Masks are mandatory in all indoor public venues and a range of festivals will be cancelled after a COVID-positive 25-year-old French backpacker has been out and about in Perth for almost two weeks.

Wearing a mask while indoors will become mandatory in NSW from midnight tonight as the state government reintroduces restrictions to curb the Omicron wave.

An MP allegedly deceived staff at South Australia's Parliament House to make $54,000 in false claims for a taxpayer-funded allowance, court documents reveal.

South Australia records 484 new cases of COVID-19. Six adults and one child are in hospital. One man in his 30s is on a ventilator at the RAH's Intensive Care Unit. 

Aboriginal communities in a remote region of central Western Australia had alleged the scheme breached the Racial Discrimination Act.

Pharmacists are calling for funding equity between them and general practitioners who administer COVID-19 vaccinations, to help avoid workforce burnout and ensure Australia's immunisation schedule stays on track.

A mandate forcing West Australian police to be vaccinated against COVID-19 is a "punishment for dissent", the Supreme Court is told.

Authorities in China order 13 million people into lockdown in neighbourhoods and workplaces in the northern city of Xi'an after a localised outbreak of COVID-19.

When a North Queensland man asked his neighbour to take the bin out for him, he got more than he expected. 

Winemakers in Australia are scrambling to source a crucial component for the fermentation process as Chinese export restrictions continue to cause global shortages.

After two years of COVID restrictions and a royal commission exposing the terrible state of aged care in Australia, what will Christmas bring to our most vulnerable? 

US chip maker Intel apologises to Chinese customers, partners and the public after a letter telling its suppliers not to source products or labour from the western region of Xinjiang caused a backlash.

The tourists are under pressure, with only Sir Don Bradman's Australian team of 1936-37 coming back to win the Ashes after losing the first two Tests.

Nearly 50 COVID exposure sites at 30 venues have been added to SA's ballooning list on the eve of Christmas celebrations, with all of them deemed close-contact sites — including a shop in one of the state's busiest supermarkets.

Zane Mellor, one of the victims of the Hillcrest Primary School jumping castle incident in Tasmania's north, is remembered in Devonport as a loving teenager and a passionate gamer.

The artwork, of anguished human torsos, is one of the few remaining public memorials in the former British colony to remember the bloody crackdown that is a taboo topic in mainland China, where the killings cannot be publicly commemorated. ...

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says COVID numbers would continue to rise as the state's Chief Health Officer warns to move from the pandemic phase to an endemic phase "the virus has to be widespread".

Victoria's Acting Premier James Merlino ramps up calls for the period between second and third COVID-19 vaccine doses to be shortened from five to four months, as the state introduces an indoor mask mandate in a bid to slow the spread of th...

Health Minister Greg Hunt says that, despite the growth in COVID-19 cases, there has been no serious rise in patients on ventilators nor in ICU, calling that a "heartening" sign ahead of Christmas.

Linda Fisher and her husband Ken are members of Generation AZ — the group of those aged over 60 who lined up for an AstraZeneca vaccine, the only one available to their age group for some time. But the three month delay between vaccine...

A record number of presents under the Christmas tree are likely to have been purchased online this year, as Australia Post scrambles to deliver more than 1 million parcels in Queensland this week.

As COVID case numbers soar and border restrictions are set to relax, medically vulnerable Australians face the biggest risk to their lives so far.

Emotional Freedom Techniques, known as tapping, have been shown to help food cravings, depression, anxiety, phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder — and you can do it yourself.  

A pair of "shy" bilby twins emerge from their mother's pouch in an outback conservation project working to ensure the species' survival.

A discovery made by a scientific researcher given the job of looking through hours of undersea camera footage has delighted scientists — a tiny handfish, not seen in the wild for 22 years.