February 5 is the long-awaited date Western Australia will open its borders to the rest of the world, Premier Mark McGowan announces, as the state's vaccination rate reaches 80 per cent.

Premier Mark McGowan announces the time, date, and conditions for the ending of the hard border between WA and the rest of Australia. 

Children from a school south of Adelaide will be in quarantine until 12:01am on Christmas Day, after the event was identified as a close contact exposure site.

With serious fears a fluid used in diesel engines will run out in weeks following China's export ban on urea, the government is racing to find supplies from other countries.

As the Northern Territory's current outbreak increases by 16 cases, the NT's peak Aboriginal health body calls on the NT government to drastically increase its health response.

An Australian played a critical part in one of Formula 1's most controversial championship-deciding races in history, and he probably wishes he didn't have to.

A Perth woman who killed her two young daughters before attempting to take her own life should not be held criminally responsible for the deaths because she was not of sound mind, a court has heard. 

Christmas wishes have been granted across Queensland today as couples separated by seas and states reunite again on the Gold and Sunshine coasts. 

On his first day as Queensland's Chief Health Officer, John Gerrard tells a media conference that with the border now open to all interstate hotspots, COVID outbreaks are inevitable.

Taiwan's Defence Ministry outlines the difficulties China would face mounting a full invasion of the island, including problems landing and supplying troops.

The rugby league team is getting swabbed as authorities, fearful of the spread of the Omicron variant, warn that the holiday period is likely to be impacted.

Two men behind an "inept" plan to recover money from a Sydney solicitor prepare to be sentenced for their crimes almost three years after the 65-year-old's death.

The Russian President laments the collapse of the Soviet Union as the demise of "historical Russia", saying the economic crisis that followed was so bad he was forced to work as a taxi driver.

Oscar-nominated actress Naomie Harris says she was groped by a "huge star" during an audition but no-one in the room said or did anything about it.

Phillip Brown, 24, was airlifted to hospital after the attack, but not before a desperate and bloody race back to shore.

Janelle O'Connor was physically assaulted, raped and ordered to dig her own grave. She believes some people are beyond redemption and is lobbying for law reform. WARNING: This story contains descriptions of sexual and physical violence tha...

Shayna Jack has comfortably won her 100m freestyle heat at the Queensland Championships, her first individual race since the end of a two-year drugs ban.

Acclaimed Indigenous filmmaker Warwick Thornton's latest work is a television series that re-imagines the colonisation of Australia.

An outbreak of powerful tornadoes tore through six US states, taking lives and damaging homes — but why only in the south?

Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the two highest-taxing governments of the past 30 years have been Coalition governments, including the current one. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

Share prices in workout equipment company Peloton nose-dived after one of their products appeared in Sex and the City reboot And Just Like that. *WARNING: SPOILERS*

A man found guilty of recklessly causing harm to his newborn baby by violently shaking her has been bashed in prison and is withdrawn, depressed and suicidal, an Adelaide court hears.

The Victorian government-owned logging agency VicForests and its regulator have been referred to the state's anti-corruption watchdog after a string of allegations reported by the ABC since 2018.

The kindness of a regional town helped Ella breathe fresh air to her city community at a crucial time.

Environmental groups are worried for shorebirds as foxes use low tide to access a remote island off Victoria's coast.