South Australian Premier Steven Marshall says while the state is “enjoying a very different” COVID-19 situation to others, a targeted team is weighing up current restrictions with the “worrying risk just directly across our border”.

Authorities are hesitant to tighten restrictions in NSW, but experts warn the state's COVID numbers could rise exponentially.

The Kmart Group has vowed to continue paying its staff across the discount department chain’s network in Victoria despite the stage 4 lockdown forcing all metropolitan stores to close.

Melbourne protesters are still planning on defying the city’s coronavirus restrictions, despite two of the organisers being arrested this morning and Victoria Police promising to inundate the planned event with officers.

A 15-year-old girl has been accused of breaching a COVID-19 direction after she allegedly spat at police at a shopping centre in western Sydney.