The Age photos of the week, 18 July, 2021

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

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Australia COVID news LIVE: NSW tightens lockdown in Sydney’s south-west, Victoria exposure list tops 200

NSW has tightened pandemic restrictions in Sydney’s south-west region, as Victoria’s lockdown threatens to extend beyond five days. Follow the developments here.

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Microphone moments and the subtle art of leadership

Good politicians instinctively understand the performative aspect of their work. Politics is showbiz. So how well have they been performing?

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‘It isn’t not being able to get laid’: what is a demisexual?

When Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo, the daughter of New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo, recently said she identified as demisexual, ears pricked up.

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The insider trick to perfectly groomed eyebrows

Australian actor Maddison Brown reveals the low-maintenance beauty tips she learnt during her time as a model.

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A newborn in lockdown is daunting, but it offers a rare opportunity

For Kimberly Gillan, a self-described “people pleaser”, not having to share her daughter became an unexpected silver lining.

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Golf: the unlikely big hit of the pandemic

The pandemic has driven more people onto the golf course. Here’s what you need to know about preventing injury and choosing the right gear.

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Where there’s a Will: Chambers’ 24-hour, 1700km road trip to keep career alive

On Thursday night, the Sharks star left his newborn baby, two small children and wife in Melbourne to embark on a mad dash to beat that city’s lockdown.

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There’s less panic but more savage frustration as Sydney locks down again

This lockdown doesn’t feel quite as desperate as the last but that doesn’t mean stuff-ups will be forgotten.

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Catherine Zeta-Jones: ‘I have insecurities like every other woman’

Catherine Zeta-Jones is considered Hollywood royalty but in her mind, she remains a Welsh girl and a homebody. She shares her latest projects and why, as she’s become older, she has more confidence in the way she looks.

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Is Justine Bateman the most rebellious woman in Hollywood?

The negative reaction to actor Justine Bateman’s decision to age naturally was the catalyst for her latest book, Face: One Square Foot of Skin.

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Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins: ‘My music career started with women’

“I remember going to my first rock concert in 1982 to see Queen. I told Mum, ‘I’ll play that stadium one day,’” says the musician.

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Carmel was nine when she began pulling out her eyelashes

It wasn’t until she was 23 that Carmel first heard there was a name for her condition. And the number of people with trichotillomania has likely worsened during the pandemic.

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Suddenly the ‘lab leak’ theory can’t be so readily dismissed: the stifled search for COVID’s Patient Zero

At last the World Health Organisation realises playing nice with China won’t work.

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Kevin from Queensland is here to help ... with light relief

Whether or not he made a difference with Pfizer, the former prime minister contributed with his intervention.

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Cemeteries could be places where we can all find some rest and peace

The biggest new graveyard in Melbourne for 100 years will make a bid to attract the living.

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Girls and boys interrupted: COVID will shape our teenagers’ lives, but how?

For better or worse, we shouldn’t underestimate the pandemic’s impact on young people. It could influence them for years to come.

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Nationals split on net zero as McCormack backs Morrison’s ‘preference’

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce declared the likelihood of his party room backing a net zero by 2050 target was “zero”.

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Morrison’s bleak winter as cities lock down and premiers play hardball

The Sydney and Melbourne lockdowns mean short-term political pain for Scott Morrison. But longer-term impact is far from clear.

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Courage of convictions in the face of hatred a beacon of faith

Thomas More is often upheld as an example of moral courage, but the freedom of conscience he so valued for himself he was unwilling to extend to others.

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Death toll rises dramatically in Germany and Belgium floods

The death toll in devastating flooding in western Germany and Belgium rose to at least 170 on Saturday after burst rivers and flash floods this week collapsed houses and ripped up roads and power lines.

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Syrian president sworn in for fourth term in war-torn country

Syrian President Bashar Assad was sworn in Saturday for a fourth seven-year term in the war-torn country, pledging to overcome the impact of Western economic sanctions and retake territory still out of his control after 10 years of fighting.

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Pogacar set to win back-to-back Tour de France titles

Tadej Pogacar was poised to win a second consecutive Tour de France title as the Slovenian retained his overall lead following the final time trial, a 30.8-km solo effort from Libourne on Saturday.

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No AMP heads on pikes after ASIC drops criminal probe

The once mighty wealth manager may have been spared the torment of a criminal investigation into its fees for no services scandal but it still has much to atone for.

