A 45-year-old woman has died after a bus and a car collided in Sydney’s west.

The guard had already had a vaccination. He and his housemates have been moved into quarantine, and WA Premier Mark McGowan said at this stage Perth would not go back into lockdown.

The Australian Medical Association and leading infectious diseases experts say opportunities to improve or expand Australia’s hotel quarantine system have been missed.

For this Australian citizen, there were multiple hurdles to getting back from India.

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Nicola Stevens was a teenager when she found out her mum had early onset dementia.

A security company involved in Melbourne’s deadly hotel quarantine outbreak is suing the Victorian government, claiming they were not paid almost $10 million for guarding a dozen hotels during the pandemic.

Before working on Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel, French engineers Nicolas Caille and David Coulet helped build the massive steel shield round the wrecked nuclear plant.

Clad in their warmest clothes and with facemasks on, Aswath Chavittupara and Prasitha Sasidharan stood outside the hospitals from midnight on Friday holding signs calling for justice for Aishwarya. 

Two new exposure sites at Brisbane International airport have been identified as the Queensland check-in app becomes mandatory from May 1 for all hospitality businesses across the state.

If the Morrison government wants to support equal pay for women start with improving the wages of undervalued jobs in the child care sector.

Showers and storms will linger throughout the long weekend until an easing trend is expected to be seen on Tuesday.

An Australian coming-of-age trip across the Nullarbor in the 1980s sowed the seeds of a new career for this gutsy administration worker ejected from her job.

Expectations that Melbourne’s median house price will hit $1 million by June have terrified first home buyers

As we farewell Vivian Fraser, lest we forget his great legacy to NSW architecture.

Call centre operators are being forced to log critical incidents by pen and paper due to tech issues plaguing the state’s 000 service.

The only things to survive 2019’s New Year’s Eve bushfires at the home of retired volunteer firefighter Dave Rugendyke were the wooden reindeer that now limp along the front fence.

Australian jihadists in Syria fired hundreds of rounds of ammunition during fierce battles near war-torn Aleppo after a gemstone dealer from Melbourne allegedly helped arrange travel into the conflict zone.

Teela Reid is right to extol the new school curriculum that will tell what really happened to First Nations people from the invasion to this day.

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Australia’s longest serving prime minister will be remembered with an institute and library at Melbourne University, as push grows to better preserve prime ministers’ legacies.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews believes the Morrison government is too weakened by its botched vaccination program to reject its proposal for a new quarantine centre.

The state’s top cop has issued a stern warning to his members that misconduct and criminal behaviour will not be tolerated following a recent spate of “extremely troubling” cases among the ranks.

State school staff are pushing for pay rises of 7 per cent, significant cuts to face-to-face teaching hours and smaller class sizes.

Brimbank mayor Ranka Rasic said the Calder Freeway needed works to safely accommodate the booming population in Melbourne’s fringe.

The Chief Judge of the County Court has pushed back against criticism of the 10-month sentence handed to Richard Pusey over his filming of four police officers who were killed in last year’s horror Eastern Freeway crash.

The conservation scientists want governments to put frameworks in place to govern if and when species need to be relocated to avoid extinction.

The charges, read out on Friday during the man’s third court appearance, include possessing a silencer and driving a vehicle with false number plates.

Under the bubble rules anyone arriving from New Zealand who travelled there from overseas must have completed two weeks quarantine before flying to Western Australia.

State Treasurer Tim Pallas has proposed a financial sweetener of up to $5000 for people who buy new electric vehicles but critics of the electric vehicle tax say it’s nowhere near enough.

Two men have been arrested and appeared in court, charged with supplying a large commercial quantity of prohibited drugs.

A 33-year-old man has faced court accused of threatening to kill West Australian Premier Mark McGowan.

Security cameras caught a number of workers sitting around “not doing any cleaning” aboard Brisbane trains.

A young German backpacker has told a court Gregory Douglas kissed her buttocks and told her not to be ‘weird’ after a massage allegedly escalated to sexual assault.

There were 48 cases from India in the four weeks to April 24, making up 35 per cent of the 137 overseas cases. Over summer, the United States was responsible for 40 per cent of active cases.

Melbourne’s pop-up outdoor dining and drinking venues could become a lasting feature under a City of Melbourne proposal.

Over his 25 year career, one key political lesson Mark McGowan has learnt is to appeal to the masses.

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Today on Please Explain, the Herald’s Education Editor Jordan Baker joins Tory Maguire to look at the reaction to recommended changes to the school curriculum.

The boyfriend of a Melbourne woman who has been missing for almost three weeks has faced court charged with injuring her before her disappearance.

The Tough Guy Book Club has grown from two blokes chatting in a Collingwood pub to 45 branches and its members are more into discussing Ernest Hemingway’s depiction of masculinity than terrorising neighbourhoods.

Brian Johnston, the man accused of killing Gold Coast mother-of-three Kelly Wilkinson, has awoken from his coma, wrapped in bandages and speaking in whispers. 

Huge opportunities exist to boost Australia’s economic recovery and future prosperity by ensuring women are appropriately represented in the workforce.

WA Premier Mark McGowan has criticised Australians who travelled to India this year but in the same breath urged states and territories to do more to assist “our great friends” on the subcontinent.

She didn’t know it at the time, but an eight-year-old’s life was set to change irrevocably when Gough Whitlam moved into her south-western Sydney street in 1957.

Saskia Havekes is the owner of Sydney’s Grandiflora florist. James Beck is a cellist and founder of musical ensemble Sydney Art Quartet. Their friendship blossomed over a shared appreciation of beauty. 

Ahmed Luqman Talib, 31, from Doncaster East in Melbourne’s north-east, applied for bail in the Brisbane Supreme Court.

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Police Veterans Victoria has found retired police living on the streets and in cars and some who “don’t know where to go and are completely lost”.

A coronial inquest found the treatment of Ms Dhu while in custody was “inhumane and unprofessional”, with police and medical staff believing she was a “junkie” who was faking her illness.