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As social distancing restriction plan to be eased in various parts of the country, what will the new normal for dining out be like?

Tests conducted on mice show antibodies are being produced that could help COVID-19 patients recover. More trials will now follow.

With already millions of downloads, the Australian government is calling on citizens to download the coronavirus contact-tracing app.

"COVIDSafe Alert" hoax email tells recipients they have been fined 10 dollars for being recorded leaving their home.

Property sales show a big decline as nervous buyers keep whatever money they have in their pockets. But some experts see positives ahead.

These alternatives guarantee more privacy

Many Australians, especially those experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19, are asking whether they can afford to keep their private health insurance

A large asteroid is heading our way and will be whizzing by earth tonight - and Australians get the best view!

Authorities are heralding the slow in new infections as a milestone for South Australia.

Death toll at Newmarch House aged home reachers12. NSW health chief says care workers should stay away even if they have slightest symptoms.

It's a healthy baby boy for Boris Johnson and his fiancee, Carrie Symonds. The couple are "thrilled".

Several Australian universities (Australian National University, Swinburne and the University of Western Australia) have announced they will accept students based on their year 11 results

More than 31% of people who have lost work during COVID-19 are recording high levels of psychological distress — a rate four times more than employed Australian adults. Many lost work without notice and are facing high levels of financial stress

Over the past few weeks, there has been increasing awareness of the heightened risk of family violence during the COVID-19 pandemic

After the coronavirus crisis, there may be good reasons to fast-track infrastructure to create jobs and stimulate the economy. But it remains as important as ever that funding go only to worthy projects. A bullet train does not fit the bill

Flattening of the curve encourages some state governments to begin lightening up on their restrictions. But don’t get too excited just yet.

Australia’s relationship with China is fractured

The project threatens to devastate aquatic life by introducing predators and polluting important rivers

Despite privacy concerns, the COVIDSafe app has the backing of health workers, businesses and over two million Australians so far.

How does COVIDSafe work?

We are now in a different phase of the pandemic in Australia

Here's a 2-step strategy to get it done

We may have a surprising new ally in the bid to contain the COVID-19 outbreak: your sewage.

There seems to be a myth in Australia that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people mostly live in remote communities. But the vast majority (79%) live in urban areas.

Global companies are positioning themselves to use little-known rules in trade agreements such as the Comprehensive Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) to claim millions of dollars in compensation for restrictions imposed during the pandemic.

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced some elective surgery can start again in private hospitals, as it becomes clear the health system will cope with the additional coronavirus demand.

COVID-19 has left governments scrambling for balanced economic, social and ethical policy responses.

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne has led a bipartisan call for a global inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus, noting Australia will insist on an independent review, not one conducted by the World Health Organisation.

Greg Hunt is set to become the lead ministerial face of the sales effort for the proposed controversial new COVID-19 tracing app, aided by the government’s health professionals.

The near-total shutdown of elective surgery across Australia will end soon, following National Cabinet consideration on Tuesday.

Despite nearly three decades without a recession, Australia’s last proper budget surplus came a dozen years ago – just before the Global Financial Crisis hit.

Patents and related intellectual property rights can present formidable barriers to procuring medicines, vaccines, diagnostic tests and medical devices.

A long-term solution – a vaccine – is many months, probably years, away.

Restrictions are to be eased on elective surgery, enabling a “gradual restart” to procedures next week.

The curve of the COVID-19 epidemic has been flattened in many countries around the world, and it hasn’t been new antivirals or a vaccine that has done it.

We have just witnessed an oil price crash like never before taking prices of West Texas Intermediate into deeply negative territory.

Aussie wildlife taking the opportunity of coronavirus lockdowns to see the sights in the big city.

With its plea for a $A1.4 billion government loan rebuffed, Australia’s second major airline has entered voluntary administration.

We knew it would be bad. But we’d hoped it wouldn’t be quite this bad.

New Zealand will begin easing its national lockdown from next Tuesday, but only after a five-day extension of some of the world’s strictest COVID-19 restrictions.

With over 400 passengers and 171 crew having tested positive for COVID-19, the Ruby Princess is the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Australia.

This past week the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed arts and recreation is the hardest hit of all the sectors most affected by government-imposed shutdowns in Australia. At least 53% of the sector is no longer functioning and it is likely these figures will worsen in the coming weeks.

The government has told the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to develop a mandatory code of conduct to address bargaining power imbalances between media companies and digital platforms such as Facebook and Google - and the question of payment for content.

Michelle Grattan talks with Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher (remotely) about the week in politics, including Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s strong stance on the issue of schools, the government’s rejection of a course of elimination, and the prospects of community support for a voluntary contact tracing app.

COVID-19 has taken Australia and the world by surprise

Parents have heard confusing messages from federal and state governments around sending children to school.

With commercial airline fleets grounded due to lack of demand, the Australian government will pay the nation’s two biggest airlines, Qantas and Virgin Australia, $A165 million to ensure they keep flying critical metropolitan and regional routes over the next two months.

The unprecedented restrictions Australians are living with are working, so far, to curb the rise in new COVID-19 cases.

Lockdowns work. That’s the evidence from many different countries now, including Australia.