Queensland politicians are hitting the hustings for the final day of the election campaign. The handling of the COVID crisis has been one of the key issues, and we should know later this morning whether the premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, will open t...
Melbournians have celebrated the reopening of retail and hospitality with gusto as people flocked to shops and cafes. While in New South Wales, a new COVID-19 alert has been issued for several locations in Sydney's east and south-west. The state yest...
Today is the day businesses across Melbourne are opening their doors this morning for the first time in 112 days bringing the city back to life. When the clock struck midnight, COVID restrictions were eased allowing pubs, cafes, retail and beautition...
Melbourne's coronavirus restrictions will start being eased from midnight tomorrow. Retail shops, cafes, restaurants and bars will reopen, subject to COVID safety rules. Beauty and tattooing services will also reopen with mask-wearing. More than two...
A school has been shut down and health officials will be going door-to-door in Melbourne's north this morning in an attempt to limit a new COVID-19 cluster. A student at the East Preston Islamic College tested positive yesterday. The school said ther...
There's new tensions between the Victorian and federal governments over the path out of lockdown. That's as Melbourne continues to record low case numbers. The state recorded four new cases yesterday, prompting the federal treasurer to accuse premier...
Authorities in Australia's two largest states are scrambling to contain coronavirus outbreaks this morning. Testing sites have been overwhelmed in the regional Victorian city of Shepparton, after it recorded three Covid cases. And health officials in...
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian is this morning facing a parliamentary vote of no confidence in her government. It follows her bombshell appearance yesterday before the state's corruption watchdog, where she admitted to having a close pers...
Authorities in New South Wales are warning the number of COVID-19 infections is likely to grow. There have now been at least eight locally acquired cases in Sydney since Tuesday. That is a worrying development after the state had gone 12 straight day...
Final submissions to an inquiry have blamed Victoria's second wave of coronavirus on the state's bungled hotel quarantine program. Counsel assisting said that flaws in the scheme led to 768 deaths and more than 18,000 infections. Victoria yesterday r...