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Generic photos of Melbourne CBD during lockdown. 3 June 2021. The Age News. Photo: Eddie Jim.
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Australia news LIVE: Delta strain could extend Victoria’s COVID-19 restrictions; Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation trial begins

Victorian authorities say the spread of the highly-infectious Delta coronavirus strain could extend the state’s stay-at-home orders, Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith is set to have his day in court and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have named their baby girl in honour of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana.

  • by Broede Carmody
Another Melbourne lockdown leaves city streets deserted.
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Coronavirus pandemic

Victoria COVID LIVE updates: Delta strain could extend lockdown; More exposure sites added; Victoria hits back in AFL grand final fight

  • by Hanna Mills Turbet
Airline Qantas says it's disturbed to hear claims that a significant number of its staff are linked to bikies and other organised crime groups.
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Qantas staffers linked to organised crime, intelligence report reveals

Snow in Queensland.
Weather

Snow possible for southern Queensland as mid-week cold snap looms

  • by Toby Crockford
National weather forecast for Monday June 7, 2021.
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National weather forecast for Monday June 7, 2021

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Professor Jose Polo in front of images of model embryos.
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Embryo research law needs tweaking to catch up with science

Australia needs to revise its legislation around research into early human life, to reflect new international recommendations and allow crucial breakthroughs to happen.

  • by John Carroll
Melanie Kent and her daughters Bianca, 14, and Isabella, 16.
Education

Plea to reopen special schools amid ‘devastating’ loss of learning

Students in specialist schools were at the front of the queue when children made a staged return to face-to-face learning last year, but they have not been given the same priority status in this lockdown.

  • by Adam Carey
Health Minister Greg Hunt has spearheaded the unified approach to pandemic response.
Coronavirus pandemic

Victoria gets extra vaccine doses ‘without taking away from anybody’

  • by Anna Patty and Lisa Visentin
Young obstetricians, Kaushi Arulpragasam, left, and Stephanie Sii, right, with 4 day old Richie Hicks, at the Royal Hospital for Women in Randwick, Sydney. Women are taking up obstetrics in greater numbers than men now. 4th June 2021 Photo: Janie Barrett
Healthcare

‘The people retiring were older men, and they were replaced by women’

  • by Mary Ward
Pitjantjatjara woman Ngoi Ngoi Donald is a dialysis patient who visits Purple House for treatment. She also uses the Bush Rubs, made to a traditonal recipe. for her arthritis. The bush rubs are made as a social enterprise, providing income to families that pick the leaves of the plants, jobs to those who now make it in a new commercial kitchen, and free rubs for patients.
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Bush medicines: Traditional remedies find support from scientists, public

  • by Julie Power
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