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‘Just so important’: Huge deployment of new books to help kindy kids read

Books will be sent to kindy classes as part of a new phonics-driven literacy strategy, which NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell says has ended the reading wars

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Workers from red zones allowed to go shopping in Victoria under two-tier permit system

Specified workers with permits have enjoyed more lenient quarantine conditions than Victorians returning home, while experts say testing before entering Victoria should be mandatory.

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‘What’s the best thing about Mejid? Being dead’, murder accused allegedly gloated

Ezzeddine Omar, accused of planning the sophisticated gangland murder of Mejid Hamzy, expressed pleasure at his demise in a private conversation at home, police allege.

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No ticket: Liberal party rejects Maserati-driving ex-bankrupt

Unemployed Maserati-driving former bankrupt Marie Simone has been thwarted in her bid to gain Liberal pre-selection for forthcoming local government elections.

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Fool’s gold: Believing the hype, NSW ignored lockdown lessons

New South Wales’ much-lauded “gold standard” ability to contain a COVID-19 outbreak has been shattered. Now, every Australian government must finally learn from the mistakes.

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In praise of the dancing, spitting oyster, nature’s great purifier

You too can witness the thrilling ablution ritual of the oyster and consider the debt we, as humans, owe this slimy bivalve.

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Timing of Hocking’s departure is unfortunate in challenging times

As AFL clubs take flight around Australia, chased by COVID-19 in a mad scramble towards the finish line of the 2021 season, the unfortunate timing of Steve Hocking’s departure from head office has not been lost on any of the key parties involved.

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Delta-skelter: Community thirsts for clarity as lockdown lingers

New South Wales’ incremental approach is raising questions about whether the state should go harder against the Delta variant.

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Fleeing to the country: a cautionary tale

As many city people sell up and move to country towns, it may be worth remembering another exodus that did not end as well as hoped.

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Aussie crypto mogul fights extradition to the US

Greg Dwyer, raised in the Sydney suburb of Gordon, is facing criminal charges over alleged breaches at trading platform BitMEX.

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Why we all need to be honest about our lowest moments

Next time you scorn someone for how they wear their pain, perhaps consider that hidden pain might seem tidier, but it can be just as ugly.

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‘I’m used to being alone’: Kylie Moore-Gilbert finds peace in solitude

Eight months after being released from jail in Iran, Kylie Moore-Gilbert is living a ‘calm and settled’ life in the leafy quiet of the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne.

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Fatigue weighs heavy as Melbourne snaps back into lockdown

Australia is a nation on the brink. What started as a coronavirus brushfire in Melbourne on Tuesday was a roaring bushfire by Friday. How will the city and the rest of the state cope?

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From deepfake Tom Cruise to sham QR codes: Can people be trained to spot the hoaxes?

Trillions of photos are created every year. Many are faked, or used out of context. A new visual literacy centre at Sydney University will explore whether we can train ourselves to spot fakes.

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The everyday uniform that one fashion label founder has adopted

Commas’ Richard Jarman takes great style inspiration from Gianni Agnelli, who he says wore “suiting so comfortably, effortlessly fusing business style with his yacht lifestyle.”

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Hamilton boss hires Barty’s ‘mental coach’ to get cast through lockdown

Michael Cassel called upon Ben Crowe to help in framing the mindset of his performers to get them through Sydney’s lockdown.

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Pandemic creates critical health staff shortages in Indigenous communities

Rolling lockdowns and travel restrictions are causing health worker shortages in many remote Indigenous communities, where locals face worse health outcomes.

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The accidental runner who’s Australia’s fastest sprinter

A rugby injury set Rohan Browning on a path that could lead to him becoming the first Australian man in an Olympic 100-metre sprint final since 1956.

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Number of older Australians with HELP debt doubles in five years

The size of the HELP debt carried by Australians aged over 60 stands at more than $1.3 billion, up from $576 million in 2014.

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Out of office: Australia’s bosses come to grips with the workplace revolution

Tthe five-day office week is well and truly dead as managers deal with a workforce that doesn’t want to go back to the way things were.

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Byron blues: how mega money and global exposure are changing an Australian paradise

Byron Bay: a place where homes sell in the multi-millions and the homeless live in makeshift camps. A place that sends a timely warning about what happens to community and the natural environment when wealth takes over.

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Own goal: How England’s Euro 2020 loss brought racism home

Out of the ashes of defeat on the pitch, black role models have brought Britain to the edge of a unifying national ‘moment’.

