Collingwood’s Sircuit Bar’s was forced to backtrack over a tribute it made to police who were killed in last year’s Eastern Freeway tragedy.

Human rights expert Simon Gordon Davies has been extradited to Australia more than one year after handing himself into Dutch police over allegations he sexually abused children in the 1980s.

The man, aged in his 40s, dined at Kitchen Inn in Kardinya at the same time as a COVID-positive Victorian man and his friend were at the popular Malaysian restaurant on April 18. 

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Experts are questioning the usefulness of hotel quarantine after a breach in Western Australia sparked a fresh lockdown.

Residents rallied in a section of the sprawling Enoggera Creek Sport and Recreation Precinct on Saturday to air their anger at the council’s handling of the process.

People who left the Perth and Peel regions to any part of WA since April 17 should be isolating as if they are in Perth and wearing a mask when they go out.

Four close contacts of a man who had COVID-19 and travelled from Perth to Melbourne have now tested negative.

The 21-year-old Kallangur man was originally taken into custody last Sunday, the day after the deaths, for alleged drug possession at Jindalee in the city’s south-west.

Evan McMahon, 23, provided people with illicit access to streaming services like Netflix, Spotify, Hulu and others.

Further details have emerged after the man was first found by the manager of their Gold Coast apartment building on Friday morning during a welfare check.

The sixth clotting case, amid more than 1 million vaccinations, comes as Queensland authorities prepare for an influx of arrivals from now hotspot-declared regions of WA.

Firefighters performed a rescue operation to free a man trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in Sydney’s west.

The popular holiday island was mayhem on Friday after news of a looming lockdown started coming in from the mainland.

How did one woman come to rip off her family and friends to the tune of $30 million? The seeds of her undoing were planted long before the fraudulent financial scheme that brought her unstuck.

After uncovering alarming practices in Australia’s fertility industry, an investigative reporter learnt that a friend was actually her half-sister. Together they tracked down their biological father, who had revelations of his own.

Undertaking graduate studies at Oxford University, a scholar reflects on why she played up to the Aussie abroad stereotype.

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims met his wife, international law academic Alison Pert, in Papua New Guinea on a blind date. A scuba-diving scare soon afterwards cemented their attraction.  

I have a son, a black son. If my son called out to me in such pain, I am not sure there is any justice that could plaster together the pieces of my broken self.

The pandemic is set to leave lasting scars on some of the city’s best-loved retail strips.

If we don’t guard against it, Australia could well become a “corporatocracy”, as the US increasingly is.

Peter Carter nearly died from a rare flesh-eating bacteria after being sent home from a hospital’s emergency department, in a case that bears a striking resemblance to the death of Alex Braes.

Australians would have access to a digital birth certificate under a cross-jurisdictional plan spearheaded by the NSW government and “turbocharged” by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Students at wealthy private schools benefit from strong alumni networks, and now selective schools are trying to enlist the support of their old boys and girls.

The Victorian workplaces most at risk from COVID-19 infection have not yet adopted QR code technology designed to track and record staff movements.

About 1600 veterans and their family members have registered for the march to the Shrine on Sunday. In 2019 about 10,000 people took part.

There are 28 names on the roll of honour at Little Garie Beach, a tiny community of shacks tucked away in the Royal National Park south of Sydney.

The First World War may be the stupidest ever waged. So how do we revere the sacrifice without glorifying the war that demanded it?

All participants at US President Joe Biden’s summit, except Australia, were able to commit to specific, quantifiable, targets.

A Melbourne airport terminal has been declared an exposure site and Perth a red zone after a Victorian man contracted COVID-19 in one of the city’s quarantine hotels.

Senior Constable Brett Forte was ambushed and fatally shot on May 29, 2017 by the man he was chasing - Ricky Maddison.

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Top infection control experts and doctors call for end to the hotel quarantine in Australia, after an outbreak sends Perth into snap, three-day lockdown.

New details from latest independent analysis of Queensland’s criminal justice system data comes amid further criticism of sweeping changes from both inside and outside the government.

A Caulfield North woman called 000 on Wednesday night but no ambulances were available, a sign of what the Australian Medical Association is calling an “acute public health disaster”.

Four cases of the new “double mutant” COVID-19 strain have been detected in Queensland hotels.

It comes amid scathing criticism of the Western Australian Government from the AMA for failing to act on infection control concerns.

The news comes after an outbreak was identified at the hotel on Wednesday with the virus spreading among quarantining guests in separate rooms. 

Western Australia is again facing a snap lockdown after COVID-19 cases spread in hotel quarantine, with the latest including a man who flew to Melbourne and subsequently tested positive.

Arrivals from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan constitute the majority of Sydney’s COVID-19 variant cases over the past month, as health officials monitor the growing number of cases in Latin America and Europe. 

The Therapeutic Goods Administration says it has reviewed suspected cases across three states and all are probably linked to the vaccination.

People in Queensland who have been in Perth or Peel since April 17 must get a COVID test, self-isolate and comply with Western Australia’s lockdown restrictions from Friday night.

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NSW will place a three-day lockdown restriction on anyone arriving in the state from Perth or the Peel region after a new coronavirus case was detected in WA.

The latest coronavirus lockdown imposed on West Australians would impact several big sporting and cultural events planned for the long weekend.

The variant of COVID-19 detected in India is no terrifying ‘double mutant’ but is a sign of how outbreaks anywhere in the world continue to pose a serious threat to Australia.

Nine people including bystanders and police have been treated by paramedics after a fire in the bedroom of a Waterloo unit where a young boy suffered critical burns.

The news outlets being sued by Ben Roberts-Smith have lost their bid to include in a defamation trial evidence of new allegations of serious criminal conduct against the former SAS soldier over his conduct in Afghanistan.

Queensland Senior Constable Brett Forte was ambushed and gunned down by wanted man Ricky Maddison in 2017.