Health authorities list a Jetstar flight and a terminal at Tullamarine airport as exposure sites after a man in his 60s flew from Sydney to Melbourne and then tested positive to COVID-19. Follow our live blog.

Beijing accuses Australia of anti-competitive behaviour at the World Trade Organization, days after Australia took similar action against China.

The owner of a Melbourne dry cleaning business where a COVID-positive case worked also contracts the virus, taking the number of Victorian cases linked with the growing Sydney outbreak to two.

UNSW has conducted one of the most extensive studies on long COVID in the world, which has come as a relief to some of the sufferers still living with symptoms. 

Barnaby Joyce's role in a special Cabinet group designed to provide a fresh lens on women's safety and security is blasted as a "farce" and "unbelievable".

Melbourne and Brisbane have jumped into snap lockdowns this year with positive results, but top health officials say there is no point in imposing the same strategy to stop Sydney's latest COVID-19 outbreak. 

An 82-year-old woman has been rescued after a falling tree sliced her house in half while she was inside.

An investigation into the Sydney limousine driver who drove international flight crew before becoming infectious with COVID-19 is expanded to include other offences by his employer, police say.

For 13 years, Britney Spears has lived within the confines of a legal mechanism typically used as a last resort for people who cannot care for themselves. And today her message was clear: she wants out. 

Tony Papagiannopoulos googled some investment options. Two weeks later he was frantically trying to recover most of his life savings.

NSW is in the midst of the "scariest period" since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Premier Gladys Berejiklian, as the state recorded 11 new infections on Thursday.

With Murray-Darling water-saving deadlines fast approaching, communities throughout the Basin can see a train wreck is coming — and the party holding the portfolio don't want to go with it.

A 5.1 magnitude tremor has impacted the popular tourist town of Broome in northern WA. There are no reports of injuries or serious damage.

A former Crown employee who blew the whistle on the casino giant and helped spark an inquiry has revealed she has not been called as a witness at either of the royal commissions underway in Victoria and Western Australia.

New exposure sites are being added in Victoria for the first time in more than a week after a man tests positive upon returning from Sydney.

The Bank for International Settlements urges central banks to develop their own digital currencies, saying cryptocurrencies are just speculative assets that help organised crime.

India says it has found about 40 cases of the Delta coronavirus variant carrying a mutation that appears to make it more transmissible. So, what is this Delta Plus variant?

Health authorities are warning Canberrans to prepare for COVID-19 coming to the territory, amid the growing outbreak in Sydney. 

West Australian health authorities say a woman in her 60s has died in a Perth hospital overnight, but it's not clear whether it was linked to the COVID vaccination she received earlier this month.

A Townsville man who kicked his heavily pregnant partner in the abdomen so hard she required emergency surgery to save her unborn baby has been sentenced to four years behind bars.

The residents of Christmas Island are facing a potential economic catastrophe. What happens when the island's phosphate mine, which has been the mainstay of the economy for more than 120 years, starts winding down over the next decade? ...

A former UK television star accuses actor Craig McLachlan of groping her live on air when he was a guest on her popular children's show in 1990.

A 62-year-old man, who was at a restaurant at the same time as a woman who was unknowingly infectious on Saturday, tested positive late last night. The two other cases were travelling with the woman when she was out and about in Brisbane o...

The parliamentary committee examining Australia's response to the Myanmar coup calls for sanctions to be considered against the military and for pathways to permanent residency for Myanmar citizens in Australia. 

Sydney's list of COVID-19 exposure sites continues to grow, with the heart of NSW's government now being added as a potential hotspot after a senior MP contracted the virus ahead of the state budget.