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Scientists at leading American and British universities have slammed Australia’s expulsion of tennis star Novak Djokovic as “authoritarian” in new research that condemns Northern Territory’s “lockd...

Mark McGowan’s self-serving decision to keep Western Australia’s border shut to other Australians ignores the changed realities of the pandemic.

The former boss of Victoria’s health department, who resigned amid an inquiry into the state’s bungled hotel quarantine system, will be on a panel reviewing the governance of WA’s health system.

The revelation is the first indication of how many people in hospital are being treated with COVID-19 – as opposed to for COVID-19.

Confidential text messages between West Australian Premier Mark McGowan and Attorney-General John Quigley about Clive Palmer’s border challenge will be aired publicly at trial.

A couple of lists on Fauziah Ibrahim’s private Twitter account that appear to show anti-Labor sentiment could spell big trouble for the ABC News presenter.

People identified as close contacts or who arrive from interstate and overseas will be required to isolate for seven days instead of 14 as of Tuesday

An intelligence agency official with a background at the World Health Organisation was involved in downplaying the lab leak theory during Joe Biden’s 90-day probe into the origins of Covid-19.

In response to the vaccine mandate, a Mandurah coffee shop announced on its social media platforms: “If one can’t sit, then we all will stand”, and has received a wave of community support.

Jim Chalmers has flagged the ­October budget will reveal the nation’s finances are in a worse position than Treasury’s pre-election update, saying “pressures on the budget which were not disclosed or...

From the very start of the pandemic, a small but critical minority of us has argued that irrespective of the paths taken to get there, the end state will be living with Covid-19 as an endemic virus....

WA reported 1770 COVID cases on Wednesday — the first significant spike in five days — and no increase in hospitalisations.

At best, lockdowns have deferred death for a short time, but the lockdowns cannot possibly be continued for the long term.

Is it possible that mainstream medicine got cholesterol all wrong? That not only does cholesterol have no connection to heart disease, but…

Australians who tested positive for Covid between January 2020 and late November 2021 died at more than 14 times the rate of those who caught the virus during the subsequent two months since the...

It’s been said that in a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Are you free if you believe a lie? Is ignorance bliss? Is it ethical to choose position and financial…

WA will ignore Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s urgings to ditch the COVID 19 close contact rule, with the State’s peak of cases still set to come this week.

Australia’s former deputy chief medical officer has claimed the Omicron variant is less dangerous than the seasonal flu.

Those close to the late Home and Away star have spoken out about his final days — with one declaring Sydney’s COVID lockdown was the ‘last straw’.

Premier Mark McGowan has confirmed ‘we are past the peak of our Omicron wave and heading towards the soft landing we have all been working towards’ as close to 8000 new cases were recorded.

Western Australia is well and truly back open, with Mark McGowan to use his first in-person National Cabinet meeting to tell families on the east coast to move to WA for a ‘better life’. READ HIS...

Fewer than 0.1 per cent of the 188,594 Australians with active Covid infections on Sunday are in intensive care, fuelling hopes that the vast majority have little to fear from the Omicron variant.

Mark McGowan said life would become very difficult for people who were unvaccinated from January 31, when the new rules took effect.

Eight teenage girls have committed suicide in the first seven months of this year, a marked increase in the number of young women taking their lives in a tragic toll being closely watched by the...

Most of the premiers — not every one — are betraying the compact of free movement within Australia, along with humiliating Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

WA recorded 1179 new COVID cases overnight, with the number of people in hospital with the virus climbing from 11 to 16.

Andy Robertson’s advice came a week after an assessment of the hotel found the air in its corridors came from adjoining rooms which housed isolating guests.

It’s a curious thing to watch something unravel. To watch, as if in time-lapse photography, a crack traverse the full length of a wall in what feels like the blink of an eye.

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WA has reported a dip in COVID hospitalisations and continued its downward trend in active cases - although the Australian Medical Association has warned the worst is still to come.

Two weeks ago, the BMJ published research that reinforced the overwhelming evidence that the United Kingdom’s National Health Service should continue to be publicly funded and publicly provided.

That's the blunt truth, and any authority figure who claims that this virus can be completely contained or eliminated is either unfamiliar with how respiratory viruses operate, or worse, is lying to...

WA’s current regime of vaccine mandates makes no sense, especially at this stage of the pandemic. By Gemma Tognini.

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has revealed he has one ‘main aim’ while in Sydney for his defamation trial involving billionaire Clive Palmer.

As other countries prepare to live with Covid, Australia and lockdowns remain joined in a fatal embrace. The problem is not just the harm wreaked by the unpredictable disruptions to daily life, the...

On the day Roger Cook assumed the office of the Premier of Western Australia, police clear protesters under strict orders.

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has backtracked on trying to keep a controlled border policy beyond the COVID-19 state of emergency to keep illegal drug trafficking and usage down.

Ever wondered what you could do with 15 million bucks? Bet most of us have at some point or another. Just image. Goodbye mortgage. See ya later, RBA. Just imagine the good you could do. The lives you...

WA Premier Mark McGowan is facing an intense backlash from public figures after announcing the State’s borders will remain closed indefinitely.