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Shoppers wearing masks at Sydney’s Liverpool Westfield shopping centre earlier this week.
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Australia news LIVE: Victoria records 2179 new local COVID-19 cases, six deaths; NSW scraps hotel quarantine for overseas travellers as state records 399 new cases, four deaths

NSW is preparing to hit its 80 per cent double-dose vaccination target, Victoria’s restrictions are on track to ease late next week despite record high case numbers and COVID-19 self-testing kits have been approved for use in Australia come November.

  • by Broede Carmody
Premier Dominic Perrottet says Sydney and NSW “is open for business”.
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Coronavirus pandemic

Quarantine to be scrapped for fully-vaccinated returning travellers; NSW regional travel delayed

  • by Pallavi Singhal
Luxury vehicles were also seized during the raids.
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Organised crime

Student ‘money mules’: Police smash multi-million dollar money laundering ring

  • by John Silvester
Acclaimed family-run Jilyara Wines will open its doors in Wilyabrup for one time only this weekend.
Winemakers

Clean dozen: The private Margaret River cellar doors open one weekend only

  • by David Prestipino
A powerful storm cell hit NSW on Thursday.
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‘Unprecedented’ tornado destroys properties in northern NSW

  • by Pallavi Singhal

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About 1.25 million Victorians now have to be vaccinated with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to continue attending their workplaces.
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Coronavirus pandemic

Statewide vaccine mandate comes into effect as Victoria records 2179 new COVID-19 cases, six deaths

All authorised workers now must be vaccinated with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to keep attending their workplaces.

  • by Cassandra Morgan
NSW Customer Service Minister Victor Dominello with the proof of vaccination feature in the Service NSW app.
Coronavirus pandemic

How to add your COVID-19 vaccine certificate to your Service NSW app

People in NSW will be able to add their digital vaccination certificate to their Service NSW app from Friday, as the state approaches its second stage of reopening.

  • by Pallavi Singhal
There are no easy solutions to disease control.
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Coronavirus pandemic

Beware the promise of easy answers when it comes to COVID

  • by Ewan Cameron
The new Hendra variant has been confirmed in flying foxes in multiple parts of the country for the first time, including grey-headed flying foxes (pictured).
Illness

New Hendra virus variant confirmed in flying foxes across Australia

  • by Stuart Layt
An influential medical taskforce in the United States overhauled its guidelines for aspirin.
Medicine

New advice could trigger global change in use of aspirin to prevent heart attacks

  • by Melissa Cunningham
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