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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 [...]

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 [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought all kinds of challenges since the first case of coronavirus in Australia, especially for immigration. As we start the New Year, even more changes are [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia's public and private hospitals have faced the healthcare challenge of our generation. Despite reassuring trends in case numbers and hospitalisations, it's still [...]

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 [...]

The understanding that elderly people and people living with disability were the two key demographics most at risk of contracting COVID-19, and further, that they have an increased susceptibility to [...]

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: 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 [...]

A New South Wales Police officer is taking legal action against the state Health Minister Brad Hazzard over the COVID-19 injection, which for many is for all intents and purposes [...]

You may have heard about the latest COVID-19 safety measure to be introduced - rapid antigen testing (RA testing). It has been introduced as part of a new requirement under [...]

Australian employers are considering whether to utilise rapid antigen testing (referred to endearingly as 'RAT') as a cost-effective and comparatively efficient means of screening workers for COVID-19 in the workplace. [...]

The nation is polarised over whether protests should occur during COVID-19 lockdowns. Those against these protests see them as an unjustified intrusion on the civil liberties of others, namely the [...]

Case law has been particularly influential of late in broadening Australia's understanding of when employers can and can't mandate a vaccine, and when they can and can't discipline an employee [...]

Put simply, no. Your employer cannot force you to have a COVID-19 vaccine. The Federal Government's policy remains that vaccines should be voluntary and free. However, depending on the circumstances, [...]

Although he initially stated that COVID-19 vaccines would be 'as mandatory as possible', Prime Minister Scott Morrison has since assured the public that the vaccination will be voluntary. Despite the [...]

There are calls for an urgent review into COVID policies and quarantine policing after a Victorian couple in the middle of moving to Queensland were given conflicting advice, then penalised [...]

Social isolation resulting from lockdowns, a lack of hope for the future and fear of the virus are fuelling anxiety and depression among Australian children and teenagers at alarming rates. [...]

Where a situation arises that is likely to be a risk to public health, the Health Minister is given substantial powers to deal with that risk. This includes making public [...]

We felt great pity for Melbournians last year when the 'ring of steel' was assembled around the metropolitan area, with various police checkpoints to ensure that people were only leaving [...]