Protesters have been condemned for spitting on and abusing health workers in Melbourne, but large-scale rallies planned for Thursday did not eventuate as police took control of the streets.

A man who attended yesterdays protests has tested positive to COVID, the ABC understands, as Victoria records its highest single-day tally of the outbreak so far.

On the banks of the Murray River, the owners of the Curlwaa Caravan Park are not backing down from their vaccination policy despite the trolling on social media.

Australia's vaccine advisory body recommends some Australians get a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, but stopped short of endorsing widespread booster shots. Follow live.

The Nadesalingam family seeking asylum in Australia are granted temporary visas allowing them to stay in Australia for another 12 months.

About 130 close contacts of an infected truck driver who passed through South Australia last week are now in quarantine as the Moderna vaccine becomes available at the state's pharmacies for anyone aged 12 or over.

A former ultra-orthodox Jewish school principal who is facing dozens of child sex abuse charges vows to fight the allegations against her after being ordered to stand trial.

Hobart mother Preet Chechi last saw her son nearly two years ago when he flew to India with his grandmother on a holiday. Then COVID-19 hit. Today, Preet can hug her boy again.

NSW's Health Minister says he's "concerned" but not panicked about the second COVID-19 cluster at Liverpool Hospital in less than three months after the state recorded 1.063 new COVID-19 cases.

A couple accused of fleeing quarantine in Perth following a flight from Queensland are charged by police after being picked up driving on Goldfields Highway near Leonora.

Thousands of people are evacuated as a wall of lava 12m tall bears down on the island of La Palma.

Politicians, horticultural leaders and workers say John Setka was out of line to suggest violent protesters should leave Melbourne and "go pick fruit in Mildura".

A man who crashed his car with his young children in the back, killing three people including himself, was high on ice and had violently assaulted his partner before the collision, a Tasmanian coroner finds.

Li Chuang had a high pressure job in a Beijing publishing house. Then one day he quit and went to a monastery. He's never turned back.

If you know one thing about Evergrande, it's that the company's in bad shape. Read this and you'll know a few more things about the embattled Chinese developer.

The leader of the US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee introduces legislation to provide money to Israel to replenish its "Iron Dome" missile-defence system, a day after the funding was removed from a broader spending bill....

Just months after the UK was shaken by the murder of Sarah Everard, London is again shocked by the murder of a lone woman in a public space — teacher Sabina Nessa.

Netflix's documentary Britney vs Spears is being released the day before a hearing that will decide whether to remove her father, Jamie Spears, from the conservatorship that has controlled the pop star's life for more than 13 years.

Health authorities say getting vaccinated is our path out of the pandemic, but some workers think mandating vaccines is a violation of their rights.

A seismology expert says animals feel the "first wave" of an earthquake before humans, which is why some of them give the impression they "know" something is happening.

British cricketers travelling to Australia for this summer's Ashes series will not get any "special deals" allowing their partners or families to accompany them, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says, despite reports the tour could collapse if ...

Nicholas George Boak was charged overnight after being taken into custody a short time after the stabbing death of a 51-year-old man at the Cairns Central Shopping Centre yesterday morning.

The Flintstones knew something about our prehistoric past with their dog-like dinosaur, Dino, wagging its tail — as researchers discover that dinosaurs actually did wag their tails when they walked and ran.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the Doherty modelling predicted 80 deaths a day in Australia after six months, and 2,240 per month. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

Commissioned against a backdrop of a world afflicted by contagion, human loss and racial tension, Ouroboros will symbolise unity and diversity when it goes on display in the gallery's sculpture garden in 2024.