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The prime minister told a news conference his proposal would be to contain the flow rather than pause it.

CHRIS’S KITCHEN | From the kitchen of Gordon Ramsey at Claridge’s, CHRIS ARKADIEFF offers up a warm weather winner with a fresh tomato salad.

The Realising Electric Vehicle-to-grid Services project (REVS) will see owners paid to plug their electric vehicles into the national electricity grid.

Lithium is a special element – it was the only metal produced in the Big Bang that created the universe 13.7 billion years ago.

A further six weeks of stay-at-home orders for the city’s 5 million residents will kill off many small and medium sized businesses.

239 scientists in 32 countries have written an open letter to the World Health Organisation (WHO) arguing there is mounting evidence the airborne route plays a role.

The introduction of these aerial craft into cities will require the built environment to change dramatically.

Farming now covers 58% of Australia, or 385 million hectares, and accounts for 59% of water extracted.

As technology has progressed, VFX has only become more profitable, complex and difficult for directors to control.

The global Sustainable Development Report 2020, released this week in New York, ranks Australia third among OECD countries for the effectiveness of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The policy is a welcome step to addressing Australia’s waste crisis. In 2016-17, Australians generated 67 million tonnes of waste.

Australia’s tobacco plain packaging laws were a world first – the final step in a national preventative health strategy to deter smoking.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the hope of a growing space industry was palpable.

A cornerstone of containing the COVID-19 pandemic is widespread testing to identify cases and prevent new outbreaks emerging.

Stamp-duty on a A$750,000 owner-occupied property ranges from about A$22,000 in Queensland to about A$42,000 in Victoria.

Britain generated nearly half of its electricity from renewable sources in the first three months of 2020.

From July 4, restaurants in the UK are permitted to open – but dining out will be very different.

The Victorian government’s decision to “close and contain” nine public housing towers in Flemington and North Melbourne represents a significant escalation in the fight against COVID-19.

The Australian government is planning to spend A$190 billion to support the economy in response to COVID-19.

A group of scientists has endorsed the sensible use of reusable containers as safe and unlikely to contribute to the further spread of COVID-19.

The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) wants to restore confidence and restart tourism without delay.

The problem of not enough jobs in Western Sydney has been in the public spotlight for half a century.

Victorian premier Daniel Andrews said more than 900 people in two Melbourne “hotspots” had declined door-to-door testing.

It’s often harder to read a mask wearer’s attitudes and emotions, and difficulties faced by deaf people who cannot lipread from a masked talker’s mouth.

China is still looking for ways to engage with PNG, motivated by interest in both its abundant natural resources and key strategic location.

The economic impact on Australia’s workforce from heatwaves is US$6.2 billion a year (almost AU$9 billion).

As the global renewables transition accelerates, the future for coal regions has become a big worry.

Hong Kong law already contains some offences of this sort, including treason, a disused colonial relic, and terrorism, tightly defined by statute.

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When people first arrived in Australia as early as 65,000 years ago, sea levels were around 80m lower than today.

Tensions over border closures are in the news again, now states are gradually lifting travel restrictions to all except Victorians.

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CHRIS’S KITCHEN | This week, from the kitchen of Gordan Ramsay at Claridge’s, Chris Arkadieff shows us his three C’s recipe — cream of cauliflower with cèpes mushrooms.

This virus has been found early, and raising the alarm quickly allows virologists to swing into action developing new specific tests for this particular flu virus.

To deal with a global pandemic, the production of new treatments needs to be scaled up towards supplying the whole world – and as quickly as possible.

The world needs to engage seriously with China’s AI development and take a closer look at what’s really going on.

“These ‘hot zones’ will be required to return to Stage 3 Stay at Home restrictions – until at least 29 July,” the premier told reporters

The update promises increases for the three services (navy, army, air force), a satellite constellation, a bolstered cyber capability and plans for increased engagement with the neighbourhood.

These ice shelves buttress the continent’s massive land-based ice cap and play an important role in the assessment of future sea level rise.

Across Victoria, the ongoing spike in coronavirus cases means a range of restrictions are still in place.

Australia’s high-performance research computing infrastructure is led by two centres: the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia) in Canberra and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth.

The Australian Tax Office has created a temporary shortcut for claiming running expenses to make it easier.

Unsolved Mysteries has always had a dual nature, on the one hand dealing with real events such as murders and kidnappings and, on the other, delving into stories of alien abductions, ethereal hauntings and demonic visitations.

Now, with a COVID-19 recession, the capacity of the population-serving sectors to maintain jobs, let alone stimulate job growth, is greatly reduced.

The novel coronavirus – SARS-CoV-2 – may have been in Europe for longer than previously thought.

Late last week, the federal Auditor-General Grant Hehir tabled a damning report on federal authorities’ handling of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.

Of Australia’s 24.6 million people, 18 million, or 73%, are active social media users. Some 4.7 million Australians, or 19%, use Twitter.

“A sophisticated state-based cyber actor” was targeting “Australian organisations across a range of sectors.

39% of all jobs in Australia – 41% full-time and and almost 35% of part-time – can be done from home.

Patients with advanced COVID-19 disease bore none of the hallmarks of severe respiratory illness until they suddenly collapsed and died.