Half of Indigenous Australians aged 16 and older are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as Aboriginal leaders seek an urgent prime ministerial meeting about failings in the rollout.
Australia's medicines regulator has blasted a One Nation senator for "dangerous and incorrect" suggestions about deaths linked to coronavirus vaccines.
NRL CEO Andrew Abdo says players will not be mandated to have a COVID-19 vaccine but warned unvaccinated players would be subject to more stringent protocols.