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Coronavirus: Queensland border closure causes friction as Australian tourists barred from entry

Aussie universities propose 'safe corridors' to allow foreign students to return

Coronavirus: Australian universities propose 'safe corridors' to allow foreign students to return

A "pop-up" carpark in Sydney - part of an urgent attempt to accommodate the city's return to work as its Covid-19 lockdown ends. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG

Pop-up carparks rolled out amid limits on public transport in Sydney

Sydney plans pop-up carparks and cycle lanes to enable post-lockdown mass commute

Australia's Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the revised figure is not an invitation to go and spend more.

Aussie govt urged to extend job protection programme

Sino-Aussie trade ties likely to remain intact despite diplomatic chill

Australia's A$60 billion wage scheme gaffe prompts calls to extend economic life support

Australia-China trade ties likely to stay intact, despite icy diplomatic relations

Australian residents being helped by military staff after arriving at the Sydney airport during the pandemic. The Morrison government has called for an international inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus.

Australia in a bind after calls to probe origins of outbreak

Since the virus outbreak, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern have been speaking weekly, reflecting a significant change from their previously tense ties.

Australia, NZ may open borders to create 'Trans-Tasman bubble'

Coronavirus: Australia and New Zealand consider opening borders to create 'Trans-Tasman bubble'

Virgin Australia has gone into administration after Canberra refused its demand for a A$1.4 billion (S$1.3 billion) lifeline to help it through the Covid-19 crisis, which has forced the company to ground its international fleet and suspend almost all

Future of Aussie aviation in doubt with Virgin's collapse

Coronavirus: Virgin Australia's collapse leaves the future of nation's aviation sector in doubt

Coronavirus: Australia likely to face record decline in population

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison will hope that trade ties with China would not be badly hit, even if diplomatic relations may sour over Canberra's reaction to Beijing's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

Australian PM echoes US ‘eyes wide open’ approach to China

Coronavirus: Australian PM's push for Singapore-style contact tracing app stirs controversy

Australia acts to protect lucrative outback mines from virus outbreak

Coronavirus: Australia tries to prevent outbreak at lucrative outback mines

Coronavirus: New Zealand looking for the key to end its hard and fast lockdown as case numbers fall

An empty walkway through the normally bustling Martin Place in Sydney, Australia. The coronavirus outbreak has led to the country's political and ideological foes uniting in a concerted bid to save workers' jobs, among other things.

Coronavirus: Australia's political foes drop partisanship in rare show of unity

Coronavirus: Crisis prompts political foes in Australia to drop partisanship in rare show of unity

A police officer telling a woman to get out of the water at Sydney's Bondi Beach yesterday. The beach has been closed as part of measures to rein in the spread of the coronavirus. Social distancing rules vary across Australia's states and have caused

Coronavirus: Are police overzealous in enforcing social distancing?

Coronavirus: Police accused of heavy-handed tactics as Australia adjusts to social distancing rules

Australia urged to help foreign students struggling due to job losses