A decision to cancel the state's daily 11:00am COVID-19 press conference from next week, as case numbers hit a record, is met with disappointment and disbelief.

A 13-year-old Brisbane school student tests positive to COVID-19, prompting authorities to send home the entire student body of a Sunnybank Catholic school as a "precaution".

GPs can now only prescribe ivermectin for the treatment of scabies and parasitic infections, with the TGA saying it is concerned by the drug's use for COVID-19. Follow live.

Even as the events of September 11, 2001, were unfolding, the questions people were asking amid the scenes of chaos indicated that the world was about to change.

After WA Premier Mark McGowan slammed the budget management of other states while handing down a record surplus, the NSW Treasurer has hit back.

 A 49-year-old South Australian woman has been arrested for allegedly ordering fake police badges as part of preparations to overthrow the government.

Mystery cases continue to grip Melbourne's north and west, while most parts of regional Victoria re-open under slightly relaxed restrictions.

As states consider different ways to quarantine international and interstate travellers, an approach using facial recognition and geo-location technology in South Australia is generating headlines as well as controversy.

The ACT records 24 new COVID-19 cases, with at least six people infectious in the community, and six cases currently unlinked to other cases or transmission sites.

After months of tough border restrictions, Queensland's border bubble with New South Wales is poised to return. So who can come into Queensland and who will remain locked out? Your questions answered.

A fugitive drunk driver who killed a man in Melbourne before escaping to India says he will face "discrimination" if he is extradited back to Australia.

Masks will be mandatory in Tasmania at large events both indoors and outdoors from next Saturday, Premier Peter Gutwein says.

British teenager Emma Raducanu becomes the first qualifier in the Open era to reach a grand slam final, where she will face fellow teen Leylah Fernandez. 

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping speak together for more than an hour, discussing the relationship between the two countries in their second call since Mr Biden took office.

Phil Collins may be gearing up for reunion shows with his band Genesis, but he won't be behind the kit that helped make him famous.

Dugan ends his NRL career as Cronulla sacks the former Australian and NSW representative following a second breach of the league's biosecurity protocols.

A private company controlled by one of Singapore's richest families — construction machinery and equipment supplier Tutt Bryant — legally pocketed $5.4 million of JobKeeper while it increased its revenue and profits.

It has been almost 20 years since the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy came to an end. To restart the story, audiences will have to go back down the rabbit hole in The Matrix Resurrections, due to be released later this year.

Lisa Alexander has spent her entire netball coaching career developing Australian talent, but the former national coach is now set to use her expertise in England.

Melbourne has not played in an AFL decider since 2000, and heartbroken fans stuck in lockdown in Victoria are urging Perth locals to get behind the red and the blue at tonight's preliminary final.

The California recall election will dominate the US political world next week, and Joe Biden needs some good news.

A Tasmanian theatre company has apologised after failing to cast people of colour in roles specifically written to be diverse, and says any offence caused was not intentional. 

Bolt guns are designed for slaughtering cattle, and after consensual sex with a man he met online, 59-year-old Stephen Orr shot him "to get him to relax".

Melbourne's many lockdowns and the shuttering of the film industry has the actor more appreciative of his job than ever - but also more appreciative of his home town. 

School bags can harbour plenty of surprises, but very few are as cute as Rally Godfrey's discovery of a tiny brushtail possum joey snuggled into his jumper.