Victoria will create a dedicated agency to run its hotel quarantine system when it relaunches along with international flights next month.

The last of four government-supplemented repatriation flights departed from India on Friday and landed in Darwin the next day.

More than 60 bush and grass fires burned across NSW on Saturday and Sunday in what police have called the first major blazes of the season.

Unions lose appeal to allow Qantas workers, including a 30-year veteran undergoing cancer treatment, to claim sick leave while stood down.