Kalorama couple Nat and Lee Guest were among those who bore the brunt of the storms that hit a week and a half ago. Now they are starting to pick up the pieces.

The Electric Vehicle Council reckons the policy to encourage electric vehicle uptake is as good as any other government on Earth has come up with.

Many outlets at Birkenhead Point have been added to the list of venues exposed to COVID-19 as an outbreak of the Delta strain has prompted an unprecedented testing regime in Sydney.

Irate members of East Ivanhoe Bowls Club have refused to accept ‘outrageous’ plans to turn their rinks into the home courts of Ivanhoe Netball Club, declaring: ‘We’re not going anywhere.’

Hairdresser Sofia Basile, 53, did not want the AstraZeneca vaccine. Now she says she is “very comfortable” making an appointment for Pfizer.

A two-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after falling from a car as it reversed down a driveway in Cranbourne East this morning.

A company director who owes businesses $20 million after his company went broke on an Andrews government road project has been accused of siphoning cash from a company he partly owned.

The emerging eastern suburbs cluster has grown to nine with two people in their 50s from the Sutherland Shire testing positive to coronavirus.

Police believe the silver Holden Commodore and a maroon Ford Falcon getaway cars were bought from the Ipswich-Redbank area about a week before bikie Shane Bowden was shot 21 times outside his home.

Pubs, cafes and restaurants in Western Australia will return to pre-COVID operations with capacity restrictions lifted this week.

The community gardeners are facing lockout from their beloved gardens in a struggle between a landlord and its tenants.

The husband and wife were clinging to their dinghy after it capsized in rough swell on Saturday night. He was rescued on Sunday morning. Hours later, police found a body believed to be that of his wife.

NSW has introduced a number of new COVID-19 restrictions in response to the latest eastern suburbs outbreak and other states have introduced restrictions for travel to and from NSW.

Victoria has an exciting chance to improve equity of access for school students at a time when STEM education and 21st-century skill development are national priorities.

CEO Jamie Twidale has been stood down while the findings of an investigation are considered following an “internal complaint”.

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

Umpires cop a lot of abuse and they don’t deserve it. They’re the Ginger Rogers of footy – they’re doing just as much running, but backwards, and for one-tenth of the pay.

Health authorities have confirmed the flight crew member who tested positive does not have the highly transmissable Delta variant of COVID-19.

More than 160 Victorian businesses were found to be failing to comply with the state’s QR code system for contact tracing. Several have been shut down for breaching the Chief Health Officer’s directions.

Many families will get 15 hours per week of free preschool access next year after the NSW government extended a COVID-19 program.

Preparing for a tribute show on the 50th anniversary of Jim Morrison’s death, Perth’s Justin Burford discovered there was more to the musician’s infamous life than hedonism and excess.

The Queensland Police Service have located the one-year-old girl safe and well who was taken from Beenleigh on Saturday night.

Even though the Delta variant has hit a school in North Melbourne, we shouldn’t be rushing yet to vaccinate kids.

Vaccine experts say the negative public sentiment is unfair, and the AstraZeneca jab could be the key to avoiding death and serious illness in Australia this year.

A veteran Victorian Labor powerbroker who played a central role in recent failed peace talks between warring factions within the state division has been lobbying for the company behind a controversial plan to store toxic soil near a regional communit...

A casino regulator providing only a veneer of scrutiny without forensic inquiry is mere window dressing.

The marketing manager at the Titans took the stage at the Gold Coast, and she was unreal.

Years ago, backpacking around Europe, our train broke down in the south of France. We left the train at Lourdes and sought accommodation.

Home quarantine, vaccination certificates and enticements for people to get the jab are getting the rest of the world moving again while Australia dithers.

How pathetically childlike are the members of the Boys’ Own Australian Club of Sydney, with their night frights about “frilly, flouncy, bossy” women.

The father of a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by another student called on the NSW Department of Education to keep a register of students who have been charged with sexual assault.

But EV drivers will be hit with a road-user tax within six years to help fund road and infrastructure spending, as state governments look for ways to compensate for the loss of fuel excise revenue.

Several European studies suggest social connection, including going back to the office to work, is the best way to come out of lockdown exhaustion, says Beyond Blue.

A survey of regional young people found access to contraception, sexual and reproductive health and education was scarce, resulting in a high teenage fertility rate in many regions.

Melbourne’s music capital status under threat as musicians consider leaving the city’s music scene to find more stable work, get a second job or leave the state altogether.

Many teachers feel the people making these decisions have little to no idea about how schools actually work.

Well-connected members of Sydney’s male-only Australian Club are embarking upon an internal campaign to admit women into the exclusive association.

The City2Surf will be held on October 17, but COVID-19 will change some aspects of the event.

Four-bedroom homes - typically rented by families with children - are a growing proportion of rental listings.

A panel of political players debate the difficulty of changing your mind in a world where consistency is prized and the media, voters, opposition and even your own side are ready to pounce on any slip-ups.

A draft strategy to allow towers up to 89 metres high in Edgecliff has triggered opposition from some Woollahra councillors and residents.

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Outgoing Australian Medical Association Victoria president Julian Rait says the Victorian government has a “long-standing culture of defensiveness”.

It is the most number of births for a first quarter and the second highest for any quarter since reporting began in 2010.

The regulator is undertaking a national roadshow promoting Advanced Fatigue Management, an initiative that allows participants to “set their own work and rest hours” rather than abiding by the standard rules and regulations.

Sydney’s top private schools continue to build lavish new facilities, but at what cost to their neighbours?

The fresh infections prompted a number of new venue alerts for Sydney CBD, Bondi Junction and Tempe on Saturday night.

A carer with post traumatic stress disorder is taking legal action after her claim for funding to train a psychiatric assistance dog was rejected.

Police are expecting the results of a post mortem examination to be returned on Monday or Tuesday after finding a body at a Melbourne tip where police were searching for missing mother Ju Zhang.

Although many roads have now been cleared of trees, they remain treacherous. Thick, black electrical wires still snake across roads and hang eerily from branches.