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Oil is on the road to oblivion but can still shock the global economy

Oil may be fast heading for redundancy but it may have a one last sting in the tail for the world economy.

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Australia news LIVE: Victoria’s lockdown begins; Sydney’s exposure sites continue to grow amid extended shutdown

Victorians wake up to a fifth lockdown, Sydney braces for a spike in coronavirus cases and Queensland locks out the families of NRL players.

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Delta pilot sues airline for $US1 billion, claiming it ‘stole’ flight crew app

Delta captain Craig Alexander claims the airline rejected his own app for improving crew communication before launching an identical version.

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‘Genocide games’: British MPs vote for diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics

China must not be allowed to “sportswash” its genocide of Uighurs, said one MP, referring to the soft power victory Beijing stands to gain from hosting the games.

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The longer the lockdown, the more we resemble our four-legged friends

First, there’s the enthusiasm for walks. Man now wants to go walking three or four times a day. Even I think: “Come on, mate, steady on, I only sniffed that tree an hour ago.”

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Melbourne Catholic Archbishop proposes big church restructure over ‘serious challenges’

Archbishop Peter Comensoli is facing internal dissent over ambitious plans to restructure almost 200 parishes across the city in a bid to make the church more sustainable.

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ASX set to edge lower as Wall Street slides; F45 sputters on debut

Wall Street investors continue to be focused on where the US economy is headed as the pandemic wanes and also on the latest company earnings reports.

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Why the blame game is an important social tool

In blaming, we are calling on the person we think has wronged us to acknowledge they have acted poorly, to apologise, and change their strategy.

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‘Make this book more Chinese’: My writing wasn’t ‘Asian enough’ to be valued

Author Paige Clark was told she should write a story about Kung Fu, reference the I Ching, title a story “Chinese Whispers” and add more ghosts.

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Meat industry labour king pursued to High Court over multimillion-dollar tax debt

Chinese labour hire operator Scott Shi is battling to keep a document confidential as the Australian Tax Office alleges he owes up to $163 million in unpaid taxes.

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The new parochialism stifling Australia

Tribalism is fracturing the federation and yet state voters quite like their premiers standing up to Canberra.

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How a punch in the face in Rio put a fire under Aussie Stinger for Tokyo

Australian water polo star Hannah Buckling copped a broken eye socket in a spiteful clash against the host nation at the Rio Games - an injury that ultimately stopped her walking away from the sport.

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Fairfield, the essential heart of Sydney

Governments can learn much from Fairfield, and this week they need to pay attention.

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‘Pharmacies are ready to go’: Chemists in hotspots fast-tracked to deliver jabs

About 70 pharmacies in Sydney’s worst affected COVID-19 areas will receive AstraZeneca jabs from next week, with another 365 chemists in metropolitan Sydney set to administer vaccines within the month.

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St Kevin’s tackles sexism and misogyny that ‘still occur’ in school

In the wake allegations of sexism and lack of support for a student who was groomed by a sex offender coach, St Kevin’s College has examined its culture and vowed to do better.

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No weddings, just funerals: they’ve quietly outlawed getting married

Not even a wedding of five people is legal. Please explain.

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Bezos ‘love affair’ leads to $270 million gift days before space flight

Jeff Bezos will give $US200 million to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, marking one of the largest donations by the world’s richest person - days before he takes a trip to space.

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This lockdown, I’m a glass-not-full kind of mum

The pressures of home-schooling in lockdown could tempt a mother to drink, but for this one, this time, it’s Dry July.

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New sport complexes, libraries ‘at risk’ from developer levy shake up

Councils warn the state government’s plans to reform developer levies threatens to strip hundreds of millions of dollars from community projects in Sydney.

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Percolate, don’t parody: an architect’s guide to gardening from memory

Leon van Schaik’s new book explores how our personal histories feed into the gardens we grow.

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Deadly spider venom could mean new life for heart transplant patients

A protein found in deadly spider venom could be key in allowing more people to receive donor hearts, as well as helping heart attack victims recover.

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Pogacar closes in on title as doping suspicions hit Tour de France

Tadej Pogacar claimed another victory in the 18th stage to edge closer to retaining his title, as a cloud of doping suspicions hung over the world’s greatest cycling race.

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WHO chief says it was ‘premature’ to rule out COVID lab leak

In a rare departure from his usual deference to powerful member countries, the WHO chief said he was asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the coronavirus.

