As the virus hits the road.

Melbourne's local football community is mourning the death of 21-year-old Mitchell Celetano, whose body was found in a Gold Coast canal on Tuesday in Queensland.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called a special cabinet meeting to discuss the mutant coronavirus strain from the United Kingdom, while the MCG in Victoria became an outbreak site after a positive case attended the Melbourne Test.

Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has signed off on Cricket Australia's proposals for strict quarantine rules for players.

A 25-year-old man was charged on Wednesday after allegedly fleeing the scene of the accident in the town of Wellington.

Three West Australians who came into contact with a recently returned UK traveller with COVID-19 have gone into mandatory quarantine after a health protocol failure.

The thunderstorms were predicted to also cause potential life-threatening flash-flooding.

A man in his 30s who attended sales at Chadstone on December 26 and the MCG Boxing Day Test match on December 27 later tested positive to COVID-19.

The decision by Victoria and Western Australia to shut out their own residents has stranded thousands in internal exile with no end date in sight.

Venues across the northern beaches look set to enjoy the fruits of the state government's hallmark $500 million restaurant voucher program to stimulate the pandemic-ravaged economy.

Hundreds of thousands face another week - at least - of working from home as the Black Rock outbreak and MCG scare delays the state's plan to get workers back to the CBD.

“We have not seen these challenging conditions for two to three years,” says fire chief Darren Klemm, who warns the next three days will be especially tough for crews.

Australian Orthodox communities are celebrating the birth of Christ on January 6 and 7.

While the Service NSW QR code has been compulsory in the state's businesses since January 1, there are places where codes may be missing or missed.

Queensland police are investigating the suspected homicide after being called to an address on Wednesday afternoon.

Roads and train services across the region have been cut by floodwater, with hundreds of millimetres of rain — much falling in the space of hours — leading to major flooding south of Cairns.

Plans to demolish a St Vincent's Hospital building next to Carlton Gardens and replace it with a 11-storey glass tower face opposition over fears it would impact the World Heritage status of the nearby Royal Exhibition Building.

A drink-driver was warned by a friend he shouldn't be behind the wheel of his car just minutes before he hit and killed a pedestrian, court documents reveal.

The lawyer for accused quarantine hotel escapee Jenny D’Ubios is appalled that her client is being held in a maximum security prison after attempts to secure her bail conditions were allegedly undone by police and media.

Conspiracy theories about the 'scamdemic', doubting the severity of COVID-19, were posted on the social media page connected to a WA police officer.

Brian Urquhart warned against Operation Market Garden, the calamitous Allied military assault dramatised in A Bridge Too Far.

Australia’s vaccine rollout has been brought forward by a few weeks, as the government expects the drugs watchdog to approve the country’s first jab later this month.

Severin replicated true and mythical stories of Sinbad, Marco Polo and Robinson Crusoe.

An inmate has died after a shooting incident while the man was in the custody of Corrective Services NSW in Wollongong on Wednesday.

The $16 million COVIDSafe app was supposed to act like 'sunscreen' in protecting the community from coronavirus outbreaks. It has not picked up a single contact from the Black Rock cluster that authorities didn't already know about.

Homicide squad detectives charged Ms Howell's former partner Paul Charlton with murder on Wednesday, 13 years after the woman's death.

A man who visited the MCG on day two of the Melbourne Test has since tested positive for coronavirus, making the venue a potential COVID-19 acquisition site.

One of the cases was the 18-year-old associated with the Berala cluster who travelled to western NSW reported on Tuesday.

Celebrated neurosurgeon Dr Charlie Teo said news of Milli's death stopped him in his tracks, saying he always hoped for medical miracles for his patients.

Rescue crews were called to help one man off the roof of his car south of Ingham, with major flooding along one river and more significant rain still expected for the far north.

Brian Goldsmith, the man who virtually invented the nightclub in Melbourne and whose name became a byword for glamour and fun over four decades, has died, aged 88.

Another month of record ambulance ramping hours shows that WA's health system wouldn't cope with a COVID-19 outbreak, doctors and the state opposition have warned.

Firefighters are bracing for another difficult day fighting a massive out-of-control bushfire in Perth's north, which is expected to run over a housing estate in its path as hot and windy conditions continue.

Firefighters face an uphill battle to control blazes in the Shire of Mundaring and Geraldton with another very hot and windy day expected.

Police are hunting a man who exposed himself to a woman while she patted his dog in Cranbourne in November.

A man has been arrested after a car crashed into five people, killing two children, before the driver allegedly fled the scene in the NSW central-west on Tuesday.

Which might just keep them honest.

Over the past two months, Donald Trump’s petulant tantrums are worthy of a tinpot dictator in some backwater.

The Sydney registry of the Family Court has a "win at all costs" reputation. But proposed reforms will give judges the ability to order lawyers to personally bear the costs and to dismiss applications without merit.

British enter Bulge fight, Australia placed in false light, and vicious rent racketeering

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The communication strategy of Victoria's Health Department has been criticised after changes were made to exposure sites without those affected being contacted.

While city outlets are worried recent COVID-19 outbreaks will delay the planned return of office workers, some see it as a chance to rethink an ailing CBD model.

People have been urged to come forward for testing at Broken Hill and Orange as western Sydney's Berala cluster continues to grow.

A volunteer firefighter battling the Ocean Farms blaze says the fire would have razed the residential estate and moved onto Lancelin if not for aerial support.

NSW recorded no new locally acquired COVID-19 cases on Monday, but two cases were logged after the recording period closed and will be included in Tuesday's numbers.

The museum was due to close forever on New Year's Eve but a 10,000-signature petition has led to a trial reopening to test its viability.

The developers want more time to start the Albert Street tower after its basement edged into the Cross River Rail tunnel's territory.

Travellers are going bush to avoid NSW border issues, but the trend has prompted warnings from seasoned locals.

The Health Department exposure site list has changed rapidly over the past few days, with new sites added and then sometimes removed – sometimes erroneously. Dates, exposure times, and in some cases venue names have been changed up to five times qu...