The NSW Premier is striking a confident note in the lead-up to Christmas by insisting the state will lead the country out of the pandemic despite the Omicron-fuelled surge in COVID-19 cases.
Subscriber: The former operators of an Italian restaurant in Canberra have been penalised $16,000 by a court after they failed to comply with an order to backpay workers.
Palmerston District Primary School has been declared an exposure site. Over the weekend, a flight into Canberra from Newcastle was labelled a close contact exposure site.
The federal government will need to clean up its "complicated, onerous" approach to social media disinformation campaigns ahead of the next federal election or risk facing disunity and distrust from the public.
Watch: Chace Harrison, 11, died on Sunday. He was the sixth child to lose their life after a tragic jumping castle incident in the Tasmanian town of Hillcrest.
Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith said there were now 40 active cases, with 200 people who might have been in close contact with people who had the highly infectious variant.
Breathing and heart problems surged during the Black Summer bushfire season, causing researchers to warn climate change requires better fire-prevention strategies to reduce health problems.
