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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Before the Spice Girls, singleness was a sign of failure

Twenty-five years on from their Wannabe debut, the Spice Girls showed that female friendship, as opposed to marriage, could be the ultimate goal of young womanhood.

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Sydney Stack is back, and all he wants to do now is move forward

The 21-year-old Tiger has undoubtedly had a rough year but with the unwavering support of his Richmond brethren, and others, he now has the chance to get on with it.

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Baby mauled by family dog on NSW Central Coast

Police and paramedics performed CPR on the five-week-old baby boy, but he could not be revived.

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NRL fears more Maroons caught up in COVID breach

NSW chief Greg Alexander believes Jai Arrow’s error was even worse than the Dragons barbecue scandal.

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