South-east Queensland's lockdown is extended until 4:00pm on Sunday as authorities try to contain the Delta outbreak with 13 new locally acquired cases reported today.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian bristled at a question suggesting vaccines were being diverted from Labor strongholds on the Central Coast and being sent to Greater Sydney to vaccinate year 12 students.

Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young says 10 of today's 13 new community cases are children as NSW records its 15th death from the latest coronavirus outbreak. Follow live.

Thousands of students, staff and parents from schools across Queensland are swept up in the state's escalating COVID-19 cluster. Here's a breakdown of which schools are affected and how we got here.

The cycling track has traditionally yielded plenty of medals for Australia, but can we keeping pace with the European powers at the Tokyo Olympics? Follow live.

Emma McKeon's brilliant Olympic program has made her Australia's most successful swimmer and she has equalled the best single Games by a female competitor in any sport — but what key moment opened up her chance to make history?

Taiwan takes the opportunity of winning Olympic badminton gold to subtly assert their nationhood, as Chinese nationalists vent their fury online.

A man who spent the night in near-freezing bushland after becoming separated from his kayak in northern Tasmania is found by rescuers.

Former Upper Hunter MP Michael Johnsen says the NSW Coalition "jumped the gun" in calling for his resignation in the wake of a sexting affair, while refusing to rule out re-entering politics in the future.

A Perth man is charged as part of a nation-wide investigation into a video which claims to show the Australian Federal Police Commissioner calling for the federal government to be overthrown.

An investigation into how an MP's private letter to Vincent Tarzia ended up being shown to drivers by frontline police, apparently to justify a traffic sting, has been launched.

Former gold medallist Jordan Kerby was told he wasn't good enough to represent Australia at the Olympics. Now he's suiting up in New Zealand colours, and he's out for revenge.

Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi and Qatar's Mutaz Barshim finish level in the lead of the men's high jump — when officials ask if they want to settle things with a jump-off or share the gold, the two friends choose a joint victory. 

Dutch runner Sifan Hassan recovers brilliantly to win her 1,500m heats and advance to the semi-finals at the Tokyo Olympics.

After more than a decade’s dominance by Usain Bolt, we have a new men’s 100m champion. But who is Lamont Marcell Jacobs?

Children aged 12 to 15 with medical conditions like severe asthma and epilepsy, as well as Indigenous children are now in phase 1b of the vaccine rollout and eligible for the Pfizer vaccine.

A COVID-19 outbreak at a Sydney aged care facility grows to 20 cases, while an infected nurse at the centre also worked at multiple nursing homes.

For decades Luc Longley has remained largely silent about his years with Michael Jordan's legendary Chicago Bulls team.  Now he reveals his disappointment about being omitted from The Last Dance documentary and how he made peace with his ba...

An Adelaide Hills naturopath will be banned from giving health advice about COVID-19 vaccines after writing an opinion piece warning against their use in a local newspaper.

The United States and Britain say they will work together with governments in the region after a review of all available information pointed to Iran as the culprit of last week's attack that killed two people.

The fight to combat vaccine hesitancy is well and truly on. So what actually helps?

Seventy-six years after the end of World War II, a 100-year-old man who was allegedly a guard at the Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration camp near Berlin will face trial charged with accessory to murder in 3,500 cases.

Tom Daley revealed on Instagram that he had finished a dog jumper as well as a pouch for his gold medal, which he won with Matty Lee in the men's synchronised 10-metre platform last week.

In the shadows of the old Holden site in Adelaide's north, many young people struggle to get the support they need to learn to drive — but the skill can make all the difference when it comes to finding a job, and local teens are now gett...

Buy now, pay later market darling Afterpay enters into a deal with payments firm Square, in what is set to be Australia's largest-ever buyout deal.