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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 [...]

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: 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: CATHAL KELLY, Staff Lead Cast your mind back to April, 2020. That was a different you. That you wasn't sure if the global economy was about to crater, but [...]

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 [...]

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 - 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: 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA -- Lead The political leader of Australia's Victorian state says despite 'incredibly complex' negotiations, he is confident January's Australian Open tennis tournament will proceed. [...]

Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE -- Lead MELBOURNE The Australian Open and all the regular interstate leadup tournaments for the season's first tennis major will be staged in Melbourne in [...]

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 [...]