The Chief Medical Officer says the 52-year-old's death is "extremely unfortunate" and seeks to reassure the public doctors are becoming very good at treating the clots before they cause harm.

Melburnians must continue to wear masks outdoors once the city's lockdown lifts at 11:59pm, as authorities try to figure out how four cases in a Reservoir household became infected.

The two-time Olympic silver medallist will not compete in the national trials for the Tokyo Games, having alleged Australian female swimmers have been exploited and body-shamed during her time in the sport.

The husband of a COVID-positive woman who left Melbourne lockdown and travelled into south-east Queensland tests positive for the virus as people across the region scramble to get tested.

Here are the places visited by two people who drove from locked-down Melbourne to Queensland's Sunshine Coast, which are now COVID-19 exposure sites. 

Melbourne residents will no longer have access to federal COVID-19 emergency payments after the Commonwealth withdrew its hotspot declaration.

Police say Stacey Klimovitch was shot in the chest after answering a knock at the front door of her Newcastle home on Tuesday night — while a younger woman and newborn baby were inside — in what has been described as a "horrendous" in...

Queensland Labor MP Duncan Pegg dies seven weeks after he announcing he was retiring from politics to focus on his battle with cancer.

The lockdown is lifting but there are still plenty of rules in place for Melbourne and regional Victoria.

A man has been found dead in floodwaters this afternoon as emergency services carried out dramatic rescues in storm-lashed Gippsland.

The SES takes more than 6,000 calls for assistance as Victoria begins to clean up after a wild night of storms.

Three years ago, residents in the Tasmanian town of Rossarden were on a public health alert due to unsafe drinking water. Now the former mining town of 50 residents lays claim to having the world's best-tasting municipal water.

SA Health says a 69-year-old man has died from meningococcal disease. It has identified multiple people who had close contact with the man and one has been directed to receive clearance antibiotics.

A Sydney court hears that Australian war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith witnessed the execution of a man found in a suspected Taliban compound in order to "blood a rookie".

Two women who were groomed and abused more than 30 years ago by a music teacher who went on to run State Opera South Australia say they felt like "just a toy him or a sick fantasy", an Adelaide court hears.

International students will be welcomed back to New South Wales from as early as July under a pilot quarantine plan that NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet says will not come at the expense of the 3,000 Australians returning home each week. ...

International meat processing giant JBS Foods says it paid a criminal gang $14.2 million in Bitcoin to end the cyber attack that ground its operations to a halt around the world.

Male and female brains may be exceedingly similar in design, but the Australia Talks National Survey 2021 has confirmed they entertain a universe of differing views. Annabel Crabb takes you through the top 10.

Australia's south-east has endured a wild night of winter weather with high winds, heavy rain, flooding and widespread snow, with emergency services run off their feet in Victoria and parts of Gippsland evacuated.

Moree Mayor Katrona Humphries says testing clinics in the northwestern NSW town can't keep up with demand after a couple from Victoria visited several local venues while potentially infectious, with just 400 testing kits remaining for more t...

South Australia's Police Commissioner Grant Stevens says he has not received any advice that would justify closing the state's borders to QLD and NSW at this time. 

A man described as the "instigator" and "prime mover" of a gun trafficking operation, which saw high-powered pistols sold to alleged criminals, is the first person in Queensland to be jailed over the offences.

Days after New Zealand and the US were raised as options for the family's future, Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews now says neither are possible. Marise Payne had also flagged both countries as options for the Biloela Tamil family. ...

Two kittens are found dumped in a tied-up shopping bag at a South Australian RSPCA shelter when the temperature outside was just 8 degrees Celsius.

More than a dozen Indonesian McDonald's outlets have been temporarily shuttered over COVID-19 fears in the wake of a new meal named after a popular K-pop group sparking a buying frenzy.