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Most new infections come from Victoria, with many being overseas travellers or from the meat plant outbreak.

COVID-19 has taken Australia and the world by surprise

But Barnaby Joyce is unlikely to give up his ambition, and having a restive Matt Canavan on the backbench will be unhelpful for McCormack.

Sport Australia wrote to McKenzie’s office before the election expressing concern it was being compromised by political interference.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: The real reason Scott Morrison cancelled his Hawaii trip was to postpone a secret tryst with a controversial Indian mogul, writes TESS LAWRENCE.

Australians' love for their harsh land has been pushed to breaking point as flood, hail and dust follow the fires.

SPECIAL FEATURE: The ecological costs of huge, repetitive, high-severity fires on ecosystems could be colossal.

SPECIAL FEATURE: Climate change is making extreme events even more severe, resulting in unprecedented conditions that are rewriting our nation’s history.

SPECIAL FEATURE: One thing to be mindful of during times like these, is that unfortunately some people may seek to prey on the generosity of others.

Australians spent $400 million on unwanted Christmas gifts last year. There must be a better way.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Scott Morrison has refused to meet calls for a national summit or a COAG meeting on the fire effort, but he is no longer able to gloss over the climate debate.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Fire officials warn that this week's catastrophic fire conditions are "where people die". Climate change has arrived, and politicians should drop the meaningless rhetoric.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: While fire is a normal part of Australia’s yearly cycle and no two years are alike, what we are seeing now is absolutely not business as usual.

PHOTOS: Each photographer has brought a different perspective on nature. Each of these can enhance your worldview - allowing you to see the dynamics and resilience; the power and quiet; the destruction and rebirth inherent in it.

SPECIAL FEATURE: It’s possible to overthink Scott Morrison. A long-time associate and friend says “what you see is what you get”.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: A major step in the right direction and potentially a watershed moment for a more sustainable global future. Is it too much to hope Australia could follow next?

Rob Hirst, Midnight Oil’s inspiring drummer/songwriter/singer, gives Lee Harte a first-class education in music and politics, and hints at new tunes on the horizon.

The Morrison government has delivered an election-launch budget with big personal income tax handouts to attract voters and a A$7.1 billion 2019-20 surplus to display its economic credibility. The budget – the first brought down by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg – doubles the tax relief that average earners were due to ...

OPINION: There is still great public sentiment and a sense of loss in relation to the knifing of Malcolm Turnbull, despite his disappointing political paralysis on so many issues, writes TESS LAWRENCE.

SPECIAL FEATURE: What will it take for the world to finally tackle climate change? Encouragingly, there may be a historical precedent: Victorian London’s handling of the ‘Great Stink’, where the River Thames turned into an open sewer, overturned beliefs founded on misinformation.

Ann Sudmalis’s announcement follows Victorian backbencher Julia Banks’s decision also to quit at the election, citing bullying.

Morrison has ahead of him the immense challenge of uniting a fractured party. A lot will depend on whether the conservatives undermine him or accept their rout quietly.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Enough. Most Australian voters surely care less about who is running the country than they do about making sure our country is still a habitable place to live in the future.

I sacrificed a lot for the love of my life, travel, and it had always given back. But then something changed...

OPINION & ANALYSIS: This very active season comes after a “hurricane drought” with very few major storms making landfall on the US coast over the previous decade. So why are we seeing so many hurricanes now? Is climate change to blame?

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Researchers have observed that, as climate zones change, animals and plants migrate to keep up. But as biodiversity and ecosystem services are threatened, species that can’t adjust to rapidly changing conditions face extinction.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: While it is too early to predict how Chinese and European leadership will manifest in practice, in the face of American obstruction they are arguably the world’s best hope, if not its only hope.

WATCH: Some raw Australian emotion over the breaking of a drought.

There's some tasty carrots, but this Budget is not good news if you live and work overseas. HECS and HELP is about to catch up with you.

What Australia will look like in 2090 if climate change goes unchecked, according to a new report by the CSRIO and the Bureau of Meteorology.

Australia Day is a bonzer chance to show you're true blue. From morphsuits to kangaroo suits to giant thongs and beyond, we've collected 26 rippa Strayan get ups for your fashion inspiration.

A landmark report looking at the state of the world's tropics predicts Australia's tropical zone will expand by about 200 kilometres every 25 years.

After swapping her stage dungarees for heels and sparkles, Once We Lived Here star Melle Stewart has a quick chat before hitting the West End.

Theatre review | Once We Lived Here @ King’s Head Theatre, London

A landmark UN report warns the world isn't prepared for the serious risks of climate change, including worse bushfires for Australia.

If you enjoy buying a lottery ticket on Tuesday or Saturday evenings from Tatts for the big lotto draw but are living abroad in the UK it can be frustrating having no way to take part from overseas.

HONEYMOONING NOMAD | Surviving the London winter is much easier when you’re the one Australian who doesn’t tan.

The BBC is set to travel Down Under next year to film an eight-part television drama about the foundation of the first British penal colony in Australia at the end of the 18th century.

With the Sydney Dance Company gracing the boards of London this week, WILL FITZGIBBON took time to have a chat to the man behind the stunningly beautiful shows, artistic director Rafael Bonachela.

Discover Northern Kenya’s Tassia Lodge, where you walk with the animals and soak up Africa in style.