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Source of highly infectious Delta outbreak set to remain mystery
It is unlikely to ever be known how the highly infectious Delta variant of coronavirus somehow leaked out of Victoria’s quarantine system and seeded a mysterious outbreak in Melbourne.
In mice, BCG-COVID vaccine works a treat, deepening the mystery of 100-year-old vaccine
A vaccine based on a 100-year-old tuberculosis jab effectively prevents COVID-19 infection in mice – opening a unique path toward a new coronavirus vaccine.
COVID-19 CRISIS
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Climate policy
UN set to decide climate claims by Torres Strait Islanders against Australia
A group called the Torres Strait 8 have lodged a complaint with the United Nations against the federal government, accusing it of breaching their rights to culture and life by failing to adequately address climate change.
PM stands by climate policy as G7 nations pledge to step up action
Australia is sticking to its climate policies as its powerful G7 allies commit to accelerated action.
The ‘vaxxie’ is set to be the defining image of 2021
Ordinary Australians are taking cues from celebrities and posting vaccine selfies by the truckload. But these certainly aren’t like other selfies.
Opinion
Cooking
Forget about perfection in the kitchen, it’s a matter of taste
It doesn’t matter how things appear - the proof of the pud is in the tasting.
Sheila Quairney
Dating often leaves Alyssa feeling degraded, and she’s fed up
Alyssa Ho is one of many Australians who face unsolicited fetishisation because of their race, gender identity, sexuality, body type or other characteristic.
The two words from Buckley that inspired Pies to victory in his last game
With one quarter left in his storied Collingwood career, Nathan Buckley had a simple message for his players that gave Isaac Quaynor goosebumps.
Breaking
Geelong Cats
Cats and Dogs to play behind closed doors as AFL moves games to Tassie
The Cats have opted to play the Bulldogs behind closed doors in Geelong and the AFL has moved two round 14 games from Melbourne to Tasmania.
‘Symphony of chainsaws’: Thousands face week-long wait for power
Victorians sitting in darkened houses may have to wait until the weekend for the lights to come back on after wild storms wreaked havoc.
Opinion
Queen's Birthday Honours
Awards for Credlin and COVID workers? Honours system needs a rethink
While more women were rewarded this year, it seems COVID workers and Peta Credlin got honoured simply for doing their jobs.
Jenna Price
Columnist and academic
‘If I hadn’t survived I would probably have been thrown overboard’
It was 40 years ago that 99 “emaciated Vietnamese refugees”, including 29 children, were saved from a stricken vessel in heavy seas off Ho Chi Minh City. On Sunday, many of them will meet their rescuers in Sydney.
China’s ‘happy places’ leave ethnic peoples living in fear
Evidence is mounting that Xinjiang detainees - after being subjected to physical torture and political indoctrination in re-education camps - are being forced to work in factories producing goods for export.
Opinion
Executive pay
Are tech’s billion-dollar CEOs worth their pay?
While the mood about technology has soured in recent times, the pay cheques of tech’s heavy hitters mostly remained unscathed.
Shira Ovide
QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS
Editorial
True gender equality still missing in Queen’s Birthday honours
Efforts have been made to improve the representation of women, but there is still a considerable distance to go.
The Age's View
Editorial
Queen’s Birthday 2021 honours - the full list
Australians from all walks of life are recipients in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Here is the full list of those who have been recognised.
Local
Seventh Big Freeze raises more than $10m despite virus disruption for second year
The players were in Sydney and the usual MCG crowd was nowhere to be seen, but Monday’s Big Freeze managed to raise more than $10m to fight motor neurone disease.
Updated
Coronavirus pandemic
Victoria records two new COVID-19 cases as first-dose Pfizer jab bookings halted
Victoria reported two new local cases as the state’s COVID-19 hotline stopped accepting bookings for first doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
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Defamation
Gangland lawyer sues far-right agitator over defamatory posts
Lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson says Avi Yemini and his alt-right Rebel News website ‘gravely injured’ her reputation.
State ‘not a good parent’ to vulnerable Indigenous kids, report finds
Two-year inquiry by the Commission for Children and Young People lays bare generations of trauma that are still being felt in long-standing, systematic failures.
Exclusive
Charity
Scientology’s war on psychiatry ‘harmful, dangerous’: McGorry
Australia’s top mental health advocates and researchers have described Scientology’s years of harassment and said their anti-psychiatry campaigning has harmed the community.
Politics
‘We always hope it will be yes this time’: toddler has 15 travel exemptions rejected
Two-year-old Gurman Chechi has been in India for nearly 18 months without his parents but can’t get a travel exemption to be reunited with them in Hobart.
Business
Gaming on the blockchain: Aussie company plans to take NFTs mainstream
Immutable sold more than $2.6 million worth of virtual items for its new video game in its first hour of sales.
World
Wasabi the Pekingese wins Westminster dog show
Held annually since 1877, the show is one of the oldest and most popular sporting events in the United States.
Opinion
It’s Israel’s turn to confront Trumpism
Timothy L. O'Brien
There’s an eerie calm in markets despite disturbing numbers
Stephen Bartholomeusz
Senior business columnist
Walk a mile in their shoes, but don’t be a sucker
Amanda Vanstone
Former Howard government minister
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Property bydomain
The tiny town with no pub, no cafe, just homemade casserole
It’s a blink-and-you-miss-it-town of fewer than 300 people. There’s no pub and no cafe, but what it lacks in places it makes up for in people.
Home sells $575K above reserve as on-street auctions return to Melbourne
The home in Armadale was sold at one of many delayed auctions at the weekend, with vendors waiting until the two-week lockdown ended.
Life & Culture
A fictional take on Australia’s greatest literary hoax
Culture wars, even old ones, raise blood pressure. Stephen Orr answers ‘what if’ questions that give the infamous Ern Malley hoax new life.
Sport
The two words from Buckley that inspired Pies to victory in his last game
With one quarter left in his storied Collingwood career, Nathan Buckley had a simple message for his players that gave Isaac Quaynor goosebumps.
‘No regrets’: Buckley ready to head into blue sky
His time as Collingwood coach over, Nathan Buckley said he had done all he could to deliver a premiership and now looks forward to the next stage of his life.
Opinion
AFL 2021
A ban on accidents? The choice at the heart of Mackay’s tribunal case
Is it really possible for the AFL to eradicate all high contact injuries without fundamentally changing the game?
Greg Baum
Sports columnist
Analysis
AFL 2021
Four points: Bucks’ reason to smile, Tigers’ new frontier, Saints exposed
The memory that should be preserved from Nathan Buckley’s final game representing Collingwood is the man himself, famously granite-faced and intense, smiling and hugging the players, one by one.
Bubble and strife: Paine fears quarantine will be greatest Ashes challenge
Test captain Tim Paine believes months of Covid-19 restrictions may be the greatest danger to Australia’s Ashes campaign following England’s capitulation to New Zealand.
Bucks stops here: Magpies farewell Buckley with win over Demons
Nathan Buckley had his final match in charge of Collingwood on Monday and the Magpies delivered the perfect farewell gift, toppling premiership fancy Melbourne.
Breaking
AFL 2021
Cats and Dogs to play behind closed doors as AFL moves games to Tassie
The Cats have opted to play the Bulldogs behind closed doors in Geelong and the AFL has moved two round 14 games from Melbourne to Tasmania.
Have Your Say
Blues review will be ‘fascinating process’: Pavlich
One of the men tasked with reviewing Carlton’s decline in on-field performance says the entire football program will be analysed.
