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‘In limbo’: The Australians left behind in India as flight leaves without them

Australian citizen Sunny Jour and his 72-year-old mother Darshan Kaur Jour, who has multiple illnesses, were barred from the 14 May 2021 repatriation flight after Mr Jour returned a positive PCR test result with a low viral load.

Sunny Joura has been trying to return to Melbourne since June last year. On Friday, hours before his flight was due to leave, he tested positive to coronavirus, leaving him and his mother stranded again.

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Half-empty repatriation flight from India touches down at Darwin airport

The first repatriation flight from India has touched down in Darwin.

At this stage there are no plans to organise a separate flight for COVID-positive people stranded in India.

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Australia must reopen borders, prepare for return of COVID-19: top medic

Australia’s former deputy chief medico has called on the medical profession to smash the false idol of COVID-19 eradication and prepare the public for the next critical phase of the pandemic: open international borders.

Left to bleed for six hours: Leaked email exposes the extent of WA’s health crisis

Left to bleed for six hours: Leaked email exposes the extent of WA’s health crisis

The revelations come after two major hospitals declared a code yellow in the past week as they struggled to meet the demand from patients.

Aussie fans take financial hit over Olympics spectator ban

2APG6W7 Women take a selfie in front of the Tokyo Olympic rings near the new National Stadium in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2020. (Kyodo)==Kyodo Photo via Credit: Newscom/Alamy Live News

Australian ticket holders to the troubled Tokyo Olympics will be badly out of pocket when refunds are finally issued.

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Space

Chinese spacecraft lands on Mars in latest advance for space program

The Tianwen-1 spacecraft has touched down and its lander, Zhurong, will undergo tests before rolling down a ramp to explore Utopia Planitia.

Caught: Umpires Richard Illingworth (left) and Nigel Llong confront Cameron Bancroft in Cape Town, scene of the sandpapergate crime.

Bancroft suggests Australia’s bowlers were aware of ball tampering

Cameron Bancroft’s comments will bring back the memories of the seismic events at Cape Town which rocked Australian cricket three years ago.

Luke Shuey will likely return from injury via West Coast’s WAFL side.

AFL backs Rioli to return as twin blockbusters fixtured for Perth

The question of Willie or won’t he was made clearer by the AFL as West Coast and Fremantle were given a double dose of good news after the latest fixture announcement by the league.

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Job seekers to be switched to online service in hidden $1.1 billion budget saving

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More than a million job seekers will be switched to an online service in a bid to replace face-to-face employment services as part of a hidden $1.1 billion saving.

Drop your ideas about pole dancing – it’s a fun, alternative way to get fit

Apart from the impact on your body, pole dancing allows you to de-stress, helps make new friends and is a mental workout.

If you’d have asked me if I ever thought I’d find myself hanging upside down from a pole for fun, my answer would have been a brisk but firm “no”. Yet, here I am.

Left unsold in a chest, these paintings are worth thousands

Works by famed Australian Impressionists could fetch a small fortune at auction this weekend. The last time they were up for sale, no one was interested.

It is private boys’ schools that have captured the nation’s attention, because of how frequently young women have cited these schools as hothouses for sexual predation; and for what this might tell us about male and class privilege in Australia.
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Privilege, porn and parent-free parties: Schoolkids and where it goes wrong

Sexual assault allegations involving students from a raft of private schools underline the need for a healthier brand of manhood. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT.

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Western Australia

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital was in a code yellow two days this week.

Two major Perth hospitals call internal emergencies as pressure on Cook grows

Executives dropped everything and cancelled meetings to race to hospital emergency operations centres this week as demand for beds overwhelmed staff.

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Where WA food heavyweights love to eat when they clock off work

WA’s top chefs reveal what their favourite dish to eat in Perth is.

When our chefs ditch the apron for some downtime, where do they go and what is on their must-eat list? We spoke to some restaurant heavyweights in WA to see where they head when they clock off.

Perth business heavyweights unite for brutal bike event

Members of the HBF CH9 Gibb Challenge team in training.
(L-R: Graeme Dix, Clive Bingwa, Troy Morrison, John Van Der Wielen, Roger Cook and Matt Fisher.

A powerful team has assembled to tackle the Gibb Challenge and raise funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

The Perth suburbs with the biggest price rises

People around the country were realising Perth was undervalued, REIWA president Damian Collins said.

REIWA had forecast 15 per cent price growth in Perth by the end of 2021 but 20 suburbs have exceeded that figure already.

WA casino regulation boss to retire in government department reshuffle

WA Gaming and Wagering Commission chairman Duncan Ord giving evidence at the PCRC this week.

WA Premier Mark McGowan announced sweeping changes to the leadership of eight state government departments, including the department that oversees casino regulation.

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Joe Hockey explains his budget of 2014, focusing on the importance of paying down debt and deficit.

Till debt us do part: Why Frydenberg opted for big deficits

When Joe Hockey delivered his first budget speech it was filled with warnings about debt and deficit. Josh Frydenberg has recast budget worries.

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These stunning homes are vying for WA's top architecture awards

These stunning homes are vying for WA's top architecture awards

An ocean front home on an original coastal dune, additions to a heritage cottage, a downsizer home with a difference – the entrants are a delight.

'It's a disposable culture': Is it the end for long-held family homes?

'It's a disposable culture': Is it the end for long-held family homes?

The McCubbery family are selling a home that they have owned for 95 years. They are becoming part of a rarer breed of sellers as Australians make more moves.

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Caught: Umpires Richard Illingworth (left) and Nigel Llong confront Cameron Bancroft in Cape Town, scene of the sandpapergate crime.

Bancroft suggests Australia’s bowlers were aware of ball tampering

Cameron Bancroft’s comments will bring back the memories of the seismic events at Cape Town which rocked Australian cricket three years ago.

Kaylee McKeown after recording the second fastest time ever in the 100m backstroke.

Australian teen 0.06 seconds off world record in Olympic lead-up

Kaylee McKeown has emerged as a major gold medal chance at Tokyo following another blistering swim at the Sydney Open.

Ash Barty speaks to her trainer before retiring hurt in Rome.

‘Brutal’ conditions: Arm injury hampers Barty as French Open looms

The world No.1 was forced to retire from her Italian Open quarter-final against Coco Gauff, raising doubts about her participation at the French Open.

Geelong’s Tom Atkins is tackled by St Kilda’s Max King.

Saints left to rue inaccuracy as Geelong pounce on hard-fought win

St Kilda have kicked themselves out of the match against Geelong with wasteful goalkicking costing them a chance to upset the Cats.

The Olympic rings near the National Stadium in Tokyo.
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Olympics

Backflips, half jabs, synchronised snubbing? IOC runs rings around Tokyo

Many new and strange events will appear at the Tokyo Olympics, but there can be only one winner.

Greg Baum
Greg Baum

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Published polls in Japan show an average of 72 per cent of people are against hosting the Games.

IOC better hope Tokyo Hail Mary comes off

Should the Olympics go ahead? Will the Olympics go ahead? Normally the questions would be raised in that order. Not so with these Games.

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Malcolm Knox

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Jeff Browne (right), pictured with AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan, then Collingwood president Eddie McGuire and Browne’s wife Rhonda Wyllie.
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AFL 2021

Why the time is right for a coup at Collingwood

Jeff Browne looks certain to push for change that will alter the Magpies and the AFL. And making a decision on the coach is one of the reasons.

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