Successful program buoys home building: PM
Scott Morrison says the success of his government's HomeBuilder program has set the residential building sector up for the next two years.
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Travellers snap up Vic tourism vouchers
Victorians have snapped up 40,000 extra regional tourism vouchers, aimed at encouraging people to holiday at home and boosting an economy ravaged by COVID-19.
Positive Open players are viral shedding
Two Australian Open tennis players who tested positive to COVID-19 are likely to be classified as viral shedding.
Morrison open to regional quarantine camps
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is open to Queensland's push to make all international arrivals quarantine at remote mining camps instead of hotels.
We can play tennis and pick fruit, says PM
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has distanced himself from colleagues criticising the Victorian government for accepting international tennis players but not farm workers into the state.
US, China clash at WHO over Wuhan mission
The United States has called on China to allow an expert team from the World Health Organisation to interview "care givers, former patients and lab workers" in the central city...
Cyclone continues to threaten Qld coast
North Queenslanders are continuing to batten down the hatches, as an unpredictable tropical cyclone lurks off the coast.
Zero new NSW cases, vaccine entry 'ticket'
NSW has recorded no new locally acquired cases of COVID-19, as Premier Gladys Berejiklian suggests the government may permit venues to ban entry to those who decline to take the...
Overseas travel remains unlikely this year
The head of Australia's health department believes it is unlikely international borders will substantially reopen this year, even if most people are vaccinated against coronavirus.
Victoria eases borders for parts of Sydney
Thousands of stranded Victorians will be able to return home following the easing of border restrictions with the NSW Blue Mountains, Wollongong and parts of Sydney.