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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 13:32:35 +1000
‘Wolves in sheep’s clothing’: Lockdown protest ringleaders arrested
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Four people believed to be key organisers of anti-lockdown protests in Victoria were arrested or fined, with police expressing frustration about a number of “hardcore” repeat offenders.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 13:26:43 +1000
COVID patients queue for hours in ambulances at Westmead Hospital
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Four patients waited several hours to be admitted to hospital on Thursday, including two who were COVID-positive.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 13:25:03 +1000
Former policeman convicted, fined $10,000 for on-duty assault on boy
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A former police officer who struck a teenage boy with a baton, in a second on-duty assault inside four months, has been convicted and fined $10,000.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 13:12:00 +1000
Australia news LIVE: NSW records 291 new local COVID-19 cases; Victoria records four new cases as state’s sixth lockdown begins, Queensland records 10 new local cases
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NSW is reeling after the deadliest day of its current outbreak, Victoria has gone from recording zero cases earlier this week to a statewide lockdown and Queensland’s outbreak continues to grow.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 13:01:22 +1000
NAB taps into Islamic finance market with sharia-compliant loans
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Australia - with a Muslim population of about 1.2 million - is beginning to open up to the Islamic finance market, estimated to be worth $248 billion.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 12:48:40 +1000
‘Precarious situation’: Victoria records four new cases as state begins sixth lockdown
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The coronavirus outbreak that pulled Victoria into its sixth lockdown has grown by four new local cases overnight, including a student who attends a specialist school in Melbourne’s south-west.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 12:33:36 +1000
Woman who fled Gold Coast quarantine hotel still on the run
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Queensland police have made contact with the woman but still don’t know where she is.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 12:08:31 +1000
No conviction, $6000 fine for gangland cop who leaked corruption secret
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A magistrate took into account Stuart Bateson’s distinguished career in sentencing the former commander for the disclosures to a junior female officer.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 11:55:00 +1000
Police powers can’t paper over cracks in our justice system
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Pot was what you took to the Chinese cafe for a big beef chow mein, ecstasy was getting the double at Flemington and ice was delivered by a burly man to families without a fridge.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 11:27:46 +1000
Community ‘sickened and saddened’ by horse massacre in outback Queensland
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Longreach mayor says a horse massacre has never happened before in the region.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 11:14:48 +1000
Nick Bracks on the accident that confirmed Dad Steve’s decision to quit as Victorian premier
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Becoming renowned for crashing my car when my dad was the Victorian premier worked for a while. Until it didn’t.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 11:14:14 +1000
Ten new Qld cases linked to current cluster, ‘too early’ for lockdown call
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Authorities have praised the “lockdown legends” for keeping the current outbreak under control, with 10 new cases on Friday all linked to the Indooroopilly cluster.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 11:12:53 +1000
NSW records 291 local COVID-19 cases, at least 50 infectious in the community
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A woman in her 60s from south-west Sydney has died at Liverpool Hospital, the 22nd death in Sydney’s outbreak.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 09:48:12 +1000
Students in hotspot areas will not return to school under new plan
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Students in hotspot areas will not return to school and all HSC trials and assessments will be done at home under the government’s revised HSC return-to-school plan.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 08:57:07 +1000
‘It doesn’t fit’: Experts question whether WA’s FIFO coronavirus case is a false-positive
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The man returned two positive rapid antigen tests before a diagnostic PCR test returned a negative result, leading epidemiologists to question whether he had COVID-19.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 07:21:30 +1000
Full list: Salvation Army, Officeworks, Aldi outlets among new exposure sites
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Officeworks, a bakery, a salvation army store and a grocery store have been added to the exposure site list on Friday.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 07:03:38 +1000
Bamboozled in the bamboo, quick-thinking professor turns to batteries
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QUT Professor Ziqi Sun was having a relaxing walk through the park when he stumbled across an insight that has led to ultra-fast-charging batteries.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 05:00:00 +1000
I’m old and happy about it, so don’t dare call me young for my age
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Obituary writers, you’re on notice: I don’t need to be photoshopped.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 05:00:00 +1000
‘Echoes of the White Australia policy’: Minister wants national discussion on population
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Planning Minister Rob Stokes said that, despite having policies on everything from fruit flies to mythical panthers, NSW had no “policy on people”: “how many we can expect, where we want them to live and what their needs and attributes might be”.
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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 05:00:00 +1000
JobMuddle: Why didn’t we just bring back JobKeeper?
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JobKeeper was flawed and costly, but no one could blame the government for its hiccups on the run. What is less understandable is that it wasn’t improved - and resurrected when we inevitably needed it again.
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Defects are not so much a technological problem as a sociological problem.
