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Byline: Michael E. Miller SYDNEY - Australia will reopen to vaccinated international tourists later this month, effectively bringing to an end one of the world's longest and strictest coronavirus border [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller and Frances Vinall MELBOURNE, Australia - This was supposed to be Australia's glorious hot vax summer, with open borders, open businesses and an Australian Open marking [...]

Byline: Malcolm Knox There is an old-fashioned idea that Australians are relaxed about rules, informal in their approach to life, peaceable and welcoming. Crocodile Dundee used to tell the world: [...]

Byline: Frances Vinall MELBOURNE, Australia - The shop attendant leaned forward conspiratorially. 'They have a supply come in downstairs at 11 a.m.,' he said. 'The sign says they don't have [...]

Byline: Adela Suliman It's Nadal vs. Djokovic - but not on the tennis court. Rafael Nadal, the Spanish tennis star, said he felt 'sorry' that his rival Novak Djokovic's visa [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller SYDNEY - Since early in the pandemic, Australia has imposed some of the world's strictest quarantine requirements, effectively walling itself off and stranding thousands of citizens [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller SYDNEY - On a rainy Monday morning, John Church sat near the door of the Corner Pub holding a pint with the affection of a new [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller SYDNEY - Australia will drop some restrictions on international travel in November, easing one of the world's longest and strictest covid border closures that has split [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller THACKARINGA HILLS REST AREA, Australia - The four figures huddled in the shade on the side of the highway, eight miles from a border they had [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller SYDNEY - Since the day the coronavirus arrived in Australia 18 months ago, the people of Walgett watched and prayed it would never find its way [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller SYDNEY - Australia's second-most populous city, Melbourne, entered its sixth coronavirus lockdown on Thursday after Victoria state officials detected 'multiple mystery cases' of what they suspected [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller SYDNEY -- Australia's race to vaccinate is finally ramping up, but Michal Aleksandroff isn't sure he wants to participate. The bricklayer lives in the epicenter of [...]

Byline: Jonathan Edwards Pandemic fear racked Australia last summer. The virus had ripped through nursing homes. A government official warned of more funeral homes and hospitals being overrun. One headline [...]

Byline: Miriam Berger The weekend's anti-lockdown protests in Sydney were 'selfish and self-defeating,' Australia's prime minister said Sunday, as governments around the world tightened restrictions again to fight the spread [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller SYDNEY - A pale and feverish young woman lies on a hospital bed, struggling to breathe. She frantically looks around for help while weakly tugging at [...]

Byline: Teela Reid For Print Use Only. Australia has earned a lot of misplaced praise for its response since covid-19 hit our shores. The real success story is how First [...]

Byline: Peter Marks A few days ago, Kylie Estreich went to a theater in Sydney to see a Broadway show. In person. With hundreds of other people. She showed her [...]

Byline: Nikki Stamp For Print Use Only. Government officials from Western Australia announced on Sunday that millions of people in the southwest part of our state would plunge into a [...]

Byline: Liz Clarke From his confines in a Melbourne hotel room, the world's 70th -ranked men's tennis player is staging a clinic on the sport's mental game. Pablo Cuevas, a [...]

Byline: Cindy Boren The number of tennis players quarantined after their arrival in Australia on flights with passengers who tested positive for the coronavirus has risen to 72, angering players [...]

Byline: Liz Clarke After lengthy deliberation and close consultation with health authorities, Australian Open officials are circulating a plan for holding the tennis season's first Grand Slam on Feb. 8 [...]

Byline: Liz Clarke After lengthy deliberation and close consultation with health authorities, Australian Open officials are circulating a plan for holding the tennis season's first Grand Slam on Feb. 8 [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan Australian air carrier Qantas anticipates asking all international travelers to prove they've been immunized against the coronavirus once a vaccine is widely available - a requirement [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan and Miriam Berger One of the world's longest novel coronavirus lockdowns wound down Wednesday morning, allowing roughly 5 million people in the Australian city of Melbourne [...]

Byline: Nikki Stamp For Print Use Only. In the Old Testament, the Bible recounts the 10 Plagues of Egypt, disasters inflicted by God to force the Pharaoh to release the [...]

Byline: Matt Bonesteel The last time an Australian Football League game was played at Melbourne Cricket Ground, in late September, 100,014 fans were on hand to see Richmond win its [...]