And a hunt for the fountain of youth.

Victoria has entered its fifth day of a ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown, and an announcement from Premier Daniel Andrews is expected later today on whether the lockdown will end at midnight.

What unfolded in March last year has cost Kairouz her place in Daniel Andrews’ cabinet and killed off the political aspirations of Labor kingmaker Adem Somyurek.

The former celebrity TV chef has been shut out of Instagram for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus and vaccines.

A 26-year-old man has been charged over the alleged attempted murder of a baby in the state’s Hunter region last year.

The former lord mayor has put his property on the market.

Two Australian soldiers expected to be called as witnesses by Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith in a defamation trial against media are set to oppose the proposed release of documents about their own conduct in Afghanistan.

A man accused of stabbing a Queensland police officer at a Cairns shopping centre in the state’s far north has fronted court, as the senior constable recovered in hospital.

The men left to drive to the Wingellina Aboriginal Community on February 8. Their white Toyota Landcruiser Prado vehicle broke down and it was found on Thursday February 11.

A third man has been charged, and extradited from NSW, over the alleged double murder of ex-bikie Shane Ross and his business partner Cameron Martin.

The decision by The Age to publish early articles about George Pell’s sex abuse conviction was, lawyers for the media argue, made to inform readers why the case could not be reported.

A man blamed for spreading coronavirus through the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel by using a nebuliser is pushing for an independent inquiry into his case as scientists debate whether the device really was the cause of the outbreak.

The original judge discharged several jurors because they knew the man and could not be impartial.

The company behind the Northern Territory quarantine facility says it would cost up to $170m to build a similar set-up at Avalon or Melbourne airports.

The Chief Health Officer says once the first group of people are vaccinated, that will “protect our entire community”, as most recent clusters have broken out of hotel quarantine.

Judge thanked the parties for the “considerable work” in the trial in which 38 witnesses appeared and more than 6000 pages of exhibits were tendered.

I want to be independent, but tricky food packaging is making that impossible for me, and many like me.

If MPs demonstrate more than zero-tolerance for criminal or unacceptable behaviour, including that which is alcohol-induced, then they should not be surprised if their staff live down to those standards.

The mural depicting the former Rural Fire Service commissioner, which is painted on a wall at Erskineville train station in Sydney’s inner west, was found to have been painted over on Wednesday morning.

About a week before the Holiday Inn cluster emerged, WorkSafe Victoria issued improvement notices to the Health Department and COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria in relation to their virus protocols at Melbourne Airport.

Elite boarding school Marist College Ashgrove was evacuated after a fire broke out in the design and technology classrooms.

A scheme to fine fishers for not wearing a lifejacket is not being enforced, and too few councils have opted in, with eight deaths in the past eight months.

Olga Tennison, who had a profound impact on the lives of autistic people and their families, has died a few months short of her 93rd birthday.

Can you guess who delivered the following three lines about new COVID-19 variants?

Tomislav Perinovic returned home from a routine grocery shopping trip last month to find his wife and three children had been killed, a court has heard.

The family says the mental health system shares blame for the brutal death of a woman who “did the very best she could” and “asked for help” on numerous occasions.

A proposal by former education minister Adrian Piccoli to reduce segregation and disadvantage in schooling has been slammed by the leader of NSW Catholic schools.

The two main vaccines that will soon be rolled out will shield Australians against severe disease, hospitalisation and death.

NSW Education Standards Authority chief executive Paul Martin said he believed the idea, where students progress through school according to their ability rather than their age, had merit but implementing it next year “was too radical for the momen...

Quarantine workers - including nurses, doctors, police officers, security guards, and cleaners - would be the first to receive their initial dose of the Pfizer vaccine, followed by healthcare workers whose work puts them at risk of being exposed to t...

Education Minister Sarah Mitchell wants to “firm up” accreditation of initial teacher education degrees, with no university too prestigious or influential to have their accreditation stripped.

Researchers have discovered certain types of asthma can cause significant mutations in influenza, giving clues as to how to head off a future pandemic.

Civil liberties president says it could create a two-level society of people who were vaccinated and those who were not.

On Friday night, the Story Bridge, the City Hall and parks in Brisbane will be bathed in pink light to honour the family murdered 12 months ago.

Coronavirus restrictions will ease when Victoria’s five-day hard lockdown comes to an end at 11.59pm on Wednesday. Here are the new rules that will apply.

Schools should be the last venues to close and the first to open in future outbreaks, say the authors of a report into COVID-19 in Victoria’s early learning centres and schools.

The first Queenslanders will be vaccinated against COVID-19 from Monday when vaccines are delivered to the Gold Coast.

Osman Shaptafaj, 56, has pleaded guilty to murdering his estranged daughter and her husband as they returned home from celebrating their first wedding anniversary on New Year’s Eve in 2019.

Victoria’s lockdown will end tonight, Premier Daniel Andrews has announced, after the state recorded no new cases of coronavirus in the past day.

Harry Nicolson was responsible for kick-starting and overseeing much of the transformation of technical and further education in NSW.

The emphasis private schools put on a student’s wellbeing is why Danielle Loizou-Lake is prepared to pay more than $200,000 for her daughters’ primary and secondary education at one of Perth’s most prestigious colleges.

When sending a child to a private school in Western Australia over the course of their schooling costs hundreds of thousands of dollars – as much as a mortgage – is it really worth it?

The question needs to be asked if the lack of vigour from the pollies related at all to Crown’s donations of a combined $1 million to the WA Labor, Liberal and Nationals parties over the past 13 years.

The race to vaccinate the world against coronavirus has produced a whole new set of data to follow. Use our dashboard to track progress around the globe.

A man aged in his 20s is accused of stabbing a Queensland police officer in the stomach, chest and neck, leaving him with serious injuries.

A funeral director has apologised to two families in south-west Sydney’s Greek community after the bodies of two elderly men were accidentally swapped.

Former PM Kevin Rudd will bring star power to a media diversity inquiry on Friday. But his new assistant is also keen to share his two cents.

The state is set to get 14,000 Pfizer vaccine doses per week, as the vaccination program begins next Monday.

After investigating teachers’ work for a year, former Western Australian premier Geoff Gallop says workforce planning has been inadequate and the profession is in crisis.

As an eastern suburbs school becomes the latest boys’ school to reveal plans to become co-ed, a new single-sex school has opened in Granville.