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The Brisbane hotel quarantine scare has Victorian health authorities on high alert, even as the state's stalled return to work schedule is cleared to resume.

The NSW government has shot down suggestions it follow Queensland's lead by considering moving hotel quarantine from Sydney.

Life Saving Victoria warns swimmers may be less fit and more vulnerable due to the coronavirus lockdown after three separate drowning deaths in one day.

Almost 30 per cent of mandated NSW businesses have not yet implemented the Service NSW QR code check-in system to aid COVID-19 contact tracing.

Donald Trump has become the first president in US history to be impeached twice, as 10 of his fellow Republicans joined Democrats in the House of Representatives to charge him with inciting an insurrection in last week's violent rampage in the Capitol.

Australian pharmaceutical giant CSL will reassess its ability to manufacture other coronavirus vaccines after it finishes pumping out 50 million doses of the AstraZeneca drug.

NSW will require at least another three weeks to fully extinguish COVID-19 clusters around Greater Sydney, health authorities have warned.

The world faces a ghastly future, threatening the survival of all species, unless urgent and decisive action is taken to slow climate change and biodiversity loss, an international group of 17 leading scientists says.

Tasmania is calling on citizen scientists to help record little penguin numbers so threats to their colonies can be better managed.

A $1 million reward is on offer to help solve the cold case bashing murder of a Victorian grandmother during a "burglary gone wrong".