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A woman who was trapped under a tree in Cambridge earlier today has died at the hospital, police say. Audio

More than a dozen players will make their Chiefs Manawa debuts after being named to take on Matatū in the first game of the inaugural Super Rugby season.

Questions are being raised about whether Novak Djokovic lied on an official Australian border entry form about where he had travelled to just before he flew to Australia.

Six people have died and the number of positive cases in the NSW community has almost doubled again to more than 21,000.

NSW has recorded 12,226 new Covid-19 cases and one death in the latest reporting period.

A new set of proposed laws designed to govern the state's future response and powers in the case of a pandemic is dominating public discussion in Victoria.

Fifty current or former Black Ferns are among the 105 players who have signed contracts for the inaugural season of Super Rugby Aupiki.

In today's sports news - Former test cricket umpire Fred Goodall dies, unvaccinated tennis players unlikely to be allowed into Australia, Phoenix women name two more players, Arsenal sneak a draw.

Sydney businesses are preparing to welcome fully vaccinated residents from tomorrow, as restrictions in New South Wales ease after 100 days in lockdown.

Health experts are preparing for a "nightmare scenario" in Australia, with early data showing the Delta strain is more severe, as well as being harder to contain.

New Zealanders stranded in Melbourne will be able to fly home from Tuesday night, as the city remains in lockdown with Victoria authorities fighting two highly contagious Covid-19 variants.

The Delta coronavirus strain that originated in India has now been detected in Melbourne, Victoria's Chief Health Officer says.

A trustee of one of the eminent climate sceptic organisations in the UK has been invited to speak at a Wellington City Council meeting.

Health authorities in Australia are racing to identify the source of infection of a security guard who has tested positive for coronavirus.

Australia's eastern states have imposed fresh restrictions on New Zealand travellers in the face of the Covid-19 outbreak in Auckland.

Australia will stop quarantine-free travel for New Zealanders, after three Covid-19 cases were recorded in Auckland.

Experts in Australia are "gobsmacked" to learn the hotel quarantine programme was left out of Victoria's key taskforce on infection control for frontline health workers.

Australia's Chief Health Officer says "there will be a time sometime this year" when levels of vaccination in the community are high enough for social distancing restrictions to be eased.

In today's sports news - City into final, Al-Attiyah wins another Dakar stage and big names miss out at National Bowls Champs.

The controversial practice can cause harm and even death, research suggests. An expert says New Zealand could get its use rate to zero.

Analysis - If quarantine facilities pose the biggest risk to Australia's path out of the pandemic, should more be done to safeguard them or is it time to find a new system?