NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard is prepared to go it alone and scrap restrictive Covid-isolation rules if other states insist on keeping them. 

Police are investigating whether the fatal stabbing of a teenage carnival worker at the Royal Easter Show is linked to ongoing violence between rival postcode gangs from Western Sydney. 

Anthony Albanese no longer argues climate change is the greatest risk to Australia’s future because “China has changed under its current leadership” and is now a serious national security threat. 

A respected horse breeder  and polo identity who bred Melbourne Cup winner Shocking has been charged over a conspiracy to import more than a tonne of cocaine with an estimated street value of more than $400m. 

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