushfire as being ‘close to a home’ as the number of properties destroyed in the Perth hills’ blaze rose to 71 on Wednesday morning.

A former sex discrimination commissioner argues we need to be careful about stifling the voices we disagree with.

Racism was rife in the Victoria Park stands and in amateur footy. This abuse was not fleeting – it stays with you and leaves its mark.

If NSW continues to carry more of the risk in dealing with overseas arrivals, its quarantine workers are some of the first in line for the vaccine, the Premier says.

The NSW Health warning applies to people who received certain treatments from the DETOXologie clinic in Bondi Junction between June 2013 and December 2020.

The fires have claimed 71 homes and families have described their devastation, with one having moved to their dream country home just two months ago.

As Australia’s fire seasons intensify and unlikely parts of the globe burn, how is the behaviour of fire changing? How have people managed fire in the past? And how might we live with the big blazes of the future?

A 30-day celebration of Melbourne in pictures from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

“”While the victims can’t speak, we’ll fight and speak for them,” says former mayor of the tiny Queensland town where 15 backpackers died.

New Hope has spent almost 14 years trying to expand the Acland Coal Mine into agricultural land near Oakey, west of Brisbane.

“Without decisive large-scale action the situation will only continue to worsen in the coming years and months and patients will suffer and even die as a result,” the top emergency doctors told Minister.

In 2014, 1500 hours of ramping were recorded and the then-shadow health minister said: “If that’s not a crisis, I don’t know what is.” Now it’s over 4000 hours.

The boy, 8, was struck by a four-wheel drive vehicle on Blaxland Street in Hunters Hill just after 8am. He suffered head, facial and chest injuries.

Our environmental laws have not helped to stem the losses to biodiversity.

One NSW hospital ward looked like it had been hit by a “mini tornado”; in another, a doctor tried to fix a boy’s broken hand via videolink, leaving the boy’s hand deformed.

There was a 23 per cent increase in the number of people who said they were not returning to work because of the cost of childcare between 2019 and 2020.

Regional schools will have more choice in subjects, high-performing teachers will be encouraged to teach in the country and a dedicated education team will be based in the bush to drive better results.

The Brisbane biotech firm took the world stage as its rapid COVID test kits won favour in the US, with some help from Joe Hockey.

Very much like an iceberg in the Arctic, Scott Morrison is slowly melting to the idea of taking some sort of climate change action.

PM slams Chappell; Parky’s remarks; In a flap