Australia’s New South Wales state has reported more than 6,000 new Covid-19 cases and confirmed its first death from the Omicron variant. The fatal case was identified as a man in his 80s who was infected at a care facility in western Sydney.

Vaccinated students and skilled workers can come into Australia next week without quarantining as the country relaxes its pandemic restrictions.

Cricket Australia (CA) has admitted making the wrong call by not disclosing an investigation into Tim Paine’s inappropriate behaviour in 2018, with the move leading to his resignation as the country’s Test captain.

Paine, 36, had been expected to lead his side in the Ashes against England which starts in Brisbane on December 8

A British woman has won a legal battle against the Australian Taxation Office after the High Court of Australia ruled she had been subjected to a “more burdensome taxation” due to her nationality.

Sydney’s international airport came alive with tears, embraces and laughter on Monday as Australia’s border opened for the first time in 20 months, with some arriving travellers tearing away mandatory masks to see the faces of long-missed loved ones.

Australia’s most populous state has said it will end hotel quarantine for vaccinated international travellers as the government accelerates the lifting of pandemic restrictions.

Sydney hairdressers, gyms, cafés and bars reopened to fully vaccinated customers on Monday for the first time in more than 100 days after the city achieved a vaccination benchmark.

International tourists will not be welcomed back to Australia until next year, with the return of skilled migrants and students given higher priority, the prime minister said.

Australia has had some of the toughest travel restrictions in the world in place since last March, meaning nobody has been allowed in or out of the country aside from some rare exceptions.

A round of free trade talks between the European Union and Australia has been postponed in the wake of a dispute over Canberra’s decision to cancel a multibillion-euro French submarine deal.

Parties held for last weekend’s Grand Final of the Australian Rules season are being largely blamed for a 50% jump of Covid-19 cases in Victoria.

The largest and most violent protest was in Melbourne

Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, is going into its sixth lockdown, with a state government leader blaming the nation’s slow Covid-19 vaccination rollout.

Australia’s Qantas Group says it expects Sydney’s Covid-19 lockdown to last for at least another two months and it will furlough 2,500 staff due to an associated downturn in domestic flights.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Sydney and other Australian cities to protest lockdown restrictions amid another surge in coronavirus cases.

Prime minister Scott Morrison said the presence in Sydney of the delta variant, first identified in India, which is thought to be more contagious, had escalated the pandemic danger

The decision to extend the lockdown through July 16 was made on health advice, state premier Gladys Berejiklian said

Australia plans to halve commercial passenger arrivals due to coronavirus risks as parts of the country emerge from lockdowns.

Brisbane and Canberra have or will soon make wearing masks compulsory. South Australia state announced new statewide restrictions from Tuesday.

Rural affairs ministers from Northern Ireland and Scotland have written to the UK Government with concerns regarding the Australia trade deal.

A state government minister has been infected with Covid-19 and another minister is in isolation as a cluster in the Australian city of Sydney worsens.

Parts of Sydney will go into lockdown late on Friday amid a growing coronavirus outbreak in Australia’s largest city.

Details remain sketchy, with officials keen to point out that it should be seen as a stepping stone to broader global agreements.

UK Industry leaders have spoken out over possible compromises on food standards, while farmers fear they could be undercut by cut-price imports.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison were said to have agreed the pact over dinner in Downing Street on Monday.

Mr Merlino said that “if we let this thing run its course, it will explode”

Most Australians have been stranded in their island nation since March 2020 under a government emergency order made under the powerful Biosecurity Act

The leaders of Australia and New Zealand are holding their first face-to-face meeting since the coronavirus outbreak prompted both countries to close their borders.

Australia’s second-largest city is set to enter its fourth lockdown as concern grows over the rapid spread of infections from a coronavirus variant.

The man, aged in his 50s, had been surfing off Forster, 137 miles north of Sydney, when he was attacked late in the morning, a police statement said

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Stars of Australian stage and screen have flocked to pay tribute to the director, who oversaw directing on Home And Away and Survivor

Australia became the latest country to restrict use of the AstraZeneca vaccine by recommending that it not be given to people under age 50. The announcement came after drug regulators held a series of urgent meetings earlier in the day.

President Higgins sent a message of congratulations to the embassy and said that the raising of the two flags together was 'a tribute to Australia’s First Nation people'

The move came at the behest of Italy, which has been taking a tough line in dealing with vaccine shortages

Australia’s second-largest city will begin its third lockdown on Friday due to a rapidly spreading Covid-19 cluster centred on hotel quarantine.

An unbeaten 89 from Rishabh Pant helped India seal a stunning 2-1 series win over Australia and inflict the hosts’ first defeat at the Gabba since 1988.

Former Australia captain Steve Smith was branded “childish” after an incident during the final day of their drawn third Test against India in Sydney.

Boris Johnson has told the country it is time to “get ready” for an “Australia solution” to the post-Brexit trade talks with the European Union.

Australia’s second largest city, Melbourne, has further eased lockdown restrictions imposed after a surge in coronavirus cases, allowing most children to return to school from next month and sending more than 125,000 people back to work.

A man has been convicted of the murder of Irish woman Ciara Glennon in Australia in 1997. Bradley Robert Edwards, 51, was found guilty of the killing of Ms Glennon, and another woman - Jane Rimmer - in 1996.

Cian English fell to his death attempting to escape knife-wielding robbers