Police will launch a health order enforcement blitz following a decision for NSW to enter a statewide seven-day lockdown in the wake of its worst day of the COVID-19 pandemic to date.
Australia's military will play an increasing role in the nation's enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions as an extra 500 Australian Defence Force personnel hit NSW streets next week.
Health authorities are baffled how a Canberra high school student with no known travel outside the ACT or link to exposure sites tested positive to COVID-19.
Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton says the lockdown's ongoing toll on children is "heartbreaking", as mystery COVID-19 cases threaten to further extend the shutdown.
The ACT has recorded two new cases of COVID-19, taking the total active cases in the Territory to six.
One of the new cases is a 14-year-old student at Gold Creek School who...
A 20-year-old Fisher man has been charged with assaulting frontline community service providers and nine other offences following an incident in Charnwood overnight.
Weddings are limited to five attendees and funerals to 10, and lovers can tryst, while public events are cancelled and most eateries can operate for take-away only with the ACT in a seven-day lockdown from 5pm today.
Other jurisdictions will implement their own travel restrictions on ACT residents, said ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr, who has urged Canberrans not to “flee to the coast” to escape the seven-day lockdown.