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Messi to agree to new Barcelona deal with big pay cut

Barca’s all-time top scorer and appearance maker technically ended his 21-year association with the club last month and is currently a free agent.

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Path to ‘Polexit’ seen as Warsaw defies EU ruling on legal reforms

Poland says the country’s laws trump those laid down by Brussels in row that opens door to quitting the European Union.

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Sons of Trump set to take a firmer grip on the family business

With its CFO embroiled in a legal fight, the stage is set for Eric and Don Jr to take on bigger roles in the Trump Organisation.

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Japan too good for Matildas in final outing before Olympics

A second half penalty proved the difference between the hosts and Australia, Mana Iwabuchi scoring from the spot after a handball by Alanna Kennedy.

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Lucky 13: Apple expecting booming sales for its new iPhone

Apple is ramping up its production as it anticipates bumper sales for its first iPhone launch since the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines.

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Australia news LIVE: NSW and Victorian COVID-19 cases and exposure sites grow; Sydney lockdown extended and masks back on in Melbourne

Melburnians are waking up to mandatory masks in offices and schools, Sydney is bracing for more cases and Prime Minister Scott Morrison remains on the defensive after Victoria accused him of being the ‘Prime Minister for NSW’.

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COVID-positive person detected overseas found to have been in Qld community

Some of the new contact tracing venues visited include Kmart, Vodafone, Telstra and JB Hi-Fi in Inala’s Riverlink shopping centre in Brisbane’s west.

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Power want to buck trend and employ female coach

Port Adelaide want to buck the trend and employ a female senior coach when they enter the AFLW competition as soon as next year.

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Spanish court rules COVID-19 home confinement was unconstitutional

By voiding the emergency decree, the ruling opens the door to the cancellation of fines for breaching lockdown restrictions imposed during the period.

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Facebook and Instagram to invest $1.3b in content creators

Facebook’s investments will include bonus programs to pay creators who hit certain milestones on its apps, including photo-sharing service Instagram, and fund users to produce content.

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How to win the Miles Franklin: analysing 64 years of data

We’ve crunched the data on every winner since the first in 1957 ahead of the announcement of this year’s award on Thursday afternoon.

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Nova Peris honoured in bronze in Melbourne’s centre

The former Olympian, who remarkably changed sports yet remained top of her game, is immortalised at Federation Square.

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Wall Street higher; Fed chief expects inflation to stay high

Stocks wobbled in afternoon trading on Wall Street as investors weighed the latest corporate earning reports and the Federal Reserve’s chair’s comments on inflation.

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‘An us and them divide’: Concerns hybrid work could disadvantage women

Hybrid work may compound discrimination in the workplace, with top companies including tech giant Atlassian raising concerns about the impact on women and minorities. 

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State of the game: Queensland gets just reward for host of things it is doing to save the season

Nothing at stake? Given what else is happening in rugby league, and the world, the third Origin of an already won series certainly felt that way. But not to Queensland.

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Locally produced mRNA vaccine won’t be available until at least 2023

Scientists are calling for more investment in local mRNA vaccine manufacturing as other countries in the region sign with global partners for mRNA facilities.

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The fast and the curious: matching Maseratis and a Liberal nomination

For a group of local Liberal pre-selectors in the PM’s electorate, it appears to be no impediment that an aspirant for the top spot on a council ticket is a former bankrupt.

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Use our common sense? Use your own, Premier, and tell us what ‘essential’ means

The people of NSW need clear and explicit advice so they know: what is an essential worker. It is unfair and unsafe to leave that burden to people whose livelihoods, let’s face it it, are essential to them.

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No, we don’t need to resuscitate JobKeeper to protect our economy

JobKeeper was an invention made necessary by a highly uncertain moment in our history. This lockdown is different - and here’s why the new support payments for workers and businesses are appropriate.

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South-west Sydney pharmacists bear the brunt as GPs close doors

There have been 27 pharmacies in Greater Sydney identified as COVID-19 exposure sites in the past two weeks as chemists say medicines need to be delivered or dispensed outside to keep staff safe.

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What the Dragons could teach the PM about confronting bad behaviour

My team had it coming when its star players defied COVID laws. Contrast their punishment - and their apologies - with the remorseless misbehaviour of our political leaders.

