NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian warns against panic buying as people who live in, or have worked in, four local government council areas — Woollahra, Waverley, Randwick and the City of Sydney — prepare for to be locked down for a week. ...

Australia has been resettling Afghans who fear for their lives because they worked alongside Australian soldiers and diplomats in Afghanistan.

A hair salon servicing Sydney's rich and famous has become the centre of an intensive contact tracing operation with over 900 of the business's clients potentially exposed to COVID-19.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the local government areas of Sydney, Woollahra, Waverley and Randwick are being told to stay at home. Follow live.

WA Police arrest and charge a Victorian man who flew to Perth and allegedly breached quarantine to present motivational speeches in the city's south, after lying about where he had been in the previous 14 days.

With thousands of Australians still stuck overseas and no firm end in sight to the international border closure, the federal government is kickstarting plans to build more specific COVID quarantine centres.

Eight years ago, the Holmes family became the face of the Dunalley fires as they sheltered under a jetty. Not only have they rebuilt their home, their garden, which was "cooked" by the blaze, has also risen from the ashes. 

Charles Batham — who fled the Kimberley and spent nearly a decade on the run — has pleaded guilty to 34 child sex offences.

Queensland's Court of Appeal says Clive Palmer's firm Mineralogy must pay $102 million to liquidators over the failure of Queensland Nickel in January 2016. 

Swimmer Maddie Groves sits down with senior Swimming Australia (SA) officials to discuss her allegations of "misogynistic perverts" and abuse in the sport.

Stuart Bateson may face jail time over his disclosures to a junior female officer, alleged to have taken place four days after the commander was interviewed by anti-corruption investigators.

Around 650 US troops will remain in Afghanistan to provide security for diplomats after the main military withdrawal, US officials say, as Taliban forces continue to take new territory.

More than 1 million Sydneysiders have been plunged into a week-long lockdown as the COVID-19 outbreak spreads to several suburbs. See if you're affected.

West Coast Fever hit out at the Melbourne Vixens, claiming the defending Super Netball champions "refused" to travel to Western Australia for Sunday's match.

Australia's insurance industry loses the latest battle in an ongoing "war of attrition" with businesses that want compensation for COVID losses. But that does not mean they will start paying out an estimated $10 billion in claims.

Anyone who left metropolitan Sydney after 4:00pm must stay at home upon entering the ACT, unless undertaking certain essential activities, until 11:59pm on Friday, July 2.

Anyone in Queensland who have been to four Sydney council areas in the past fortnight must follow the same lockdown rules imposed in New South Wales.

War veteran Ben Roberts-Smith tells a court an accusation he took a nude photo of a woman he was having an affair with after punching her in the temple is a "complete fabrication".

WA Labor MP Jackie Jarvis tells State Parliament she was warned in 2014 that then-federal agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce had a history of groping women and was known to sexually harass them at events.

NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller says he's received "mixed messages" on whether a limousine driver at the centre of Sydney's COVID-19 outbreak breached the public health act. It comes as SafeWork NSW launches its own investigation. ...

A 12-storey apartment block in the US state of Florida partially collapses, with dozens of rescuers combing the rubble for survivors.

There are concerns a number of Australians are among the nearly 100 people unaccounted for after an apartment block collapse in the US.

Former game show host Andrew O'Keefe has domestic violence and assault charges against him dismissed on mental health grounds. 

Police have seized two dozen cannabis plants from a home in Cumberland Park in Adelaide's south.

Harold Carter's attempt to get a reduced sentence for the fatal stabbing of his wife at their Perth home fails, after the judge rejects his claim that he was mentally ill at the time.