More icons of mixed measurements.

Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly has remained adamant the planned rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine will save lives despite concerns about its efficacy; tennis stars are due to start arriving in Melbourne even though Victorians stranded interstate c...

A nearby paddleboarder and kayakers rescued the swimmer by pulling him onto a board after hearing screams and seeing blood in the water.

On Tuesday, I asked Australia's Health Minister Greg Hunt a fairly simple question.

A Melbourne woman is being remembered as a "lovely mother" after she was found dead along with her three young children, aged 7, 5 and 3.

The rough sleepers had been using the tap outside Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, across the road from the train station, to drink, wash up and prepare food since the camp was set up on Boxing Day. 

Senior Constable Foster was an avid bushwalker who loved the outdoors. It was this love of the outdoors that took her on the fateful canyoning trip on January 2.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has shot down suggestions of moving the state’s hotel quarantine system to the regions as the Queensland government considers processing returned travellers in mining camps.

The Bureau of Meteorology has warned further storms could form on Thursday evening.

Ho Anh Dung jumped into the ocean from the bulk carrier on Saturday and swam to shore, sparking a police search to find him. 

NSW has recorded 13 cases of the highly transmissible coronavirus variant that prompted an urgent review of Brisbane's hotel quarantine system.

Brae Taylor Lewis poured fuel over Kyesha Finemore and set her on fire in May 2016 in the Logan suburb of Marsden.

Police say the two women present were 'distraught' at what they witnessed while walking home with the alleged victim from a friend's house on Sunday night.

During the seven years international student Nguyen Le lived in Australia, there was no record of him ever visiting a GP. But he was struggling.

Thousands of CBD workers will start returning to their offices from Monday, after Premier Daniel Andrews gave the green light for up to 50 per cent of desks to be filled.

The couple walked for more than 40km after their car became bogged in sand, stopping to leave notes and etch "SOS" on a dirt road.

All the rooms at the Hotel Grand Chancellor will be tested for COVID-19 as authorities try to determine how the virus was bale to spread in the quarantine hotel.

Post office worker Aida Hamed has been identified as the Bushrangers Bay drowning victim, after three people died in separate water tragedies on Wednesday.

Office workers photographed the group on a ledge at the Hyatt Regency in Sydney's CBD on Wednesday afternoon, leading police to investigate.

Paramedics, including the specialist high acuity response unit, were called to Reserve Esplanade about 1pm.

Health Minister Roger Cook said he was confident WA's quarantine hotels had more isolated airconditioning systems with better filtration systems in place than the older Grand Chancellor hotel in Brisbane.

A teenage boy is in a critical condition and another was charged after they ditched allegedly stolen motorbikes and fell over a cliff while fleeing from police.

Victorian MP says an unprecedented level of “fury and anger” is being directed towards politicians online, after a man in Queensland was charged over alleged abuse directed at her on social media.

Kathlin Armstrong founded the charity after completing a law degree in jail. Former attorney-general Brad Hazzard called her a "beacon of hope".

A former chef who raped a 16-year-old girl at a Victorian restaurant and then asked her to help conceal the crime from his wife has avoided being jailed.

Ten people who were quarantined at a Brisbane hotel before returning home to NSW are in isolation, as the state records no new local coronavirus cases.

Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has explained why the evacuation operation took more than 12 hours.

Daniel Andrews and Life Saving Victoria are urging swimmers emerging from lockdown to approach the water with extra caution this summer.

Carmel Barbagallo's appointment follows one of Bradley Edwards' defence lawyers, Genevieve Cleary, being appointed a Magistrate shortly after the end of his trial in July. 

The man, wearing ski goggles and a face covering, threatened the driver with a handgun and stole his car at a south-west Sydney McDonald's last month.

No locally acquired cases were detected in Queensland overnight.

Anyone who goes through or picks up someone in a vehicle from Perth Airport must now wear a mask unless they meet exemption criteria.

Queensland police have accidentally released details of hundreds of firearms owners in an embarrassing breach that was about security.

Dave Sharma conveniently overlooks the difference between the use of and abuse of free speech.

Decided to bite the bullet and replace your car? You might kick yourself for not acting earlier, as WA's best-known dealer has never seen a market like this.

Queensland evacuating the hotel where a cluster of the highly infectious UK strain of the virus emerged has put the spotlight on WA which has three of those cases in hotel quarantine.

The state has extended its stretch of days without community transmission as concern remains about the risk posted by Queensland's outbreak.

A matter of hours after police released CCTV footage in a public appeal for information, a man handed himself in.

Police will prepare a report for the coroner after a woman in her 20s died following an attempted to rescue a teenage girl amid a slew of separate Victorian water tragedies that has left three dead, six rescued and a three-year-old child fighting for...

For the giant, aloof dire wolves, the real threat to their existence can be summed up by the phrase "Summer is coming", according to new research published in Nature magazine.

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A rapid vaccine rollout, including of the AstraZeneca vaccine, will allow us to return to a relatively normal life and avoid a major wave of illness like the one that has hit the northern hemisphere.

Nation awash, shop owners threaten to blockade street, and health funds set new rates.

Quarantine officials at Australian ports were given instructions to "quarantine anyone thought to have influenza or any other disease which would be a menace to the health of the community".

The states have claimed to be acting on their medical advice, but have been mostly driven by their perceived short-term political advantage.

The deadly Washington riot was organised on social media, where more threats are surfacing for Inauguration Day. Who regulates these platforms? Should more be done to rein them in? Is free speech in danger too?

Stephen Hagan, who campaigned for 21 years to have Coon cheese renamed, is glad it's changed, but would have liked to have been consulted.

Workers who want to shun the office and keep working from home have little in the way of legal recourse to refuse such a direction from their employer, lawyers say.

Brisbane's Hotel Grand Chancellor has seen six COVID-19 cases all linked to the seventh floor, with authorities trying to solve the mystery spread.

Some of the 129 people evacuated from the Hotel Grand Chancellor have begun settling into at least one other CBD site after fears of a cluster emerged.