NSW Police took extraordinary measures on Saturday to thwart any repeat of last weekend’s anti-lockdown protests, setting up an exclusion zone around the CBD. And they say residents can expect more of the same on Sunday.

Kas Ross, an academic who researches the growing far right movement, said that even though authorities managed to avert protests on Saturday, the movement was likely to grow as long as the lockdown continued.

NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said changes made to how some subjects are assessed will ensure “we have a fair HSC”.

People outside Greater Sydney have begun receiving text messages from NSW Health advising their Pfizer vaccine appointment will need to be rescheduled.

Good Weekend senior writer Jane Cadzow discusses Attorney-General and Coalition attack dog Michaelia Cash with Shane Wright, chief economics correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Phillip Maisel thought he’d lost his twin sister during the war. Finding her again by sheer chance is just one of the things for which this (nearly) 99-year-old is thankful.

Three people, including a woman who was also arrested, have been fined at a Sunshine Coast cafe after they refused to wear masks.

Victoria has recorded two new locally acquired cases of COVID-19, with one case out in the community while infectious, say health authorities.

Eminent surgeon David Kennedy, who has died at 91, was guided by his professional obligation to spot and develop talent. David was born in South Yarra into a Presbyterian medical family.

The army will be sent in to door-knock people in Sydney who have tested positive to COVID-19, as NSW continues to battle an outbreak of the Delta variant.

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NSW has recorded 210 new local cases of COVID-19, Health Minister Brad Hazzard has announced, with a 14th death linked to the outbreak.

We have the benefit of others’ hindsight. We can’t afford not to make it our foresight.

Parts of Queensland will go into lockdown from 4pm on Saturday as the state recorded seven new cases of COVID-19.

One of the most significant changes made to the ADF in recent times was about who could work, not how they did so.

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan says he has no issue with the personal connections of the chair commissioner leading an inquiry into Perth’s casino and its witnesses.

Gladys Berejiklian and Daniel Andrews saved the day in the first wave of coronavirus. We can’t afford them sideswiping while the Prime Minister is sidestepping.

The rapidly evolving anti-lockdown movement plans to enter the electoral fray, and vaccination resistance is emerging as a key battleground.

The outgoing boss of NSW prisons made the frank appraisal about the challenging area of violent extremism that has emerged since the September 11 attacks.

A doctored image of the decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith is the latest in a long line of images that have shaped international perceptions of events in Afghanistan.

Co-living, a trendy new wave of communal housing championed by millennials, will be mandatory in all areas where apartments are allowed in order to flood NSW with affordable developments.

A taskforce established to crack down down on fraud in the disability insurance scheme will be extended indefinitely after it uncovered millions of dollars of alleged rorts in three years.

Australians are creating new words, spinning old expressions and appropriating others at a rapid pace. Phrases from colonial times are dying out, while Indigenous and second-generation migrants are having a greater impact.

Promises not delivered; doses announced, reannounced and still there are not enough. Vaccination has turned into a political issue for the federal government. This is how it went wrong.

Victorians who delayed medical care since the pandemic began are now inundating GP clinics, increasing the pressure on already stretched doctors.

She’s one of the Coalition’s most ruthless – and animated – performers, and is easy to caricature. But beneath the impeccably groomed exterior, the Attorney-General is a complex character. With a serious coffee habit.

We are going to be terribly frustrated if, after high levels of vaccination, we then imagine we are going to flit around and be open for business.

Army troops are being sent into Sydney suburbs to enforce health orders, political leaders are meeting to discuss the country’s path out of lockdown and there’s now some certainty regarding Victoria’s mystery COVID-19 case.

At least 22 dogs have died and a further 44 have fallen seriously ill after eating meat from a Gippsland knackery.

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Police say the skydiving instructor attempted to cushion the landing for the other man and asked paramedics if he could stand up during the 20 minutes they treated him before he died.

Commonwealth land near the Brisbane Airport is a suitable option for a new dedicated quarantine site but any facility would not open until early next year, a feasibility study has found.

Queensland health authorities have reported an average of more than one new local COVID-19 case a day since mid-June, with the initial source of three still unknown.

The Australian government-owned organisation Airservices Australia will run a review of noise complaints and flight timetabling after Brisbane’s new parallel runway was opened 12 months ago.

Facebook has been criticised for enabling the fomentation of dangerous activism and disinformation, but the platform also provides a ready-made digital breadcrumb trail for police to track law-breakers.

The fastest-growing region in Australia is also growing up, and the starter’s pistol has already fired for Brisbane 2032.

Life goes on, in a restricted way, during Sydney lockdown.

The issue of whether a woman consented to sex in the back of a ute with two strangers who offered to give her a lift home will be at the centre of an accused man’s rape trial.

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The former doctor said staff at the institute, which offers and promotes complementary medicine to patients including cancer sufferers, knew he had lost his medical registration when they hired him.

Josh Carr will miss the next two Fremantle games after breaching quarantine rules on return from Queensland while a young defender has been fined for walking his dog. 

High-profile Collingwood fan Jeffrey Corfe has appeared before Melbourne Magistrates Court, charged with two counts of sexual penetration of a child under 16.

Far from enjoying a break from the crowds during the pandemic, animals at zoos like Sydney's Taronga seem to be missing us.

Three women who allege they were abused by Malka Leifer want to attend court in person. But the former principal wants to watch the five-day hearing from prison, the court has been told.

The NSW Supreme Court judge accepted as a result of Lisa Srsa’s various mental disorders, her capacity to control herself was “substantially impaired”.

The 38 charges against the 25-year-old female constable were the result of a sting involving the Crime and Corruption Commission.

Three new Emerald-class ferries have sailed into Sydney Harbour, but will likely enter service several months late when they finally replace the iconic Freshwater vessels.

A woman has admitted killing her husband after dousing him in petrol and striking a cigarette lighter, even though prosecutors accept she didn’t intend to set him alight.

A Darwan farmer has told the war veteran’s defamation trial that he witnessed a relative being kicked into a dry river bed by a “big soldier”.

The union argued in the Federal Court that Qantas chose to outsource the jobs of more than 2000 ground staff to avoid potential industrial action in the future.