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Manage your diary according to your energy, not time. Here’s how

So accustomed to forcing her energy to fit her schedule, Holly decided to conduct an experiment that completely shook up her work life – and brought both personal and professional success.

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Crushed by COVID, Malaysia now has one of the world’s fastest vaccination rates

As vaccine hesitancy gave way to desperation, the south-east Asian nation renegotiated its deal with Pfizer and now it delivers more than 400,000 shots a day.

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UWA’s social science carve-up could cost big business billions, experts warn

Axing anthropology and sociology and carving off humanities courses in WA risks billions of dollars more in failed engineering and mining projects, leading experts warn.

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‘Degree factory’: UWA students revolt over $40 million restructure chasing ‘profits over people’

University of Western Australia students are outraged and rallying to oppose restructures to its school of social sciences.

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WA could move the needle as federal election amid pandemic looms

Maybe this coming election is the one where an oft-made but-dashed prediction turns true: that Western Australia matters to the outcome.

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The play that defined Wallabies’ inadequacies and sent series to a decider

The Wallabies had a taste of their own medicine as France snatched a last-gasp win at AAMI Park. One play effectively summarises where the Wallabies lost the match.

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Moon dollars: What the billionaire space race is really about

Don’t be fooled by the space race between some of the world’s richest people. It’s all about the billions of dollars to be spent by governments on satellite and crewed exploration missions.

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Australia news LIVE: NSW cases and exposure sites grow; Melbourne awaits testing results

Sydney is bracing for the lockdown to be extended by another four weeks, residents of a Melbourne apartment complex wait to see if they’ve tested positive to COVID-19 and Victoria has slammed the Morrison government for providing additional income support to NSW.

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‘An assault on liberty’: Biden sounds alarm on Republicans’ effort to restrict voting rights

America now faces the “most significant test of democracy since the Civil War” , the US President said, and the world is watching.

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‘Messy situation’: Musk defends timing of Tesla’s $US2.6b SolarCity deal as he wraps up testimony

Musk completed about eight hours of testimony over two days to defend himself against a lawsuit alleging he strong-armed Tesla directors into buying a failing solar panel company.

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Ransomware gang REvil’s websites become unreachable

Ransomware-seeking criminals and their victims are in some ways co-dependent so destroying their servers could also take down keys to their victims’ encrypted data.

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Justin Trudeau says his ‘heart breaks’ with more Indigenous graves found

The Penelakut Tribe says more than 160 undocumented and unmarked graves have been found on the site of the former Kuper Island Indian Industrial School.

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Wall Street slips from record highs as JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs slide lower

Wall Street slips from records as investors weigh the latest quarterly earnings reports from big US companies and concerns about inflation.

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Berejiklian’s critics will say she waited too long – and they’ll be right

The longer you take to realise you must act, the more disruption you end up causing.

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Sydney should bite the bullet and go into hard lockdown

It is hard to know whether NSW’s ‘soft lockdown’ approach accompanied by strong contact tracing will work. It has not been tried before.

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Why did English football fans fill social media with racial slurs? Because it’s good for business

Angry people stay on social media longer so the tech giants have limited commitment to enforcing better behaviour.

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‘Nobody is safe’: one in three hospital patients in intensive care

‘Nobody is safe’: one in three hospital patients in intensive care

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‘Nobody is safe’: One in three COVID-19 hospital patients in intensive care

Sydney’s health system has become the first in the country to confront the latest wave of highly transmissible Delta-variant cases.

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Doubts on overseas students’ return as Victoria rejects NSW-style special quarantine

Victoria will only use hotel quarantine to handle arriving students, in a departure from plans in NSW and SA that have already been approved by the Commonwealth.

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‘Throw the book at them’: Irrigators’ council wants crackdown on rule breakers

The peak irrigation body is frustrated by the small number of big irrigators who are breaking the rules and bringing the industry into disrepute.

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Your ABC’s complaints process might impress you

No other Australian media outlet devotes the time, energy and resources to complaint investigation as the ABC does.

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Headache, fevers, chills and pizza: a COVID-19 story

Christo’s Pizzeria owner Peter Poulos doesn’t remember what he ate for dinner when he sat on the table next to Nationals MP Adam Marshall. He has since recovered from COVID-19, but his father-in-law is still in hospital.

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Free breakfasts and drink carts: Companies try to lure staff back into the office

1980s style drinks carts, Friday nibbles and team building events like paper plane competitions are some of the perks employers are using to entice workers back into the office.

