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Americans who lost their jobs because of the pandemic had been getting a US$600 bump on top of state benefits in their weekly unemployment checks since March.

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The world continues to reel from the pandemic and, among many other things, the shortage of medical supplies that has resulted.

The restrictions in place for metropolitan Melbourne now are in some ways stricter than those that were in force during New Zealand’s COVID-19 lockdown.

Social media erupts as an unnamed ‘large celebrity and influencer’ in LA offers a ‘part-time’ 24/7 job from hell.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced sweeping changes to businesses across metropolitan Melbourne, including closure of retail stores and restrictions on some industries, including construction.

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Tit-for-tat as New Zealand’s decision to suspend extradition treaty with Hong Kong is matched by China’s own move.

In recent years wildfires have entered urban areas, causing breathtaking destruction.

The announcement of stage 4 restrictions in Victoria marks a new, and depressing, stage in Australia’s response to COVID-19.

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Non-essential retailers across Melbourne will be shut except for “click and collect” and delivery sales, and industries including meatworks and construction will be drastically scaled back, under Victoria’s unprecedented lockdown.

OPINION & ANALYS: Professor Jenny Hocking's victory in the release of the Palace letters is a significant one for truth and history, writes Tess Lawrence.

Creative destruction “is the essential fact about capitalism”, wrote the great Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942.

While masks are not mandatory in NSW, Premier Gladys Berejiklian outlines four key scenarios for wearing them.

Air pollution contributes to as many as 9 million premature deaths worldwide each year – twice as many as war, other violence, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

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Existing lockdown measures were not proving successful so Premier moves to up the ante with yet tougher regulations.

A “state of disaster” has been declared for the whole of Victoria from 6pm, Sunday August 2, for a month.

James Murdoch is not the most obvious candidate for editorial heroism. His route to resigning from the News Corp board because of “disagreements over certain editorial content” has been circuitous and colourful.

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The Crew Dragon spacecraft, produced by private company SpaceX, is scheduled to return from the International Space Station (ISS) and splash down in the Atlantic ocean on August 2.

COVID-19 testing has two purposes. The first is to confirm a diagnosis so that medical treatment can be appropriately rendered. The second is to do surveillance for tracking and disease suppression.

In Outback Queensland, Kevin and Carol are in big strife and barred from the only watering hole in town.

Road transportation is a major consumer of fossil fuels, contributing 16 per cent of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, which warm up the Earth’s atmosphere and cause changes to the climate.

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New Zealand’s Prime Minister shows that a soft, emotionally mature touch does not indicate weakness, say experts.

For a long time, richer developed countries have been underwriting the costs of climate change in poorer developing countries, leaving them reliant on Western solutions to their climate-related issues.

Stronger Indigenous languages are more than a standalone target. Every policy area needs to consider the language backgrounds of the people affected.

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The COVID-19 crisis has led many to argue that the current crisis has exacerbated the inequalities inherent in the current economic order.

This recession is the result of the forced hibernation of large parts of the economy in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

Territory’s Health Minister expects no quick end to tight border controls as more Qld hotspots are added to list.

COVID-19 has shown how damaging ill-health can be for the economy. But it has also shown how measures that benefit health (lockdowns) can be seen as bad economic prosperity.

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Authorities go doorknocking and find that more than a quarter of the people who should be at home aren’t there.

State revenues are heading in the same direction, so many U.S. cities will need to rely on help from the federal government.

Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, lower-income families are struggling to pay their energy bills.

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Certain crimes, such as robberies and sexual offences, have declined dramatically, while others, such as online fraud, have been on the rise.

The ACCC has previously found Google and Facebook’s failure to pay for news content is eating into the advertising revenues which fund journalism.

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Fire experts release plan with 165 recommendations to avoid more Black Summer disasters. Extinguishing blazes early is critical, plan says.

The emergency response to Victoria’s COVID-19 crisis has been ramped up today with AUSMAT teams now working alongside defence force and hospital nurses in aged care homes.

Victoria has today achieved another grim record, with 723 new cases of COVID-19 and 13 deaths.

The Morrison government has finally unveiled the long-awaited new National Agreement on Closing the Gap.

Most countries have a staple food: native, fast-growing and easy-to-store plants high in carbohydrates.

This week’s annual Australia-US ministerial (AUSMIN) talks took place within the fraught context of a world growing in enmity and anxiety — but no longer economically.

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If you use your essential worker status to smuggle drugs across borders we will arrest you, police say.