The Home Affairs Minister says officials are caring for a small number of children who arrived unaccompanied after being rescued from Kabul airport.

Health department figures show there are still stark gaps in vaccination rates for Indigenous people across the country, with regions in outback Western Australia the worst at 7 to 9 per cent fully vaccinated. Follow live.

The majority of Victoria's restrictions will stay in place until 70 per cent of Victorians aged 16 and older have received at least one dose of vaccine, Premier Daniel Andrews announces. 

NSW's Delta death toll reaches 100 and more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases are recorded for the fifth consecutive day as Premier Gladys Berejiklian says the state has done "very well".

The World Health Organization is tracking a new variant of interest as it monitors the evolution of the virus that causes COVID-19 — it's called the Mu variant.

Australia's most populous state has reached a grim COVID-19 milestone — here are the stories behind some of those who have died during the Delta outbreak.

There will be some small changes from Friday in Melbourne and a slight easing of restrictions in regional Victoria from next week. But further freedoms all depend on vaccination.

Queensland Health issues a public health alert for contact tracing locations in Archerfield and Goondiwindi after a truck driver from New South Wales tested positive to COVID-19.

South Australian health authorities have revealed that five COVID-positive truck drivers have travelled through the state in the past six days, while new wastewater testing results have revealed traces of the virus in Adelaide's north and so...

With an election looming, the Coalition is walking a tightrope between getting the nation out of its deep coronavirus induced rut, and not angering voters in states like WA and Queensland that are vital to their political success, writes Mat...

Australia is winning medals in the pool on night eight, with more chances coming up in athletics, before Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson go for gold in wheelchair tennis. Follow live.

Australia Post will not pick up parcels from e-commerce retailers in NSW, Victoria and the ACT for four days beginning this weekend. The organisation has 500 staff in COVID isolation.

AFL chief Gillon McLachlan says Toby Greene's three-week suspension for making contact with umpire Matt Stevic does not square with the fact a jury found the Giants star guilty of being "aggressive, demonstrative and disrespectful".   ...

Today's GDP data show Australia's economy was on the path to recovery until NSW lost control of the virus.

With the Taliban now in total control, Afghan people are left to reassess the lives they built when they believed they would be free.

A judge tells a Victorian man jailed for encouraging attendance at a Sydney anti-lockdown rally his actions were "stupid", "irrational" and dangerous, dismissing his appeal. 

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk asks for detail on how opening up Queensland would impact young children as her government comes under pressure to commit to a COVID-19 vaccination trigger point.

Most of the issues facing the economy existed before COVID came along. But they're more acute now and demand political leadership to solve them, writes Melissa Clarke.

In pop music, the line between inspiration and rip-off is blurry. But the story of Olivia Rodrigo's alleged plagiarism says as much about the music biz as anything else.

Dylan Alcott's hopes of a "Golden Slam" are alive after a gutsy win in the quad wheelchair singles semi-final in Tokyo, but it was a heartfelt moment with his young opponent that stole the show.

It has been a long time coming, but Australia's brand-new, high-tech icebreaker ship is finally on its way to its new home down under.

An 80-year-old man who died in his unit in Tasmania's north last winter was found with no clothing on his upper body and had almost $70,000 in cash, a coronial investigation finds.

New Zealanders visit beaches and queue for takeaway food as tough lockdown measures have been eased in most of the country.

While what's happening across Australia is incredibly difficult for millions of us, sometimes sharing our ups (as well as our downs) can be healing or helpful in a different sort of way.

Intensive care units are a 24-hour operation and the constant noise and light make it very difficult for patients to sleep — with sometimes frightening consequences.