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Explore the latest data on vaccinations around the world.
AMA calls for mandatory outdoor masks, closure of more retail in Sydney
As Greater Sydney ends its fifth week of lockdown, the Australian Medical Association has called for stricter measures and a stronger vaccination push to stem the spread of the virus.
NSW records 170 new COVID-19 cases, Year 12s to be vaccinated at Qudos Bank Arena
NSW has reported 170 new local coronavirus cases on Friday, as NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian repeats that the number of cases active in the community continues to be too high.
Opinion
Vaccination
Our anger is focused on vaccination, but is it fed by a dangerous mythology?
Waleed Aly
Columnist, co-host of Ten's The Project and academic
US man pleads guilty over attempted $430m COVID fraud on NSW
Plea agreement shows that NSW came perilously close to giving $430 million to a Texan man who was offering to sell 50 million COVID-19 protective masks he did not have.
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Kathy Lette in hotel quarantine: ‘Of convict stock, I thought incarceration would come naturally’
Day 4 of my two-week stay in Oz-catraz and I’m already sculpting my bath towels into animal shapes.
Kathy Lette
Writer
Live
Tokyo Olympics
‘I feel like I have let everyone down, especially my brother’: Sakakibara crashes in BMX semi
BMX rider Saya Sakakibara was stretchered off the course during the semi-final, and spoke afterwards of her disappointment.
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Loading‘We’ve got his back’: Mills says Boomers will find a way to win without Baynes
Aron Baynes is out for the rest of the Tokyo Olympics robbing the Boomers of their best and most experienced big man as they chase gold in Tokyo.
McKeon gold pushes Australia ahead of final Rio gold tally already
Australia has its sixth gold medal in the pool, and ninth of the Games, making Tokyo more successful than Rio.
ABC defence to Porter defamation case to be scrubbed from public court file
The Federal Court has ordered that secret parts of the ABC’s written defence to a defamation suit brought against it by the cabinet minister should be removed from its public records.
Opinion
Competition
Why politics has gone bad: bureaucrats down, party advisers up
Ministers are relying less on advice from public servants and relying more on the political advisers in their own offices.
Ross Gittins
Economics Editor
Back in the ’90s, we were the gangs: Alice Pung
These days the author’s life seems a long way from her childhood roots.
Opinion
Comedy
Does this new Prince George spoof step over the line?
A new HBO cartoon portrays a Family Guy-style royal family starring a bitchy, sassy Prince George. Is that OK?
Nick Miller
Arts Editor
Newsmaker
Vale
‘He was golden’: Why Dieter Brummer’s death hit so hard
Dieter Brummer was the ultimate boy next door in the halcyon days of Australian television.
Tokyo Olympics
Breaking
Japan
‘I can’t believe it’s over’: Australian BMX star Saya Sakakibara out after crash
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Updated
Rowing
‘Pretty upsetting’: Australia miss medals in rowing eight, Canada and NZ win
- by Malcolm Knox
Opinion
Opinion
Faster, higher, stronger together: Why Tokyo Games were made for these times
- by Malcolm Knox
Sydney
It’s infecting art: COVID and single use objects highlighted in new art prize
Masks are saving lives, but the threat that single-use items like them pose to the environment is highlighted in the northern beaches’ first ever Environmental Art and Design Prize.
Army to enforce orders as Delta spreads through children
As households remain one of the main drivers of COVID-19 transmission, the ADF has accepted a request to help NSW ensure people stay home and don’t mix with extended family.
Sydney law firm praises civil disobedience over lockdowns
Lawyer Nathan Buckley has been involved in the anti-vaccine movement since at least June 2020.
Exclusive
Education
‘Capture their success’: The six best schools the government wants others to copy
The government has identified six public schools with the ‘X-factor’, and wants to find out the secrets to their success and share them with other schools.
‘Not a lot of value’: Masks to be mandatory outdoors in Sydney’s west
It is the first time masks have been mandated outside in Greater Sydney, where face coverings have only been required indoors, on public transport and in busy outdoor areas.
Politics
Exclusive
Defamation
Sky News pays $40,000 plus costs to avoid Hanson-Young defamation suit
The money will be donated to the Australian Youth Climate Commission after Sky News wrongly aired claims the Greens senator involved her niece in a dangerous anti-logging protest.
Business
Ryan Stokes named Boral chair, Seven ups board presence
Seven Group chief executive Ryan Stokes is the new Boral chairman, while the Stokes family investment vehicle has upped its board representation to two after claiming a 70 per cent stake in the company.
World
Updated
Population
The best place to ride out a global societal collapse is New Zealand: study
But if the skies were to darken, seas swell and economies crumble, the best place to ride out global collapse of civilisation, would be New Zealand.
Opinion
The ruthless decision Albanese had to make
David Crowe
Chief political correspondent
Our anger is focused on vaccination, but is it fed by a dangerous mythology?
Waleed Aly
Columnist, co-host of Ten's The Project and academic
Every tool must be deployed to suppress outbreak
Melinda Cilento
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Property bydomain
Why the mega-rich have set their sights on luxe inner-city pads
While the leafy suburbs still have their appeal, there's some seriously big money flowing into our inner cities. Peek inside some of the most lavish pads.
The once laid-back surf town where house prices jumped 51 per cent in a year
The first series of pandemic lockdowns last year started the increase, but this latest one has seen many more second-home buyers joining them.
Life & Culture
Annabel Crabb’s favourite era – for fashion, not politics
“I’m influenced by lots of things from the past and I like the opportunity to bring them back.”
Sport
Breaking
Tokyo Olympics
‘I can’t believe it’s over’: Australian BMX star Saya Sakakibara out after crash
Sakakibara led throughout the course. As she leapt into the final ditch of the concrete course her bike appeared to skid, before another rider landed on top of her.
‘I’m so proud of you’: McKeon pips Campbell in 100m freestyle final
Australia has its sixth gold medal in the pool, and ninth of the Games, making Tokyo more successful than Rio.
Live
Tokyo Olympics
Tokyo Olympics LIVE updates: Gold for McKeon, bronze for Campbell, Matildas face Great Britain in quarters
Emma McKeon claimed gold in the 100m freestyle final while Cate Campbell took silver, with the Matildas set to play for a place in the medal rounds.
Opinion
Tokyo Olympics
Faster, higher, stronger together: Why Tokyo Games were made for these times
The duality of isolation and connection is the paradox and miracle of these Games. While Tokyo has been all about insulating people from each other, they have also bound them together.
Malcolm Knox
Journalist, author and columnist
Updated
Tokyo Olympics
‘Pretty upsetting’: Australia miss medals in rowing eight, Canada and NZ win
Despite a more successful regatta than the Rio Olympics, Australia missed out on the rowing medals on Friday in Tokyo.
Opinion
Wallabies
Pick and stick: Cully’s Wallabies team to face the All Blacks in Bledisloe opener
There are close calls, particularly with younger players challenging the assumption that experience is a necessity on Test rugby’s most difficult stage.
Paul Cully
Rugby columnist
Roosters 28 Eels 0
Match report
Parramatta’s free fall continues at the worst time of year
The Roosters triumphed 28-0 and are starting to hum at the right time of the season as Parramatta are in an ugly slump with an uglier run home.
Have Your Say
Ashes threats by England are condescending and ungrateful
Michael Vaughan’s continuing tirade about cancelling the Ashes if families can’t tour shows the former England captain has a short memory.
Malcolm Conn
Chief Cricket Writer
