Australian authorities conducted mass tests on Tuesday and about 4,000 people were confined to quarantine in the hope of stifling a new cluster of cases of the novel coronavirus after hopes it had ...

Australia on Tuesday recorded its first day without a COVID-19 death in two months, as states began to lift restrictions amid growing confidence that a second wave of infections has been contained.

Australians are being urged to get their COVID-19 booster as a new coronavirus variant drives up infections. The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated the new NB.1.8.1 strain as a "variant ...

Within months of leaving parliament, former health minister Greg Hunt started working for a Plymouth Brethren-linked company ...