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Australia Covid news live update: NSW records 1,007 new cases and ACT 32 as Victoria reports most infections since pandemic began
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Victoria has reported 847 new coronavirus cases and Queensland one. Follow live
Australia signs deal with Nauru to keep asylum seeker detention centre open indefinitely
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Australia will continue its policy of offshore processing of asylum seekers indefinitely, with the home affairs minister signing a new agreement with Nauru to maintain “an enduring form” of offshore processing on the ...
Australia Covid live news update: NSW confirms 11 deaths, 1,043 cases; Victoria records one death, 733 cases; police await fifth day of Melbourne protests
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International students could return to NSW by 2022; police standing by for more protests in Melbourne; more than half of over-16s now vaccinated; Victorians urged not to gather illegally on grand final day as state re...
Australia Covid live news: NSW to give update; Victoria’s highest ever daily cases; Melbourne enters fourth day of protests
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Victorian residents in Covid ‘extreme risk zones’ can return home from 30 September as state records 766 new Covid cases and four deaths; spit hood ban passes South Australian upper house; ACT records 16 new local cas...
Australia Covid updates live: NSW records 1,035 cases, Melbourne protesters arrested; Victoria records 628 cases and three deaths
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Arrests in Melbourne as protests enter third day; NSW records 1,035 local Covid-19 cases and five deaths; 23 new cases in New Zealand; 17 cases in ACT; Qld records one case; Victoria records 628 cases and one death; N...
Australia Covid live news update: riot police in Melbourne as protesters head to parliament; NSW records 1,022 cases, 10 deaths; Victoria records 603 cases, one death
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NSW cases back over 1,000 as kids allowed to meet in friend bubbles for school holidays; Tweed, Byron Bay and Kempsey LGAs to lockdown from 5pm; Qld records no new local cases; Victoria’s highest number of cases for t...
Australia Covid news live update: NSW records 935 cases, four deaths; Victoria records 567 cases, one death; 7 cases in ACT, at least one in NT
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NSW case numbers in the triple digits; one new Covid case in Qld, and at least one in NT; Labor will refer Christian Porter to privileges committee; Victoria records 567 cases and one death; French ambassador criticis...
‘We felt fooled’: France still furious after Australia scraps $90bn submarine deal
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French anger at the Morrison government’s decision to scrap its $90bn submarine program with France continues to boil over, with the country’s recalled ambassador saying it felt “fooled” by the announcement. Jean-Pier...
Australia Covid live news: Dan Andrews to give Victoria roadmap update; NSW reports 1,083 cases, 13 deaths; restrictions to ease in western Sydney
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NSW records 1,083 cases and 13 deaths; ACT records 17 new cases; Victoria records 507 new cases and one death; Gladys Berejiklian announces restrictions to ease in western Sydney LGAs ‘of concern’ and NSW pools to reo...
Australia Wallabies v South Africa Springboks: Rugby Championship 2021 – live!
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Australia ‘regrets’ France’s recall of ambassador as Aukus fallout predicted to last years
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Australia has said it “notes with regret” France’s extraordinary decision to recall its ambassador over the scrapping of a submarine contract – part of the Aukus military deal that experts said could damage relations ...
Australia Covid live news update: NSW reports 1,331 cases and six deaths; Victoria records 535 cases and one death as police move to block protests; ACT has 15 new cases
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One new case in Queensland as Melbourne CBD turned into no-go zone and police prepare to disrupt protest planned in Sydney
The nuclear option: why has Australia ditched the French submarine plan for the Aukus pact?
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Just two weeks before France complained of being “stabbed in the back”, two senior French ministers met with their Australian counterparts, Marise Payne and Peter Dutton, for what was meant to be a sign of ever-streng...
New Doherty modelling advises ‘medium’ Covid restrictions until Australia reaches 80% vaccination
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New Doherty Institute modelling presented to national cabinet warns that maintaining “medium” public health and social measures would be “prudent” until Australia reaches 80% vaccination if caseloads are high – with “...
Australia considered buying nuclear submarines from France before ditching deal, Peter Dutton says
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Australia considered buying nuclear-powered submarines from France, which could have saved money and avoided France’s rage at the existing $90bn project being scrapped. This week the federal government announced its d...
New Zealand extends Australia travel bubble pause as Covid cases drop to 11
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New Zealand will delay the reopening of its trans-Tasman travel bubble, as case numbers in Australia rise and numbers in New Zealand continue to drop. Deputy prime minister Grant Robertson confirmed on Friday that whi...