Latest news: Lockdown

A further 12 local community projects will share more than $80,000 in grant funding from the Chief Minister’s Charitable Fund, as the final part of an urgent Covid-19 lockdown relief round, Hands Across Canberra announced today. The first round granted more than $100,000 in funding, bringing the total to $183,000.

Thank you to Canberrans who are masking-up and keeping distance while enjoying this lovely, almost-springtime weather. And smiling with your eyes and separating when passing.

The ACT's lockdown has been extended a month, meaning it will run until 15 October at the earliest, it was announced today.

Year 12 students across the ACT are set to return to campus from the beginning of Term 4, as the critical time of final exams and assessments begins. The ACT Government announced this...

The ACT Government will extend and expand a range of financial support measures during the longer lockdown.

A Melbourne school at the centre of a COVID-19 outbreak will be questioned amid claims it was operating at full capacity despite tough lockdown restrictions. 

Yass Valley will enter into a two week lockdown beginning Tuesday 12.01am 14 September after a positive COVID-19 case in the area.

Businesses breaking health directions have been warned eight of 10 businesses checked by Access Canberra on Sunday were in breach.

Since the lockdown began, the Multicultural Association of Canberra has received 10 distress calls a day from people in quarantine unable to cook or go shopping.

ACT has recorded 13 new cases overnight, with at least 10 having spent time in the community during their infectious period.

On a dark, gloomy night a small child confronts a three-horned, red-eyed monster. That's the opening scene of a tale by eight-year-old Brisbane boy Henry Levitt, voiced by well-known Australian actors in the latest season of the podcast StoryKids.

The ACT has recorded 15 new cases overnight, eight linked to current exposure sites or identified close contacts.

A quintessential homegrown small fashion business, Bianca Pavlic the Label was started in 2017 from the namesake’s home studio, converted from her garage in Wamboin NSW. A fabric fanatic, Bianca was constantly inspired...

The ACT has recorded 15 new cases overnight, with 14 linked to current exposure sites or identified close contacts while one remains under investigation.

Queensland has recorded five new local COVID-19 cases but will avoid locking down for now, the state's premier says. 

We talk to Labor MLAs Mick Gentleman, Suzanne Orr, Marisa Paterson, and Michael Pettersson about what they're doing in lockdown.