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The Moses I know will find Origin easier than the NRL

He might be a polarising figure to those on the outside, but NSW’s new No.7 is one of the most driven players in the game.

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How honest should I be in an exit interview?

As a questioner prepares to leave a toxic workplace, Kirstin Ferguson has some perhaps surprising advice about burning bridges.

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Australia news LIVE: Sydney cases and exposure sites soar; Victoria on high alert

Sydney is bracing for a lockdown that goes well beyond Friday, residents of an apartment complex in Melbourne’s west are isolating after removalists from NSW visited while infectious and the federal government is set to throw businesses a lifeline.

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Saving Julian Assange: Meet the people closest to the Wikileaks founder

Ben Lawrence’s Ithaka follows Assange’s father John Shipton and fiancee Stella Moris-Smith as they work on the campaign to block his extradition to the US.

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Biggest NSW irrigators breaking the rules on water take

Nearly half of the state’s biggest irrigators have made no effort to install meters contrary to new laws designed to prevent water theft, an audit has found.

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What ballet has learned from watching the footie

The era of digital art is dawning, but arts bodies are still struggling to turn the platform into a viable income stream.

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Greater urgency is needed in learning lessons from 2019 bushfires

We still have no clear answers as to why the Rural Fire Service lit a fire on December 14, contrary to the advice of Mount Wilson fire service captain Beth Raines.

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The profession that’s not on the priority list for anything

Our tiniest citizens are in the charge of those who are completely disrespected.

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Your ABC’s complaints process might surprise you

The communications authority isn’t up to the task so those with a problem with the national broadcaster have only an internal unit to to turn to.

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‘You’re not an England fan and we don’t want you’: Furore erupts over Euro 2020 racial abuse

England’s defeat at the Euro 2020 final triggers a fresh reckoning over race relations in football.

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ASX set for gains as Tesla, banks drive Wall Street to record high

The ASX is set for a solid start as Tesla helps lift the S&P 500 to another record high.

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Germany’s banks start ditching office space as remote work soars

German banks are at the vanguard of a global shift that could permanently change the way bankers work.

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Economists call for JobKeeper-style support during Sydney lockdown

JobKeeper helped the Australian economy make a rapid recovery and experts say something like it is needed again.

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‘Designing for the female gaze’: Phoebe Philo returns with her own label

The designer whose work convinced Joan Didion to pose for an ad and turned her customers into groupies, is returning to business. On her own terms.

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Cash for Sydney businesses after NSW weighed up its own JobKeeper

NSW businesses will be given a cash flow boost to help them survive the Sydney lockdown.

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National approach to Delta variant desperately needed, warn experts

Top infectious diseases experts say more infectious versions of COVID-19 will continue to “punch holes in every deficiency” of the country’s pandemic response.

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Australia falling behind in securing Pfizer booster shots

As other countries cement deals with Pfizer for the years ahead, Australia is banking on a Novavax order and awaiting advice on what else might be needed.

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Privacy laws must change to protect kids from social media data harvesting

Contemporary talk about young people and consent focuses on sex. But consent also applies to information about children being gleened by their social media use.

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Australia’s first women-only mental health hospital will tackle soaring rates of illness

With women’s health reported to be hard hit during the pandemic, a 30-bed all-women mental health hospital is soon to open in Melbourne.

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‘Real and present danger’: Government considers making company directors personally liable for cyber attacks

Government research shows cyber crime is costing the Australian economy about $3.5 billion every year.

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‘It’s just a car park’: Housing supply set back by congested corridor

Sydney’s housing pipeline has hit another choking point with no money forthcoming to deliver the upgrade of a congested road on which the creation of thousands of new homes relies.

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‘Dystopian nightmare’: The unlikely opponents of working from home

Not everyone is enthusiastic about working from home. Younger workers fear they are missing out on valuable learning experiences when locked out of the office.

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Why this corporate lawyer moved to a farm nine hours away from the office

A 29-year-old associate at top law firm Baker & McKenzie grew up on a farm 600km west of Sydney. During the pandemic she moved home, and now has no plans to return.

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A country running on empty: Lebanon suffers medicine, fuel shortages

Despite an outpouring of humanitarian aid and political assistance after the Beirut port explosion, Lebanon’s economic crisis has only intensified.

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Elon Musk tells court Tesla’s SolarCity deal was no bailout

The Tesla CEO became combative with the attorney for plaintiffs on the first day of trial testimony in a legal fight over the deal.

