Jacinda Ardern wants to use New Zealand's time in the diplomatic spotlight to quickly eliminate tariffs on vaccines, syringes and other medical supplies, arguing the pandemic has exposed trade barriers that are potentially damaging to human ...

Businessman Govind Kant contracted COVID-19 after travelling to India for family reasons in April. His colleagues say he died in a Delhi hospital this week.

Argentina is one of the world's biggest beef exporters, but with an election looming and domestic prices on the rise, it's shutting down trade for 30 days in a move that is likely to have a significant global impact.

Melbourne man Gary Newman lost his Federal Court challenge to the government's India travel ban last week. The Australian, still trapped in Bangalore, likens the unfolding COVID-19 emergency in India to a "Mad Max comic".

Beaches along the NSW Mid North Coast are closed after a man bitten by a shark this morning dies.

The WA Premier says a fast-tracked coronial inquest into the death of Aishwarya Aswath will help answer why the seven-year-old girl was not admitted to Perth Children's Hospital earlier on the night of her death.

Dynamic range, a surprising moment and spectacle: this is Montaigne's strategy for a winning Eurovision song. But with Australia's performance the only prerecorded song, will it be enough to nab her a spot in the final? 

Big budget cuts are likely once the economy has fully recovered from COVID-19, with the Treasury secretary revealing an 8 per cent cut in federal government spending is needed to eventually balance the books without raising taxes.

Taiwan is mobilising its diplomatic corps to secure a speedier delivery of COVID-19 vaccines after reporting 700 coronavirus cases in the past week.

A trailer for The Me You Can't See, a mental health docuseries whose executive producers are Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey, is released.

NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell is moving to close what she labels a "legal loophole", which allows students to bring knives to schools on religious grounds. However, members of the Sikh community are pushing back against the ban. ...

The parents of a man with profound disabilities say the "hurtful and cruel" comments on the number of vaccinated Australians living with disability "completely miss the point". 

Allegations of pork barelling are raised after plans for five commuter car parks promised in the lead-up to the 2019 federal election are ditched.

A grandmother tells an inquest that she was "frightened all the time" for her grandsons in the months before her daughter drowned one of the young boys at Moama.

Former Seattle Seahawks player Jesse Williams joins a Queensland Police campaign to encourage young people to stop carrying knives and committing knife-related crime.

Food delivery giant Deliveroo is ordered to reinstate a rider after a tribunal rules he was unfairly dismissed and was not an independent contractor. 

Wildlife authorities are warning people to not feed cassowaries after one was filmed following a group of bushwalkers for nearly 10 minutes in Far North Queensland. 

An Adelaide public housing tenant says no-one is taking responsibility to fix issues in her western suburbs residence, which she has called home for more than two decades.

For Laura McBride's new exhibition at the Australian Museum, more than 800 Indigenous people were asked how they would like to mark 250 years since Captain Cook's landing.

Two popular Kia car models have been recalled, with tens of thousands of Australian vehicles affected. Here's what we know about the recall, and how to find out if your car is affected by the announcement.

Police say alcohol "may have been a factor" in the incident, which left the iconic train damaged after it smashed into a fence bordering a zoo.

The most powerful cyclone in more than two decades wreaks havoc across COVID-ravaged India, forcing hundreds of  thousands of people to evacuate their homes. 

The NSW auditor-general releases a damning report into the purchase of land by the state government in Sydney's west, finding it didn't organise a formal valuation before paying more than $50 million — three times the plot's value. ...

I will never be able to fully describe the emotions that flooded my body when I was told I was positive for coronavirus. But when other Australians trying to leave India contacted me, my journalism instincts kicked in, writes James Oaten.  ...

Only 20 kilometres separate Gaza City from the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, but the impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is very different on either side.