Victoria is now isolated from all its neighbours as authorities struggle to contain the spread of coronavirus in various hotspot suburbs.

Amid the mass testing blitz across Victoria's coronavirus hot zone, authorities face resistance from people sucked in by misinformation online; and Australia's defence forces have seen a surge in job applications, but what's the reality for the next crop of ADF recruits?

Amid the mass testing blitz across Victoria's coronavirus hot zone, authorities face resistance from people sucked in by misinformation online; and Australia's defence forces have seen a surge in job applications, but what's the reality for the next crop of ADF recruits?

The AFL will relocate all clubs currently playing in Melbourne, interstate, due to the spike in COVID-19 cases in the city's north and west.

A campaign calling for the US Federal Attorney-General, William Barr, is growing louder.

The scarcity of secure jobs has triggered a flurry of interest in defence jobs, with the Australian Defence Force reporting a 40 per cent rise in applicants after the COVID-19 downturn began.

Indigenous leader Roy Ah-See dismisses the new Closing the Gap plan as "not a major shift", instead calling for the indigenous voice to parliament to be enshrined in the constitution.

A draft agreement for the future of the Closing the Gap targets to address indigenous Australians' disadvantage is out and it promises a big shift to more involvement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Why thousands of people are saying no to coronavirus tests in Melbourne's hot zones continues to baffle authorities.

The Victorian health minister has vented her frustration over Melbourne's worrying outbreak thought to be caused by the state's botched hotel quarantine program.