More than 2000 new Australian COVID-19 cases reported as Victoria enjoys more eased restrictions, calls for a film set safety review as a Hollywood film star speaks out over a US shooting tragedy and in sport, more uncertainty over the NBA playing future of Australian basketballer Ben Simmons.

A Hollywood movie star speaks out over a film set shooting tragedy, Victoria to follow New South Wales' lead and abolish hotel quarantine from November and Sport Integrity Australia investigates multiple allegations of harassment in football. 

More states to allow quarantine-free international arrivals; the federal education minister says schools are undermining confidence in liberal democracy and in motorsport, Lewis Hamilton calls for Formula One to return to Africa.

Victoria records its deadliest day in the current Covid outbreak; Qantas to bring forward international flights as Australia's borders re-open and the NRL won't be mandating Covid vaccines for its players.

The COVID-19 lockdown ends in Melbourne, a US police officer re-sentenced over the 2017 killing of Australian woman Justine Damond Ruszczyk and in sport, Russian triathlete Igor Polyanskiy banned from the Olympics, after admitting to doping. 

Melbourne's latest lockdown nears its end; a rideshare driver who developed COVID-19 triggers an alert on the Gold Coast and Wayne Bennett named as the Dolphins head coach in the NRL.