A bushfire raging outside the city of Perth has forced nearby residents to evacuate, as the city remains in a coronavirus lockdown.

The Australian city of Perth has begun a snap five-day lockdown after a security guard working at a quarantine hotel tested positive for coronavirus.

Two Australian states will reopen their borders to New South Wales (NSW) after it managed to control a COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney.

A heatwave sweeping south-east Australia has sent temperatures soaring in the nation’s biggest cities and escalated the threat of bushfires.

Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley has ruled out any change in the best-of-five set format for men’s singles matches at the season-opening tennis major.

An Amateur photographer Derry Moroney stumbled across massive patterns in Lake Cakora, on Australia’s New South Wales north coast.

A child has returned a positive coronavirus result after attending an early learning centre in Melbourne and then travelling overseas.

New South Wales has recorded five new locally acquired COVID-19 cases, including a man in his 40s who sought medical treatment at a western Sydney hospital emergency department and was duly diagnosed with the virus.

The Australian city of Brisbane will enter a snap three-day lockdown after a cleaner in its hotel quarantine system became infected with coronavirus.

Two fishermen in Australia have rescued a naked fugitive who they found clinging to trees over a crocodile-infested swamp.

Four men who allegedly started an illegal campfire that burned through almost half of the world heritage-listed Fraser Island in Queensland have been charged.

Australia’s most populous state has announced new restrictions for the Greater Sydney area in an attempt to contain a growing outbreak of COVID-19.