Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says he expects the national rollout of the Moderna vaccine to begin from the middle of next month, with the TGA set to approve the vaccine shortly.

TGA approval of the Moderna vaccine is imminent. Here's what you need to know about Australia's third COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

At the site of a former Bunnings warehouse, nurses prepare doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines from a portable fridge. The shots will soon be administered at Australia's first drive-through COVID vaccination clinic.

Residents in Penrith are subject to tougher restrictions after an increase in COVID cases as NSW records 262 new infections and another death.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she hopes tougher restrictions will "stem the tide" and stop the virus "seeping into additional communities", as Penrith in Western Sydney becomes a new area of concern.

Cairns and Yarrabah have officially been plunged into a snap three-day lockdown from 4:00pm, after an "unexpected" positive case of COVID-19 in the community.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says residents did a "mighty job" of controlling a cluster of the Delta COVID variant. The lockdown lifted at 4:00pm but new rules apply.

Premier Daniel Andrews announces Victorians aged 18 to 39 will be able to access the AstraZeneca vaccine from selected mass vaccination hubs from Monday, as the state battles to bring its Delta outbreak under control.

Patty Mills has long been acknowledged in basketball circles as a leader of rare quality. His skills were on display again at the Olympics and it's to be hoped our political class was taking notes, writes Russell Jackson.

Our bloggers rate their favourite moments of these memorable and unique Olympic Games as the final events are completed. As it happened.

The Whitehouses followed a plan to keep their 17-year-old son alive: he showered with the bathroom door open and his mother slept in his room. With no designated acute youth mental health ward in their region, it was up to them to ensure his...

Thousands of residents in the Queensland-New South Wales border zone are still being allowed to cross the border despite Sydney's escalating COVID-19 outbreak spreading to just south of the border.

Authorities are once again racing to track the source of mystery COVID-19 cases in Victoria, find their close contacts and stop them from moving about the community. Here's what we know.

Kat Ditthavong is among the five deaths linked to a COVID-19 cluster at Liverpool Hospital in south-west Sydney. His son says they have a right to know what's really going on at the facility.

For years people have put young guys into the too-hard basket when it comes to health promotion, but it doesn't have to be that way, writes Zac Seidler.

The former LNP premier of Queensland is seeking a return to politics, announcing his candidacy for the Senate ahead of the next federal election.

Qader Malia, the deputy governor of Jawzjan province, says the northern city of Sheberghan has fallen, with government forces retreating to the airport on its outskirts.

The Port Adelaide Football Club says racism has to stop following a social media post directed at one of its players. 

Experts fear Indonesia, considered one of the world's COVID-19 epicentres, is now a high-risk "hotspot" for the emergence of a new coronavirus "super strain".

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge wins the Olympic men's marathon with a commanding performance in Sapporo, claiming his second-straight gold medal and cementing his place among the all-time greats of the sport.

Sydney's lockdowns are causing huge economic damage, and there are lessons to be learned from it, writes Gareth Hutchens. 

Imagine no lockdowns, being self-sufficient and having enough COVID vaccines to protect the whole population. Greetings from Pitcairn, the remote island in the South Pacific that’s had a very different pandemic experience. 

A decade ago, I learned a little lesson in the endless Afghanistan war: the battle may be over, but the conflict rages on — and the Taliban never goes away, writes Stan Grant.

A girl abducted from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been freed and reunited with her parents seven years after Boko Haram militants kidnapped her and more than 200 of her classmates.

Prue Broughton, 47, searches every day for a place to call home, but there are just too many other people on the exact same mission — with support services forced to turn away those most vulnerable.