Tomorrow marks five years since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Australia ... 2021(ABC News: Stephen Opie) Queensland Health worker holds a swab for a test for COVID-19 at drive ...

A new virus is raising alarm in America’s Alabama. The Camp Hill virus, a close relative of the henipavirus family, has been found in northern short-tailed shrews (Blarina brevicauda) and there is ...

The Victorian government is continuing to chase down almost 20,000 unpaid Covid fines — totalling up to $30m — despite NSW and Queensland cancelling the penalties. New Victorian government data has ...

Queensland and New South Wales withdrew outstanding Covid-related penalties after legal ... NSW government withdrew 33,000 fines after a test case relating to “limited information” in some ...

Health Minister Steven Miles says just 77 people in the past seven days have tested positive to coronavirus in Queensland. “We have seen in just two weeks a very dramatic decline in the weekly average ...

Successive governments have announced, but never really stuck to, top-down fiscal rules designed to ensure the state’s ...

In new evidence of widespread wastage in a Coalition training scheme, a pub group backed by Coles got $100,000 per worker to ...

Queensland could open its borders sooner than expectected if coronavirus cases remain low. Queensland could open its borders sooner than expectected if coronavirus cases remain low. “It’s really ...

Exclusive: The Australian company behind a groundbreaking HIV self-testing kit hopes that a new DIY syphilis test will be a “game changer” in the fight against the sexually transmitted infection.

A drug trafficker who boasted how much money he was making as the pandemic drove up the price of cocaine continued to receive ...

Hard working paramedics and first responders across Victoria are continuing to respond to around 100,000 critical 'Code 1' ...

The new state government is forecasting a substantially worse budget outlook, with a massive increase in public debt.