Queensland Health has added to its list of exposure sites linked to the two clusters that have forced greater Brisbane into lockdown.

Contact tracing efforts have expanded wider across SEQ as authorities locked-down the Princess Alexandra Hospital and hinted at extended stay-at-home orders.

New data reveals sexual misconduct was the most common child protection complaint between 2018 and 2020, followed by physical harm and neglect. One third of investigations related to the abuse of children with a disability.

Insurers estimate the total loss due to flooding will be almost $500 million as Defence personnel, firefighters and SES join the clean-up effort.

A woman has died and two teenagers are being treated by paramedics after a house fire in Campsie on Tuesday afternoon.

Olympian Nathan Baggaley and his brother Dru are on trial over an alleged plot to import 650 kilograms of cocaine in 2018.

About 30 passengers who arrived in Melbourne from Brisbane after the city was declared a ‘red zone’ will be quarantined at epicentre of Victoria’s last outbreak.

Subcontractors working for a cleaning company that stands accused of bribing senior transport bureaucrats may have been “shell companies” that were headed by “dummy directors”, an anti-corruption inquiry has heard.

The pair were in hospital for 13 days before they died.

You probably know the term ‘rape kit’. But these two words incite unease and alarm - and fail to accurately describe the painstaking, sensitive process sexual assault survivors undergo days after an attack.

Crowds are still expected to descend on Byron Bay this weekend, just days after a COVID-positive bachelorette party triggered alerts for a number of popular venues.

Following a 3½-year campaign to stop a planned gas import terminal at Crib Point, residents were all smiles when they learnt the government had knocked back the proposal on environmental grounds.

In an email sent to councillors and staff on Tuesday afternoon, Inner West Council’s acting head Brian Barrett announced he was resigning earlier than intended while citing difficulties with Labor mayor Darcy Byrne.

Jess and Rick got together as the pandemic struck Australia. Now their plans to mark their anniversary have come unstuck due to the Brisbane outbreak.

The call came as Queensland health workers were told they must receive at least one vaccine dose before treating COVID-positive patients after the latest outbreaks in Brisbane.

Yarra City Council has abandoned a proposal to charge local sports clubs more for using its facilities in the hours before voting on the matter.

A year since the Herald produced its first-ever newspaper edition entirely remotely, we are doing it again. Last year it was a global pandemic, this week it is a cyber attack.

The coeducational school says it will introduce lunchtime forums, respectful relationship programs and teacher training to stamp out sexism and violence against female students.

It is important to grasp the deeper threats such attacks pose to governments, companies and other organisations.

Six men were arrested on Tuesday following a major investigation involving NSW, federal and international law enforcement.

A Melbourne father has been identified as the likely killer of his stepdaughter, Barbara Ellen Dawson, whose naked body was found bound at Altona North in 1980.

More than half a day’s supply of blood was not donated in NSW, as floods closed donor centres and appointments were cancelled.

The peak business lobby wants a federal approach to border closures to stop “knee-jerk” reactions to COVID-19 outbreaks, but health experts say it’s unrealistic now.

Collingwood star Jordan De Goey has failed in an attempt to have driving charges adjourned to the same date as his contested hearing for indecent assault.

Parwinder Kaur died of serious burns after she was seen running down her Rouse Hill driveway engulfed in flames in December 2013.

The announcement comes after two parallel clusters in Queensland were seeded in the community through an unvaccinated doctor and nurse who treated positive cases.

A Perth schoolboy has told a court he was put in a headlock and severely injured during an incident that left him “not quite right mentally” and still suffering pain.

Today on Please Explain, business editor John McDuling tells Nathanael Cooper about the cyber attack on Nine Entertainment Co.

In a decision that could prompt an overhaul of search powers in prison, the Supreme Court has ruled some strip-searches of Craig Minogue were unlawful and in breach of his human rights.

The incident was an hour after Brisbane was forced into a three-day lockdown, with police saying the woman was unco-operative.

The corporate regulator appeared in court to withdraw the raft of criminal charges against missing fraudster in the wake of her presumed death.

An additional eight local cases were detected in Queensland on Tuesday, but NSW has remained without local transmission despite positive cases crossing the border.

The corruption watchdog will consider whether the Drummoyne MP engaged town planners to lobby on behalf of his family’s property interests, including directing councillors on motions they should move.

Findings of a NSW upper house inquiry described the government’s administration of the Stronger Communities Fund as “a clear abuse of the grants process”.

The Chief Judge of the County Court of Victoria says vacant buildings in the city could be turned into courtrooms to help reduce the backlog of cases.

There were more than 80,000 new Melburnians last year, but the city’s growth rate has been outpaced by Brisbane and Perth.

The lawyer for the notorious au pair says a plan to fight the charges in court has been dropped, and she now plans to admit to her offending next month.

Mert Ney has given evidence in a Supreme Court sentence hearing that his victim’s last words before he stabbed her to death still play on his mind.

The Brisbane outbreak, which has locked down the Queensland capital and scuttled Easter travel plans for Victorians, grew to 15 on Tuesday.

As survey becomes public, AMAQ president calls on Queensland Health to hasten the immunisation of doctors and healthcare workers.

Planning Minister Richard Wynne said the project would have unacceptable effects on the environment.

The Chief Health Officer will monitor case numbers in Brisbane and key cities before deciding whether the lockdown needs to be extended.

Within weeks of making an offer to buy Scone TAFE, Racing NSW met with the state government and a decision to sell the site was approved on the same day as the meeting.

Madeleine Cusworth was told by a midwife that King Edward Memorial Hospital was trying not to send the same people home twice. ’They were accepting that a lot of people were being sent home once, but they were prioritising people that had already b...

A crime scene has been declared after a woman died in a house fire on Monday night.

A man has died after a fiery crash between a semi-trailer and a car in the Moreton Bay region.

Police are asking for help in identifying three men who allegedly assaulted and stabbed a man in Sydney’s south-west last September.

The clearance rate for houses sold at auction has risen from 50 per cent in 2020 to more than 80 per cent as Perth’s property market continues to boom.

The Kimberley is transforming as cattle producers seek to drought-proof using “pivots” to irrigate huge circles of land. But this requires large-scale clearing.

Northern Territory’s chief minister Michael Gunner is in isolation after having contact with family from Toowoomba, west of Brisbane.