Australia's Chief Medical Officer urges Victorians to get a COVID jab to "protect yourself, your family and to contribute to the protection of the whole community" as the state opens up eligibility to 40-49-year-olds. Follow live.

Victoria's Acting Premier James Merlino confirms the state will enter a seven-day circuit-breaker lockdown from 11:59pm tonight.

Victoria will go into a snap seven-day lockdown from midnight as it grapples with a new COVID outbreak. Here are all the rules and restrictions.

The Victorian exposure sites are constantly changing as health authorities try to contain the outbreak.

Robyn Cowie and Aaron Sterns have had to cancel two previous attempts to marry due to COVID-19 lockdowns. Today, they finally tied the knot — and it was just in time.

The Prime Minister says he has been in touch with the Victorian Acting Premier and has offered the support of the federal government with whatever the state may need during its seven-day lockdown.

Nine drops a claim that Australian SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith murdered an Afghan man in 2012 as it prepares its final defence in a landmark defamation trial.

The Australian Federal Court rules that Environment Minister Sussan Ley has a legal duty not to cause harm to young people of Australia by exacerbating climate change when approving coal mining projects.

Christian Porter's bid to sue the ABC suffers a blow as the Federal Court rules his barrister has a conflict of interest and should be restrained from acting in the case.

The lawyer representing the dual international, who is hoping to return to rugby league via a local Gold Coast competition, says his client has been denied "the opportunity to practice his profession".

People with disabilities say that 10 years on, the National Disability Insurance Scheme has lost its way and decision-making doesn't take into account their needs and wishes.

Victorian passengers travelling on the Ghan have been off-loaded in outback South Australia because of COVID-19 concerns, as SA Health authorities reveal the person who likely spread coronavirus to a Melbourne man had shared a room with anot...

Belarus's President defends his decision to tell the passenger flight carrying a dissident journalist to land in his country, maintaining there was a bomb threat. "They should have been thankful to us!" he says.

Sexual assault charges against Jack de Belin and Callan Sinclair are dropped by NSW's public prosecutors after two juries were unable to reach a verdict.

Australian fashion retailer Mosaic Brands will pay a hefty fine for breaching consumer law, over its marketing of health products that were not up to scratch during the height of the pandemic last year.

Iron ore prices have been on a tear, boosting government coffers, but just as fast as they went up, they're now coming down as China tries to curb its reliance on Australia.

A 230-kilometre track carved out of the landscape with the help of prison labour, this journey through the heart of the continent is attracting visitors in record numbers.

An investigation by the WA Corruption and Crime Commission found two WA Police officers engaged in serious misconduct, and one used excessive force, when arresting a man in a public car park in Perth's nightclub precinct in 2019.

A group of Tasmanian devil joeys have been born in a "wild sanctuary" in Barrington Tops, just north of Sydney. But is it a good idea to rewild them on the mainland?

A 70-year-old WA man whose mental illness was not properly treated for decades has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his former wife's husband and attacking her after an argument about parking.

Most of us believe it is becoming harder to know whom to trust, and almost all Australians rate misinformation as a threat to the nation.

A paedophile who was found with 12 disks of child exploitation material and more than 11,000 images is jailed for at least two years — backdated to shortly after his Adelaide home was raided more than a year ago.

Taiwan — once lauded as an example of effective COVID-19 management after more than a year of keeping the virus at bay — is facing a spike in cases and running out of vaccines.

Troy Buswell's ex-wife Melissa Hankinson denies getting drunk at a "high society" party and falling over as she repeatedly tried to kick the former WA treasurer, during cross examination at Mr Buswell's trial for alleged domestic violence....

Federal government ministers went against the advice of their own departments almost 60 times when awarding taxpayer-funded grants last year — and most of those decisions have been kept secret.