More than 100 extra officers will be deployed in the area, which has come under the microscope this week as the Delta COVID-19 variant spreads through several suburbs. Follow live.

The New South Wales Premier and Health Minister are walking back comments about living with COVID-19, after a backlash from state leaders including WA Premier Mark McGowan who has pledged to keep the border closed under that policy.

The Prime Minister says the liquid asset test applied to the federal government's COVID-19 temporary disaster payment will be waived from the third week of the Greater Sydney lockdown.

Hundreds of trade-qualified butchers may be "redeployed" and meat only provided pre-packaged under a proposal being considered by the supermarket giant.

The investigation comes in the wake of Four Corners featuring five former casino inspectors who say their concerns about criminal activity were ignored.

The Northern Territory records another two locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in quarantine, both linked to the remote mine at the centre of a recent coronavirus outbreak.

The Queensland government says a six-month trial detected more than 15,000 people illegally using a phone while driving and more than 2,200 people not wearing a seatbelt. The RACQ welcomes the move to make cameras permanent and hit offenders...

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian begs Sydneysiders not to visit family and friends after NSW records 38 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases — the highest number in 14 months.

As Australians round out yet another school holidays marred by lockdowns, border restrictions and ill-fated travel plans, international borders are reopening to those that are fully vaccinated. So how long until we'll experience the same fre...

An elderly piano teacher and pensioner who defaced Adelaide road signs with the letters "WTF" in an act of protest against the installation of speed humps is fined $1,700 but avoids community service which her lawyer says she would be phy...

The long-awaited royal commission into veteran suicides will conduct a "systemic analysis" of the risk factors inside military life that contribute to the high numbers of service men and women taking their own lives.

A bulk carrier off Perth's coast is turned away from WA and sets sail for Indonesia after one of its crew members tests positive for COVID-19.

While you may not have heard of Melbourne music duo Shouse, their 2017 song has become Europe's reopening anthem.

Two weeks after being suspended from practising law in New York, Rudy Giuliani is also barred from practising in Washington DC.

Australian world number one Ash Barty is up against three-time major champion Angelique Kerber in the Wimbledon semi-finals from 10:30pm AEST. Follow the match live.

The Prime Minister says NSW will receive 300,000 extra doses of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines as the state struggles to bring a growing COVID-19 outbreak under control.

The tally of lives lost over the past year-and-a-half is about equal to the number of people killed in battle in all of the world's wars since 1982.

The flag-bearers have been announced for the Tokyo Olympics, but what do we know of the background of gun basketballer Patty Mills? 

Health authorities conclude the death of a 61-year-old woman in a Perth hospital last month was likely linked to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

The Maroons forward will not play in next Wednesday's series finale in Newcastle and is fined $35,000 after he breached the NRL's COVID-19 biosecurity protocols while in team camp.

In the culmination of a long legal drama seen as a test of the post-apartheid state's ability to enforce the rule of law, Jacob Zuma hands himself in to begin a prison sentence imposed when he failed to front a corruption inquiry.

As parts of NSW prepare to spend a third week in lockdown, authorities concede the community is feeling pandemic "fatigue" but warn that's no excuse to flout stay-at-home orders.

No-one has been pulled out alive since the first hours after the 12-storey Champlain Towers South building fell. Authorities have now ended the rescue operation, with the Miami-Dade Mayor saying: "Nothing we can do can bring back those who ...

The Olympics look set to be held under a state of emergency in Tokyo, with the Japanese government expected to today announce stricter measures in the capital.

Emma Corrin, known for playing Princess Diana, shares photos discussing chest binding and alludes to identifying as non-binary.