Prime Minister Scott Morrison says National Cabinet has agreed to increase the cap on international passenger arrivals from mid-February, but flagged people will still have to do hotel quarantine even if they have had a ...

Health Department secretary Brendan Murphy tells a parliamentary committee that if herd immunity against COVID-19 is possible, we may need to vaccinate children, who are not currently included in the vaccine roadmap as "...

NSW Environment minister Matt Kean criticises Scott Morrison's refusal to commit Australia to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, saying his Liberal colleague's stance is "ridiculous".

WA Premier Mark McGowan confirms the lockdown in Perth will end at 6pm after no new community cases were recorded overnight. He also announced a $43 million package to help small businesses and charities. ...

Here's what you'll be allowed to do once the lockdown eases in Perth and the South West — and the things that are still off the menu, for now at least.

Brisbane man Matthew Markcrow, 35, is charged with keeping women, between the ages of 17 and 24, as sex slaves for clients at two residences, allegedly giving them stupefying drugs, controlling their finances and tattooi...

It's two years overdue and the details were leaked months ago, but the Federal Government has finally released its plans for supporting electric vehicles.

A man who attempted suicide in the waiting room toilets of the Royal Hobart Hospital's emergency department would not have subsequently died if appropriate procedures had been followed, a coroner finds. ...

Stefan He Qin allegedly drained almost all of the assets from the fund he owned, spending it on indulgences and speculative personal investments, and lying to investors about the performance of the fund. ...

Héritier Lumumba says he feels like Collingwood management is hiding behind its players, who penned a sincere apology for their part in allowing systemic racism to grow at the club.

Parts of Western Australia's north have been inundated with flooding rain, sending choppers into action to pull dozens of motorists from floodwaters.

An investigation into Brisbane's hotel quarantine coronavirus cluster is unable to determine exactly how the virus evaded infection controls.

South Australia removes its hard border restriction with Western Australia, as authorities confirm the state's first case of the South African COVID-19 variant has been detected in hotel quarantine. ...

China's military says the United States is deliberately "creating tensions" and disrupting peace and stability, after a US warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, the first such mission under the new Biden ad...

Five more homes are confirmed to have been destroyed in the Perth Hills bushfire, bringing the total to 86, as some residents return to their properties in areas east of Toodyay Road.

World number one Ash Barty is unlikely to encounter early trouble in her Australian Open campaign, but a third-round clash with Dominic Thiem may be on the cards for Nick Kyrgios.

With Indiana Jones back in cinemas in Australia, you may want to consider revisiting Indy's dark, often misunderstood, second adventure in Temple of Doom, writes Cameron Williams.

In a joint statement, Rio Tinto says the company made mistakes in communicating changes with the traditional owners of the Juukan Gorge heritage site.

A former NSW premier is behind a bid to set up a massive battery in a Hunter Valley town that could use an economic pick-me-up.

Australia is about to start an ambitious vaccination program as part of the fight against COVID-19. Tell us a bit about yourself and we'll tell you where you are in the line.

The Reserve Bank continues to be surprised by the strength of Australia's economic bounce back from COVID-19, but warns that weak wages growth risks being baked in by public and private sector wage freezes, threatening a...

Human rights groups welcome the move, but some asked why it took a coup to cut ties when the military had already been accused of genocide against the Rohingya.

Sociologists and criminologists are behind a unique mapping project tracing clerical paedophile networks domestically, and then abroad.

If the rewards given to Australia Post executives were "inconsistent with public expectations", what do ministers think of the bigger bonuses given to their own public servants?

The NSW water watchdog is warning it can now see everything, thanks to unprecedented access to satellite imagery from agencies including the European Space Agency to crack down on illegal water take. ...

Activists burn posters of climate activist Greta Thunberg and singer Rihanna in India, after the two commented in support of protesting farmers in the country.

As with everything in Joe Biden's first few weeks in the White House, when trying to comprehend why he is doing something, it pays to consider what came before him, writes Greg Jennett.

A fiercely divided US House of Representatives removes Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene from both of her committee assignments, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she had earned by spreading hateful and vio...

Attacked by the media for her art, her beliefs, her lifestyle, and sometimes, her appearance, Rosaleen Norton — or "the witch of Kings Cross" — defied cultural norms, writes Marguerite Johnson. ...