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Australia once stamped out every Covid outbreak. Now it's done with all that. The policy U-turn, and the soaring case numbers, caught many off guard. MELBOURNE, Australia -- Nearly 95 [...]

The lockdown isn't over. But at least we can gather on the grass. The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by [...]

Is it worth it, keeping the borders closed until the middle of 2022? The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by [...]

Australia has kept the coronavirus largely in check (only 900 total deaths), and life there is much closer to normal than in the United States. Last week in Melbourne, the [...]

MELBOURNE, Australia -- ''It's so good to see people.'' This was Naomi Osaka, the three-time Grand Slam champion, moments after her first-round win Monday afternoon at the Australian Open. She [...]

Australians have gone to great lengths to control the coronavirus. And some don't want to throw that away for a tennis tournament. MELBOURNE, Australia -- From the banks of the [...]

Officials in Australia moved mountains to make the country's annual professional tennis swing happen. That will be far more difficult after the tour leaves this isolated island nation. MELBOURNE, Australia [...]

Residents on the outskirts of Perth in Western Australia fled their homes in the middle of the night, just days after being told to stay in because of the coronavirus. [...]

The country's short, sharp responses have repeatedly subdued the virus and allowed a return to near normalcy. Now its model is being applied to Perth, its fourth-largest city. SYDNEY, Australia [...]

With several positive tests among people arriving from abroad, and a strict quarantine, the Australian Open is not going the way organizers expected it would. MELBOURNE, Australia -- It was [...]

Australians are facing a messy patchwork of border restrictions that lock out both the coronavirus and fellow citizens. A new ad offers a biting, if humorous, commentary on the state [...]

An ombudsman's report condemned a rushed lockdown of nine public housing towers in Melbourne that left thousands of residents without adequate food and medication and access to fresh air. MELBOURNE, [...]

South Australia imposed tight statewide restrictions based on what a man had said about his relationship to a restaurant. And then the authorities learned the truth. It was the lie [...]

A need for parks during lockdown has turned into a debate about the future of inner-city golf courses. The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign [...]

After chafing against their isolation for so long, Australians these days are finding island life a privilege when pestilence lies beyond. SYDNEY, Australia -- They used to call it ''the [...]

Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city, emerged from its 111-day hibernation with a mix of euphoria and caution. MELBOURNE, Australia -- As if from hibernation, Australia's second-largest city emerged from one of [...]

For the second time in a week, the daily coronavirus case count in Arizona has exceeded 1,000 new cases. Also on Tuesday, Oklahoma reported 1,475 new cases and Arkansas added [...]

Daniel Andrews, Victoria's premier, has conducted 100 consecutive daily news conferences. In Melbourne, we all watch. We are all exhausted. The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia [...]

Limits on the number of Australians who can return have spurred a growing uproar over the country's hard-line approach to the coronavirus. DARWIN, Australia -- Alison Richards, a 38-year-old graphic [...]