West Australian Premier Mark McGowan says it is "absolutely essential" that people who have visited COVID exposure sites go and get tested and warns it is too early to predict if lockdown will end on Tuesday.

More than half of the passengers who were on board a flight from Perth to Melbourne with a COVID-positive man have tested negative, Victoria's health department says.

A new study shows sudden cardiac arrests cost the Australian economy approximately $2 billion in lost productivity each year, but doctors say it's nothing compared to the toll on families left behind.

Thousands of people have turned out across Australia to march, reflect and pay tribute to the nation's service men and women on Anzac Day, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison praising "the sacrifices, the courage [and] the selflessness" de...

For many Australians from Indigenous and migrant backgrounds, Anzac Day can be uncomfortable. But one community in NSW is determined to change that.

After being severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic last year, Anzac Day marches and services have been held across much of the country today, albeit with some restrictions in place.

A crowd of 78,113 people descends on the MCG to watch Collingwood and Essendon play their traditional Anzac Day match, setting a new post-COVID outbreak world record.

Queensland man and race car co-driver Dennis Neagle who died in a crash at Targa Tasmania on Saturday is remembered as a gentleman of the sport who was a passionate competitor and "truly great bloke".

Harmony Dixon's box jellyfish sting was excruciatingly painful and could have ended her life. But 12 months later, she's considering permanent scarification.

It's the lightest metal on the periodic table and its origins lie in the very beginnings of our universe. And it's taken, in the form of a pill, by thousands of Australians every day.

North Melbourne players and officials will self-isolate at home for 14 days, but the AFL confirms they will be allowed to train and play during that period under league protocols.

Australian troops are unlikely to return to Afghanistan, even if the nation's security unravels in the coming years, new Defence Minister Peter Dutton says.

Tomorrow the Academy Awards will honour the best movies of 2020. So today is a good day to look back on the cinematic stinkers that came out of the year "when everything sucked". 

Participants in an experiment requiring them to spend 40 days in a dark cave without any contact with the outside world have described feeling time move more slowly, with two-thirds of them expressing a desire to stay underground longer. ...

In a broad-ranging interview, Patricia Karvelas opens up about how she overcame adversity and loss in childhood to forge a successful career as a journalist and broadcaster, and what it is like working in the toxic, sexist environment of Pa...

People line a perimeter fence around Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance to watch the dawn service as COVID-19 restrictions limit the event to just 1,400 attendees.

Viewers have been promised a teeny tiny red carpet and Zoom-free acceptance speeches at the Oscars. Here's your guide to this year's Academy Awards.

Roeger posts a fourth consecutive record in the T46 classification and Clifford breaks the T12 world mark for vision-impaired athletes at the Tokyo Games qualifying marathon in Sydney.

Brittany's daughter is in the same class as one of Kelly Wilkinson's children and she says she was confronted with a difficult conversation when her six-year-old mentioned "this little girl had lost her mum".

Essendon defeats Collingwood by 24 points in front of a COVID record crowd at the MCG, while the Power face St Kilda at Adelaide Oval. Follow our live AFL ScoreCentre.

Hero war-horse 'Bill the Bastard' helped take four injured soldiers to safety in the Battle of Romani. He's now being immortalised, along with his rider, with a bronze statue. 

The Sydney Roosters are at their attacking best to beat St George Illawarra 34-10 at the SCG, as the Storm host the Warriors in Melbourne. Follow our ScoreCentre for all the live scores and stats.

Sadie and Sydney Gow's love story began in 1945 as they sailed off to fight in the war — and in the latest chapter, Sadie will be wearing Sydney's WWII medals along with her own as she marches for the last time.

While Clarice Beckett worked at a small scale depicting seemingly insignificant subject matter, her work is masterful. The largest exhibition of her work yet solidifies her legacy.

As the rest of the world races to deal with the pandemic, the response to COVID-19 in war-torn Afghanistan has been slow, as the staff and patients in one provincial hospital know too well.