A "critical alert" has been issued to Australian organisations using Microsoft Exchange to send and receive emails after the tech giant found significant new vulnerabilities.

Queensland will ease coronavirus restrictions early after no new locally acquired cases were reported.

Scott Morrison has refused to offer former Australia Post chief executive Christine Holgate an apology after she accused him of bullying.

Citing reputational risk from poor animal welfare practice, New Zealand is banning live exports of animals by sea.

Christine Holgate has revealed she was suicidal after being forced out as Australia Post boss in a scathing excoriation of Scott Morrison.

Australia has recorded its 910th coronavirus death with all bar five involving people aged 50 and over.

Poker machines at Tasmania's two casinos have been offline since the Easter weekend due to a ransomware cyber attack.

Health authorities are grappling with the nation's first coronavirus death for the year as a second case of a rare blood clot believed to be linked to the AstraZeneca jab is recorded.

Hundreds of properties in the West Australian town of Kalbarri are feared to have been destroyed or sustained major damage from Tropical Cyclone Seroja.

The Morrison government and senior health officials are refusing to put a time on Australia's coronavirus vaccine rollout after officially dumping the October target.