Queensland authorities say they do not know why the new positive case in Caloundra left Victoria,  travelling through NSW before crossing the border at Goondiwindi. Follow live.

A woman who travelled to Queensland from Melbourne has tested positive for COVID-19 at Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast, the state's Health Minister Yvette D'Ath has confirmed.

NSW Health authorities say a positive COVID-19 case from Victoria visited several regional locations while potentially infectious and heading towards Queensland last week.

Health authorities announce several COVID-19 exposure sites across south-east Queensland. It follows a woman who travelled from Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast testing positive.

State of Origin hits North Queensland as the Maroons start their defence of the shield against the Blues in friendly territory. Follow live.

Three Melbourne residents fly to New Zealand despite the coronavirus outbreak in Victoria, reportedly to attend a funeral, and end up forced to spend two weeks in a managed isolation facility.  

In three weeks Natalie Tsokas will mark the third anniversary of her son Ollie's death. But mourners visiting his grave won't see photos and crystals and his favourite rocks — they'll be greeted by a patch of dirt.

The three-year sting that saw the AFP catch more than 200 alleged criminals could see members of organised crime groups get back to basics in the way they communicate, a criminologist says.

No actual discussions have taken place between Australia and two countries flagged as resettlement options for a Tamil asylum seeker family being held indefinitely at Christmas Island detention centre, the ABC is told.

Alpine regions could see heavy snow, and flurries are still possible in Queensland as cold conditions are set to really bite overnight.

An Australian neo-Nazi who considers himself a "political soldier for the white race" and idolises Adolf Hitler is denied bail, with a magistrate calling him an "unacceptable risk".

Police say Hakan Ayik is now a marked man after he inadvertently helped them distribute a messaging app that provided a window into international criminal activity.

Forty-two survivors of abuse at the Garden Point mission on Melville Island, north of Darwin, have welcomed an agreement on compensation. But they say their memories of the horrors they suffered will not be erased.

The disability royal commission hears from a childhood friend of an Adelaide woman who died after apparently sitting in a cane chair for at least a year.

A judge says he is "surprised" it was left to him to raise the "embarrassing" situation of media reports that decorated veteran Ben Roberts-Smith spent time socially with a lawyer who has been working on the defamation case.

Jack Loh's carer and owner of the childcare centre where he died, became emotional as she told an inquest about why she didn't have a valid CPR qualification at the time of the seven-month-old's death. gave evidence at an inquiry into  ...

Adelaide nudges out interstate rivals to become the best-ranked Australian city on the Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Index, with coronavirus figuring as a significant factor in the latest rankings.

Police have revealed details of two alleged murder plots linked to Operation Ironside, including a planned hit with a machine gun by the Comancheros bikie gang in a popular Adelaide cafe strip and an "audacious" plan to kill someone in a ...

A review of the controversial push to set up a liquor outlet in Darwin has found Woolworths failed to understand that alcohol is viewed by many Indigenous people as "a demon that leaves destruction in its wake".

A coroner is asked to find that convicted child murderer Rick Thorburn most likely strangled his foster daughter to death in 2015, because he was possibly trying to conceal his own sexual abuse against the schoolgirl.

The perjury trial of a senior police officer on Queensland's Gold Coast comes to an abrupt end after a member of the jury is found to have acted inappropriately during deliberations.

Melbourne will take its first small steps out of lockdown on Friday, as the Victorian government resists calls from business for a "snapback" to an open economy sooner.

At the end of a 2012 SAS raid on an Afghanistan village, 13 people were dead. According to Australian and Afghan sources, most of them were unarmed civilians who were shot in cold blood, making it the single deadliest alleged war crime in th...

Almost 90 per cent of respondents to the Australia Talks survey say technology is having a negative effect on our sleep. So what can we do about it?

Aboriginal children in Victoria have reported being racially abused and physically and sexually assaulted by police, a landmark inquiry finds.