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Crunch time looming for Morrison on climate as the world looks to Australia to act

The need for China, India and other big emitters in the developing world to ramp up their ambition explains why the US and Britain are so exercised about Australia’s 2030 target.

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WA has been at war for 18 months, so a post-COVID life could be a tough sell

How will Premier Mark McGowan convince the WA public that a little bit of COVID in WA isn’t such a bad thing?

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WA Premier the most lockdown trigger-happy out of Australia’s leaders

Of the 11 citywide lockdowns imposed across Australia since Melbourne’s second wave ended, three were in WA over a total of six cases.

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Leaked testimony from Haiti suspects says plan was to arrest, not kill president

The murder and uncertainty about who hatched the plot is the latest in a succession of blows to hit the struggling country, which has appealed for international help.

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Australia news LIVE: NSW COVID-19 cases and exposure sites grow; Sydney records first death

A woman has died in Sydney’s south-west from COVID-19, Victorians are waking up this morning to all of regional NSW designated a ‘red zone’ and Euros finals fever has hit Australia.

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ASX set to jump on back of Wall Street surge

The Australian sharemarket is poised for a bright start this morning as Wall Street closed last week at record highs.

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Euro 2020 final LIVE updates: England strike early

History will be made either way as England chase a first major title in 55 years and Italy look to break a European Championships drought almost as long.

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CBD economy faces years on the road to recovery

A report commissioned by the City of Melbourne projects the CBD will return to its pre-COVID-19 peak of about $74 billion gross regional product by the second half of 2024.

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Operation relocation: How the NRL plans to keep season alive in Queensland

Everything you need to know about the NRL’s desperate move to keep its competition going by relocating 12 teams to Queensland for at least the next month.

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When normal school is not enough: Aussie kids sign up to new online high

Australia is the second-biggest market in the world for a new online high school that offers global qualifications and accelerated learning.

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Chicken killing brothers fail to refund bonds from aged care homes

An aged care business operated by two former bankrupt brothers convicted of appalling animal cruelty has failed to return deposits to the families of former residents, which raises serious concerns about the firm’s future.

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Bosses, unions issue joint warning to Hunt on aged care rollout

About 40 per cent of the aged care workforce has been vaccinated to date, but a September deadline looms.

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Foxtel hires Kate de Brito to lead new streaming service

Former news.com.au editor-in-chief Kate de Brito will lead a soon-to-launch third streaming service focused on news content.

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Turnbull advice helped turn ‘fool’ into investment guru

When he was setting up BetaShares ETFs, Alex Vyonkur was frequently told he was a fool but a former Australian prime minister helped steady his hand as he started on a path to creating a multibillion-dollar index-tracking empire.

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Reddit expands operations to Australia with new Sydney office

The online news and discussion company has built a local team to look after communities, moderation and sales.

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The ex-con, the CEO and the dodgy invoice

Alarm bells sounded for senior managers within a Sydney club over an invoice for “relocation of machinery.” Not only did Marconi have no machinery to move but the club was shut down during the pandemic.

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A decade on from plain packaging, what is the result?

There’s a whole generation of young Australians who only know cigarettes with plain packaging. It took a fight to achieve, but the results are in the numbers.

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Wimbledon and the Euros finish to packed houses, why can’t Tokyo have any fans?

There were 60,000 fans in London’s Wembley stadium and 20,000 in Wimbledon on Sunday, but none will be in the stands at Tokyo’s opening ceremony in a city with a fraction of the coronavirus cases.

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Team behind Nuix disaster backs a new tech gem

The controversial team behind the disastrous float of Nuix is involved with another tech startup, Haventec - a company closely associated with the troubled e-forensics group.

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Council elections to go ahead despite Sydney’s COVID-19 outbreak

In-person, postal and online voting will be available and a failure to vote will set you back $55.

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The five-day office week is dead, long live the hybrid model, says productivity boss

After 18 months of COVID-induced Zoom calls, corporate Australia has no plans to force staff back to the office fulltime.

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Cost to ratepayers of businesses voting in City of Sydney election nears $13m

Controversial changes in 2014 that gave each business two votes have forced the council to bear the cost of maintaining a register of non-residential voters.

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NSW Rural Fire Service exonerates itself over backburn gone wrong

The NSW Rural Fire Service investigated itself concluded that the Mount Wilson backburn was the result of “careful planning”.

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