The infected woman worked as a receptionist outside the COVID-19 ward at Brisbane's Prince Charles Hospital and her diagnosis prompted Queensland's third lockdown of the year.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk again calls for a reduction in international arrivals as the state announces a three-day lockdown, while authorities in New South Wales, Western Australia and the Northern Territory closely monitor lo...

A week after Garry Richardson had his first AstraZeneca shot he developed severe abdominal pain and was found to have blood clots. He knows his case is very rare. 

GPs welcome the federal government's move to make AstraZeneca more available to all adult Australians but say a lot of work is needed to turn around entrenched attitudes about the vaccine's safety.

The announcement that it will be easier for some to get the AstraZeneca vaccine from a GP is a spark of good news in an otherwise bleak week.

Unions and some aged care workers welcome the introduction of mandatory vaccines for all residential staff, but acknowledge it may drive some "very low paid" workers from the industry.

The coronavirus pandemic is flaring up again across Australia. If you're struggling to keep up with the news, let's bring you up to speed on all the latest from across the states.

A snap three-day lockdown is in effect for millions of people in south-east Queensland and areas around Townsville. These are the rules you need to follow.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she's hopeful NSW has avoided a "surge" in COVID-19 cases, after 19 new locally acquired infections were confirmed on day four of the state's lockdown.

Karyn Cassar and Carissa Wolfe aren't your average dairy farmers. The lesbian couple, who run an organic commercial operation in northern New South Wales, say women have to "work smarter, not harder" to get things done.

An Adelaide man received an email offering him a TAFE course and quit his job, only to have the offer withdrawn.

Sydney businesswoman Melissa Caddick convinced about 72 investors to provide her with $32 million but only a small fraction of that was paid back, a court hears.

Fully vaccinated Australians are subject to the same COVID-19 restrictions as everyone else. But is that likely to change?

The tour operator has been fined $5,000 and police are continuing to investigate further possible lockdown breaches.

A group of Australia's Olympic swimmers will urgently get coronavirus tests after being in Queensland locations now in lockdown.

Victorian and Queensland push to dramatically slash the number of international arrivals allowed into the country in the wake of quickly growing outbreaks linked to hotel quarantine.

NSW Police fine Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce  for failing to wear a a face mask while at a petrol station, in breach of COVID-19 public health orders. 

Even though we're 18 months in to the pandemic, this is the first time masks have been required in parts of the NT, WA, Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT and Victoria at the same time. Here's how to wear them.

Whale watchers have been treated to a rare show in Adelaide's south when a Southern right whale and her calf ventured close to shore.

After a landmark court ruling, Mexicans who want to smoke marijuana or grow plants for their own use can ask for a government permit.

World number one Ash Barty will headline Australia's 11-member tennis team for the Tokyo Olympics.

The Opposition Leader said the 2021-22 federal budget offered a "low-wage future" and he believed Australia could do better. But we fact check his claim about how bad things, he says, have been under Coalition governments.

Refugee legal services have been swamped by requests from asylum seekers, who, after waiting for years, have now been given two weeks' notice for the interviews that will determine their future in Australia.

The paintings were stripped from their frames during a well-organised, overnight heist at the National Art Gallery in January 2012.

Temperatures soar to all-time highs in parts of Canada as a record heatwave also affecting the upper US north-west blisters the country.