While Delta refrains from joining the WHO.

Authorities say a NSW woman visited a number of retail stores while infectious with the Omicron coronavirus variant, a parliamentary debate over Victoria’s new pandemic laws has run all night and the Prime Minister has vowed the country won’t go ...

Floodwaters trapping a car in Footscray have now been cleared as major disruptions continue on the Sandringham train line after a lightning strike.

The institution will try to reinvigorate campus life while still catering to students stuck overseas due to travel bans.

Sydney communities are pitching battle over synthetic sporting fields in the lead-up to Saturday’s local government elections.

About 2000 positive COVID-19 swabs from the past few weeks are being rechecked for signs of the Omicron variant.

Confronting footage of one of the attacks shows a customer pushing an employee down an escalator, causing him to hit his head against the handrail and lose consciousness.

The schools regulator has flagged further action against St Andrews Christian College, which was repeatedly told about a predator teacher more than four years before he was charged with sexual assault offences.

Emergency services were called to Fullers Road in Chatswood on Wednesday afternoon. The truck driver has been taken to hospital for mandatory testing.

The 73-year-old was found about two hours after divers were sent to search the submerged vehicle on Wednesday afternoon.

The government says changes to the country’s defamation laws will protect people from anonymous trolls. That’s asking a lot.

From December 1, workers in the resources, meat-packing, policing, prison and airport sectors need to have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, with those choosing not to have the jab forced to resign.

Pushminder Singh Grewal had been up all night and fell asleep at the wheel during peak hour, killing a 10-year-old boy and seriously injuring several others.

A new COVID-19 case has emerged in the Queensland community, with an investigation under way to determine its source.

Tourism experts warn the campaign may be a difficult sell, given WA’s tough stance on quarantine and tendency to make snap decisions on interstate borders causing traveller hesitancy.

A man has died after a workplace accident in the southern Perth suburb of Medina after he was trapped by a bobcat on a residential block.

The boyfriend of Epping woman Ju Zhang, whose remains were found at a tip on Melbourne’s northern fringe, has pleaded not guilty to murder.

The 15-year-old boy charged with attacking soccer prodigy Danny Hodgson, leaving him fighting for his life, has indicated he will plead guilty.

One year ago, servicewoman Teri Bailey killed herself on her 25th birthday after relentless bullying. Now the royal commission into veteran suicide has heard her tragic story.

A teenager who stabbed a woman in a Melbourne park has been sentenced to youth detention for an attack he cannot explain or remember committing.

Former industry heavyweight Sam Walsh has joined a group of eminent Australians calling for the WA government to withdraw its Aboriginal cultural heritage bill.

West Australian government departments and some businesses have been scrambling to determine how many workers still refuse to get a COVID-19 jab as a new mandate for thousands of people came into force overnight.

The rapper shared footage online of the arrest, which he said occurred when he and his mother were Christmas shopping.

Maythem Kamil Radhi allegedly arranged entry for asylum seekers seeking travel to Australia on a boat that sank before it could reach Christmas Island in 2001.

A man was charged with intentionally causing serious injury over the alleged hit-run at Collingwood that left a worker at a COVID-19 testing site with injuries.

The $10 million refuelling station in Truganina will be powered by 100 per cent renewable sources of energy, says Hydrogen Fuels Australia, and it will be the first in a network powering vehicles all the way to Sydney.

Green-thumb community gardeners are at loggerheads with the management of the Collingwood Children’s Farm, and their dispute has now made its way into the courtroom.

Today on Please Explain, national business editor John McDuling joins Jess Irvine to discuss a new podcast series which delves behind the scenes of Australia’s startup scene.

Social media companies would be able to avoid liability for the defamatory comments of users in Australia if they revealed the identities of anonymous trolls to complainants.

The state’s pathology services are sequencing test results of earlier overseas cases to ensure they have not missed any other infections of the new variant.

The city west of Brisbane has long been derided as “Tipswich” due to the number of rubbish dumps. That could be about to change.

Emergency services fear for the occupants of one of the vehicles swept off a causeway north of Toowoomba.

The move to potentially buy a supply of rapid antigen test kits comes despite authorities insisting the “gold-standard” PCR tests were needed at state borders.

A man is in hospital in a critical but stable condition after an assault in a Fremantle suburb left him with life-threatening injuries on Sunday night.

Victoria’s schools are no longer closing at the first sign of a COVID-19 case, but the virus continues to cause plenty of uncertainty and disruption in the classroom.

Mira recalled her horror at watching her father play his violin for an SS officer who raided the family home in 1941.

The Sydney Morning Herald has appointed its new editor.

In those eight weeks, Western Australia is going to have to grapple with a seismic shift –  institutionally, intellectually, and emotionally.

The Bureau of Meteorology said the state recorded nearly three times the average November rainfall, breaking a previous record from 1917.

The latest assessment requires candidates to be able to do one sit-up, 10 push-ups, carry a 35 kilogram bag 20 metres, grip 30 kilograms in each hand, complete an agility test, and record a beep test score of at least 6.1 for women, and 7.1 for men.

Sisters Inside said “distressed and traumatised” women in cells around her had to be moved out, as police investigate.

Where in the world is Charlie Teo?

The number of jihadist flag displays peaked at 142 in 2015 and dropped to 22 by 2019, persisting in smaller numbers this year.

A new specialist team of police will begin investigating family violence within the force’s own ranks with a focus on conflicts of interest that have plagued enforcement of domestic violence allegations in regional Victoria.

Bianca Amoranto served four separate custodial sentences in her 30s. Now, she’s helping others.

Tens of thousands of Australian teens have missed out on potentially life-saving routine vaccinations since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

Nobody expects the federal or state governments to lock down every time a new variant appears. What we expect is proper preparations.

Japan has agreed to pay £A5,625,000 compensation to prisoners of war of 13 nations.

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

The latest drowning report from Life Saving Victoria outlines a heartbreaking rise in children drowning and deaths in home pools and baths.