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COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Explore the latest data on vaccinations around the world.
Sydney braces for at least 100 cases as exposure list continues to grow
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has flagged the possibility of more than 100 new cases today after Sydney recorded 77 new cases yesterday - including 33 believed to have been infectious while in the community.
New scheme to save jobs as Sydney faces long lockdown
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has conceded her government cannot predict when Sydney’s lockdown will end, prompting NSW and the Commonwealth to devise a new scheme to protect jobs.
Opinion
Opinion
Deliver us from the Delta blues
We are all now having properly to face the fact that we don’t know what stage of this pandemic we are up to.
Sean Kelly
Columnist and former adviser to Labor prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
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UEFA Euro 2020
It’s coming Rome: Italy win Euro 2020 after nail-biting penalty shootout
England remain without a major trophy since 1966 after an inspired Italy came back from going behind inside two minutes to win their first European title since 1968.
Exclusive
Sydney
The ex-con, the CEO and the dodgy invoice
Alarm bells sounded for senior managers within a Sydney club over an invoice for “relocation of machinery.” Not only did Marconi have no machinery to move but the club was shut down during the pandemic.
A decade on from plain packaging, what is the result?
There’s a whole generation of young Australians who only know cigarettes with plain packaging. It took a fight to achieve, but the results are in the numbers.
Opinion
Interest rates
Don’t believe the boys who cry ‘interest rates to rise’
The greatest likelihood is that a rise is still years away. But between now and then you’ll keep hearing stories that it’s on the way. Ignore them.
Ross Gittins
Economics Editor
Explainer
Robots
‘Die as a human or live forever as a cyborg’: Will robots rule the world?
Will nanobots and brain chips help us thrive – or could cyborgs wipe us out?
Crunch time looming for PM on climate as the world looks to Australia to act
The need for China, India and other big emitters in the developing world to ramp up their ambition explains why the US and Britain are so exercised about Australia’s 2030 target.
‘The five-day office week is dead, long live the hybrid model’
After 18 months of COVID-induced Zoom calls, corporate Australia has no plans to force staff back to the office fulltime.
How to stop your headphones from damaging your hearing
Hearing loss is on the rise with our lives increasingly spent plugged in. But there are simple things you can do to keep your headphone use safe.
Richard Branson soars into space aboard rocket plane
British billionaire Richard Branson has succeeded in his attempt to complete the world’s first fully crewed private space flight.
Analysis
Tokyo Olympics
Wimbledon and Euros finish to packed houses, why can’t Tokyo have any fans?
There were 60,000 fans in Wembley stadium and 20,000 in Wimbledon on Sunday.
Texan who queued for seven hours to vote faces 40-year jail term
The case against the Texan has been brought by attorney general Ken Paxton, an ally of Donald Trump.
Coronavirus pandemic
Remote learning may last longer than a week as lockdown drags on
Families are bracing for a return to remote lessons as the Premier warns online learning may last longer than the four days she initially predicted.
Graphic content
New ad tells Sydney to stay home: ‘Meant to be graphic’
The federal government prepared the ad last year but has not needed to use it until now because of the accelerating NSW outbreak.
Sydney
NSW Rural Fire Service exonerates itself over backburn gone wrong
The NSW Rural Fire Service investigated itself and concluded that the Mount Wilson backburn was the result of “careful planning”.
Cost to ratepayers of businesses voting in City of Sydney election nears $13m
Controversial changes in 2014 that gave each business two votes have forced the council to bear the cost of maintaining a register of non-residential voters.
When normal school is not enough: Aussie kids sign up to new online high
Australia is the second-biggest market in the world for a new online high school that offers global qualifications and accelerated learning.
Council elections to go ahead despite Sydney’s COVID-19 outbreak
In-person, postal and online voting will be available and a failure to vote will set you back $55.
Politics and a blow dry: Why an election could be decided in Joh Bailey’s salon
An army of Southern Highlands socialites is determined to back a winner in the coming local council elections.
Politics
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Industrial relations
Bosses, unions issue joint warning to Hunt on aged care rollout
About 40 per cent of the aged care workforce has been vaccinated to date, but a September deadline looms.
Business
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The Future of Work
Slacking off working from home? The productivity tsar doesn’t think so
Leading economists say an increase in the number of workers logging in from home is unlikely to harm the nation’s productivity, while also delivering a big overall boost to happiness.
World
Leaked testimony from Haiti suspects says plan was to arrest, not kill president
The murder and uncertainty about who hatched the plot is the latest in a succession of blows to hit the struggling country, which has appealed for international help.
Opinion
Parents need to know facts before sending children to school
Karen Armstrong
Deliver us from the Delta blues
Sean Kelly
Columnist and former adviser to Labor prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
Ash Barty always had it in her to climb Wimbledon mountain
Andrea James
Playwright, director and dramaturg
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Property bydomain
Concord home sells for $4.015m as Sydney auctions steam ahead
The five-bedroom home was a fixer-upper with the buyer now looking at options of what they can do on the 800-square-metre block of land.
Sea-change surge: Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast rents hit new heights
Rents have soared, pushing the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast markets so high that experts warn the boom that’s left some locals homeless is far from over.
Life & Culture
How to get through another week of lockdown? Binge garden shows
You may not be able to visit some of the world’s best gardens but you can still see them on screen.
Sport
Chammas on Monday
NRL 2021
Operation relocation: How the NRL plans to keep season alive in Queensland
Everything you need to know about the NRL’s desperate move to keep its competition going by relocating 12 teams to Queensland for at least the next month.
Breaking
UEFA Euro 2020
Italy beat England on penalties to win Euro 2020
England remain without a major trophy since 1966 after an inspired Italy came back from going behind inside two minutes to win their first European title since 1968.
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Wimbledon
Djokovic beats Berrettini to claim record-equalling 20th grand slam title
Novak Djokovic dropped the first set of the Wimbledon men’s singles final before bouncing back against Matteo Berrettini.
Tight Five
Wallabies
Why Australia may be roadblock to Pasifika rugby’s big step forward
The Fijian Drua’s attempts to recruit players for Super Rugby have been hindered in recent weeks as a “split” RA board decides its next Super Rugby move.
‘Like a little sister’: Goolagong Cawley lauds Barty after Wimbledon win
Beaming with pride, Australian tennis legend Evonne Goolagong Cawley has described Ash Barty as “like a little sister” after the 25-year-old won her first Wimbledon title on Sunday morning.
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Match report
‘At a loss’: Brown baffled as Johnson delivers hammer blow to Warriors
The Sharks and Warriors game went ahead at Kogarah despite a number of staff from Georges River Council being asked to leave the facility over a COVID scare.
Revealed: the two Dragons players that won’t sign sworn statement
The duo’s reluctance raises fresh concerns over claims that the players were the only people at Paul Vaughan’s BBQ, or if they breached the bubble on the way home.
Have Your Say
Barty’s Wimbledon win was the one we all needed
Ash Barty was the right person winning Wimbledon the right way at the right time. We needed a champion like her.
Greg Baum
Sports columnist
