Army troops will patrol Sydney’s suburbs today to help enforce health orders, Brisbane residents are awaiting news of a possible lockdown extension while daily case numbers are heading in the right direction in Victoria.

Ruqia Haidari, 21, was remembered by her friends as a bright and kind-hearted girl who “just wanted to live life”.

About 150 firefighters and more than 30 fire trucks and support vehicles were at the blaze over the weekend as crews battled to bring the blaze under control.

Companies are offering rapid antigen tests to private schools - at a cost - but there is no word on how they’ll be implemented by the schools.

A COVID-19 cluster at an inner west aged care facility has grown to 20 cases, as it is revealed fewer than a third of aged care workers in the state are fully vaccinated.

Incentives including vaccine passports need to be considered to boost Australia’s coronavirus vaccination rates.

The Andrews government will tighten NSW border controls in a bid to curb movement between the two states, announcing new restrictions for those in the travel bubble.

A former female AFP officer alleged her supervisor rubbed himself against her, made repeated comments about her breasts and professionally undermined her.

An update to the state’s exposure site list on Monday included an additional Brisbane school, inner-west cafe and netball courts, and locations in Rockhampton.

“Compared to last year, the amount of people who have died is minuscule,” said one of the demonstrators.

The family of a young man fatally stabbed have told a court of their struggles with grief.

A Melbourne aged care business founded by two bankrupt brothers convicted of shocking animal cruelty has been placed into voluntary administration just days before it was required to return deposits to families of former residents.

This is only the fourth time in the show’s 144-year history that it has not gone ahead.

A Fijian university professor describes his fears for his community in Sydney amid widespread vaccine hesitancy.

Despite Perth house prices continuing to rise, the capital recorded the lowest increase across the nation last month.

Under the public health order in NSW, marriage – as in the legal ceremony, which requires a minimum of five people to attend – is banned.

Today on Please Explain, senior economics correspondent Shane Wright joins Tory Maguire to discuss the government’s road map to bring us out of COVID-19 lockdowns.

Rosters are being urgently reviewed and elective surgery postponed as the current COVID-19 cluster forces hundreds of health workers into home quarantine.

Cellarman Ian Charles Draper finished work in the early hours of August 3, 2001 when he drove off and was never seen again.

The loss of the motorcycle race and absence of international guests has prompted a push to lure more domestic travellers and a plea for new tourism projects.

What does the public know about Delta’s spread in Sydney? Details are scarce. The lack of disclosure might hint at our future.

Businesses will have access to one-off grant payments to ease the financial burden of a second COVID-19 lockdown in one month under the $260 million state government program, but will have to wait.

Medical experts have called on the federal government to introduce universal access to self-collection for cervical screening to help eliminate cervical cancer.

Wootten: “A law school should communicate a keen concern for those on whom the law bears harshly.”

Teacher Helen Leahy recalled struggling to find students to run in the 400-metre school carnival race when a child said to her, “Miss, Peter can run”.

A man in his 90s has died after contracting COVID-19, he is the 15th person to die in the latest outbreak

The latest wig’s list - or “wigipedia” - shows the number of wig-wearing judges in Victorian courts is dwindling.

The growing coronavirus outbreak in Sydney means the defamation trial involving the former special forces soldier will be forced to take a three-month break.

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.

The Ekka has been cancelled for a second year in a row, and the state’s lockdown has been extended to Sunday as cases rise in the current outbreak.

Wild weather continued to batter Perth and much of WA, with one motorist on the Mitchell Freeway lucky to be alive after his car was hit by a fallen tree.

One woman was forced to wait seven hours on Sunday to get tested for COVID-19.

The building industry has been allowed back to work, but what about the rest of us dealing with construction noise seven days a week?

The UK’s aggressive vaccination strategy against COVID-19 has allowed society to reopen. Australian leaders should take note and stop pretending that elimination is still possible.

When faced with a public policy failure, Coalition governments have made a habit of turning to the military. But is this a legitimate use of Australian Defence Force personnel, and does it work?

The state government is spending large sums protecting recreational hunters but has not taken the views of regional residents on board.

Thousands of year 12 students will be crisscrossing Sydney when classes resume in two weeks, raising COVID-19 concerns among some medical experts and teachers.

Health and data experts say existing data sets are sometimes weeks late and lacking vital details.

Australia’s first Greens-majority council was elected in the City of Yarra with much fanfare. Now, the Local Government Inspectorate is seeking to stand down one of its councillors.

The changes to plans for a $62 million school redevelopment on Sydney’s historic Observatory Hill have incensed heritage experts and residents.

Gymnastics Victoria and Gymnastics Australia are being sued in a case brought by women who were abused by a coach in the late 1980s and early ’90s

Federal Liberal politician Andrew Hastie and his staff have become involved in a defamation suit launched by a high-profile Perth businessman against WAtoday.

Ross Gittins provides an excellent comment on the operation of government in modern Australia.

A prominent Sydney billionaire has popped up in St Tropez on the Packer gigayacht.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz and target.

The smiling faces of Berlin, trials and tribulations, and a letter to the editor.

Arthur Moses SC says employers will play a crucial role in Australia’s vaccination rollout, in the absence of federal laws mandating people get vaccinated.

Bain-marie doesn’t work there any more.

Sydney recorded 239 new cases on Sunday, while Queensland recorded nine new cases as the state’s south-east entered a snap three-day which threw the NRL and AFL weekend games into disarray.

Too many people are waiting to get the Pfizer vaccine while, in other countries, they are struggling to get any vaccines.