Senior Australians are being courted by the major parties as each side commits to extra health care benefits.

Big tech will be required to enhance devices with safety controls that are easy for parents to use and hard for children to bypass, if the coalition is returned to government.

Voters should look at both Labor's long record of achievement and its plans for the future as they head to the ballot box on May 21.

Anthony Albanese has positioned Labor as better than the coalition on climate, housing and health, as the party held its campaign launch in Perth.

A British parliamentarian who had been suspended from Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party says he has resigned after admitting he twice viewed pornography on his phone in the House of Commons "in a moment of madness".

A NSW police officer charged over sex abuse offences allegedly committed in the workplace is one of three officers due to face court.

A further 48 Australians have died from COVID-19, with almost 39,000 new virus cases also reported.

Disputes between neighbours and housemates took dark turns overnight with police responding to separate incidents in Queensland and NSW.

Labor leader Anthony Albanese has mapped a path to victory through Western Australia as he addressed local supporters at a BBQ in Perth.

Stargazers are in for a rare spectacle this weekend with four planets set to align followed by Venus and Jupiter appearing to almost smash into one another.