A woman has died after she was pulled unconscious from the water at a marina on Sydney Harbour.

For two decades from 1950, the Johnstone Gallery was the epicentre of Brisbane’s art scene. Now its archives are to be added to the Australian Memory of the World Register.

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Cody Junghans, 20, will protest shoulder-to-shoulder with her mother and step-father in Melbourne on Monday, for ‘probably the most important issue of my entire life’.

The head of the Victoria’s vaccine program said while authorities expected they would have enough doses to vaccinate tens of thousands of people each week by next month they were “not actually sure of it”.

Emergency authorities have again warned of a “significant risk to human life” associated with a potential cliff collapse at the beach below Demons Bluff near Anglesea.

Sydney radio kingmaker John Brennan OAM, who launched the careers of John Laws, Alan Jones and Ray Hadley, has died at age 89.

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A doctor who visited the sites after being infected while working with COVID patients at Brisbane’s PA Hospital had not been vaccinated.

A watch and act is in place for people in the area bounded by Brellimos Drive, Eakins Crescent, and McDermott Avenue in Wandina, 6 kilometres south of Geraldton. 

A variety of drugs and weapons have been found during a search of a Sydney unit as part of a sweeping police investigation into cocaine supply.

The operator of a Victorian Big4 holiday park where a camper was tragically killed by a tree branch that crashed onto his tent says the park has a ‘thorough maintenance program’.

Three venues in Brisbane’s south, including a cafe and a gym, have been listed as high-risk exposure sites after they were visited by a doctor from the Princess Alexandra Hospital while she was infectious with COVID-19.

Michele Bootes was swimming at Main Beach in Merimbula when she was attacked by a shark.

The 34-year-old from The Gap was in a stable condition after the car he was driving collided with a pole in Red Hill on Friday night.

WA’s latest rideshare service boasts that its drivers get the highest commission rates on record.

Visitors to three exposure sites in Brisbane have been told to get tested and self-isolate immediately, as Victoria reached the 15th day in a row of no new cases.  

To get it right this time, feminism must learn from the wrong turns of the past.

Scott Morrison’s voting base leans male, but if a gender gap emerges in the COVID recovery, the electoral maths gets tricky.

The internal document outlining potential cost and timeline concerns was tabled to NSW Parliament less than 24 hours before a scathing Infrastructure Australia found the benefits of the project did not justify its $11 billion price tag.

Former ABC managing director Mark Scott will have to navigate the “thinly disguised prejudice between academics and non-academic staff” when he becomes vice-chancellor.

The NSW Catholic school sector will lead its own review of how it delivers sex and consent education in a religious context, saying a “one size fits all” approach across the state is unlikely to fix the problem of teenage sexual assault.

Complaints of bullying and sexual assault within the firefighting organisation have been suppressed or ignored, women have told The Age.

It wasn’t the best timing for a MinterEllison cocktail party. Earlier that day, the firm’s CEO sent an all-staff email that blasted a senior partner. It was the legal equivalent of a BBQ stopper.

A brutal period in Victoria’s history is set to be retold as part of the upcoming Yoo-rrook Justice Commission, the state government’s truth-telling inquiry into the wrongs committed against Aboriginal people since white settlement.

Bridget McKenzie might have lost her ministerial position, but the Coalition clearly filed away her spreadsheet ready for a rainy day.

It is up to you, as much as your political representatives, to confound the challenges that have made our politics ‘harder’ than it used to be.

A major hospital in Brisbane has been placed in lockdown after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19, Queensland Health said on Friday night.

Empty shops with “For Lease” signs and shuttered hotels highlight the economic pain the pandemic has caused in Cairns.

Anyone who has walked into a room and forgotten why has suffered what’s known as the “doorway effect”. Now researchers have gained new understanding of how it works.

The Department of Environment fined a man $4401 for illegally taking and selling native frogs on Gumtree. There are more fines to come with multiple investigations under way.

The Environment Department is investigating the theft from the 16-metre carcass that washed up on Phillip Island a week ago.

NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller told a state parliamentary hearing he would look into why the delay occurred as a document produced to parliament also confirmed police had chosen not to interview Mr Porter, nor any witnesses at the event before t...

Police looking for two men who left the scene of a truck and train crash in Sydney are investigating whether the alleged theft of copper wiring was involved.

An electric vehicle manufacturer is poised to walk away from a deal with the state government to set up a factory in the Latrobe Valley.

Cairns tourism operators are in dire straits. The pandemic and with it, border closures and a halt to international travel has meant desperate times and hard adjustments.

Mick Fuller, who was reportedly blocked from a position with the ARL Commission last month, says the government allowed him to have a paid role on the board of the Police Bank.

WA’s system of casino regulation is under scrutiny following revelations of years of money laundering through Crown Perth.

Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas says the state government has followed the Reserve Bank of Australia’s advice and stimulating the economy by borrowing big and spending big.

Lawyers for Mohinder Singh argue the truck driver faced ‘sustained pressure’ from his boss to work on the day he crashed and killed four police officers.

Heritage NSW had imposed a 40-day stop-work order preventing demolition of the 1960s civic centre following an unlikely push from a lobby group for developers.

The pandemic is still having a huge influence on the news cycle but each day we move further away from the days of the highest anxiety.

Burning brown coal has a limited lifespan in the Latrobe Valley. Now the community is asking what will come next.

Victoria recorded two weeks without a local coronavirus case on Friday, with more than 40,000 travel vouchers for trips to Melbourne being snapped up just after 10am.

The man allegedly travelled from Mt Isa to Brisbane to meet what he believed to be a 15-year-old girl. He will appear in court on Tuesday.

Dion Gundy, 22, died in the front passenger seat of the Holden Commodore when it slammed into a palm tree in 2018.

Police investigating a number of stabbings in a short-stay apartment in Melbourne’s CBD no longer believe the violent brawl was gang-related but say it’s lucky no one was killed.

A Queensland Police spokeswoman said it appeared no one was inside.

On this episode of Please Explain, Tory Maguire and national science reporter Liam Mannix look at how Australia’s vaccine supply is tracking. 

Authorities spent two days training for the operation to seize hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, search a 330-metre boat and arrest a 27-year-old Australian man.