NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard refuses to publicly release documents detailing the COVID-19 advice chief health officer Kerry Chant provided about locking down Greater Sydney.

Queensland MP George Christensen has been condemned by his own party and the wider Parliament for "spreading misinformation" and undermining the country's response to COVID-19.

Scott Morrison again refuses to commit to a target of net zero emissions by 2050, as an international "code red" warning on climate change is issued by global leaders.

Worse fires, longer droughts, and more severe floods — the projections from one of the world's most significant reports on climate change make for scary reading. Let's break down what it all means.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says "policy positions that may have worked in the past aren't going to have effect" against the Delta variant. Follow live.

The series of five television ads for the national count in 1966 — the first year it was advertised on TV — are a time capsule.

It's almost time for the twice-a-decade survey that delights data nerds and gives the whole country Tuesday night plans, even in lockdown.

With Melbourne and Sydney in lockdown and last year's AFL grand final host having only just had restrictions eased, the AFL moves to cancel plans for a parade before the season decider.

The "number to watch" has leapt to a new high, eclipsing the previous record of 200, set only five days ago.

Cricket fans hoping to see the sport in the Olympics may not have to wait much longer, with the ICC confirming it will submit a bid for the sport to feature in the Olympic Games as soon as 2028.

An investigation into contaminated pet food, which has killed at least 23 dogs, traces toxic horse meat to a single property in the Northern Territory.

Pawel Klosowski has applied to the Court of Appeal to reduce his non-parole period, arguing that 34 years for murdering his son and his son's girlfriend is "excessive". 

Climate activist Greta Thunberg says we can still avoid "the worst consequences" of climate change, but only if we treat it as "a crisis".

NSW's COVID-19 crisis deepens after a record 356 new cases are identified in the 24 hours to 8:00pm yesterday, and the number of deaths linked to an outbreak at a Sydney hospital rises to six.

Health authorities remained concerned about transmission at a Caroline Springs shopping centre, as the government moves to set up more pop-up vaccination centres for schools.

A study of more than 577,000 children around the world concludes mental health declines after just a few hours of screen time among 11- to 15-year-olds, but that the solution is as close as the front door.

Thousands of Australians under 40 pull up their sleeves for AstraZeneca as the number of first-dose vaccinations more than triples in New South Wales.

An elephant herd that fascinated locals and people around the world by making a year-long journey into urbanised south-west China appears finally to be headed home.

At the start of June, fewer than 6 per cent of Canadians had been fully vaccinated against coronavirus, but the figure is more than 60 per cent today following an influx of Moderna doses. Can next month's rollout have the same effect here? ...

A Victorian coronial inquest hears the 43-year-old Yorta Yorta man's human rights may have been breached three times during his care in the Mildura Base Hospital the day before he died by suicide.

Domestic violence services are reporting a pressure-cooker environment during the pandemic, issuing stark warnings about a rise in demand for help across New South Wales since the latest lockdown began. 

The parents of a baby girl who died after her mother fell trying to avoid a swooping magpie in a Brisbane park have remembered their daughter as "a beautiful little angel" and thanked the community for their "overwhelming kindness".

Australian resident Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's longtime accusers, sues Prince Andrew, saying he sexually assaulted her when she was 17, as a compensation fund agrees to pay out about $170 million to Epstein's victims.

Robert Schellenberg's 15-year sentence for meth smuggling was increased to the death penalty not long after Canadian authorities arrested Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, in Vancouver.

Jennifer Aniston has influenced millions of women to cut their hair to be just like Rachel on Friends — could she influence millions more to cut anti-vaxxers out of their lives?