Novak Djokovich has called an “error of judgment” his decision to attend an interview with a newspaper after testing positive for Covid-19, but dismissed a separate travel declaration mixup as an “administrative mistake.” | Read more|
Tennis star Novak Djokovic has had his visa to enter Australia dramatically revoked on his arrival in Melbourne. | Read more|
Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest's philanthropic organisation will help 18 small news publishers in the country collectively negotiate with Google and Facebook to secure licensing deals for the supply of news content. | Read more|
Australia will spend A$100 million ($73 million) to develop quantum technology, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday, as Canberra identifies nine areas of technology it believes critical for national interests. | Read more|
A four-year-old Australian girl abducted from a campsite 18 days ago was discovered "alive and well" during a raid on a locked house Wednesday, telling her shocked and elated rescuers: "My name is Cleo." | Read more|
Australia's prime minister lambasted social media on Thursday as "a coward's palace", saying platforms should be treated as publishers when defamatory comments by unidentified people are posted, pouring fuel on a raging debate over the country's libel laws. | Read more|
Australia will reopen its international border from November, giving long-awaited freedoms to vaccinated citizens and their relatives. | Read more|
Indian women’s cricket team opener Smriti Mandhana became the first Indian woman to score a century in a pink-ball Test on Friday when she played a 127-run knock against Australia in the one-off Pink Ball Test. This is also the first century by an Indian woman on Australian soil. | Read more|
CNN has prevented people in Australia from accessing its Facebook pages, citing a risk of defamation, after a court ruling decreed that publishers were liable for the content of the comments section. | Read more|
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Sunday the French government would have known Canberra had "deep and grave concerns" about French submarines before the deal was torn up last week. | Read more|
US President Joe Biden will host a first in-person summit of leaders of the "Quad" countries - Australia, India, Japan and the United States - next week, the White House said on Monday. | Read more|
In a first since the Taliban’s takeover, a foreign commercial flight landed in Kabul Monday. According to Reuters, a Pakistan International Airlines flight touched down at the Kabul airport and it will carry people with valid documents from Kabul to Islamabad. | Read more|
India and Australia have called for a "broad-based and inclusive" government in Afghanistan to ensure long-term peace and stability in the war-torn country, signalling their clear unwillingness to accord any recognition to the Taliban regime. | Read more|
The Indian women's hockey team scripted history on Monday by qualifying for the Olympic Games semifinals for the first time, beating three-time champions Australia by a solitary goal. A day after the Indian men's team entered the Olympic semifinals following a 49-year gap, the world no.9 women's side also entered the h | Read more|
Australia has deployed hundreds of soldiers to Sydney to help enforce a Covid lockdown. | Read more|