The death of Susan Fisher after contracting COVID-19 during an outbreak at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney's south-west comes as NSW records 291 new COVID-19 infections — its highest daily total during the pandemic.

Authorities say they are worried the Delta strain has again penetrated Victoria. COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar says there are concerns the highly infectious strain is "seeding out quite widely" into the state.

Ash Moloney did what no other Australian has done in winning bronze in the decathlon at the Tokyo Olympics, but the 21-year-old owes much to the selfless act of training partner and friend Cedric Dubler.

Aussies Cassiel Rousseau and Sam Fricker are in action in the diving, while Marina Carrier is representing the green and gold in the modern pentathlon this afternoon. Follow all the action in our live blog.

Australians who live overseas will no longer be granted automatic exemptions from the ongoing international travel ban, meaning they will have to submit a "compelling reason" to return home.

The Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley will the assess proposal to rebury Aboriginal ancestral remains at Lake Mungo.

America has a vaccination rate that's the envy of the world. But US President Joe Biden is suddenly battling an enemy he thought he had beat. 

Each state is taking a slightly different approach to containing and suppressing the highly contagious Delta strain. 

A remote Western Australian artist has won the major prize at Australia's most prestigious Indigenous art awards with a bold painting paying homage to a sacred site on his father's country.

The US President tells Pacific Island leaders the US will make steep emissions cuts this decade in order to stave off the worst impacts of climate change.

The 24-year-old from Melbourne took it up to two-time world champion Andy Cruz, but went down in two rounds and will now collect a bronze medal.

Australian pair Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar win a silver medal in the women's beach volleyball, going down in the final to the USA pairing of Alix Klineman and April Ross.

More than 50 university students who are possible close or household contacts in the latest Delta outbreak have been moved to quarantine in a Brisbane city private student accommodation provider, catching other residents off guard.

Tasmania's Premier says the state's hotel quarantine rules will be reviewed after a NSW man was allowed to leave the state before receiving the results of a positive COVID-19 test, and that the system is under pressure from interstate arriva...

A woman who failed to check-in at a Canberra store tells a magistrate she is exempt from COVID-19 public health orders because she is a "sovereign state".

It's too soon to make a decision on lifting the lockdown in south-east Queensland, Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young says, as the state records 10 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 linked to the Brisbane schools cluster.

Experts advise wearing masks outdoors after infections linked to an outdoor gathering at a beach near Newcastle plunged the Hunter and Upper Hunter into lockdown.

Taylor Walker's racist comment was flagged not by an opponent but by a club official. That anonymous individual is now being praised for having the courage to defy football's code of silence.

A 26-year-old man will be charged over an alleged sexual assault at Parliament House in March, 2019.

A brand of imported Medjool dates, sold in independent supermarkets including IGA, are pulled off shelves after three cases of a "unique strain" of hepatitis A were discovered in NSW.

Florian Hilgart was fined $10,000 for repeatedly striking a 15-year-old boy with a baton, in an incident that was filmed by a motorist.

Hal Hart is haunted by the memory of being 'stolen' from his home in the Northern Territory town of Pine Creek. It was the beginning of a journey towards justice that has spanned decades.

While the world battles a pandemic, families in Afghanistan are also facing increasing threats from the Taliban and that fear is gripping one Swan Hill dad, whose wife and infant daughter half a world away had to flee their village last m...

An ABC investigation reveals a multi-million-dollar western Sydney club did not follow recommendations from an advisory group and awarded funds allocated to community causes into other projects.

After losing his brother to type 2 diabetes in 2016, Dr David Kannar created a "healthy sugar" to help tackle obesity and diabetes around the world.