| | Premier Daniel Andrews defends a five-day lockdown from midnight tonight that includes regional Victoria. He says the decision was deemed "essential by public health experts". Follow live. | | | All of Victoria will go into a five-day snap lockdown from midnight tonight to curb the growing COVID outbreak. | | | The Prime Minister announces fast-tracked and increased payments for states in lockdown will be proposed at National Cabinet tomorrow. | | | Engineered stone benchtops have transformed kitchens and bathrooms across Australia, but the number of people being diagnosed with a serious lung condition after working with it is continuing to rise at an alarming rate. | | | South Australian Premier Steven Marshall announces tighter border restrictions as the number of COVID-19 cases rises in Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. | | | Record low interest rates and work from home have pushed up rents across regional Australia and that has made mortgage repayments cheaper than renting across much of the country especially in regional Northern Territory and Western Australia. | | | Midwives threaten to quit and new mothers are left in tears over health district orders banning new fathers from postnatal wards. | | | In Amanda Lohrey's "elegiac" novel The Labyrinth, a middle-aged woman moves to the country to heal herself and her relationship with her imprisoned son. | | | A woman whose six-year-old daughter weighed just 13.4 kg when she was taken to hospital and had to be resuscitated, has been jailed for failing to provide medical care. | | | Mask and social distancing restrictions in south-east Queensland are extended for another week after the state recorded three new community cases of COVID-19. | | | | | | 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. | | | | |