Perth and the outer-metropolitan Peel region are plunged into a three-day lockdown after a traveller spent five days in the community while infectious, after completing 14 days of hotel quarantine.

Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan releases details of 11 locations visited by a man infected with coronavirus during hotel quarantine. Follow live.

Victorian health authorities say a man who spent 14 days in a Perth hotel at the centre of a coronavirus outbreak returned a positive test this morning.

Kobi Shepherdson's father was charged with threatening to kill his infant daughter, and assaulting and imprisoning her mother, months before he killed her in a suspected murder-suicide.

A jury finds a Mount Waverley husband and wife guilty of slavery offences after the Supreme Court heard they physically abused their victim and paid her the equivalent of $3.36 a day.

A key figure of the NDIS has said proposed changes should be abandoned immediately before they cause more needless distress.

Rescue teams detect an object with "high magnetic force" in seas north of Bali where a submarine carrying 53 crew disappeared.

Queensland police are investigating the suspicious deaths of a man and a woman on the Gold Coast after two bodies were discovered at an apartment in Labrador this morning.

The Commonwealth is convinced it has successfully neutralised a crude attempt to wedge Australia over the Belt and Road Initiative. But it's playing a high-stakes game, write Stephen Dziedzic and Richard Willingham.

Stories of bravery, tales of division and a gunman's violent history are among the details revealed at a two-week coronial inquest into the 2017 death of Queensland Senior Constable Brett Forte.

National Cabinet's decision to reduce flights from high-risk countries has Australians in India anxious they'll be left behind in a country with surging COVID-19 infections.

With a record of more than 300,000 new COVID infections in a single day, India's second wave is dwarfing its first and pointing to a tough time ahead.

The UK-flagged tanker, whose crew was unable to get treatment from Vanuatu, left for Solomon Islands but is now in limbo after authorities there say they do not want the vessel.

Friday night football begins with the Titans taking on South Sydney at Robina, then the Eels and Broncos play in Darwin. Follow our ScoreCentre for all the live scores and stats.

A New South Wales man dies in a crash during day five of the Targa Tasmania tarmac rally on the state's west coast.

The death of Gold Coast woman Kelly Wilkinson is a sign there needs to be an independent investigation into Queensland's domestic violence system and bail laws, a women's legal service says.

The ARLC chairman lashes out at former NRL gender adviser Professor Catharine Lumby, calling her an "attention seeker" after she questioned his commitment to addressing gender issues.

Learning about his great-grandfather's saviour on a WWI battlefield enriches ABC reporter Alexander Darling's understanding of Anzac Day and how war shaped his family history.

Australians are falling in love with homegrown gin, rum and whiskey, but the booming sector says high taxes are a bad mix — and they're holding back the industry.

Support groups say the city has become a hotspot for increasingly violent crimes against women — and there is evidence to support the claim.

Dramatic aerial photos from New Delhi show bodies burning atop piles of wood in car parks just metres apart, after 306 people die of COVID-19 in 24 hours in India's capital.

The entrepreneur will gift the "largest incentive prize in history" to the inventor who uncovers a viable way to remove carbon dioxide from the Earth's atmosphere.

A group of former elite child athletes seeks a formal apology from the WA Institute of Sport, where they say they endured years of physical, mental and emotional abuse in the quest for Olympic glory.

Floodwaters from northern New South Wales reaches the lakes in the state's far-west, filling some of them for the first time in five years.

Joe Biden delayed his first big speech to US Congress. Here's what to expect when he finally steps up (and it's going to be very different).