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NSW has recorded three new locally acquired COVID-19 cases as some Sydneysiders were ordered to don masks indoors amid the city's growing outbreak.

Environmental and urban policy groups alike have praised the NSW government's plan to abolish stamp duty on electric vehicles and incentivise the adoption of the vehicles over the next decade.

The Queensland government will add Norfolk Island to its tourism portfolio and take over service delivery to one of Australia's most far-flung communities.

NSW has recorded two new locally acquired COVID-19 cases bringing the cluster linked to a shopping centre in the city's eastern suburbs to six.

Firefighting infrastructure and equipment will receive an almost $270 million boost as part of the NSW government response to the state's independent bushfire inquiry.

The Delta variant of COVID-19, first identified in India, is becoming the globally dominant variant of the disease, the World Health Organisation's chief scientist says.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is dating again, this time seeing the lawyer who represented her at a corruption hearing into former boyfriend and government colleague Daryl Maguire.

Queensland schoolgirl Tiahleigh Palmer likely died as a result of choking or asphyxiation in a deliberate act by her remorseless foster father, a coroner has found.

Woolworths is facing legal action for allegedly underpaying managers, with the workplace watchdog hunting more than $710,000 in outstanding back pay.

Australia's coronavirus-hit airline industry is showing signs of recovery, partly on the back of the federal government's half-price domestic flights.