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Easter Tragedy: Young Boy Dies In House Fire 19/04/2022

A young boy has died in an Easter tragedy after a ferocious blaze tore through his family home in Brisbane’s north, despite desperate attempts of firefighters to save him. 

It’s been revealed Air traffic controllers are regularly being forced to close airspace to aircraft because there is no one available to staff towers due to Covid infections and a high take-up of early retirement packages during the pandemic.  

Scott Morrison went for the jugular on day eight of the election campaign, shifting the focus to border security — the very issue that has dogged his rival. 

A key witness for Nine newspapers in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial has been recalled and quizzed over concerns he lied to the court. 

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