Australian cotton growers could be the latest victims of increasingly bitter trade tensions with China.

A Brisbane teenager trusted the wrong person and never intended an explicit sex tape involving Brisbane Broncos centre Kotoni Staggs to be released, a court has been told.

A Porsche-driving mortgage broker charged with outraging public decency for telling a policewoman "amazing, absolutely amazing" as she died after a Melbourne crash has been granted bail.

Thousands of Australians stranded overseas could soon return home under a deal to allow people to quarantine near Darwin.

The Melbourne truck driver who sparked the Kilmore and Shepparton coronavirus outbreaks has slipped through the contact tracing net, senior Victorian health official Allen Cheng says.

NSW health authorities have ramped up calls for for more people to come forward for COVID-19 testing and urged anyone diagnosed with the virus to be 100 per cent honest about their recent movements.

The NSW opposition leader has labelled Gladys Berejikilian as disgraced former MP Daryl Maguire's "sounding board for corruption", prompting the furious NSW premier to demand she "say it outside".

Virgin Australia boss Paul Scurrah will step down within weeks once the airline's sale to US private equity group Bain Capital is completed.

New Zealand Opposition leader Judith Collins has taken aim at Tasmania, calling it Australia's "poor cousin" during a penultimate day of election campaigning.

The former lover of NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has confessed to using his public office for personal profit including helping with a "cash-for-visa scheme" and secretly directing a networking firm.