Emergency services are searching for a young boy who went missing while swimming at a Gold Coast hinterland waterfall on Thursday afternoon. 

New school builds and upgrades had not all been based on rigorous analysis to meet the highest needs of the state’s students, the NSW Auditor-General Margaret Crawford said.

Despite a run of glorious sun-drenched days, Melbourne’s weather is about to take a dramatic turn, with a polar blast of air to bring the year’s first taste of winter.

Deakin University, the City of Melbourne and the Chamber of Commerce have all urged the government to commit to a plan soon for the return of overseas students.

Tapped phone calls revealed a former Metro manager and his cleaning contractor may have contaminated Zoono’s trials to preserve their profits.

Two people were seen emerging from bushland with wet and dirty legs after a fatal stabbing in what police believe was an attempt to hide their involvement, a court has heard.

A vet has told the NSW Supreme Court she couldn’t think of “any legal reason” why Natasha Darcy would have asked for the sedative.

James Hooke, a former boyfriend of the woman, made a statement to police last month on the allegation. But the investigation remains closed.

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said the death, while tragic, was one of thousands in aged-care homes, as an investigation into the death continues.

Shartiel Nibigira, a father-of-eight who fled from war-torn Africa, was found guilty on 21 charges in December 2019.

Drummoyne MP John Sidoti has been accused of fostering a “master-servant” relationship with local Liberal councillors by pressuring them to conduct council business according to his direction.

A jury in the trial of Sydney chiropractor Riaz Behi has been discharged after being unable to reach a verdict.

The pair were allegedly leading a syndicate linked to 14 illegally obtained handguns and a pop-up meth lab in Camperdown.

Big corporates on a phone hookup weren’t sure where to look when a brothel and sauna owner piped up about their issues with QR codes

People struck down by an extremely rare vaccine-related clotting disorder may take weeks to recover and in more serious cases require ongoing treatment.

There could be important benefits from a parliamentary inquiry into Scientology’s significant wealth in Australia.

Queensland has several good options for exploring pumped hydroelectricity as a potential renewable energy source, including Borumba Dam near Gympie.

Police are searching for two men after an MRI machine failed at a medical centre south of Brisbane.

Temperatures are forecast to tip 30 degrees in Sydney on Friday before a cold front moves across the state, bringing a “wintry” Monday.

Today on Please Explain Nathanael Cooper and senior economics correspondent Shane Wright look at the role of the Reserve Bank of Australia and calls for a review into its practices.

A plan to add two sheds to Queen Victoria Market has renewed fears the historic site will be turned into something resembling a shopping centre.

State on course to deliver 300,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine by the end of May, despite not yet receiving this week’s allocation from the federal government.

Cold case detectives have arrested a 58-year-old man over the killing of an elderly man and his sister more than 30 years ago.

Tunnelling on the Rozelle Interchange, the 24-kilometre spaghetti junction twisting beneath Sydney’s inner west, has reached its halfway point.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has queried whether supply of vaccines in Australia could currently sustain mass clinics, a day after NSW unveiled plans for a Sydney centre at Olympic Park.

Brisbane City Council has said there were no plans to change eligibility for its Go Between Bridge toll scheme despite fewer than 1000 residents being granted the subsidy.

The nurses’ union has issued a plan to address the strain on Perth Children’s Hospital following the death of a seven-year-old girl who waited two hours before getting treatment.

NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes says he does not support sending in the rangers to police dog walkers in the sprawling inner west parkland as community consultation for pet lovers gets under way.

The pandemic crisis took a Dandenong company from the events sector into pop-up health facilities.

Sydney’s public transport social distancing restrictions will likely be eased in the coming weeks as the government patronage continues to surge past the existing coronavirus limitations.

A motorist has been charged five months after a ladder fell from his ute’s tray on the Pacific Motorway, allegedly causing the death of a motorcyclist.

A cyclone and a tropical low both headed for the coast may collide, with a huge potential impact area that could force long journeys to get out of harm’s way.

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More than 100,000 Queenslanders have received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine as another three people test positive after returning to the state from overseas.

Several items, including laptops, were seized from a home in Ipswich.

The first international passenger flight in two months landed in Melbourne on Thursday morning, as the third version of Victoria’s troubled hotel quarantine program for returned travellers began.

The City of Perth has dipped into its budget surplus to try and bring the WA Day festival celebrations back into the CBD.

The unearthing in the Kimberley of the oldest bone tools ever found in Australia is debunking the assumption such equipment was only used in southern parts of the country.

Supreme Court Justice Andrew Beech has queried whether Perth Children’s Court Magistrate Catherine Crawford and court president Hylton Quail needed to continue litigation.

The Victorian factional powerhouse and champion of local manufacturing says he will repel a move to end his almost three-decade Parliamentary career.

The state’s vaccinators are warning anyone receiving the AstraZeneca shot to be on alert for blood clot symptoms as a precaution following the case of a 44-year-old man hospitalised with a severe and extremely rare clotting disorder in Melbourne.

Victorian universities have urged the Andrews government to back a proposal to fly in thousands of international students and quarantine them in hotels.

Ancient bone tools discovered in a Kimberley cave have been dated to up to 46,000 years old, making them among the oldest ever found.

It is not identity politics but the shrinking of humanities and social science faculties across the country that is the biggest threat to our young people’s education.

Malcolm Turnbull gets the flick because he is a threat to jobs in the Hunter region. In the meantime, who is working on behalf of the people of the Hunter?

The investigation, known as Operation Joffre began in September last year after ABF officers noticed two parcels from Italy containing five kilograms of cocaine each and three consignments from America containing 20 kilograms of methamphetamine.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz and target.

Age tapes ‘witch-hunt’, counsellors ban IQ tests and ‘among the stars’.

On April 8,1984, with hours to live, a perfect donor match was found for 14-year-old Fiona Coote, then Australia’s youngest heart transplant survivor.