Police label Sydney’s anti-lockdown protests “disgraceful”, Melbourne apartment complex residents get asked to self-isolate, and ATAGI urges all adults in Greater Sydney to “strongly consider” the AstraZeneca vaccine.

The Sydney protesters were met with a heavy police presence, including lines of mounted police officers, outside Broadway shopping centre before marching towards Town Hall.

The elections planned for September 4 have been pushed back by three months for all NSW councils, in response to the state’s coronavirus crisis.

Natalie Thurtle has seen rubber bullets fired at children, people viciously beaten, and homes turned to rubble as her team works to save lives.

Thousands of protesters are marched in Sydney’s CBD to protest widespread lockdowns in NSW, as crowds opposing COVID-19 restrictions gather in major cities across Australia.

Victoria recorded 12 new local cases as residents of a Docklands apartment building were told to isolate until further notice after a person with COVID-19 spent time there.

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Anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protests have become a regular fixture of the pandemic period, but Saturday’s so-called “freedom rally” was Melbourne’s biggest so far.

Victoria’s economy will still be paying a price for the devastating bushfires of 2019 and 2020 a decade after the blazes ravaged vast areas of the state.

For Allen Cheng, who had become deputy chief health officer for the Victorian Department of Health just two months earlier, it was the now or never moment.

The surprise result, which has been put down to the wearing of masks, follows a scare involving an infectious flight attendant.

NSW has recorded 163 new locally-acquired cases in the latest reporting period, the highest daily tally of the latest outbreak.

A 44-year-old man has been released from custody as police probe the circumstances around a reported sexual assault in Melbourne’s CBD on Friday night.

Emefa Gidiglo believes she was arrested by WA Police because of the colour of her skin and says the ordeal left her scarred.

Gladys Berejiklian is running out of strategies to contain the outbreak of the Delta strain, which means no end in sight to Sydney’s lockdown.

They are required to knock on the door three times and call out when possible, but a growing number of people say postal delivery drivers are just leaving collection slips.

The CCTV footage of the treatment of a disability pensioner in Preston was shocking, and led to three officers being found guilty of assault. Now one of them is back in the force.

But he still has 10 months to reverse the damage done to his fortunes by the bungled vaccine rollout.

Now we know the way to shift an entrenched culture of misogyny it is to expose it.

When Nina Betts and Harry Malcolm realised a Sydney home was out of reach, they looked elsewhere. Now they’ve put their home ownership dream on ice completely.

Xavier College has had a number of sexual abuse cases and its governing religious entity has fought them hard. Now the school’s prinicpal wants to take a different approach.

A Sydney architect has again won a major award by turning unloved waste into building materials.

We are being asked to do something against human nature, but it’s our social ways that spread the virus. So what do we know about lockdowns so far?

The state’s most renowned author Richard Flanagan, along with a host of scientists and environmentalists, are pitted against an industry and government they say are risking the very core of Brand Tassie: its pristine natural environment.

The problem with politicians delivering the message about, “stay at home and get vaccinated and do the right thing” is that they have lost the authority of credibility.

Australia is likely to experience a coronavirus epidemic in unvaccinated people once the nation is reopened to the virus, as everyone would eventually either be infected with the disease or get vaccinated against it.

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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has urged under-40s in her state to consider getting vaccinated, Victoria appears on track to come out of lockdown next week and Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he is sorry for the country’s sluggish vaccine rollou...

Police officers who turned up after she called for help did not speak to her to hear her version of events.

Regional Queensland is facing a major threat, some areas for the first time during the pandemic, but it may also be better placed to handle such an outbreak.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is set to delay thousands of second COVID-19 vaccines and redirect the doses to Sydney’s south-west in a dramatic escalation of the government’s response to the fast-spreading Delta strain.

Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton has declared all of New South Wales as an ‘extreme risk zone’ late on Friday night with the declaration backdated two weeks.

Sulphur-crested cockatoos in Sydney have developed some serious street smarts – teaching each other how to open rubbish bins and steal the food inside.

Workers at two of the inner north’s best-known venues, The Grace Darling Hotel and Lazerpig pizza parlour, are owed some $327,000 in unpaid superannuation by the owners of the business.

Forecasters say small hail is possible across the entire state from Saturday evening and by Sunday morning most of Victoria will have “feels like” temperatures below zero.

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The NSW Deputy Premier is suing YouTube personality Jordan Shanks-Markovina, also known as Friendlyjordies, for defamation over two videos.

The Prime Minister says national cabinet has agreed to tweak vaccine arrangements for NSW, but noted the changes wouldn’t disrupt vaccine supply to other states.

Together, Paul Hogan and John Cornell’s humour harked back to, not so much a more innocent time, but one where there was still an inherent decency.

Two leading epidemiologists have backed NSW’s approach to containing the Delta variant, saying blunt tools are not necessarily useful and come with major consequences.

The 2021 HSC exams will be delayed by a week, and the deadline for major projects will be extended by two weeks. But some fear that won’t be enough.

South-western Sydney suburbs have among the lowest vaccination rates in the state despite being in the epicentre of the city’s worsening Delta outbreak. 

If Madafferi is deported after his drug trafficking sentence ends it would fulfil the desire of immigration officials who were thwarted in the early 2000s after heavy political lobbying.

Paul Douglas Peters entered a Mosman home in 2011 and strapped a fake bomb to the neck of a 17-year-old girl in an extortion attempt that left her terrified.

Lorna Jane released its LJ Shield Activewear range in July 2020, claiming it protected against viruses, such as COVID-19.

Contact tracers have added a handful of new locations, key among them a Gold Coast restaurant and popular theme park that a COVID-positive person visited for hours.

Today on Please Explain, education editor Jordan Baker joins Tory Maguire to discuss the struggle parents face between work and their child’s remote learning.

Underworld associate Danielle McGuire and eldest daughter Brittany will be evicted from a St Kilda hostel after failing to pay almost $100,000 in rent on the Punt Road premises where they run a budget accommodation business.

A direct line from IOC boss Thomas Bach’s immortal words from a Tokyo podium on Wednesday night can be traced to a group of worried mayors in 2015.

After eight years in New York, it was time to resettle our family in Australia. Why? Let me count the reasons.