Sydney’s lockdown set to drag on, while Victoria goes hard to stamp out cases that have crossed the border. Follow all the developments as they happen.

Conservative English personality Katie Hopkins has admitted she has been deliberately trying to flout infection control in hotel quarantine in Sydney, after flying into the country this week.

The Queensland Premier and Brisbane lord mayor will fly to Tokyo on under a veil of secrecy on Sunday in preparation for their part in a pitch to Olympic officials this week.

Queensland has recorded just one new case of COVID-19 on Saturday, a returned traveller in hotel quarantine, after shutting its border to all of Victoria from 1am.

Dozens of truck drivers drove in a convoy with horns blaring across Sydney for nearly two hours on Saturday afternoon to protest the NSW government’s decision to close the construction industry for two weeks as part of a COVID-19 lockdown.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

Testing queues and exercise, Sydney in lockdown.

State and federal MPs have joined staff and supporters calling on the council to scrap plans to bulldoze the home of Backbone Youth Arts under redevelopment plans.

After 62 days at sea, 356 buckets of water and months of hitchhiking on yachts across the globe, 31-year-old Jake Shephard and 27-year-old Tamara Ilic are almost home.

A specialist dentist has won a $170,000 payout for a one-star Google review after she claimed that she was defamed online by one of her patients.

As the nation seesaws in and out of lockdown, we at Good Food find ourselves again serving up recipe collections on goodfood.com.au and in print with the sole purpose of bringing comfort and delight for the long winter months.

Eighteen of Victoria’s latest COVID-19 cases were infectious in the community for an average of 1.7 days, vindicating the state government’s “go hard, go early” lockdown strategy, but health authorities have refused to rule out an extension o...

Daniel Preuss told WAtoday he was woken by the smell of fire in February but it has since been revealed the 40-year-old allegedly started the blaze while using an angle grinder.

We are extraordinarily vulnerable and for the next six months need to act accordingly.

But no matter how harsh this lockdown, COVID is here to stay and one day we’ll have to live with it.

The Prime Minister bet the house on the NSW strategy, and must now accept his share of humble pie.

Close to one-quarter of NSW MPs are yet to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, with some still hesitant.

Books will be sent to kindy classes as part of a new phonics-driven literacy strategy, which NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell says has ended the reading wars

Ezzeddine Omar, accused of planning the sophisticated gangland murder of Mejid Hamzy, expressed pleasure at his demise in a private conversation at home, police allege.

New South Wales’ much-lauded “gold standard” ability to contain a COVID-19 outbreak has been shattered. Now, every Australian government must finally learn from the mistakes.

Eight months after being released from jail in Iran, Kylie Moore-Gilbert is living a “calm and settled” life in the leafy quiet of the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne.

Trillions of photos are created every year. Many are faked, or used out of context. A new visual literacy centre at Sydney University will explore whether we can train ourselves to spot fakes.

Rolling lockdowns and travel restrictions are causing health worker shortages in many remote Indigenous communities, where locals face worse health outcomes.

Byron Bay: a place where homes sell in the multi-millions and the homeless live in makeshift camps. A place that sends a timely warning about what happens to community and the natural environment when wealth takes over.

Sydney University, founded in 1850 on sandstone and classics, is on one side of the city while the University of NSW, the 70-year-old upstart that grew out of a tech college, is on the other. Now a decades-old rivalry could be put aside.

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.

The premiers are increasingly calling the shots while the Prime Minister smirks and shirks.

Distressed Victorians are bursting into tears in GP clinics and being put on waiting lists for months to see psychologists as the mental health sector struggles to cope in the pandemic.

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

The week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial review photographers.

Sydney’s worst-hit COVID hotspots will be plunged into a harder lockdown as early as Saturday in a desperate bid to stop people from moving about the city.

Business lobby welcomes the state-federal rescue package but restlessness is growing in the regions.

Police claim Daniel Gunter Preuss, 40, 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. 

Scientists call for help from the public to solve a mystery of rainbow lorikeets succumbing to a disease that leaves them paralysed.

Butcher Zeeshan Ali had ordered 100 goats and 100 lambs in preparation for the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha. And then the lockdown was announced.

Christmas might be more than five months away but shoppers are being asked to order in coming weeks to ensure their imported goods can be placed under the tree.

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.

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.

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.

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 he 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.