Australia
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Lockdown extension confirmed for Victoria
With 92 new coronavirus cases reported on Sunday, Victoria has officially reached its highest daily tally for the year. It is also the largest number of infections recorded within 24 …
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NSW records 1035 new COVID-19 cases, two deaths but weddings to return
New South Wales has recorded 1035 new local COVID-19 cases in the last day and two more deaths. More than 156,00 vaccine doses were administered and 129,000 tests conducted. NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard thanked …
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Health minister Hunt announces Pfizer vaccinations for all 12-15 year olds in September
The Federal Minister of Health Greg Hunt announced at a 1pm press conference that PfizerBioNTech vaccinations would be made available to all children in the 12-15 year-old age group from …
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Labor takes the multicultural road: “Yes” to immediate family abroad and language survival
While Australia’s leaders were thrashing out details of the border reopening plan at a meeting of national cabinet on Friday after a week of federal-state disagreements over vaccine coverage and …
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Doctors in two cities call on community to vaccinate now with what is available
Two Greek doctors, one in Melbourne and one in Sydney are calling on people to be vaccinated, whether with the AstraZeneca or the Pfizer BioNTech vaccines, as these are the …
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Greeks may get their own Ancestry category in the next Census – online at least
“Australia has an enviable record of having a very high participation rate in its Census. Last time, despite the outage of its online census, we had 95 per cent participation …
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Victoria records 79 cases, NSW study projects infections to peak in six weeks
In the figures released for the 24 hours to midnight on Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) reported 79 people with the COVID-19 virus in Victoria – …
Man found not guilty in deaths of senior officer Joanne Shanahan and Tania McNeill due to mental illness
The 21-year-old man who killed senior police officer, Joanne Shanahan (nee Panayiotou), has been found not guilty by reason of mental incompetence. Harrison Kitt had been charged with two counts …
Star of Taroom’s repatriation walk points to a healing route to reconciliation
The 500km walk over 20 days to return a 150kg Aboriginal stone artefact to its place of origin has generated ripples of reconciliation that the walk’s organiser, John Danalis, is …
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Victoria’s new cases rise to 80, as government promises to vaccinate all Year 12s before the first VCE exam
Victoria hit 80 new COVID-19 infections overnight, the largest spike recorded in the second wave to hit the city. The figure includes 41 cases which were in the community while …