Prime Minister Scott Morrison says all flights from India to Australia will be temporarily halted until at least May 15 and a medical aid package, including ventilators, masks and gloves, will be sent to the country.

Australian athletes heading to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will be given access to coronavirus vaccines before the games.

Eight repatriation flights planned to take off from India in May are now in doubt, with the federal government pausing all arrivals from the nation because of its coronavirus outbreak. Follow live.

Australia Post's board refuses to offer its former chief executive an apology for her treatment during the Cartier watches saga, saying media and politicians are to blame for the public uproar.

A County Court judge says he is disturbed by a Corrections Victoria report finding Porsche driver Richard Pusey is too high-profile and unpopular to serve his sentence in the community.

Representatives of Australia's Uyghur community speak out in support of proposed legislation to ban imports from the Xinjiang region of China in response to claims of forced labour.

ACT authorities say a "handful" of people received the shots early, encouraged by false rumours that unused vaccines were going to waste.

William Crowther was revered by some in colonial times for his "political and professional services", but his statue in Tasmania is being given a makeover to tell the truth about his mutilation of an Indigenous man.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison defends Australia's hotel quarantine system as "99.99 per cent effective" at protecting against COVID-19, as some medical experts call for it to be overhauled.

Economics professor Justin Wolfers says policymakers have not tried for genuine full employment for "40 years" and central banks are not infallible.

Former PM Kevin Rudd says he expects the federal government will "tear up" the 99-year lease of Darwin Port given to Chinese company Landbridge, due to the political damage it is doing to Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

As many as 5,000 people could be able to leave quarantine immediately, as South Australia eaes some of its border restrictions on travellers from Western Australia.

Melbourne's Crown Casino is hit with the maximum fine for failing to comply with regulations on junket operations for international gamblers.

If you look up later tonight you'll see a beautiful full moon as it makes its closest approach to Earth this month — aka a supermoon.

Queensland astronomers have discovered a new planet, but it offers a welcome far too warm for any human visitors. 

India has set another record for new coronavirus infections for a fifth day in a row at more than 350,000, with people dying on the street because the hospitals are so overwhelmed.

What if you could get a $3,000 tax deduction without filling in a return to the ATO? The Blueprint Institute says a standard deduction would give the average taxpayer a $600 tax cut and save them time and accountant fees.

The WA Premier says there are no new community cases of COVID-19 in the state but four more in hotel quarantine, all of whom travelled to India and returned on the same flight from Kuala Lumpur.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australian cricketers playing in the Indian Premier League will not be given priority when repatriation flights resume between the two countries.

Dozens of sharks and a pod of whales have been spotted feeding on schools of fish off Fraser Island-K'gari — an area known by experts as a "shark highway".

A Siberian tiger has pounced on a field worker and attacked a car, shattering a window, in a village near China's border with Russia.

Mayela Dayeh says she had no sex education at school and when she got her first period she had no idea what it was. New research shows the stigma around menstrual health in teenage girls is preventing some young Australians from going to s...

The US Justice Department launches a second review within a week into a police department's potential use of unreasonable force and racially discriminatory practices, in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

All New Zealanders are likely to get the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and that clarity has generated a lot of trust in the rollout, but as winter approaches there is anxiety in some vulnerable communities. 

Kerri Statton was told her mission to bring together the descendents of all 15 Tasmanians awarded the nation's highest military honour was "impossible". Today, they will all sit down to lunch together.