The federal government's push to allow thousands of extra international arrivals each week is still very much up in the air this morning, with not all states on board. Deputy prime minister Michael McCormack yesterday wrote to premiers asking them to...
From midnight tonight, metropolitan Melbourne will be the only part of the country still facing these tough coronavirus restrictions with regional Victoria set to open up. Businesses in regional areas are preparing to reopen with residents permitted...
Relations between Australia and China are at a new low this morning, after the dramatic withdrawal of two Australian journalists yesterday. The ABC's Bill Birtles and Mike Smith from the Financial Review were rushed home after being questioned by Chi...
There's a mixed reaction this morning to Victoria's roadmap to ease the state out of coronavirus lockdowns. The premier, Daniel Andrews, has announced plans to extend Melbourne's strict stage four lockdown by two weeks. Medical groups have welcomed t...
Governments across Australia are under pressure to map out the road to recovery after it was confirmed that Australia has plunged into its worst recession since the Great Depression. Yesterday's national accounts figures showed GDP for the three mont...
Australia is today expected to record the biggest drop in GDP since the Great Depression as the economic cost of the coronavirus pandemic becomes clearer. Economists expect the June quarter national accounts to show a drop of up to 6% in GDP, confirm...
Federal treasury has predict that from December more than half of Jobkeeper recipients will live in Victoria. The restrictions imposed in Victoria have had a devastating impact on the economy and Josh Frydenberg is this morning warning things could g...
The Morrison government is moving to introduce sweeping new laws, which would give it the power to block deals involving foreign nations, in a major flexing of its constitutional powers. The commonwealth's pushing to regulate all agreements that stat...
More than 360 returned travellers have been moved out of a Sydney hotel overnight, after it was deemed unfit for quarantine. The Travelodge in central Sydney failed a police audit, and the guests had to be urgently relocated to other quarantine hotel...
Queensland authorities are on high alert as they try to contain a COVID-19 outbreak in the state's south-east. Nine cases can now be linked to the cluster at a Brisbane youth detention centre and health officials say next week will be critical as the...
State and territory border closures will be top of the agenda when national cabinet meets today. The closures have been put in place to contain the spread of coronavirus, but there's mounting frustration from business leaders about the economic cost....
Australians are set to receive a coronavirus vaccine for free as soon as it's approved. The federal government has signed an agreement to secure Oxford University's COVID-19 vaccine if current trials prove successful. That will mean that Australia wi...
Medical experts say they warned the Victorian government of flaws in its hotel quarantine system a month before it became ground zero for the state's second wave. It comes as these video and photos emerge of guards sleeping on the job. The federal go...
The West Australian government has passed emergency legislation that aims to shut down a legal claim by mining magnate Clive Palmer that would have bankrupted the state. Mr Palmer was claiming 30 billion dollars in damages, over a 2012 decision again...
Health officials in New South Wales are worried that a rapidly escalating COVID-19 cluster at a Sydney school could point to wider community transmission. The Tangara School for Girls will remain closed until the end of next week, while all students...
