SBS News Updates

Federal parliament returns for the final sitting week of the year, Sudan set to return an ousted political leader and in sport, Manchester United sacks coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. 

Daniel Andrews criticises Scott Morrison's comments about vaccine mandates, police investigate a Melbourne house fire that killed four children, and the Perth Scorchers to host the women's Big Bash final after securing top spot on the ladder.

Four children killed in a housefire; which tore through a home in Melbourne's south west, three men charged over an alleged attempt to smuggle 140 kilograms of methamphetamine from Canada into Australia and Daniil Medvedev will defend his ATP Finals crown in today's final.

Police say anti-vaccine protests in Sydney and Melbourne were largely peaceful, Australia welcome's back tourists from Singapore and the Perth Scorchers move to the top of the Women's Big Bash League table with a last-gasp win over the Melbourne Stars.

Protests across the country over vaccine mandates as COVID-19 claims its youngest victim, Labor pledges funding guarantee for Australia's public broadcasters, and Australian Open organisers confirm all players for the January event must be fully vaccinated.

The daughter of a Victorian Animal Justice Party is taken to hospital over an attack she says was politically motivated; Austria is imposing a nation-wide lockdown and vaccine mandate in response to a surge in cases of COVID-19;And in sport, a COVID scare won't be getting in the way of the Sheffield Shield after all.

A Victorian MP claims his daughter was attacked in the street over his support of the state's pandemic laws, two more coronavirus infections are detected in the Northern Territory and in sport, Australia's men's cricket captain Tim Paine resigns over a sexting scandal. 

Victorians enjoy a further easing of COVID-19 restrictions, after 80 years the mystery of the 'unknown sailor' from World War Two is solved and in sport, Afghanistan's women's youth development football team arrives in the UK with the help of Kim Kardashian. 

The Prime Minister under fire, accused of pandering to right-wing extremists, hundreds of Iraqi migrants at the border with Poland and Belarus are turning back home and in sport, the Western Sydney Wanderers are welcoming a fresh new addition from overseas.

The Northern Territory on high alert as health authorities try to contain two COVID-19 clusters, debate on Victoria's proposed pandemic laws delayed, as police investigate threats against politicians and in sport, major venues excited to welcome back full capacity crowds.