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With millions of Australians enduring lockdown yet again, you may be seeking solace in gardening. For migrants and refugees in Australia, gardening can be particularly meaningful when shared in community spaces.

Two Adelaide men who tried to import 18 kilograms of meth worth $7-million into Australia by hiding it in 4WD winches go to prison.

The challenge of surviving the next 50 years is now seen as a planet-wide existential crisis; we need to work together urgently, just to secure a short-term future for human civilisation.

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Accused duped trusting online shoppers into buying a multitool she was advertising on Facebook Marketplace, but never intended to deliver.

ACTU secretary Sally McManus doubts the legality, short of public health orders, of employers forcing vaccinations and says support and encouragement for employees is the better way to go.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has released a “roadmap” for a phased process of border reopenings that could begin during the first quarter of next year — as long as New Zealand completes its vaccination rollout by the end of this year.

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Cuba’s economy relies largely on tourism and raw exports such as rum, tobacco, sugar and minerals. Before the pandemic, tourism made up the biggest share of the country’s gross domestic product, or about 40% to 50%, and contributed significantly to the Cuban government’s foreign exchange reserves.

The metaverse is a network of always-on virtual environments in which many people can interact with one another and digital objects while operating virtual representations – or avatars – of themselves.

Coal pit closed seven years ago is still emitting as much climate pollution as 33,000 cars, Conservation Foundation claims.

An estimated 540,000 of the 720,000 adults locked down on such payments don’t get the $200 per week because they didn’t have paid work ahead of the lockdown.

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First step is to speed up the vaccination process to ensure everyone is at least partially vaccinated to reduce the risk of the Delta variant.

Jack Grealish has become the first £100 million footballer in Premier League history with his move from Aston Villa to Manchester City.

The summer of 2021 is shaping up to be one of the hottest ever recorded, as scorching summer temperatures fry the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest and wildfires ravage the Siberian Arctic.

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Thirty percent of unvaccinated American adults say they’re waiting for the COVID-19 vaccines currently authorized for emergency use to be officially approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic depends on sustained investment in health care and social services.

Australia lags many of its peers when it comes cleaner-energy electric vehicles. Will making the cars and infrastructure cheaper ease the problem?

Australia’s official policy on vaccines is that they be voluntary and free. But the federal government hasn’t shut the door completely on employers pursuing mandatory policies of their own.

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A combination of vaccinations, public health measures and global determination to combat the disease all make eradication feasible.

Scientists are becoming more and more concerned with the emergence of a syndrome termed “long COVID”, where a significant percentage of sufferers of COVID-19 experience long-lasting symptoms.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)‘s sobering “code red for humanity” report comes on the heels of months of devastating weather events around the world.

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The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia’s biggest agricultural region, producing almost 40% of the national food supply during the growing season from April to September.

Paradoxically, the political aims that prompted Blinken’s stark warning were exactly the opposite of those of the Israeli government’s recent statement.

Just 12 percent of office workers are present in Melbourne’s CBD, the lowest level since late 2020. Retailers and hospitality sector suffering.

Morrison is comfortable keeping the argument on 2050 anyway, knowing the date is as abstract and intangible to many voters as the dangerous build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide is visible to the naked eye.

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Wilbee the Bumble Bee is in trouble. Aussie researchers are trying to help by creating an early warning system for beekeepers.

Australia’s medical regulator has provisionally approved another COVID-19 vaccine, Moderna, for use in Australia.

The UK government has announced that all 16 to 17-year-olds will be offered a first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in the coming weeks.

Two big takeover battles in the UK are a sign of the times: supermarket chain Wm Morrisons and respiratory medicines group Vectura are both the subject of bids in the billions of pounds by private equity firms

End-to-end encryption is technology that scrambles messages on your phone and unscrambles them only on the recipients’ phones, which means anyone who intercepts the messages in between can’t read them.

Loss of livelihoods and irreversible damage to land and marine ecosystems is on the cards for some Pacific nations due to climate change and Covid.

Of all the troubling news in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report out on Monday, one warning will surely generate the most headlines: under all scenarios examined, Earth is likely to reach the crucial 1.5℃ warming limit in the early 2030s.

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The Government has imported an initial consignment of the drug Sotrovimab. But, as yet, there is no approval for its use in this country.

Australians who live abroad and return to Australia (even if it is to see family) will not automatically be able to leave again unless they meet narrow grounds for an exemption.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been repeatedly harmed by policies and decisions that drive systematic dispossession, disempowerment, overincarceration and poverty.

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In last week’s Essential poll, 47% of those who have not yet been vaccinated said they would be willing to get the Pfizer vaccine, but not AstraZeneca.

The Olympic movement, which has been called “the most complicated sports event in the world,” will have to dramatically rethink its current strategy and economic model to stay relevant to its partners and fans.

Ice that survives the summer melt season endures for another winter. Some ice even survives several summers before finally melting.

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Detectives have released new information they believe may help them solve the mystery of a1991 restaurant fire that left a man dead.

Australian scientists have identified some of the few benefits of lockdowns: Young kids sleep more and adults are less drowsy

The World Health Organization has called for a moratorium on COVID vaccine booster programmes until at least the end of September in order to prioritise vaccines for low-income countries.