Victoria will enter a "short, sharp circuit-breaker" lockdown for five days to respond to fears the highly infectious UK strain of the virus has spread in the community, Premier Daniel Andrews confirms. ...

Victoria is heading into a five-day lockdown to clamp down on the potential spread of the UK strain of coronavirus.

We should assume there are more cases of COVID-19 in the community and act accordingly, Daniel Andrews said as he announced a five-day lockdown across the state.

From midnight on Friday, the state of Victoria will enter a snap five-day lockdown. Here's what will close and what will remain available.

All of Melbourne Airport Terminal 4 has been listed as an exposure site for a period on Tuesday, as health officials say 905 primary close contacts have been found across the entire outbreak.

The local hope is dominating the world number three, leading two sets to love in their third-round clash on John Cain Arena. Follow live.

Bridget McKenzie defends a notorious sports grants program that cost her her ministerial career and insists all decisions were her responsibility, not the Prime Minister's.

The Victorian Government's decision to instate a five-day statewide COVID-19 lockdown from midnight means the Australian Open will proceed without fans.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard issues a new public health order declaring anyone who has travelled from Victoria to NSW in the past two weeks must stay at home for five days.

A Perth mother repeatedly tried to get help from police, doctors and mental health services right up until the hours before her son fatally stabbed her, his 15-year-old sister and eight-year-old brother in their Ellenbro...

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After Victoria successfully snuffed out the second wave last year, the state is now headed back into a familiar lockdown in a bid to provide a "circuit breaker" on transmission of the UK strain of coronavirus. ...

A Tasmanian Supreme Court judge is counselled by the Chief Justice after he was photographed at a Hobart nightclub in an embrace with a junior court employee.

The mandatory wearing of face masks in Perth and the Peel region will be lifted from Sunday, WA Premier Mark McGowan confirms, while a hard border will be reinstated with Victoria from tonight. ...

Taylor Swift is dropping the first of her re-recorded albums, the initial step in a plan to wrest back control of all her early music as part of her long-running battle with nemesis and former collaborator Scooter Braun....

In just a couple of weeks, Australians will start to receive their first COVID-19 jabs, but when will you get the jab, which one will you get and how does it all work? Here's what you need to know. ...

Kangaroo skin and meat could soon be banned from sale in the United States, potentially destroying the Australian export trade.

World number one Ash Barty played down concerns she is carrying a thigh injury after her most recent singles match, but she has decided to lighten her load at Melbourne Park.

As Victoria goes into lockdown, desperate to prevent the spread of a highly contagious strain of coronavirus which originated in the UK, health experts say Australians can still have faith in the nation's vaccine strateg...

The Home Affairs Minister defends his handling of a community grants program, amid accusations he prioritised marginal seats.

Yoshiro Mori confirms he is resigning as president of the Tokyo Olympics organising committee over sexist comments made earlier this month.

Valentine's Day and Lunar New Year bookings evaporate across Victoria in the statewide five-day lockdown to try and extinguish a growing city outbreak.

During a confrontation with Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek in the halls of Parliament House, Coalition MP invoked the support of Australian immunologist Robert Clancy. But what weight does that really bring to the sc...

Day three of the impeachment trial saw Democrats argue Donald Trump was "trying to become king", while Mr Trump's lawyers described Democrats' evidence as "an entertainment package".

The family of a three-year-old who died after being left on a childcare centre minibus on a day when temperatures reached 34 degrees Celsius, express grief and anger over the dropping of a manslaughter charge against a s...

Today's decision by state and territory ministers infuriates fruit producers but aligns with a campaign against high-sugar products in family shopping trolleys.

Microsoft's Brad Smith says the United States Government should not object to Australia's media bargaining code, urging governments such as the US, Canada and the European Union to follow Australia's lead in forcing tech...

After a career that included playing alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, jazz pianist Chick Corea is the artist with the most jazz Grammys in the ceremony's 63-year history.

At least six people are dead and dozens are injured in a massive crash on an icy Texas interstate, as a winter storm dropped freezing rain, sleet and snow on parts of the US.

When millions of Australians roll up their sleeve to get a locally made vaccine, the shot itself may only take a couple of seconds, but it will have been three months in the making. This is how it's done. ...