An infectious diseases expert says NSW health authorities will know "whether the tide has turned" by August. Meanwhile, South Australia and Victoria are dealing with more infections. Follow live.

For the first time, cameras are allowed inside a functioning Sydney COVID ward — the images are harrowing and come with a grave warning: no one is immune from NSW's virus crisis.

A Bacchus Marsh school will close for the rest of the week after one of its teachers tested positive to COVID-19. The news comes as the state's health authorities meet to discuss the "rapidly moving" outbreak.

Queensland Health issues a public health alert for North Ipswich, Inala and Brisbane airport after a confirmed overseas case was found to have been in the community before departure.

People entering Western Australia from Victoria have been told they need to quarantine for 14 days, as a result of a flare-up in COVID-19 cases.

New South Wales is looking for the opportunity to complete a rare clean sweep over Queensland in State of Origin Game III on the Gold Coast. Follow all the action in our live blog.

As Donald Trump's hopes for a second term as president began to fade on election night 2020, Rudy Giuliani repeatedly urged him to simply declare himself the winner, a new book says.

A 16-year-old ringer has been praised for alerting the victim and police of a cattle stealing operation in remote north-west Queensland.

Athletics Australia says it chose to keep eight of its Tokyo-bound athletes in Sydney rather than move them into hotel quarantine in Cairns amid suggestions the Queensland government is giving NRL players preferential treatment.

Two Liberal MPs, Tasmanian Bridget Archer and North Sydney's Trent Zimmerman, broken ranks to call for a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, after a bill to force one was rejected by an inquiry.

Just before the 2016 NT election, Territory Labor received $100,000 in donations from two companies co-owned by the chairman of the Darwin Turf Club. Now the Country Liberal opposition wants the money paid back after damming findings by the ...

Athletes have been using drugs to enhance their performance since the early Olympics in Ancient Greece and that appears unlikely to change any time soon.

A 25-year-old man is dead and several people are hospitalised after a harvester came into contact with powerlines on a farm near Yeppoon this morning.

NSW records 97 new COVID-19 cases with Greater Sydney's lockdown extended until at least July 30. Home schooling will also continue for another two weeks.

The truck driver who killed four police officers in April last year has fronted court for the first time to give evidence against his former employer.

The Greater Sydney lockdown will stretch out to the end of the month and the Premier can't promise that will be the end of it. Find out what this means for remote learning, essential work and single people.

A mother has told a Queensland court of "red flags" in the days leading up to the death of her young son, Connor Horan.

South Australian health authorities are investigating a possible medi-hotel COVID-19 breach and an unknown regional SA location where three removalists from Sydney stopped on their way to McLaren Vale last week.

The Blues will try to wrap up their first clean sweep in two decades and the Maroons are desperate to salvage any positivity from a horrendous Origin series. Here's what you need to know about State of Origin III.

A test tube model of a successful cancer treatment for children, developed at Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, could help coronavirus patients by stopping the virus from replicating in infected human cells.

The contamination scare saw supermarkets pull strawberries off the shelves and tonnes of the fruit dumped at the peak of the growing season.

As many Malaysians struggle to make ends meet during a "total lockdown" of their country, a social movement is helping to connect those who are desperate for help.

Prosecutors in the United States charge four Iranians with plotting to kidnap a New York journalist who was critical of Iran.

A spy ship from China is spotted approaching Australia as Defence gears up for its largest war-fighting exercise.

A US gun maker sparks controversy by selling a kit that makes a real Glock pistol look like a children's Lego toy gun.