It’s hard to think of too many positives to come out of the global COVID-19 crisis. If there is one, it is that it has exposed the fragility of authoritarian governments, and the spin of bad actors.
Gareth Parker
Australians will be advised not to travel to Iran under new travel warnings while foreigners coming from Iran will be banned from entering Australia because of the coronavirus outbreak.
WA is preparing for a coronavirus pandemic amid warnings from the State’s top doctors that up to one-in-four could contract the disease. Here are the measures being considered.
Peter Law, Joanna Delalande, Sarah Ison & Kate Emery
Malaysian nationals who flew to Australia to work illegally have been blocked by Australian Border Force officers at Perth International Airport.
A scheme to allow academically-gifted Chinese students into a handful of sought-after Perth public schools has been put on ice because of the international coronavirus outbreak.
Bethany Hiatt
Outgoing Legislative Assembly Speaker Peter Watson has defended spending tens of thousands in taxpayer’s money on an overseas junket before his retirement from State Parliament later this year.
Joe Spagnolo
Health Minister Roger Cook has revealed the condition of the WA man being treated for COVID-19, as Queensland scientists announced they were close to a “major breakthrough” in developing a vaccine.
Joe Spagnolo and Sarah Brookes
‘Small numbers’ of Chinese students studying at Australian schools will be allowed back into the country — but they will have to satisfy a string of conditions first. READ THE CRITERIA IN FULL
David Johns
Travellers will be prevented from entering Australia after the Federal Government extended its ban in a bid to halt the spread of coronavirus.
Lanai Scarr & Peter de Kruijff
These incredible photos show the smiling faces of the first plane load of evacuees preparing to leave Christmas Island after two weeks of isolation on the former detention centre site.
Caitlyn Rintoul on Christmas Island
The Prime Minister has confirmed Australian citizens will be evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Yokohama on Wednesday.
Sarah Ison
The Chinese Ambassador to Australia has doubled down on the ‘disappointment’ in measures to stop the spread of coronavirus through travel bans — slamming them as ‘out of proportion’.
The National Security Committee is being convened by the Prime Minister again today to discuss options for getting the 200 Australians quarantined on board the Diamond Princess back home.
Australian evacuees from coronavirus-plagued Wuhan will have their first taste of freedom today when their two-week quarantine at Christmas Island’s repurposed detention centre draws to an end.
Caitlyn Rintoul
With just days until evacuees from China’s coronavirus epicentre of Wuhan are repatriated from their 14-day quarantine on Christmas Island they have finally received an exit plan to get home.
Australia will continue its travel ban for non-Australian residents coming from China for another week as the coronavirus outbreak continues.
Lanai Scarr
Forty-four more people have tested positive for the coronavirus known as Covid-19 on board a quarantined cruise ship off Japan.
There will be no more evacuation flights to Australia for the foreseeable future, Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne has confirmed.
Mining magnate Andrew Forrest has urged Australians not to let “fear trump empathy” as the coronavirus crisis continues to spread across the world, with more than 1000 people now confirmed dead.
An Australian man quarantined on Christmas Island has been put into isolation after recording a mild fever during his daily morning health screen.
Sarah Steger
It is day eight inside Christmas Island’s detention-turned-quarantine centre and for the Aussie citizens evacuated from the coronavirus epicentre, the emotional rollercoaster continues.
Health Minister Greg Hunt is “very concerned” by reported racism towards Chinese Australians in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, confirming the Government was reviewing its travel ban “this week”.
A cruise ship expected to arrive in Singapore next week has been diverted to Fremantle over coronavirus concerns.
A Baltic republic once annexed by the Soviet Union with a population smaller than Perth’s is streaking ahead of Australia in terms of education. The answer? Making schooling free.
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