NSW Police Minister David Elliott says 57 people have been charged after attending an anti-lockdown protest in Sydney today and that a strike force has been established to identify others who were there.

All adults in Greater Sydney should “strongly consider” getting vaccinated with any available vaccine, including AstraZeneca, Australia’s expert vaccines body says.

It's the first official day of the Tokyo Olympic Games. Follow all the action from the pool, the road and the pitch in our live blog.

Police issue more than 200 penalty notices and health authorities plead with people to stop gathering as NSW's COVID-19 crisis deepens after a record number of new infections is announced.

New South Wales announced a record daily increase in COVID cases today, but Victoria and South Australia appear on track to end their respective lockdowns as scheduled.

Thousands followed Catboy Kami's videos where he targeted children online with racist, shock tactics. With his notoriety he's become a useful tool in the expansion of an extreme social movement, and now for the first time the ABC reveals his...

Hobart Airport is treated to an encore performance of a Samoan song after a video of seasonal workers singing from the balconies of a quarantine hotel went viral earlier this week.

COVID-19 has escaped from Sydney into regional centres. Catherine Taylor explores what went wrong and how rural communities will cope with Delta. 

South Australia records one new case of COVID-19 linked to a winery north-east of Adelaide, but health authorities say while other cases are likely, the state remains on track to come out of lockdown next week.

Police estimate 7,500 anti-lockdown and anti-vax protesters are rallying in Brisbane as contact tracers scramble to contain the potential spread of the highly infectious Delta strain after a flight attendant travelled while infectious. ...

After almost drying up during the drought, several regional dams are at risk of spilling over, with more rain on the way.

In the NT, 2,133 people are in quarantine: the highest number to date. And travellers are finding unique ways to keep themselves occupied.

Just two of Victoria's 12 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were infectious while in the community, which authorities say keeps the state on track to have its lockdown lifted next week.

When the history-changing 42,000-year-old remains of Mungo Man were returned to south-west NSW, traditional owners rejoiced. Now a planned burial is dividing Aboriginal and scientific communities.

North Melbourne upset Carlton, while the Brisbane Lions defeated the Gold Coast Suns in a Queensland derby. Follow our live AFL ScoreCentre for all the scores, stats and results.

South Sydney and the Warriors face off, before Manly takes on the Tigers and a Penrith-Brisbane clash wraps up the NRL action on Saturday. Follow our ScoreCentre for all the live scores and stats.

Australia's men's hockey team opens its Olympic campaign with victory over the host nation — but not without a serious scare.

NSW health authorities insist a harder lockdown is not the answer to stem the Delta outbreak now sweeping through Sydney's west and south west — but mass vaccination of the region's critical, young workforce is now vital.

When asked about when Sydney's lockdown would end, Premier Gladys Berejiklian this week said she "wished she had a crystal ball". These academic models are about as close to one as you can get.

Let's strip away the politics and look at the facts — the things that actually matter to the reef.

Like a Dusty Martin "don't argue", cashed-up buyers are brushing aside kids' hopes of collecting sets, raiding shops for everything they can find to sell in online video presentations.

Australia is trying to push China out of a telecommunications deal in the Pacific. There's a similar story in undersea cables but experts say the efforts may be too little, too late. 

This is not a Melbourne vs Sydney fight: it is an Australia vs the virus fight, and it always has been, writes Virginia Trioli.

Firefighters declare the search officially over after the 12-storey building crumbled on June 24, killing 97 people.