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Crown Resorts may have to "blow itself up" to save itself after a damning report found it wasn't fit to run a Sydney casino, the head of the NSW gaming regulator has said.

It could take six years for the world to be vaccinated against COVID-19, so jabs must be shared with developing countries to ensure "more sinister" strains don't emerge, an infectious disease expert says.

Eddie McGuire has quit as Collingwood president, accusing critics of making his position at the AFL club untenable.

Casino giant Crown Resorts is not fit to run its $2.2 billion Sydney casino because it facilitated money laundering and has other "deep" problems, a highly anticipated report has found.

A hotel quarantine worker and released guest of the same Melbourne quarantine hotel where an infected staff member worked have tested positive for COVID-19.

Businesses have started the year in a more optimistic mood, while confidence among Australians more generally is running close to the long-run average as the nation tries to put aside the devastation of the 2020 recession.

Russia's updated statistics on coronavirus-linked deaths show that 162,429 people with COVID-19 had died in the pandemic last year, a number much higher than previously reported by government officials.

Victorian authorities are looking to make COVID-19 testing compulsory for hotel quarantine workers on their days off, after a second worker contracted the virus in less than a week.

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A Queensland woman has suffered a chest injury and cuts to her arms after an encounter with a kangaroo in the state's north.