Lawyers for Novak Djokovic file court submissions as part of his battle to stay in Australia, confirming he received a medical exemption on the grounds he had recently recovered from COVID-19.

After having dinner with his daughter, who has since tested positive for COVID-19, South Australia's Premier Steven Marshall is now considered a close contact and is in isolation.

When Usman Khawaja passed 50 on day four in Sydney, Australian selectors faced a dilemma. Once he reached 100, the problem was convincingly solved, writes Dean Bilton.

Around the world, a potent combination of the Omicron variant and increased travel over the festive period has resulted in a run on rapid antigen tests. Experts say there are a few things we can do to avoid another mass shortage when the nex...

The 14-year-old was swept away in floodwaters near Gympie early Saturday morning. A man was earlier found dead in his car after the Wide Bay and Burnett, Fraser Coast and Gympie regions received up to 650mm of rain in 24 hours after ex-Cycl...

Police are asking the family and friends of a woman who left a Perth hospital with her premature newborn girl to let them know where she is so they can ensure the baby is being well cared for.

When it comes to a household COVID-19 outbreak, it can pay to be prepared. Here’s what you should have in your isolation survival kit.

Chief Health Officer John Gerrard says a man in his 30s died "unexpectedly" at his home on January 5, and confirmed the death of a man on the Gold Coast was also COVID-related.

People travel from all over the world to dive in the middle of roads, on farms and in pine forests along South Australia's the Limestone Coast. Most of us don't know it's there.

A 14-year-old boy survives after falling off a cliff on to rocks below at Barwon Heads.

There are now 83,390 active cases in Victoria, with a further nine deaths taking the toll from the current outbreak to 752.

Despite everything COVID-19 has thrown at us, it seems our political leaders are incapable of anticipating, of getting proactive. Instead, they wait to find out what the mob thinks, writes Laura Tingle. 

South Australia reports five deaths from COVID-19, while the number of patients in hospital also rises.

It is less than a month before Western Australia opens its borders, but getting approval to enter the jurisdiction after this time is proving difficult, as the state records one new COVID case.

The ACT has recorded more than 1,000 cases of COVID-19 for the second day in a row, as new hospitality restrictions begin, prompted by rising cases.

A year after the January 6 attacks, Donald Trump is as popular as he's ever been. Here's how he rose from the ashes of the riots that shocked the world.

Professor Michael Gore, the founder of the national science institution Questacon, has died in Canberra at the age of 87.

NSW records an almost 40 per cent COVID-19 positive testing rate in the latest reporting period, which saw 45,098 COVID-19 cases and nine deaths.

The Northern Territory reports 594 new cases of COVID-19 — another daily record — as health teams race to stop the virus spreading through a remote community with a low vaccination rate.

Health authorities and leaders have concerns damaged pipes are contaminating Warburton's tap water despite new, safer water at the source for the remote Aboriginal community.

As a trailblazing actor to generations of black performers in Hollywood, Sidney Poitier often spoke about his larger off-screen role. Here, he describes his life in his own words. 

This year, President Xi Jinping is set to extend his 10-year rule — and it's unlikely to end for life. From purges, to tightened freedoms, disappearances and rights abuses, we take a look back at how China has dramatically changed under...

When Nigel McGrath hit heavy rock while ploughing a field on the New South Wales Central Tablelands, little did he realise he was sowing the seeds of a discovery some 15 million years in the making.

Bunker oil is thick and black, only a step above tar. But can biofuels replace it to run the world's commercial ships? An Australia-first grain export trial aims to find out.

Researchers have been shocked but gladdened after seeing purple-crowned fairy wrens at a Kimberley sanctuary getting frisky for the second year in a row.