Australia started 2022 with a record number of new COVID-19 cases.

Australia’s former parliament building in the capital Canberra was briefly set alight by protesters during a demonstration for Aboriginal sovereignty, police said.

A Sydney lab has told hundreds of people they did not have COVID when they in fact had tested positive, amid soaring infections in the area.

Australia’s Victoria and Queensland states reported record levels of new daily coronavirus infections on Tuesday as pressure on testing centers prompted calls for wider use of rapid antigen tests.

Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital has revealed its pathology service incorrectly messaged 400 people to tell them they had tested negative to COVID-19 – when they had in fact tested positive.

A Sydney man who police allege was preparing to commit a terrorist act will front court on Christmas Day.

A high-profile federal police organised crime operation has netted 340 scalps this year.

A sixth child has died from injuries suffered in a bouncy castle accident in Australia last week, police say.

Four children have died and five others are injured after falling from a bouncy castle that was blown into the air in Australia, police say.

Australia’s largest state, New South Wales (NSW), has announced its highest number of new Covid-19 cases in three months, with local officials attributing the rise to an outbreak of the highly transmissible Omicron variant.

The Australian state of Queensland opened its borders to all vaccinated domestic travelers on Monday for the first time in nearly five months.

Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said Thursday he’d tested positive for the coronavirus while traveling in Washington D.C.