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ASTRAZENEVA VACCINE APPROVED FOR AUSTRALIA* The Therapeutic Goods Administration has granted provisional approval to AstraZeneca for its COVID-19 vaccine, meaning it can now be supplied in Australia.

A Victorian principal spent almost $23,000 of his government-funded school's money on gambling, booze, gift cards and an overseas holiday.

People turning to IVF to try and have children are being offered a new online tool to help navigate the complex process.

AUSTRALIA'S COVID-19 VACCINE ROLLOUT PHASESPhase 1a (up to 1.4 million doses):Quarantine and border workersFrontline healthcare workersAged care and disability care staffAged care and disability care residents---Phase 1b (up to 14.8 million doses):Elderly adults aged 80 years and overElderly adults aged 70-79 yearsOther healthcare workersAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged...

Authorities are yet to rule out an extension to Victoria's five-day "circuit breaker" lockdown, as the state recorded one new locally acquired case of COVID-19.

China has fired back at the US over allegations that Beijing withheld some information about the coronavirus outbreak from World Health Organisation investigators.

A false-negative test result from a Holiday Inn hotel worker put Victorian authorities off the scent of a family function where COVID-19 spread into the community.

The US Senate has acquitted Donald Trump of inciting the mob that stormed the Capitol last month, sparing him from conviction in his second impeachment trial in a year despite broad condemnation of his role in sparking the deadly siege.

Victoria's hotel quarantine authority denies it knew a man took a nebuliser into the venue at the heart of the state's current coronavirus outbreak.

A four-metre crocodile believed to be behind a fatal attack on a missing fisherman in north Queensland has been captured and killed, after human remains were found.