NSW records deadliest pandemic day with 46 Covid deaths and 25,168 cases; Victoria records 20 deaths and 18,167 cases; AFP begins investigations into RAT price gouging; ‘If not now, when?’ asks Frydenberg on WA border; hundreds of childcare centres closed; states expected to announce back to school plans following national cabinet. Follow all the day’s news
Covid support schemes left ‘open goal’ to fraudsters, says watchdog
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The business department’s handling of Covid support schemes left an “open goal” to fraudsters and embezzlers that has added “billions to taxpayer woes”, parliament’s spending watchdog has found. In its review of the a...
Pollution responsible for one in six deaths across planet, scientists warn
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Pollution is killing 9 million people a year, a review has found, making it responsible for one in six of all deaths. Toxic air and contaminated water and soil “is an existential threat to human health and planetary h...
‘I feel your country’s anger’ – why the memorial to Britain’s Covid dead will be set ablaze
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I’m asking David Best about the significance of objects and there’s a stunned silence on the line. “When you ask me that, I’m still thinking about your husband dying in 2018,” he finally replies before pausing again –...
Drug smuggling tunnel with rail system uncovered on US-Mexico border
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US authorities have discovered an underground smuggling tunnel on the California-Mexico border that runs the length of a football field and contains reinforced walls, electricity, ventilation and a rail system. Invest...
Sadiq Khan: London desperate for commuters to return after Covid
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London is “desperate” for commuters to return and needs to keep investing to lure them back, its mayor, Sadiq Khan, has said as he reopened the Northern line via Bank station, a key connection into the City. Khan said...