Authorities fear a local COVID cluster may have broken out in NSW after two patrons at a southwest Sydney pub tested positive to coronavirus. It comes as a pub on the other side of Sydney was fined after a picture of a huge queue outside the venue went viral.
A popular pub in Sydney’s east will be investigated by Liquor and Gaming after a photo showed hundreds of people queuing to get in the doors. It comes as eight of nine Melbourne housing towers move out of hard lockdown following COVID testing.
The federal government will extend visas for some Hong Kong citizens including students who are already living in Australia and suspend its extradition agreement despite warnings of an economic backlash from China.
A man travelling with family and a pair in possession of drugs are the first to be arrested at the NSW-Vic border. It comes after Jetstar passengers disembarked in Sydney without a health screening.
NSW is weighing up tougher border measures to prevent Melbourne’s coronavirus crisis spreading interstate, as new cases on the NSW south coast and ACT spark serious concerns the virus is already on the move.
Police are using drones to monitor 55 border crossings, residents entering from the south will need to self-isolate and border towns will exist in a “bubble.” HOW THE NSW-VIC BORDER CLOSURE WILL WORK.
Police have fined a woman for breaking her mandatory hotel quarantine after she ran away from her Pitt Street accommodation.
A train passenger has been forced into quarantine and is facing a possible $11,000 fine after travelling to Sydney from a COVID hot spot in Melbourne. It comes as NSW recorded zero new cases yesterday while Victoria reported 66.
More than six months after inferno ripped through historic Cobargo, the rebuild can finally begin for businesses on the town’s strip as clean up on the main street is completed.
One year after its officers raided the ABC’s headquarters, Australian Federal Police have called on the DPP to lay charges against a journalist, in what the broadcaster has described as ‘a disappointing and disturbing development’.
Original URL: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/journalists/jessica-mcsweeney/page/56