New modelling adds weight to the view that while NSW's harder lockdown was the right move, a drop in cases won't be seen until September.

From midnight, permits to enter Victoria from a red zone will be suspended for two weeks and anyone who has not returned would need an exemption.

Brothers Roni and Ramsin Shuka express their grief over the death of their 57-year-old mother Saeeda, who became the fifth person to die in the current outbreak of the Delta strain of COVID-19 in NSW. 

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says the New South Wales COVID outbreak has been "stabilised" in what is "the most important real sign of hope in Australia today". Follow live.

South Australia joins Victoria and New South Wales in lockdown as the states face separate COVID outbreaks. This is what's happening with COVID-19 across Australia by state and territory.

No-one wants to talk about it until it's inked, but the deal's all about China and making sure that Beijing doesn't get its mitts on a key strategic asset in the Pacific, writes Andrew Probyn.

Parts of the New South Wales Central West region are about to be plunged into lockdown.

South Australia is now in lockdown after health authorities confirmed the state's outbreak is the Delta strain.

After the US and its allies claimed China was behind large-scale cyber hacking, Beijing hit back hard and fast, writes Bill Birtles.

A Queensland man is charged after allegedly exiting hotel quarantine through a window using half-a-dozen sheets tied together.

A worker who recently spent time in an Adelaide Meals on Wheels kitchen before testing positive for COVID-19 is confirmed as part of the cluster linked to an elderly returned traveller.

NSW Police bemoan "very selfish" people after breaking up a Sydney office party with birthday cakes and alcoholic drinks, as the state records 78 new COVID cases.

A global coalition says China's hacking campaigns must stop, but pointing the finger over January's Microsoft Exchange attack seems the only consequence for now.

The climate phenomenon that brought Australia one of its wettest winters has been officially declared for the first time in five years.

The rugby union player says despite representing Australia on the world stage he has had applications for citizenship knocked back four times since 2015.

A factory worker in the Central West of New South Wales has contracted COVID-19, after a truck driver with coronavirus travelled to the region over several days. 

A challenge over whether Christian Porter's lawyer had a conflict of interest in his defamation case against the ABC could cost the former attorney general and his Sydney silk Sue Chrysanthou half-a-million-dollars. 

A 54-year-old man is arrested after the bomb squad raided two properties in south-west of Sydney, following an "alarming" tip-off from Australian Federal Police.

Aged care worker Suzana says she had to organise her own COVID-19 vaccination and the soonest she could book was late August. 

Another two people on board the BBC California ship docked in Fremantle have tested positive for COVID-19.

The Mareeba woman in her 20s, who studies in Melbourne and attended an exposure site there, was infectious while in the Queensland community.

Queensland police say a woman's body found "wrapped in a cloth" and sealed in a metal box on the verandah of a Brisbane waterside apartment was there "more than a week". Detectives have released a photo of the woman they believe was killed. ...

Health authorities say a woman who had been in Melbourne has tested positive to COVID-19 in Queensland. See the list of exposure sites.

A Supreme Court bail hearing is told three men accused of conspiring to murder Bruce Saunders in 2017 were overheard concocting a "falsehood" about his death being an accident.

As South Australia prepares to plunge into its biggest lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses are in limbo about what support they will receive to tide them over — but the SA Premier says he has already approached the Prime Ministe...