| Watch Foreign Correspondent and Q+A Thursdays from 8pm on ABC TV and iview. | | The Chief Medical Officer says the 52-year-old's death is "extremely unfortunate" and seeks to reassure the public doctors are becoming very good at treating the clots before they cause harm. | | | Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly says Greater Melbourne's hotspot status has met the criteria to be withdrawn, which also brings to an end the federal government's temporary COVID hardship payments. Follow live. | | | Melburnians must continue to wear masks outdoors once the city's lockdown lifts at 11:59pm, as authorities try to figure out how four cases in a Reservoir household became infected. | | | The husband of a COVID-positive woman who left Melbourne lockdown and travelled into south-east Queensland tests positive for the virus as people across the region scramble to get tested. | | | Here are the places visited by two people who drove from locked-down Melbourne to Queensland's Sunshine Coast, which are now COVID-19 exposure sites. | | | The lockdown is lifting but there are still plenty of rules in place for Melbourne and regional Victoria. | | | Police say Stacey Klimovitch was shot in the chest after answering a knock at the front door of her Newcastle home on Tuesday night — while a younger woman and newborn baby were inside — in what has been described as a "horrendous" incident. | | | Queensland Labor MP Duncan Pegg dies seven weeks after he announcing he was retiring from politics to focus on his battle with cancer. | | | A man has been found dead in floodwaters this afternoon as emergency services carried out dramatic rescues in storm-lashed Gippsland. | | | The SES has taken more than 5,000 calls for assistance as Victoria begins to clean up after a wild night of storms. | | | | | | Download the ABC News app | Available on Android and Apple devices | | The ABC NEWS app makes it easier for you to stay up to date with the latest news and information from Australia's most trusted news source. | | | | The ABC sent this message to wwwhindimen.australia@blogger.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC. Any personal details and data acquired by the ABC from your participation in any ABC Online Services will be used only in accordance with the ABC's Privacy Policy. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. | | | | |