Victorians are bracing for the possibility of an extended lockdown, a positive case from Victoria travelled to NSW while infectious and the UK reports no new COVID-19 deaths.

Victoria’s lockdown is expected to be extended beyond Thursday, as authorities reveal a positive Melbourne case travelled to NSW while potentially infectious.

Use our interactive map to find and track the sites identified as potential exposure sites.

Architecture and heritage advocates have been fighting to save the mid-century office block from a $450 million redevelopment.

Changes anticipated for regional Victoria from Friday include the removal of the five reasons to leave home, with cafes and restaurants, retail, hairdressing and beauty services expected to reopen their doors.

While things have gone quiet on the legal front, there have been happier developments in Christian Porter’s life. The minister has quietly started dating Sydney-based criminal lawyer Karen Espiner.

The nation’s governing Olympic body has launched its first Reconciliation Action Plan, weeks after Opals basketball star Liz Cambage accused it of not valuing people of colour. 

Use our tool to measure you bubble under the Victorian government’s new 10-kilometre travel limit on Melburnians.

All regional students will return to their classrooms on Friday. But in Melbourne, students not in years 11 and 12 must persist with remote learning.

Eleven males, including a 17-year-old boy, have been charged after Dillan Mancuso was abducted by an armed group who also assaulted his 61-year-old father. 

More than 600 international students lined up for help from the Foodbank pop-up food store on Wednesday, as Victoria extended its lockdown for another week.

The Chief Health Officer says it is too early to outline specific benchmarks to ease restrictions, as the outbreak grew by six to 60 and the seven-day lockdown was extended,

The man had complained to the Anti-Discrimination Board that his white daughter was treated less favourably than her Aboriginal friend.

Police said the man was found to be a volunteer who was working with children for a number of organisations.

Buyers and sellers of scalped tickets to next week’s historic State of Origin opener in Queensland’s north have been warned they risk expensive fines.

Several activists have been arrested after they entered the Land Forces weapons expo at the Brisbane Convention Centre in protest of war crimes.

Melbourne will remain in lockdown for a further seven days, with only small changes to current restrictions, but restrictions in regional Victoria will ease from Thursday night. Here are all the restrictions still in place, and what’s changed.

A man is being assessed by paramedics after reports of an explosion at a property in New Farm, Brisbane.

Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguire is joined by science reporter Liam Mannix, who is concerned about growing noise around the Wuhan lab theory of COVID-19.

Melbourne’s lockdown will be extended for another seven days, but restrictions will ease in regional Victoria from tomorrow night, the Acting Premier has announced.

A person in the area on May 23 before driving back to Melbourne on May 24 was one of six new cases reported in Victoria’s growing outbreak on Wednesday.

Lawyers at a pre-trial hearing clashed over whether the war hero’s ex-wife had provided newspaper journalists with USB sticks containing photographs of soldiers drinking from a prosthetic leg.

Health Services Union paramedics will go on strike on June 10 for 24 hours in response to the pay offer, only attending the most urgent, life threatening emergencies.

The iconic showpiece AFL event, being played in Perth for the first time, has generated significant excitement in WA and will draw big crowds to the 60,000-seat stadium.

New music from Genesis Owusu has arrived on the eve of two sold-out Perth shows, and on the back of a critically acclaimed debut album which has seen the Canberra artist in early contention for album of the year.

The retired politician has been appointed a non-executive director following similar new postings at the West Coast Eagles and Telethon Kids Institute.

Public transport fares will be increased next month as the NSW government faces a significant deficit in lost revenue from coronavirus restrictions.

The first novel was engaging, the key players full of optimism and kindness. By the fourth instalment, however, I’m a bit tired of the plot.

Police will offer a $1 million reward for leads into the 1988 killing of Raymond Keam. His murder came at the time of a string of gay hate crimes

We are taught from a young age that periods are a private, if not shameful, issue. But with women’s labour force participation on the rise, these old attitudes have to change if our workplaces are to be productive and inclusive.

Sleep deprivation, televisions being drowned out, and high stress levels caused by aircraft noise have driven some Brisbane residents to rally.

WA Premier Mark McGowan addresses the media as the first repatriation flight from India, carrying 150 passengers, touched down in Perth.

Fairfield Local Council lost half of its fleet of garbage trucks in a blaze on Tuesday night.

It seems the more things change the more they stay the same as Australia grapples with another COVID-19 outbreak within a bungled vaccine rollout.

Police arrested 11 people in a dramatic operation at a warehouse in Revesby on Tuesday after receiving reports Dillan Mancuso had been abducted by an armed group.

Ambitious spending on rejuvenating ageing infrastructure, including possibly relocating some of its faculties away from Hampden Road in Nedlands, flies in the face of job cuts.

“The hardest thing for the volunteers and police is when we don’t find people. That stays with us forever,” acting senior sergeant Mitch Gray said.

GPs have accused the federal government of abandoning the promise to have all staff and residents in aged care homes overseen by the Commonwealth vaccinated against COVID-19.

A group of senior NSW barristers including former solicitor-general Justin Gleeson, SC, say they disagree with the Bar Association’s opposition to the changes.

Mirvac has warned the government the outdated Darling Harbour shopping centre will remain unchanged unless a viable scheme for its redevelopment can be reached.

It’s been described as the ‘most dishonest budgetary fraud ever concocted by a NSW state government’.

A new report has found every dollar spent on finding undiscovered species could return up to $35 for the economy for every dollar spent, and help preserve species before they disappear.

Spare a thought for Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese and Labor’s National Executive. The ALP’s 22-member decision-making body was forced to hand over their phones, computers and pretty much every typed document for legal discovery.

The unveiling of the ‘Avow’ app comes amid a review by the law enforcement watchdog of how NSW Police handle domestic violence cases more broadly, as well as how they investigate their own.

Christian Porter’s decision to abandon his defamation action can only be seen as a humiliating defeat, despite his claim of a “backdown” by the ABC.

The photographer said: “Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof.”

Mary became one of the first women on Australian television to host, with producer Kay Kinane, a show that brought the world to women in their home.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz and target.

50 years ago, police provided an escort for a young bus driver who had been physically and verbally assaulted after he defied a union ban.

Women told equal pay is coming, self-made man gave away £700,000 and Adolf Eichmann is executed.