Coronavirus restrictions easing: Your guide to what is happening around Australia

State governments have announced the major easing of coronavirus restrictions including the reopening of schools and limited re-entry to pubs, cafes and restaurants.

While the federal government has announced a three-phase plan to ease measures in the coming months, it is up to state and territory authorities to determine their own timings.

Here are the major developments affecting states and territories.

NSW

• Up to 50 people will be able to dine in restaurants, pubs and cafes from June 1, up from 10 currently.
• Beauty salons can reopen from June 1 with no more than 10 clients at any one time spaced four square metres apart.
• Outdoor gatherings allowed for a maximum of 10 people.
• Public school students resume full-time classes on Monday, May 25.
• Regional travel within NSW permitted from June 1, when museums, galleries, libraries, zoos and aquariums, can reopen.

VICTORIA

• Victorians can now have up to five visitors in their homes.
• Gathering limits relaxed to 10 for outdoor activities including fishing, hiking and golf.
• From June 1, 20 people allowed inside restaurants, cafes and pubs, increasing to 50 diners from June 22 and 100 in the second half of July.
• Also from June 1, 20 people allowed indoor and outdoor gatherings, weddings, swimming pools, beauty and personal care services, libraries, youth centres and other community facilities. Up to 50 guests allowed at funerals.
• Children in Prep to Year 2 and Years 11 and 12 return to classrooms on Tuesday, May 26 with the remaining cohort back from June 9.

QUEENSLAND

• Public school students resume full-time classes on Monday, May 25 with no commuter caps on public transport come Monday.
• Shopping for non-essential items permitted and up to five members of one household can visit other homes.
• Up to 10 people allowed to congregate in parks, pools and playgrounds.
• Queenslanders can travel up to 250km from their homes.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

• Dining and drinking at cafes and restaurants now allowed, with up to 10 customers indoors and 10 outdoors.
• Stage two easing of restrictions will begin on June 5 allowing more customers to be served and cinemas to reopen.
• Students are already back in school full time.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

• Cafes, pubs and restaurants may seat up to 20 patrons.
• Further easing of restrictions expected on June 8.
• Students are already back in school full time.

TASMANIA

• Restaurants, cafes can seat up to 10 people and 10 can gather for real estate purposes, religious gatherings and weddings.
• Kindergarten to Year Six students, along with Year 11 and 12 students, will resume face-to-face learning on Monday, May 25, before children in Years 7 to 10 return on June 9.

NORTHERN TERRITORY

• Restaurants and bars can reopen with a two-hour limit, with entertainment venues to come.
• Restricted access to indigenous communities remains in place until at least June 18.
• Students already back in school full time.

ACT

• Outdoor gatherings of up to 10 people allowed. Restrictions on sport and recreation eased.
• Students in Years 5, 6, 8 and 9 to return on June 2

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-- Reported with AAP