With south-east Queensland in a snap three-day lockdown under the "harshest restrictions yet", authorities are urgently trying to work out how the Delta cluster ended up in the community. Here's what we know.

South-east Queensland enters a snap three-day lockdown after six new locally acquired cases of the Delta COVID variant were reported.

Victoria declares 11 Queensland local government areas red zones under the state's traffic light permit system.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard says people critically ill with COVID-19 are being hidden from authorities, as the state records another death and 210 new infections.

The number one men's and number one women's players in the world will play each other — in mixed doubles — for a bronze medal in Tokyo. Follow live. 

Australia's nine gold medals after the first week is more than the country has racked up at any Olympics before and there's still plenty more to potentially comes. 

Kaylee McKeown completes the backstroke double with gold in the 200m final, while fellow Australian Emily Seebohm powers home for bronze as the Aussies dominate the pool again.

Across the globe, at least 38 reality TV contestants have taken their own lives after appearing on a show.

The arrivals include AFL fans hoping to watch Hawthorn play Brisbane at Launceston's York Park, and will last until at least 6:00pm on Tuesday.

More gold, record-breaking runs and mixed relay magic. Here are the best moments from Saturday's events at the Tokyo Olympics.

Maritime workers in Darwin are calling for the international arrival point for yachts and other small vessels to be moved, after a COVID scare that forced marina workers into quarantine. 

Nine businesses in Bondi are stripped of their takeaway liquor licences after authorities said the sale of cocktails in disposable cups didn't "pass the pub test" and encouraged people to break COVID-19 rules.

After last weekend's anti-lockdown protests saw thousands of people descend on the CBD, fears of a repeat fizzled this afternoon as police set up an exclusion zone around central Sydney.

Scott Morrison believes fully vaccinating 70 per cent of Australians is an achievable goal but he is careful not to commit to a timeframe to reach the target following significant criticism of delays in the vaccine rollout so far.

Anne cared for hundreds of COVID patients last year and she wants you to know what it's like to fight the virus.

For 50 years, the Polynesian Panthers fought the power in New Zealand. Now, the government will apologise for police tactics the Pacific Islander community label "state-sanctioned racism".

Neil Snowden was goalkeeper for the Australian men's hockey team at two Olympic Games – both times they were favourites to win gold, but finished fourth.

New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will become the first openly transgender woman to compete at the Olympics when she joins nine other competitors in the women's 87+ kilogram event at the Tokyo International Forum on Monday.

Alaine Sturniolo was a seemingly normal young mother of two living life with her family in suburban Perth — except that for almost a decade, she had got away with the poisoning murder of her grandmother.

Australia's Patrick Tiernan didn't make the podium in the 10,000 metres final at Tokyo, but his refusal to give up after collapsing to the track is an Olympic moment Australians will long remember, writes Russell Jackson.

After his abduction, Arthur left the fight to save his Kings Cross street. Juanita Nielsen’s murder brought him back.

Simone Biles has withdrawn from the individual vault and uneven bars finals at the Tokyo Olympics, taking to Instagram to describe what it feels like when gymnasts experience "the twisties".

Diamantaires across the world are a step closer to having a new source of coloured diamonds in Western Australia's Kimberley region, with two companies racing to revive a mothballed mine which once produced half the world's supply of "fancy...

The National Film and Sound Archive finds an "archeological dig" in the collection of a late Brisbane music aficionado, who counted John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix among his friends.

Victoria records two new local COVID-19 cases, both linked to a mystery case who works as a traffic controller at a testing site in Melbourne's west.