Perth is entering a three-day lockdown and a Melbourne airport terminal has been declared an exposure site after a Victorian man contracted COVID-19 in one of the city’s quarantine hotels.

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NSW will place a three-day lockdown restriction on anyone arriving in the state from Perth or the Peel region after a new coronavirus case was detected in WA.

The latest coronavirus lockdown imposed on West Australians would impact several big sporting and cultural events planned for the long weekend.

The variant of COVID-19 detected in India is no terrifying ‘double mutant’ but is a sign of how outbreaks anywhere in the world continue to pose a serious threat to Australia.

Nine people including bystanders and police have been treated by paramedics after a fire in the bedroom of a Waterloo unit where a young boy suffered critical burns.

Western Australia is again facing a snap lockdown after COVID-19 cases spread in hotel quarantine, with the latest including a man who flew to Melbourne and subsequently tested positive.

The news comes after an outbreak was identified at the hotel on Wednesday with the virus spreading among quarantining guests in separate rooms. 

The news outlets being sued by Ben Roberts-Smith have lost their bid to include in a defamation trial evidence of new allegations of serious criminal conduct against the former SAS soldier over his conduct in Afghanistan.

Queensland Senior Constable Brett Forte was ambushed and gunned down by wanted man Ricky Maddison in 2017.

There are a few things inevitable in this world; death, taxes, and now – in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic – we can add ‘panic-buying at the mere mention of lockdown’ to that list.

Kings Cross should be revived as Sydney’s neon heartland with bright signage like the iconic Coca-Cola billboard spreading through the precinct under a major plan to transform the area.

The medal was found at Beaumaris beach in 1980 before detective work by one police officer this year saw it returned to the soldier’s family in the lead-up to Anzac Day.

Only two thirds of domestic violence protection order breach cases were solved between 2019 and 2020, with police reporting a lower clearance rate on the previous year for the offence in the state’s latest crime report.

The man completed his two weeks quarantine and boarded a Qantas flight from Perth to Melbourne on Wednesday, sparking concerns he may have spread the disease in the community.

Seven people have been arrested and charged with more than 40 offences after police raids resulted in the seizure of $132,000 in drugs. 

Today on Please Explain, David King speaks with LA-based Culture Editor-at-Large Michael Idato about the very different Oscars awards ceremony we’re expecting to see.

Melbourne husband and wife Kandasamy and Kumuthini Kannan have been found guilty of keeping a woman as a slave in their home in Mount Waverley for eight years.

WorkSafe is carrying out a review of all-gender bathrooms in Victorian workplaces, as sporting organisations make plans to include them in Melbourne’s major stadiums.

Recent significant rainfall is believed to be a factor behind the increase in odour, while temperature changes across the Sydney Basin in autumn can trap smells close to the ground.

Police believe the woman’s death is suspicious and the man’s is not but investigations are continuing.

It comes one day after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced new caps on flights from India, where daily cases have topped 300,000.

When the woman arrived at work in the hours after the alleged incident she had a puffy face and looked like she’d been crying, her former manager said.

Undertaking graduate studies at Oxford University, a scholar reflects on why she played up to the Aussie abroad stereotype.

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The Drummoyne MP has denied threatening a local councillor in a bid to pressure her to support planning decisions that would have benefited Sidoti family property interests.

For most people, getting on the bike for more than an hour or two shows decent fitness. But riding 24 hours straight at a pace close to the speed limit of a suburban street? 

The corporate regulator failed to act on a tip about a Sydney scammer who squeezed more than $30 million from her clients before mysteriously disappearing.

Sophia Darling farewelled all five of her sons as they sailed away to war. The cruellest blow came as she prepared to welcome home the first.

Australia is among about 25 countries, including the US and New Zealand, who have a scheme to pay compensation to people who suffer adverse vaccine reactions.

Tougher action than just restricting number of flights from India – including a complete ban – might be needed as the subcontinent experiences a surge in cases.

One of the key architects of the National Disability Insurance Scheme has called for the immediate abandonment of independent assessments to determine whether people with disabilities are eligible for funding.

The end of the watery ditch and rusty planet revenge.

Kirra is simultaneously nursing a crying baby and a bloody nose when the police arrive. But all is not as it seems in this crime scene.

After uncovering alarming practices in Australia’s fertility industry, an investigative reporter learnt that a friend was actually her half-sister. Together they tracked down their biological father, who had revelations of his own.

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims met his wife, international law academic Alison Pert, in Papua New Guinea on a blind date. A scuba-diving scare soon afterwards cemented their attraction.  

The women have made submissions to the Australian Human Rights Commisioner’s review of gymnastics culture in Australia alleging they were forced to compete with broken bones, barely ate and frequently suffered emotional abuse.

Chief Commissioner Shane Patton said six Victoria Police officers faced a disciplinary hearing on Tuesday.

Speaking from the Mercure Hotel, she said she spent the past year avoiding the virus in the UK and administering the vaccine, only to contract it once in Australia.

The official Anzac Day Dawn Service in Sydney’s CBD on Sunday has been booked out but thousands will flock into the city to march down Elizabeth Street later.

The man found at the scene was taken to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, with burns to his arms and legs, and abdominal and facial injuries.

The man has been identified as a Queensland police officer who developed deep vein thrombosis after knee surgery in 2009.

Andy Robertson’s advice came a week after an assessment of the hotel found the air in its corridors came from adjoining rooms which housed isolating guests.

Walter Dexter sailed from Albany in November 1914 with the First Convoy. His wartime journey is featured at the National Anzac Centre and in the documentary War Stories screening on Channel 9 this weekend. He did all he could for his “boys”, in ...

A new guard of winemakers are turning the tide on tradition in the Margaret River wine region. Meet five of the best.

The competition shapes as the greatest exhibition of new freestyle surfing in a WSL professional event, with Brazilian world champions Gabriel Medina and Italo Ferreira ushering a new style of surfing that has the sport alight.

When Australia quit the Vietnam War, we abandoned locals who had helped us fight the Viet Cong. Let’s not repeat that abysmal record as we depart from Afghanistan.

This is really a story of capitalism’s limits, especially when it intersects with culture. It’s about how far it will go when allowed, but also just how far we’ll let it before finally saying “enough”.

The return to the office has been getting rough for various Melbourne workplaces, but some employees and bosses are forging a new way.