COVID-19

Australia’s peak education and miscellaneous workers unions have teamed up to demand teachers receive priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine.

Younger Western Australians will be targeted in a coronavirus vaccination blitz as the state looks to boost its faltering rollout.

AstraZeneca is working on a booster shot for its coronavirus vaccine to combat mutations of the deadly disease.

Scott Morrison has warned lockdowns will be crucial until vaccination coverage targets are reached but he is confident of getting to a major milestone this year.

Another day and another bulk ship from Indonesia arriving off WA with a COVID-19 infected crew, as our state’s agriculture industry braces itself for a possible ban on ships from Indonesian ports.

Australia's leaders will begin charting a course to fully reopening the nation based on new coronavirus vaccination rate modelling.

Queensland authorities are on alert after a man with COVID-19 flew between Brisbane and Perth last week.

Qantas Airways is set to make coronavirus vaccinations mandatory for all international travellers when Australia's borders reopen.

Scott Morrison has urged all Australians to bring forward their second AstraZeneca jab with Sydney facing an explosion of coronavirus infections.

Western Australia could keep hard borders in place for the foreseeable future despite other states emerging from coronavirus lockdowns.

Workers who lose hours because of lockdowns will receive up to $750 a week under a boosted federal support scheme.

Two unvaccinated healthcare workers are in hotel quarantine after potential exposure to COVID-19 during the transfer of a sick crew member from a Fremantle cargo vessel yesterday.

Bill Shorten insists he has no interest in returning to the leadership of the Labor party, dismissing a story that he has been discussing this issue with colleagues as "boring" and unsourced.

Australians are facing a renewed push to receive coronavirus vaccinations after new advice strongly recommending AstraZeneca for all adults in Sydney.

Emergency Pfizer vaccine supplies will not be rushed to Sydney's coronavirus hot spots from other states despite new cases peaking in its latest outbreak.

Doctors have urged Australia's expert vaccine panel to recommend the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine be used in wider age groups.

Australian children as young as 12 could start to receive coronavirus vaccines this year after Pfizer was given the initial nod for those under 16.

Scott Morrison has apologised for the vaccine rollout not meeting its targets but insists some of the issues were out of his control.

Western Australia's nurses union is worried continued COVID-19 domestic border closures will impede efforts to find more badly needed hospital staff.

Scott Morrison has appealed for Australia's expert immunisation panel to change its AstraZeneca vaccine age recommendation.

Three crew members from a coronavirus-infected cargo ship have been moved to hotel quarantine in Perth after 10 of their colleagues tested positive.

National wage subsidies will not be reintroduced despite millions of workers losing pay cheques as coronavirus lockdowns sweep Australia.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief executive Matt Comyn says his bank stands ready to assist customers with over half the population now in lockdown.

Australians under 40 will not be eligible for Pfizer coronavirus jabs ahead of schedule despite increasing hospitalisations of younger people.

WA has tightened its border controls with South Australia after the state announced a seven-day lockdown, as health authorities work to trace potential contacts of another ship with COVID positive crew onboard.

Australia's troubled vaccine rollout has been given a much-needed boost with the arrival of one million Pfizer doses.

Scott Morrison has urged world leaders to ramp up production of mRNA vaccines such as Pfizer's at a historic APEC meeting to discuss recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eight crew members on board a cargo ship that berthed at Fremantle port this morning have tested positive for COVID-19.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says supplies are not yet sufficient to bring large numbers of pharmacies into the COVID-19 vaccination program.

Western Australia will reintroduce a hard border to Victoria, effectively blocking residents of the entire east coast from travelling west.

Senior federal ministers say they are open to the idea of a national vaccine lottery to encourage Australians to get the jab.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a state-wide lockdown from midnight tonight following confirmation of two new locally-acquired cases of COVID-19.