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  1. 13 minutes ago

    BREAKING: Prime Minister Scott Morrison has urged Australians to stay at home this Easter, saying failure to do so would undo everything we have achieved so far.

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  2. 39 minutes ago

    Watch live: Prime Minister Scott Morrison is giving an update on coronavirus

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  3. 1 hour ago

    Home Education Association president Karen Chegwidden says thousands of Australian parents have been teaching their kids at home effectively for many years. Here are some expert tips to help kids learn at home.

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  4. 2 hours ago

    Cardinal George Pell has left prison. Footage taken from the Nine News helicopter, showed a convoy of fours cars, led by a white Mercedes, leaving Barwon prison at 12.30pm

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  5. 2 hours ago

    The researchers were able to use long-term interest rate data and other sources to look at the economic impact of 12 pandemics, finding "significant macroeconomic after-effects" from pandemics that lasted for 40 years.

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  6. 2 hours ago

    Hostplus has, without warning, altered a clause in its PDS that will be relevant to a large portion of its members. The amended clause reveals the fund has total power to halt payouts at its discretion.

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  7. 3 hours ago

    The death rate in New York - the epicentre of the US outbreak - is so high that local officials have floated the controversial idea of temporarily burying people in public parks until enough space opens up in the city's morgues.

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  8. 3 hours ago

    Read the full copy of the judgment summary explaining the High Court's George Pell decision here

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  9. 3 hours ago

    Cardinal George Pell will be freed from jail after the High Court overturned his conviction. The court found there was a "significant possibility" an innocent person has been convicted

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  10. 4 hours ago

    The High Court has granted Pell leave to appeal his convictions, and allowed that appeal. Read the full summary judgment in our live blog

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  11. 4 hours ago

    BREAKING Pell to walk free after High Court overturns conviction

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  12. 4 hours ago

    The High Court has delivered its judgment: George Pell's conviction has been quashed

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  13. 6 hours ago

    Watch live: Premier Daniel Andrews and Education Minister James Merlino are holding a press conference and are expected to make an announcement on schoools. You can watch it live in our blog.

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  14. 8 hours ago

    BREAKING: British PM Boris Johnson has been moved into intensive care with coronavirus.

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  15. 19 hours ago

    "Many schools have been approached by parents who’ve lost their jobs and fear they will have to withdraw their children from the school, or who have sought a fee reduction"

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  16. 20 hours ago

    A coalition of federal crossbench MPs will pressure the Morrison government to establish two specialist parliamentary committees to scrutinise the federal response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

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  17. 20 hours ago

    Cruise ships, schools and churches may be contributing to the spread of COVID-19 due to inadequate cleaning, infection researchers have warned. Live updates:

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  18. Apr 5

    "I'm sort of numb," Darren's brother Steven said. "You have to keep soldiering through, but I think about him every day."

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  19. Apr 5

    Some advice for those of you new to at-home exercise: schedule in time for fitness and treat it like a "real" appointment, rather than just something you'll get to later if you feel like it.

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  20. Apr 5

    OPINION Dogs live fully, Freud believed, because they do not suffer the human curse of ambivalence. They know exactly what they like. My dog Bernstein knows what he likes. But the rules have changed.

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