The Earth could be just 10 years from heating by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius since industrialisation — a global warming threshold beyond which even more serious and frequent fires, droughts, floods and cyclones are expected to wreak ha...

The NSW North Coast local government areas of Byron Shire, Richmond Valley, Lismore and Ballina Shire are in lockdown after a positive case travelled to the region from Sydney.

TGA head John Skerritt says the government is "working on a number of things" to help make rapid antigen tests more widely used, but they will never fully replace PCR tests. Follow live.

A baby girl dies after her mother trips and falls while trying to avoid a swooping magpie at a Brisbane park.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is taking Telstra, Optus and TPG to court, alleging they misled hundreds of thousands of consumers over NBN speeds.

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine is approved by the regulator, making it the third to be officially added to Australia's vaccine arsenal when the first doses arrive next month.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has approved the use of a fourth COVID-19 vaccine which is already in use across much of the world. Here are your questions answered.

Australian babies as young as six months old could be part of a trial by vaccine manufacturer Moderna, if a plan flagged by the company goes ahead.

NSW records 283 new COVID cases and another death with Premier Gladys Berejiklian ruling out suggestions that restrictions could be eased in areas with zero COVID-19 cases and high vaccination rates.

The Victorian Government is allowing camping on 27 river frontages in northern Victoria that are currently licensed by farmers and some are "pretty pissed off about it".

A woman who was found to have been sexually harassed while working at a Brisbane laundromat is awarded almost $160,000 in damages — a sum her lawyers believe could be a record-breaking amount in Queensland.

Two prominent New South Wales irrigators, Peter and Jane Harris, have lost their appeal to the Supreme Court over illegally taking water, highlighted in the Four Corners program Pumped.

An almost decade-long battle over 4WD tracks on Tasmania's West Coast has come to an end with the state Liberal government conceding that three controversial tracks it promised to reopen will stay shut.

The authors of a new report into findings in Family Court matters where sexual abuse was alleged say they began the project because of a lack of data.

Premier Daniel Andrews says Victoria has been able to assert "a degree of containment" around Melbourne's Delta outbreak, enabling regional communities to exit lockdown from 11:59pm Monday.

Naive, a bit of a dreamer and an unsophisticated businessman – this is how a Bungendore father is described as he faces court over the attempted importation of nearly 300kg of cocaine hidden in an excavator. 

Regional Victoria will be released from lockdown restrictions from midnight tonight. Here's what you need to know.

New data suggests woodfired heaters are responsible for more premature deaths than previously thought, as health experts call for reform.

Queensland records four cases of COVID-19 in the community as the Premier announces a mass vaccination centre will open in South Brisbane on Wednesday.

It's almost time for the twice-a-decade survey that delights data nerds and gives the whole country Tuesday night plans, even in lockdown.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian faces a backlash from within her own party over a move to make COVID-19 vaccinations compulsory for construction workers and tradesmen in Western Sydney.

The AFL's head of social policy and inclusion says the league will continue to fight racism on and off the field, after two incidents involving South Australian players in recent days.

New documents released to the NSW Parliament have raised fresh questions over Gladys Berejiklian's role in facilitating a grant that Daryl Maguire stood to gain a political benefit from.

The federal government has updated its vaccine eligibility checker to include pregnant women, two weeks after they were made a priority in the rollout.

The city where coronavirus was first detected in late 2019 has had a resurgence of the virus — and it took just days to do a staggering number of tests.