March 2023
No answers to ‘huge’ problem of healthcare worker exodus
Experts say the major parties in NSW should focus on retaining health staff instead of recruiting new workers, to have a chance of closing alarming talent shortages.
- Luca Ittimani
December 2022
Murdochs’ Christmas bash draws CEOs and pollies
The annual party hosted by Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch brought some of Australia’s top politicians and executives to the Bellevue Hill mansion.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
October 2022
NSW minister Brad Hazzard to quit politics
The veteran Liberal politician will step down at the state election after 32 years in NSW politics, and says the highlight of his career has been decriminalising abortion and fighting COVID.
July 2022
Why you’re ‘crazy’ not to get a COVID-19 booster shot
More than 1200 people who died from coronavirus infections in NSW this year were not fully up-to-date with their vaccinations.
- Tom McIlroy
May 2022
- Explainer
- Illness
What is monkeypox and where is it spreading?
Health authorities in the US and Europe have identified a number of monkeypox cases in recent days, mostly in young men. It’s a surprising outbreak of a disease that rarely appears outside Africa.
- Maria Cheng
February 2022
New case data shows the power of the booster shot
Victoria research shows third dose dramatically improves the chances of avoiding severe sickness and death, compared with people who have only had two.
- Tom Burton
Omicron wave has peaked in Queensland: Palaszczuk
Restrictions are starting to be lifted in Queensland as the omicron wave has peaked, and the NSW government is considering scrapping its own rules later this month.
- Mark Ludlow and Finbar O'Mallon
NSW to resume non-urgent elective surgery
Non-urgent elective surgeries requiring an overnight stay will resume in private and public country hospitals from next week.
- Finbar O'Mallon
January 2022
Virus deaths in 2022 running at triple the pace of delta wave
NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant has warned the community growing numbers of COVID-19 deaths are expected in days ahead.
- Tom McIlroy
December 2021
True number of new virus cases in NSW could be over 40,000
Victoria posted 5919 cases on Friday while NSW reported 21,151 infections, but the true number could be twice as high given limits on testing capacity.
- Michael Read
The plan to make COVID-19 normal
Two years into the pandemic, state governments work on plans to return life to near normal. Getting the timing right, however, is the risky part.
- Aaron Patrick
Experts call for virus testing shake-up, urge people to stay vigilant
High demand for the longer COVID-19 tests is pushing systems to their limits and likely downplaying the number of cases in the community, health experts warn.
- Finbar O'Mallon
Hazzard blames ‘tourism tests’ for fuelling testing crunch
The spectre of omicron has pushed national COVID-19 testing volumes towards record levels, stretching clinics to breaking point and exhausting staff taking swabs.
- Jessica Gardner and Joanna Mather
NSW Premier urges ‘personal responsibility’ on vaccines as cases surge
Dominic Perrottet will not reintroduce indoor mask-wearing rules despite the number of COVID-19 cases in the state surging almost five-fold over the past week.
- Edmund Tadros and Tom McIlroy
States shrug off surge in virus cases
Premiers continued to reopen despite business and community anxieties – and NSW’s prediction that it could face 175,000 cases a week by the end of next month.
- Tom Burton, Phillip Coorey and Patrick Durkin
- Updated
- Coronavirus pandemic
NSW wants booster wait cut to three months as cases jump
The NSW government wants federal health advisers to cut the suggested five-month wait before people can receive a booster as the state records 804 new locally acquired infections.
- Updated
- Finbar O'Mallon, Michael Read and Tom McIlroy
Australia ‘cannot hide from COVID’: Perrottet
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has issued a warning to the country as his state records its sixth infection of the omicron variant of COVID-19.
- Finbar O'Mallon
November 2021
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Financial Review’s reporting in the public interest
The Australian Press Council has agreed that our naming of an unknowingly COVID-19 infected person was in the public interest.
- The AFR View
Health experts mixed on early freedoms for NSW
Medical experts have differing views on NSW’s plan to open up completely when 95 per cent of the population over 16 has been double vaccinated.
- Jill Margo and Finbar O'Mallon
October 2021
Businesses face $5000 fines over unjabbed customers
NSW business owners will face fines if they do not take “reasonable measures” to stop unvaccinated people entering their premises.
- Edmund Tadros
