State and territory leaders agree to establish a home quarantine trial for fully vaccinated travellers in South Australia "as soon as possible".

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian hints the lockdown in Greater Sydney and surrounding regions will likely be extended unless there is a "dramatic turnaround" in the COVID-19 outbreak.

International travellers arriving in Australia from next Friday will be asked which vaccine they have received and where they were given it. Follow live.

Sydney MP cites "outrage" over the jail term for the transgender woman's killer in a letter asking the state's top law officer to use his power to appeal.

Tasmanian health authorities are investigating the case of a Launceston hospital worker who tested negative to COVID-19 but upon arriving home in London returned a positive result.

Westpac says it has fallen victim to an "elaborate fraud" which cost it more than $290 million. The alleged culprit is a Sydney-based company run by the former president of Sydney Olympic Football Club.

National Cabinet has stopped short of making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for disability support workers, instead "strongly recommending them" — but the Prime Minister says the government is looking at providing incentives for the aged and ...

A former interpreter who worked alongside Australian forces in Afghanistan is denied a protection visa on the grounds he was not employed directly by the government.

From 5.00pm today millions of people in NSW will be subject to even tighter COVID-19 restrictions around exercising nd shopping. Here's what you can and can't do.

It's looking like the mantle for hottest temperature reliably recorded on Earth could be under threat again this weekend as the US faces another blast of extreme heat, but the history of global temperature records has been fraught with error...

The family and friends of a young Tasmanian farmer who built a following on TikTok have remembered her as a "beautiful young lady", with mental health advocates urging people to be mindful of those in isolation.

A former police officer who impersonated deceased servicemen and took "props" to work to relay fake war stories to his colleagues has received a good behaviour bond.

A detainee from the Alexander Maconochie Centre is on the run after a corrective services van he was in was rammed in Canberra's south, with police now combing the suburbs for the escapee.

Two brothers who used an excavator to trash their dead mother's house so that their sister would not "get a cent" from her estate are spared jail over the bizarre family feud.

Newcastle women raped by former band frontman Daniel "Jimmy" Hanson have choked back tears, delivering emotional victim impact statements in court.

Australia accepts more than 150 human rights recommendations made during the UN Human Rights Council's annual review in Geneva, but defends its border protection policies and does not back a call to phase out coal.

Western Australia to return to pre-lockdown life after no new local cases of COVID-19 recorded overnight, as $3,000 support grants are offered to small businesses. 

Members of the community and Queensland police farewell Senior Constable David Masters at his funeral after the 53-year-old was hit by a car and killed while laying road spikes north of Brisbane late last month.

We asked Australians if they could identify the traditional owners of their area. The answers varied wildly. See how your area's awareness compares.

When Joanne Cowan's husband died of cancer in February this year the one thing she wanted was to be closer to her only remaining family. But then her plans were thrown into chaos.

Australia's major banks announce fresh support measures to help businesses and individuals affected by Sydney's extended COVID-19 lockdown and other snap shutdowns and travel restrictions around the country.

The country's Prime Minister warns workers from CEOs down they risk their businesses being closed if they don't get COVID jabs, while saying the economic cost and practicalities of a hard lockdown won't work.

Hetvi Patel was visiting grandparents in India in 2019 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. She's finally set to fly back to Australia — but her family in Perth are facing an even longer wait to see her.

Several sharks feed on a large school of bait fish at Sydney's Bondi Beach — just metres from unsuspecting surfers.

The behaviour of England's fans during the Euros will be put under the microscope by UEFA, after a spectator used a laser pointer to try to distract Kasper Schmeichel during the deciding moment of the semi-final.