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Credit card payment data to be used to track people in COVID-19 hotspots
A review of contact tracing systems says they must be digital from end to end, including more use of check-in apps and data to find who has been at hotspots.
- by Katina Curtis and Rachel Clun
'Cop-out': Holgate urged colleagues to contact police over Hanson stubby holders
The One Nation stubby holders were posted to residents of a public housing tower. When the City of Melbourne refused to distribute them, the Australia Post boss stepped in.
- by Rob Harris
Criminal charges need to follow war crimes inquiry: experts
Defence experts say it is vital that prosecutions follow the release of a four-year review into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan but warn the public’s expectations must be managed.
- by Anthony Galloway
Melburnians hit the road on first weekend of freedom; All states to reopen by Christmas
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has unveiled a national COVID-19 vaccination policy which will prioritise the elderly and vulnerable but will not be mandatory.
- by Roy Ward and Tom Cowie
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'Trouble seemed to be part of my DNA': Nick Cave on his teenage years
In an extract from the soon-to-be-released Boy on Fire, the boy from Wangaratta faces a turning point.
- by Mark Mordue
'Freedom Movement': Why people are still protesting on Melbourne's streets
Who are they? And why, after Victoria has started to open up again, are they still angry?
- by Chloe Booker and Bianca Hall
China congratulates Joe Biden on being elected US president
China's foreign ministry has congratulated Joe Biden nearly a week after he won the White House.
Melbourne's new centre could help avoid repeat of quarantine disaster
It is hoped the Australian Institute for Infectious Disease will provide an earlier response to new diseases.
- by Aisha Dow
Nick Kyrgios was on the verge of quitting tennis. Then the pandemic hit
Nick Kyrgios has used this year's enforced break to rediscover his passion for the game.
- by Michael Chammas
US ELECTION 2020
'Transition from hell': America caught in post-election twilight zone
Donald Trump appears to have little realistic prospect of changing the election outcome but he will not acknowledge the reality of defeat.
- by Matthew Knott
Why some races are essentially over, but not officially called
The challenge for Donald Trump became even tougher when ballots released from Democratic-leaning Pima County, home of Tucson, Arizona, were barely in his favour.
- by Nate Cohn
Local
'Cheering in homes' as SA announces reopening of border with Victoria
Victorian border families were jubilant as South Australia announced it would reopen to its eastern neighbour on December 1 and not require travellers from Victoria to quarantine for 14 days.
- by Tony Wright
Sunday scorcher as holidaymakers flee the fallen 'ring of steel'
Temperatures are set to soar to 33 degrees in Melbourne, as holidaymakers take advantage of the 'ring of steel' being lifted.
- by Henrietta Cook
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Coronavirus pandemic
'Double doughnut fortnight': Victoria records no new COVID cases, but no early easing
Victoria has reached the extraordinary milestone of no new COVID-19 cases and no further deaths in the wake of its catastrophic second wave.
- by Henrietta Cook, Craig Butt, Paul Sakkal and Marissa Calligeros
More questions, fewer topics: Students sit first VCE further mathematics exam
As soon as his further mathematics exam ended, student Ethan Voice wrapped his teacher in a bear hug.
- by Anna Prytz and Lee Robinson
Media companies argue no case to answer in Pell contempt trial
Lawyers for Australian media companies say reports about George Pell's conviction on child sex abuse charges cannot be proven to be in contempt.
- by Adam Cooper
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Endemic potential: Fauci doubts COVID-19 can ever be eradicated
America’s leading expert on infectious disease told a London webinar the disease is "something we may need to maintain control over chronically" for a long time.
New Zealand rushing to contain new COVID-19 community case
While authorities have tracked down the source of yesterday's new community COVID-19 infection, the race is on to control the spread.
- by James Massola
Politics
National emergency laws but no sovereign aerial firefighting fleet
Australia's federal government will be able to declare a national state of emergency but it will not replicate state and territory aerial firefighting fleets.
- by Angus Livingston and Mike Foley
Public servants' pay to be linked to private sector wages
- by Jennifer Duke and Rob Harris
Business
'Terribly tricky area': Companies move carefully on work relationships
Many of the nation's biggest companies do not have policies in place governing office relationships.
- by Cara Waters
Progressives press Biden to limit corporate reach in his government
- by Eric Lipton and Kenneth P. Vogel
World
Britain's 'Yorkshire Ripper' serial killer Peter Sutcliffe dies of COVID-19
Sutcliffe, a former grave digger, was serving a life sentence for killing 13 women between 1975 and 1980.
- by Danica Kirka
Boris Johnson's advisers face 'lad culture' claim
- by Robert Mendick and Danielle Sheridan
Opinion
Know My Name: tokenism or a genuine sign of change for female artists?
Jenna Price
Columnist and academic at the University of Technology Sydney
Ghosts of the past come back to haunt PM
David Crowe
Chief political correspondent
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Puppeteer behind Ossie Ostrich sells stylish waterfront home
The man behind Ossie Ostrich on the hit television show Hey Hey It’s Saturday has sold his seaside home to a buyer looking for a beach house.
- by Kate Burke
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Collingwood deal with fallout as members erupt over trades
Collingwood went into damage control on Friday as Magpie supporters expressed their outrage at the decisions to trade Adam Treloar and Jaidyn Stephenson.
- by Peter Ryan
Fantasia and Caldwell happy to be home after trades go through
Essendon traded Orazio Fantasia and pick 73 to Port Adelaide for pick 29 and a future third-round selection on Thursday, the last day of the 2020 AFL trade period.
- by Anthony Colangelo
'I couldn't look at a tennis court': Why Kyrgios was ready to quit before COVID hit
Kyrgios is a man of few regrets. He doesn't care for the opinions of those he doesn't care about. But if he could go back in time, there is one thing he would change.
- by Michael Chammas
'Anything was going to be said to move me on': new Dog Treloar on his battle to stay a Magpie
Adam Treloar says Collingwood believed he could not play his best footy while his partner and their child lived in Queensland, and therefore he was traded from the Magpies.
- by Anthony Colangelo
Langer backs Warner, Burns partnership over Pucovski
Justin Langer has put a high price on incumbency, meaning Will Pucovski faces another hurdle to make the Test XI come next month's series opener against India.
- by Jon Pierik and Andrew Wu
'My mind was all over the place': Cameron's decision to return to Victoria the hardest of his life
An emotional Jeremy Cameron said his decision to leave Greater Western Sydney for Geelong was the hardest decision of his life.
- by Peter Ryan
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2021 Tokyo Olympics
'Unfinished business': Goorjian returns as Boomers coach
Brian Goorjian was there at the beginning, now fate has put him back in the coaching chair for a run at the Australian Boomers' first Olympic medal.
- by Roy Ward
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Pies rip off the Band-Aid, expose very raw wounds
Collingwood's fire sale can be likened to a bad debt that accumulated interest and compound interest until it could no longer be carried and had to be repaid, all at once.
