Experts are bewildered to learn that the lessons about the transmission of COVID-19 in the healthcare system are not being shared with the agency running the hotel quarantine system.

The head of COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria, Emma Cassar, says there is "no evidence" that a guest at the Melbourne Airport Holiday Inn told her team he had the nebuliser that has been blamed for the current coronavirus out...

A locally acquired coronavirus case reported by Victoria's health authorities on the first day of a snap lockdown has been linked back to the Melbourne Airport Holiday Inn outbreak, bringing the cluster to 14 cases. ...

Attorneys defending Donald Trump in his second Senate impeachment trial take just three hours to make their case, claiming the Democrats have provided no evidence the former US president incited last month's deadly US Ca...

The world number one's tilt at becoming the first Australian since 1978 to win the women's singles championship at their home major gains momentum courtesy of a straight-sets defeat of Ekaterina Alexandrova. ...

Keep up to date with all the live scores from the Australian Open, including a spotlight on all the local favourites at Melbourne Park.

The NSW education department investigates after a principal at a Sydney Upper North Shore school warned female students not to wear "skimpy" clothes because it could "compromise" the employment of male teachers. ...

If you love the serenity of early summer mornings, then you are in for a treat this Valentine's Day. Venus will put on a show with Jupiter, Mercury and Saturn before dawn.

It's hard not to think it's not journalists who occupy the "Canberra Bubble" as much as politicians with smarty-pants lines but no sense of accountability, or even reality, writes Laura Tingle. ...

A Tasmanian man is stranded at the Spirit of Tasmania ferry terminal in Melbourne because his COVID travel documentation needed to be approved — but the one person who could do it had clocked off. He said he is one of ...

Victorian Police Minister Lisa Neville, who has responsibility for the state's hotel quarantine system, is admitted to hospital due to a medical condition not related to COVID-19.

It has been hard to pinpoint the exact impact Nick Kyrgios has had on tennis in Australia, but that could be because it's an unexpected demographic that he most appeals to, writes Russell Jackson. ...

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan says Labor will place One Nation last on the party's ticket but will not rule out preference deals with other minor parties, as Liberal leader Zak Kirkup pledges a "seat-by-seat" stra...

Two 11-week-old white tiger cubs in a Pakistan zoo have died after contracting coronavirus from a handler, officials say.

"It's heartbreaking," says a florist as Valentine's Day trade vanishes — and the state's peak business group agrees, calling for more help for businesses.

A week after being held goalless by the Lions, the Gold Coast Suns manage a goal but can't do much more than that in the wet against GWS.

Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann's sister was forcibly removed at just two years old under racist government policies. On the 13th anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations, she speaks out about the long...

White House deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo is suspended for a week without pay after he reportedly issued a sexist and profane threat.

Police confirm human remains have been located at Hinchinbrook Island in north Queensland, after authorities discovered a capsized dinghy belonging to missing fisherman Andrew Heard. Authorities have euthanised a crocodi...

The fourth-seeded Daniil Medvedev gets past Filip Krajinovic after an angry exchange with his coach, who left an otherwise empty Rod Laver Arena prior to his pupil fighting back to win.

Weird and wonderful blue-coloured marine creatures are washing up along the east coast of Australia. What are they and why are they all blue?

It started with a strange song, but it was only after an Australian-first DNA test of a poo that bird researchers have been able to confirm Australia's first record of a brown-streaked flycatcher. ...

Donald Trump has been publicly silent, but privately furious during his second impeachment trial. Insiders say his next move could have a particularly familiar flavour to it, writes Michael Rowland. ...

Health authorities have vowed to get to the bottom of the role that ventilation has played in the spread of COVID-19 within hotel quarantine — and one engineer says there's a simple solution that could help to reduce t...