Protests highlight lockdown unrest as COVID-19 infections continue to rise in NSW; Victoria on track to end lockdown as scheduled.

Heather Cunsolo says a passion for helping others drove her to become a councillor, but a study shows many mothers, saddled with more domestic work than men, are dropping out of local government – sometimes before the race even starts.

The Victorian Student Representative Council wants action to reduce the burden on students who have had their VCE studies thrown into chaos by unpredictable moves in and out of lockdown.

This December marks 13 years since I quit drinking. Keeping off the booze in lockdown has proved to be the hardest challenge.

Authorities are investigating after a man from Sydney was found to be the index case of Queensland’s most recent COVID scare, which now includes a major shopping centre.

Annastacia Palaszczuk will run the state from hotel quarantine for a fortnight after returning from her successful trip to secure the 2032 Olympics for Brisbane.

New technology means we may soon be able to turn back the clock on extinction. In the final part of our series exploring the science behind science fiction, we meet the contenders for revival.

Victorian construction bosses are in talks with the federal and state government to inoculate 40,000 workers by Christmas, as the halt on construction in NSW enters its second week.

Sick crew members onboard a bulk carrier ship headed for a West Australian port are suspected of having COVID.  

Fifty-seven people have been charged, including two men for allegedly striking a police horse, following an anti-lockdown protest that shut down the city on Saturday.

A group of young activists is fighting for better sex education in schools, saying they’ve been failed and want to make things better for younger students.

Saturday’s events were, at best, unedifying and poorly executed; at worst, an atrocious display of misguided defiance, defeating the entire point the crowds were trying to make.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews hit out at the thousands of anti-lockdown protesters who took to city streets on Saturday as the state recorded 11 new local cases.

The Royal Botanic Gardens’ immense cataloguing effort means digitised information and many high-resolution images of specimens are available online for researchers, artists and students worldwide.

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

If we fail to act, children will emerge from this pandemic bearing the consequences of starkly different remote schooling experiences.

Queensland’s regional areas are now off the hook, but the southeast is under a cloud after it was revealed the pair had been out and about since July 14.

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.

Of these locally acquired cases, 87 are linked to a known case or cluster – 71 are household contacts and 16 are close contacts – and the source of infection for 54 cases is under investigation.

Labor has comfortably retained the seat of Stretton, causing former LNP premier Campbell Newman to lash out, accusing the Opposition of dropping the ball.

Alan Parsons studied a group of high-achieving HSC students to find out the character traits, strategies and attitudes they had in common.

Victoria is “on track” to emerge from lockdown next week, but a leading adviser to the World Health Organisation says we shouldn’t go back to minimal restrictions.

In a bushfire you rapidly shift resources to extinguish the hotspots. Yet we are not doing that in south-western Sydney.

The broadcasting watchdog doesn’t have the teeth to bite down on Alan Jones’ anti-vaxxer nonsense.

Any feminists worth their salt should want to celebrate the pathfinders, regardless of their politics.

Building heights are set to rise south of Redfern station under a City of Sydney plan to provide more offices, entertainment space and affordable housing.

Let’s hope that as we rediscover the importance of community and relationships, we do not go back to old ways and lose sight of the richness of faith.

I see red when I read about people’s “rights” not to vaccinate.

The Australian government granted exemptions for 75 foreign nationals with critical skills in religion or theology to enter the country in the first half of this year.

Primary schools could reopen safely even before community transmission of COVID-19 returns to zero, health experts say, as students across Sydney head into their third week of remote learning with no end in sight.

A “gender-critical” feminist legal service which refused to remove material from its website that is offensive to trans people has had its tenancy grant terminated by the City of Sydney, in a dispute between a group of radical feminists and the t...

The insurance industry has backed calls for the government to provide COVID-related coverage to the live performance industry.

Bondi Beach residents are lobbying for a ban on leaf blowers, which they say inflict psychological and health damage.

Liberal MP Kevin Conolly told a Christian lobby group NSW was “a little different” to other states that had legalised euthanasia.

The goal of driving cases down to zero has now been replaced by talk of ‘containing’ the virus and easing restrictions where possible.

The Rural Doctors Association warns regional Victoria’s health system is delicately poised in the face of more widespread coronavirus outbreaks.

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

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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says Sydney anti-lockdown protesters showed “utter contempt” for their fellow citizens, Victorian COVID-19 exposure sites grow, and ATAGI urges people in Greater Sydney to “strongly consider” the AstraZeneca vac...

The influx of wall-to-wall live sport comes at a perfect time, with a large part of the nation in lockdown and unable to leave their homes. Here’s our guide to becoming a temporary expert in the more obscure sports on the Olympic schedule.

Some young adults have taken it upon themselves to try and convince friends and family in group chats to get AstraZeneca, rather than wait for Pfizer.

The NSW government says it has no plans to increase penalties on illegal gatherings but will focus on communicating the rules to multicultural communities in south-west and western Sydney where non-compliance with the lockdown has remained stubbornly...

Port Douglas, which has never had a COVID case, has been teeming with visitors, the majority from Melbourne, with occupancy rates soaring over 85 per cent before interstate lockdowns struck again.

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.