Police have confirmed 215 people will be issued with penalty notices for breaching the CHO directions, as authorities crack down on protesters across Melbourne's inner suburbs.

Three teenagers reveal they're the creators behind a popular data collection website called CovidBase AU — much to the delight of their fans.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is referred to the Speaker by the opposition who allege she deliberately misled Parliament over Doherty Institute modelling predicting COVID-19 deaths.

Officers have been identified as close contacts of a COVID-positive case who was at the protests in Melbourne this week, Victoria Police say. Follow live.

Western Australia has recorded one new case of COVID-19 in a woman from New South Wales, who entered WA without an approved G2G pass.

After a horrific ordeal in hospital with COVID-19, construction worker Nathan Chellia rues not getting vaccinated and pleas with protesting tradies to learn from his mistakes.

Kempsey Shire Mayor Liz Campbell is urging people to obey public health orders after close contacts of a confirmed COVID-19 case are caught in a nearby council area.

October 11 firms as the date people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in NSW will come out of lockdown, although Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she is reluctant to use the phrase "freedom day".

This year's AFL grand final between Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs features one team looking to end a long premiership drought and another which has recently broken through. Look back and see where Melbourne's 57-year wait for a flag put...

Moving scenes in a central Queensland courtroom as a family says it bears no grudge towards the man who killed their son.

The ABC spoke to three women who survived breast cancer. For two of them, life after cancer means life without breasts.

Researchers say they have found a new technique that could save the lives of shark attack victims, and all it involves is applying pressure between "the hips and the bits".

Supporters of the Nadesalingam family say they are relieved after Immigration Minister Alex Hawke granted three of the family 12-month bridging visas, but say the youngest daughter should be given the same visa immediately.

In a leap forward for the renewable energy sector and the environment, an $80 million deal to build a gigantic grid-scale battery near Broken Hill moves closer to completion.

A British woman with Down syndrome loses her fight against laws that allow the abortion of a foetus with the condition or other potential disabilities up until birth.

The government is inching closer to accepting a target to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, with its most senior Cabinet member so far publicly backing a commitment.

The new infections were detected from 56,520 test results processed on Thursday. It brings the total number of active cases to 7,160, the vast majority of those acquired in the community.

Police are investigating the suspected murder of two people in Capel, 200 kilometres south of Perth, with a 47-year-old man in custody.

Florida man Brian Laundrie, whose girlfriend Gabby Petito's body was found in Wyoming this week, is charged with bank card fraud, days after a coroner found her death was a homicide. 

The vaccine rollout has hit a faster per capita rate than the UK, US, Germany or France ever achieved, with half the population aged 16 and older are now fully vaccinated.

Across the world, the pandemic has triggered a seismic shift in the workforce as many people re-evaluate their ambitions, their values and their work-life balance.

It has been dubbed the "miracle house" on social media — a solitary home in Le Palma, on Spain's Canary Islands, that managed to escape the molten lava spewing from a volcano that began erupting on Sunday.

How well are the COVID-19 vaccines working at preventing people from getting sick? And if you do get infected after being vaccinated, how likely are you to pass the virus onto someone else? Here's what we know.

North Korea has tried to explain why it has rejected calls to finally end the Korean War.

Deputy Premier Steven Miles says the Delta strain of COVID-19 is the Christmas gift Queenslanders do not want from Prime Minister Scott Morrison. His comments come as the state reports another day of no new cases for Queensland and a slight...