The Australian Capital Territory goes into lockdown after the territory records its first cases of COVID-19 in 105 days.

The ACT is heading into a week-long lockdown from this evening, while more areas of Sydney are being put under tougher restrictions. Follow live.

Three more Sydney areas are hit with tighter lockdown restrictions as NSW records 345 new COVID cases and two more deaths.

Victoria records 21 new locally acquired cases and authorities call for increased testing in Glenroy, as they work to trace unlinked cases across two separate households.

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews says she 'won't make any apologies' for new measures requiring Australians who usually live overseas to apply for exemptions to leave.

For decades, the West's unwanted fashion has made its way to used-clothing markets in Africa. Now it's fuelling an environmental catastrophe.

More girls are playing contact sport than ever before, but researchers say little is known about the long-term effects of concussion in women.

Wittenoom in Western Australia's Pilbara is riddled with blue asbestos. Yet despite the serious health risk, people are still visiting the former mining town.

Cafe owner Bob Barbar has lived through six lockdowns. Now two of his family-run businesses have been listed as exposure sites in Melbourne's latest COVID-19 outbreak, and it is getting all too hard.

One in three people infected with COVID-19 in NSW in the past week are 19 or younger as some students prepare to return to school next week.

Canberra is entering lockdown, here's what you can and can't do for the next seven days.

Stricter COVID lockdown conditions are extended to three more Greater Sydney local government areas after infections continue to leak in from the city's south-west. 

Authorities say two women who flew from Sydney to Melbourne on Monday afternoon will be fined, and everyone on board the flight has been put into quarantine.

Kaillee Dyke and her partner were extremely careful during her pregnancy at the height of Melbourne's lockdown, but it wasn't enough.

A text message scam telling people they have an unopened voicemail has racked up hundreds of complaints to the consumer watchdog in just over a week. Here's what's behind it and what you should do if you receive one.

Lawyers for a Tamil asylum seeker have unsuccessfully applied to the High Court to hear a case, in a bid to get the four-year-old an Australian visa.

Critical public health information targeting diverse communities at the centre of the latest COVID-19 outbreak was almost two months out of date until the ABC raised the issue. The government now conceds it took too long to fix.

Queensland records 10 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases as Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk warns Queenslanders not to enter New South Wales.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern opens vaccine bookings to all eligible ages and plans to allow quarantine-free entry to vaccinated travellers from low-risk countries from early next year.

Authorities say they've reached out to around 8,600 people who may have been injected with the salt solution instead of genuine COVID-19 vaccine doses.  

Throughout 2020, Vietnam was hailed as having one of the best COVID-19 responses in the world. But now the country has had more than 4,000 deaths, including 388 reported on Tuesday.

Rachel Midson, the woman who accused former Tasmanian Labor leader David O'Byrne of sexually harassing her, says she feels unsupported by the party and criticises the investigation process.

Hackers behind one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency heists have returned more than a third of $832 million in digital coins they stole, according to the company at the centre of the hack.

Transitioning the world to clean energy is going to require a huge amount of different types of  metals. But do we have enough, where will we get them from, and what impact will that have on the environment?

The 2021 Super Netball finalists have showed determination to get here, but there are obstacles each team will have to overcome as they head into the knockout stages, writes Brittany Carter.