All of Victoria will go into a five-day snap lockdown from midnight tonight to curb the growing COVID outbreak.

Premier Daniel Andrews defends a five-day lockdown from midnight tonight that includes regional Victoria. He says the decision was deemed "essential by public health experts". Follow live.

As Victoria goes into a snap lockdown to curb the growing COVID-19 outbreak, here are the new rules to follow.

There's a lot of coronavirus news happening right across Australia. Let's get you up to speed quickly on everything you need to know.

The Prime Minister announces fast-tracked and increased payments for states in lockdown will be proposed at National Cabinet tomorrow.

Engineered stone benchtops have transformed kitchens and bathrooms across Australia, but the number of people being diagnosed with a serious lung condition after working with it is continuing to rise at an alarming rate.

Record low interest rates and work from home have pushed up rents across regional Australia and that has made mortgage repayments cheaper than renting across much of the country especially in regional Northern Territory and Western Australia...

An artwork by Western Desert painter Yukultji Napangati becomes the backdrop to one of the pop megastar's Instagram posts, turning the spotlight and 193 million followers on a rich history of Indigenous art. 

Midwives threaten to quit and new mothers are left in tears over health district orders banning new fathers from postnatal wards.

In Amanda Lohrey's "elegiac" novel The Labyrinth, a middle-aged woman moves to the country to heal herself and her relationship with her imprisoned son.

Joe Exotic, the US "Tiger King" whose involvement in a murder-for-hire plot was the focus of a wildly popular Netflix show, will be resentenced after a court found his 22-year jailing was too harsh. 

A woman whose six-year-old daughter weighed just 13.4 kg when she was taken to hospital and had to be resuscitated, has been jailed for failing to provide medical care.

Soldiers are sent to some cities to clear areas and rescue stranded residents as six houses collapse, with 25 more at risk of collapsing as the flooding continues.

Mask and social distancing restrictions in south-east Queensland are extended for another week after the state recorded three new community cases of COVID-19.

A serial rapist who used his position as a band frontman to coerce and groom teenage girls and young women has been sentenced to 28 years in jail.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian says until the rate of community infections get to zero or as close to that as possible, her state still faces the risk of another wave of coronavirus infections.

Police hunt for an escapee from Goulburn jail after the man managed to flee the facility about 1:30pm today.

Silvagni, a dual premiership player and two-time club champion, played 239 VFL games for the Blues, captained the club and was also a long-serving committee member and selector.

As of 5:00pm, anyone arriving in the NT from those areas will be directed into a fortnight of mandatory supervised quarantine.

Tasmania will close its border to all of Victoria following that state entering a five-day lockdown to address its latest spike in COVID-19 numbers.

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall announces tighter border restrictions as the number of COVID-19 cases rises in Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales.

Australia's unemployment rate falls to 4.9 per cent, with almost 30,000 jobs created in June, according to official ABS data.

A number of AFL clubs will play their matches in Queensland this round, as the Victorian government announces the state will enter a five-day lockdown from midnight.

With the Victorian government announcing a snap five-day lockdown, the Melbourne Storm are relocating to Queensland to set up camp in the state for the second time this season.

Wimbledon champion Ash Barty is loved for how she conducts herself on and off the tennis court and her performance coach says the tools the world number one uses to overcome distractions and stay grounded, can be applied by anyone.  ...