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MELBOURNE'S SECOND LOCKDOWN* The six-week lockdown starts at 11.59pm on Wednesday.AREAS BACK UNDER STAGE THREE RESTRICTIONS:* Metropolitan Melbourne covering 30 Local Government Areas - Banyule, Hume, Moreland, Bayside, Kingston, Mornington Peninsula, Boroondara, Knox, Nillumbik, Manningham, Port Phillip, Cardinia, Maribyrnong, Stonnington, Casey, Maroondah, Whitehorse, Darebin, Melbourne, Whittlesea, Frankston, Melton, Wyndham, Glen...

Hundreds of Australian Defence Force troops are being deployed to help ringfence Melbourne as the Victorian capital is forced into a second coronavirus lockdown.

Victoria is shut off from the rest of the country after a record number of coronavirus cases prompted NSW to close their border.

VICTORIA-NSW BORDER CLOSURE* The border will close from 11.59pm Tuesday night to all Victorians* Police and health officials are already on the border stopping anyone arriving from Melbourne* No timeframe for how long the closure will last* 55 border crossings will be affected - including 33 bridges and two waterway...

The television industry says being forced to produce children's programming, some of which is watched by fewer than 1000 children, is preventing investment in other content.

Authorities in a city in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia have issued a warning a day after a hospital reported a case of suspected bubonic plague.