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Nearly 10,000 Australians have died from COVID-19. Who is still dying? | Melissa Cunningham
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Customers are being prescribed vapes by online-only doctors in minutes, in a practice shunned by medical bodies amid concerns two-thirds of vaping is recreational |
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Sydney limo driver ‘couldn’t cope with the stress’ after sparking COVID outbreak, lockdown |
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Former premier, health groups urge Perrottet to implement ice inquiry recommendations |
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First Omicron wave was really twice the size of recorded cases, study says |
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There’s an aged care crisis in Australian prisons, and governments around the country have done little to prepare for this despite knowing it was coming for decades. My story for the :
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‘Not like an essay for school’: Sydney teen published in prestigious medical journal |
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Almost two-thirds of NSW patients with potentially life-threatening conditions are not getting an ambulance within the 15-minute benchmark |
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North Shore Line distancing itself from the Northern with some serifs this morning. Like a timetable wearing a boater.
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Country towns simply love to demand you complete a reverse 45-degree angle park.
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Sydney researchers have found that lockdowns and travel restrictions led to the emergence of geographically specific variants and off-season outbreaks of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, which is now on the rise again in NSW |
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Mushroom hospitalisations jump amid ‘foraging’ craze |
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Katie’s family are extremely pro-vaccination and know the rollout saved countless lives. But they want to know why the 34-year-old living in Sydney’s lockdown was only able to choose a vaccine with a risk that led to her death.
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“These days, my life, it’s-a fucked up. Like, there’s just a lot of super-heavy shit that I’m-a dealing with right now.”
This short story about Mario at 40 by Simon Rich made me bark with laughter, then became unexpectedly poignant and genuinely moving.
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Sometimes we think disparities in pandemic outcomes all come down to policy or who was in charge. Sometimes it’s something harder to quantify but no less important. My latest:
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Exclusive: Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant is sounding the alarm over influenza and encouraging parents to get their young children vaccinated |
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Every person in Sydney seems to be privately battling an infestation of fruit flies (which they do not discuss with others because they believe it is only a problem in their own house).
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This is a huge story from and . The Australian government put Indonesian children in an adult jail for years, using a discredited “wrist X-ray technique” to falsely claim that they were over 18.
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‘Systemic failures at every step’: the Indonesian children Australia sent to adult jails for years, prosecuted using flawed evidence. The battle to clear their names has revealed trove of internal documents, showing full extent of Australia's failings. theguardian.com/australia-news
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Post-COVID deaths raise question of how pandemic mortality is measured |
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From April 30, NSW will end its hotel quarantine program. In recent months the program, reduced to just one hotel, has housed only a handful of the state’s cases.
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‘Unique on a global scale’: NSW nears elimination of HIV as cases fall to record lows |
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A+ deflection work from this model who was seen kissing timothee chalamet at coachella
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Push to donate COVID-19 vaccines and expand eligibility as shots expire |
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My mum used her 121 to move three kids for a decade. Always fun to watch the 4WD/Tarago mums react to us fitting a pram in there - the boot was a real Mary Poppins bag.
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arguably one of the funniest cars you could drive is a 1996 mazda 121. pure comedy. back in the day we thought it was normal to drive one
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NSW has pushed back a deadline for certain aged care and disability service workers to have their third COVID-19 vaccine over fears it would slash even more staff from the sector |
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The Australian Red Cross has issued an urgent appeal for blood donors after confirming that fewer than two days of supplies remain across all blood groups nationwide |
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No boosters for children aged 12 to 15, despite regulatory approval |
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This is the wildest story I'ver ever worked on. Two mothers were accused of poisoning their own children with faeces and urine. The kids were removed and the mothers were put on trial. They say they're innocent. Up now with .
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More than 450,000 vaccinated Australians have very little protection against an Omicron infection after they received the AstraZeneca vaccine last year but did not have a booster.
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NSW adds 331 previously unreported deaths to COVID-19 toll |
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Nurses warn of more strikes as union and government clash over staff ratios |
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