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The New South Wales government has been urged to drop the remaining 29,017 COVID-19 related fines, after the Supreme Court published a judgment detailing the minimum requirements for fines. The [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Bruce Matthews, The Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia - The safety protocols for COVID-19 have been a touchy subject at the Australian Open, particularly after nine-time men's champion Novak Djokovic [...]

Byline: John Pye and Rod McGuirk, The Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia - Novak Djokovic held a practice session on Tuesday, a day after he left immigration detention, focusing on defending [...]

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: JOHN PYE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lead The top men's tennis player in the world, Novak Djokovic, spent Orthodox Christmas in an immigration detention hotel in Australia on Friday as [...]

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 [...]

What has changed with mandatory vaccination? As workers adapt to the unpredictable climate of the pandemic, NSW mandatory COVID-19 vaccine laws are also changing. COVID-19 vaccinations remain voluntary in Australia, [...]

Towards the end of 2021, the Queensland Chief Health Officer (CHO) issued Public Health Directions (Directions) requiring people who enter, work in or provide services in certain facilities, including hospitals, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: 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: Rod McGuirk, ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia - Far-right British commentator Katie Hopkins was deported from Australia on Monday after she boasted on social media that she planned to breach [...]

In the media COVID-19 close contact quarantine rules to be relaxed after national cabinet decision National cabinet agrees to transition away from doing PCR tests for people who only have [...]

On 14 July 2021, the NSW Government passed the Retail and Other Commercial Leases (COVID-19) Regulation 2021 ('2021 Regulations') which limited the exercise of certain rights by a lessor under [...]

An unvaccinated aged care sector worker in Victoria, who was dismissed for incapacity to perform his job, has failed in an unfair dismissal application. In Aucamp v Association for Christian [...]

The pandemic has prompted many organisations to adopt 'hybrid' work models. Seyfarth's global Future of Work pulse survey in 2021 found that navigating remote and hybrid work was the number [...]

Effective December 15, 2021, the Australian government will allow fully vaccinated travelers in eligible visa categories to travel to and from Australia without needing to apply for a travel exemption. [...]

The full bench of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found that a decision by mining company BHP to make Covid-19 vaccinations at the Mt Arthur mine in the Hunter [...]

The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found BHP's COVID-19 vaccination mandate is not reasonable and lawful, but reached this decision based on its failure to consult on whether to implement [...]

Transport Industry - Compulsory COVID-19 Vaccination In the Northern Territory, vaccination is compulsory for freight transport workers, and workers must not enter into the Northern Territory unless they have: received [...]

All the modelling done and released by our governments to support the roadmaps out of lockdowns tell us the same thing: as our businesses and borders reopen, the COVID numbers [...]

Employers have duties under workplace health and safety (WHS) legislation to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, the health and safety of their workers. Employers are also entitled to take [...]

As NSW hits the 70% vaccination mark and we get closer to returning to the life we knew before the outbreak of COVID-19, one particular issue continues to rear its [...]

In the media NSW contract cleaning business in court The Fair Work Ombudsman has commenced legal action against a contract cleaning business located in the Hunter region of New South [...]

On October 1, 2021, the Australian government announced that it expects to begin lifting pandemic-related travel restrictions for fully vaccinated Australian citizens and permanent residents as soon as November. Australia's [...]

The management of COVID-19 in the workplace is a health and safety issue employers have been grappling with since the start of the pandemic. The recent developments with WorkSafe Victoria [...]

Byline: CATHAL KELLY, Staff Lead On their way into the U.S. Open, players and their retinues must submit to a gentle security screening. The paying customers have to stand in [...]

Byline: JOHN PYE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE -- Lead Novak Djokovic was about to respond to a question about Australian Open crowds when he paused, thought for a moment, and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: DENNIS PASSA, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lead With a coronavirus-enforced quarantine coming to an end, the world's elite tennis players will go from two of the quietest weeks of their [...]

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: CATHAL KELLY, Staff Lead One of the least discussed side effects of COVID-19 is double-talk. You don't even need to be infected to experience it. It's most common among [...]

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 [...]