Yvette D’Ath has issued an apology to Brisbane’s sole Greens councillor for claiming he failed to appear before, and was criticised by, the Supreme Court over a planned protest last year.

Victorians wake up to a fifth lockdown, Sydney braces for a spike in coronavirus cases and Queensland locks out the families of NRL players.

Venues including the Brisbane airport and supermarkets, service stations and pharmacies across the northern suburbs, Moreton Bay and Sunshine Coast regions are the latest places of concern for contact tracers.

Former education department chief Nino Napoli was jailed this week after he and family members defrauded school funds over seven years.

Police claim the man was using an angle grinder to remove a padlock from a sea container on his property when a paddock caught alight during catastrophic fire conditions. 

Award-winning photographer Kate Geraghty’s pictures are always striking, but the image of a man alone in his hospital bed, his body fighting the Delta strain of the coronavirus, was incredibly powerful.

The state’s corruption watchdog has been accused of failing to act on police brutality after clearing officers involved in an incident in which a mentally ill man had his head stomped on.

Phillip Island venues have been added as exposure sites as Deakin University confirms a staff member who attended its Waurn Ponds campus in Geelong on Wednesday has tested positive for COVID-19.

Despite the most recent policy document being adopted on March 15, Perth Theatre Trust Chair Morgan Solomon said venue hiring policies were under review.

Cases of fully vaccinated Australians catching COVID-19 are part and parcel of how vaccines work and should not raise undue concerns, say experts in the field.

Melbourne woke up to the first day of Lockdown V5 today.

The new strain of the COVID-19 virus has set the world and Australia back but it should not change the basic strategy for ending the pandemic.

John Ghanem was inadvertently given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen when was born at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in 2016.

Across the globe, researchers have been fascinated by whether the pandemic has caused people to turn to religion or draw more on spiritual practices such as prayer or spending more time in nature.

Neva Liana Lozzi helped run the financial side of a string of adult stores between 2015 and 2020 when she gave herself $787,571 in bank transfers, superannuation payments, rent, and payments for holidays and bills.

Having lived through a world war during childhoods in England, Anne Gadenne and Patricia Hamer are confident of weathering another five days in lockdown. But they worry about the younger generation.

Dean Webber, 19, killed Queensland man Corey Christensen, 37, and NSW man Thomas Davy, 27, in Alva Beach near Townsville in 2018.

The boyfriend of a woman whose remains were found at a tip on Melbourne’s northern fringe must remain in custody as he awaits a committal hearing scheduled for next March.

It’s not season three of The Handmaid’s Tale; we can’t just switch off the Sisyphean misery and catch up by reading recaps.

Today on Please Explain, economics correspondent Jennifer Duke joins Tory Maguire to discuss Australia’s economic recovery amid the latest round of lockdowns.

Police Commissioner Chris Dawson urged any West Australians still in Victoria who wanted to come home to do so now.

The Kurdish-Iranian writer discusses politics and politicians, money and religion - and why he’s interested these days in clothes.

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Bryan Harding was one of the first to talk about bullying in the force and a failure to protect members’ mental health. It made him few friends with superiors.

Police have fined high-profile residents, including Domenica Barilaro, in recent days, and will target Sydneysiders trying to disguise regional holidays as business trips.

GRAPHIC WARNING: A man who cut off the testicles of two men, keeping one of the testes in his home, has been released from custody.

The former detectives were jailed for shooting the university student in a storage unit and dumping his body into the ocean, where he was soon discovered.

A man and woman were testing the gas at the new Robina cafe on Friday when a gas bottle exploded.

Carramar Public School principal Anthony Mazzitelli was among those who lined up on Friday morning and said the jab had been “all good.”

It has now been one month since a COVID-19 infection was reported in a limousine driver from the eastern suburbs. Here is what has happened since.

What is the Delta variant that has sent so many Australians into lockdown? And how is it changing the outbreak?

Her boyfriend was initially horrified Tracy Heness packed her spider when she moved house. But she isn’t the only person out there who feeds, protects, and cares for their house spider.

In blaming, we are calling on the person we think has wronged us to acknowledge they have acted poorly, to apologise, and change their strategy.

NSW reported 97 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, 29 of which were in the community for their entire infectious period.

The lawyer for Brian Earl Johnston, Ms Wilkinson’s former partner, said the accused remained in prison in a “very severe” condition and as a result “he can barely talk”.

Imagine for a moment we are 11 years from now and Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk didn’t turn up to secure the Olympic Games.

The retired NBA star invested $1 million in an inner city apartment development and purchased two apartments off the plan before the builder, Builton Group, collapsed in 2017.

Queensland has closed the gate to Victoria in the face of the growing number of cases there, but has left border measures with NSW as they are for now.

Archbishop Peter Comensoli is facing internal dissent over ambitious plans to restructure almost 200 parishes across the city in a bid to make the church more sustainable.

Chinese labour hire operator Scott Shi is battling to keep a document confidential as the Australian Tax Office alleges he owes up to $163 million in unpaid taxes.

Governments can learn much from Fairfield, and this week they need to pay attention.

About 70 pharmacies in Sydney’s worst affected COVID-19 areas will receive AstraZeneca jabs from next week, with another 365 chemists in metropolitan Sydney set to administer vaccines within the month.

In the wake allegations of sexism and lack of support for a student who was groomed by a sex offender coach, St Kevin’s College has examined its culture and vowed to do better.

Not even a wedding of five people is legal. Please explain.

The pressures of home-schooling in lockdown could tempt a mother to drink, but for this one, this time, it’s Dry July.

Councils warn the state government’s plans to reform developer levies threatens to strip hundreds of millions of dollars from community projects in Sydney.

A protein found in deadly spider venom could be key in allowing more people to receive donor hearts, as well as helping heart attack victims recover.

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NSW is in desperate need of specific directions on what constitutes an essential service.