With or without a prefix, the spectacle of smoking ruins is the answer.

An infectious diseases expert says the significant problem that led to the latest Victorian coronavirus outbreak was poor infection control, and not the more-contagious British variant blamed by the state government.

The border with New Zealand will stay open despite three new Auckland cases of COVID-19 on Sunday while NSW will raise the number of travellers allowed in on Monday.

The sergeant was knocked unconscious after intervening in a domestic argument outside the Lansvale home, police say.

Victoria has recorded two new locally acquired cases of coronavirus and four new high-risk exposure sites have been identified in Melbourne. Meanwhile, Greek tennis player Michail Pervolarakis has tested positive for coronavirus after leaving Austral...

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“That demonstrates the arrogance of David Crisafulli and the LNP,” Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick said before dodging a question on the ALP leadership.

The coronavirus pandemic led to a surge in people working from home and neglecting their bikes during the week.

Epidemiologist Adrian Esterman says regional areas are better suited to quarantine, and has accused the federal government of abdicating its responsibility on quarantine.

Authorities are now confident they have ring-fenced a COVID-19 cluster linked to a private function on February 6.

There is no handbook for living through all of this.

Parts of southern Queensland have seen their entire average rainfall for February dumped in a day, with the rain expected to linger in the southeast this week.

Victoria’s hospitality sector is reeling from another lockdown, this time denting Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year trade.

Could Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency based on a popular meme from 2013, become a primary means of payment?

Developers have lodged plans for the partial demolition of a landmark East Melbourne mansion, built for Young and Jacksons publican Thomas Jackson in 1883, to make way for an apartment tower.

The security guard whose positive coronavirus test sent Western Australia into lockdown continues to test positive to the UK strain of the virus and will remain in hotel quarantine beyond 14 days.

We walked away from the Kyrgios match because of poor crowd behaviour and the lack of respect for the game.

Sydney architect Shaun Carter calls for the historic villa Willow Grove to be incorporated into the new design, as the viability of relocating the 19th century building has been called into question.

Passengers arriving at Sydney Airport from Melbourne on Sunday were pleased with COVID-19 screening measures, despite walking away confused about stay-at-home orders.

Some people cry, and others become emotional as they receive their COVID vaccine, says the incoming Wollongong uni chief who has been inoculating patients the US.

The success of the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School is driven by its students, their parents and their communities.

Up to 20 million girls worldwide have been pushed out of school due to closures. The Australian government could help them by increasing its investment in a global campaign.

The crocodile’s stomach contents were analysed after it was shot as part of the search for missing fisherman Andrew Heard in far north Queensland.

A woman and a child who attended a family gathering in Coburg are the two latest people to test positive for coronavirus in Victoria. Two swim centres, a bakery and a supermarket in Melbourne’s north have been added to the list of exposure sites.

Prayer is, at its simplest, a conversation with God. It doesn’t have to be a set form of prayers or particularly eloquent. A cry for help can be a prayer.

Used car prices are up by almost 40 per cent and mechanics are booked solid in “ridiculous” pandemic market conditions.

Independent MP Zali Steggall will tell Parliament that fathers and mothers should each be given six months’ paid parental leave to boost women’s economic equality.

Two brothers banned from working in the poultry industry for a total of 17 years after starving more than a million chickens were able to acquire two aged care homes in Melbourne, despite being bankrupt at the time and having no experience.

Victorians’ sense of attachment to their home state contrasted with people from NSW, who were more likely to identify as Sydneysiders or Australians.

The mind boggles at the Deputy Premier’s defence of pork barrelling.

By moving drug injecting off the streets, the injecting room has enabled the area’s gentrification over these past 20 years.

Seven new high-risk coronavirus exposure sites have been identified in Melbourne as Victorians begin their first day of a snap five-day lockdown.

Last century, humanity struggled with two world wars, the Depression and the Spanish influenza. All pale into insignificance against climate change.

A lack of leadership and political will has left Australians defensive and in denial about bigotry.

Dr Jonathan Smithson said very low levels of drugs detected in his system must have arisen from his frequent dining out.

The plan grew from concern students were moving ahead without mastering key skills, but the government will instead reduce syllabus content to give teachers more flexibility to help students falling behind in their class.

The schoolboy from Cronulla starts his day by checking the market before going for a surf. He then looks at prices on the bus to school and discusses tips with his fellow traders in class.

The concerns arise from the use of fetal cells aborted decades ago in the development of the vaccine, which is common practice.

Inner West mayor Darcy Byrne said the Little Greece precinct was a “gesture of respect” to all the Greek migrants who have helped to build Marrickville into one of the “most interesting suburbs on earth”.

Tahi Cody and Matt Hayward originally planned a small wedding in Australia followed by another celebration in Europe until the pandemic forced them to reconsider.

The architect of the HECS system has criticised an Australian Productivity Commission proposal for the federal government to recover unpaid student loans from the estates of people who have died.

Residents of one harbourside suburb say hooning is out of control, with convoys of cars accelerating up and down the McMahon’s Point.

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Melbourne’s CBD has already lost 17.2 per cent of its population without international students, analysis shows. What’s happened to the thousands of apartments they lived in?

The evidence from all over the world is that early incarceration of youth offenders promotes further offending; it does not diminish it.

Buyers can now choose from between 28 electric cars and many have ranges of more than 300 kilometres on a full charge.

Regional Victorians have expressed frustration at being placed into stage four lockdown despite having no known COVID-19 cases.

Victorians are already seeking support in higher numbers since the state’s third lockdown started on Saturday.

One of Melbourne’s most disadvantaged high schools has dumped the Victorian curriculum and is letting students study what they like from year 8 onwards.

It comes as a number of health sources told The Age and Sydney Morning Herald that they were concerned that the re-booted hotel quarantine program lacked sufficient health expertise.