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Sharri Markson is the host of ‘Sharri’ on Sky News Australia, Monday-Thursday at 5pm. She is a two-time Walkley Award winner, the recipient of the 2018 Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Excellence in Journalism, the winner of the 2020 News Award for Investigative Journalism, a winner of four Kennedy Awards – for Journalist of the Year, Political Journalist of the Year, Columnist of the Year and Scoop of the Year – and joint winner of the 2019 Press Gallery Political Journalist of the Year award. Sharri was previously The Daily Telegraph’s National Political Editor, The Australian’s Media Editor, CLEO magazine editor, News Editor at Seven News and Chief of Staff and political reporter at The Sunday Telegraph.

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‘Tell truth about Covid leak now’

‘Compelling evidence’ that Covid-19 came from a lab leak is being kept secret by the US, says America’s own former spy chief — and he wants it out in the open.

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LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 15: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the garden of 10 Downing Street, after agreeing the broad terms of a free trade deal between the UK and Australia, on June 15, 2021 in London, England. The leaders met as the two countries announced one of Britain's first post-Brexit trade deals. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Morrison needs to decide where he stands

Is Prime Minister Scott Morrison on the side of the economy and jobs or climate nonsense peddled by those with agendas, asks Alan Jones.

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SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - 30/4/21Generic images of rooftops at Cobbity in western Sydney. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Roads, apartments not enough to cater for booming population

The federal government needs to invest heavily in infrastructure, including schools and hospitals for burgeoning population, writes Alan Jones.

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Supplies for India being loaded on planes overnight taking off from Mascot, Sydney this morning, May 5th 2021. Supplied

Alan Jones: Fear and alarmism in India COVID response

Societies respond best to emergencies when it is least disrupted – but our government has obviously become addicted to disruptive and pointless alarmism, writes Alan Jones.

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A picture taken in a laboratory of the National Reference Center (CNR) for respiratory viruses at the Institut Pasteur in Paris on January 28, 2020 shows a biohazard sticker on the entrance of a room. - The CNR analyses the tests for respiratory viruses among which coronavirus. The deadly new coronavirus that has broken out in China, 2019-nCoV, has so far killed 106 people and infected over 4,000 -- the bulk of them in and around Wuhan. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)

Scientists say COVID-19 ‘cooked up in lab’

A growing number of scientists say it is possible COVID-19 was created in a laboratory.

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(FILES) This file photo taken on February 23, 2017 shows Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan, capital of China's Hubei province. - The World Health Organization said on May 5, 2020 that Washington had provided no evidence to support

Former spy chief: COVID-19 could have leaked from Wuhan lab

Australia’s former intelligence chief says it is possible COVID-19 could have leaked from a Wuhan laboratory and says a security review needs to be conducted of similar sites globally in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

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In this picture taken on April 29, 2020, an engineer looks through a microscope at monkey kidney cells as he checks tests on an experimental vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus inside the Cells Culture Room laboratory at the Sinovac Biotech facilities in Beijing. - Sinovac Biotech, which is conducting one of the four clinical trials that have been authorised in China, has claimed great progress in its research and promising results among monkeys. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP) / TO GO WITH Health-virus-China-vaccine,FOCUS by Patrick Baert

MPs call to ban foreign interference in science research

Morrison Government MPs want a federal oversight agency set up to monitor research sector amid a link between top Aussie bio-research chief and Chinese coronavirus scientist.

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Top Australian scientist’s Chinese friendship

A scientist employed by China’s People’s Liberation Army, who has been genetically modifying coronaviruses and studying transmission from animals to humans, has had a longstanding professional relationship with the director of Australia’s top bio-containment facility.

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Sharri Markson: Popular MP returns the crown jewel

A lot was at stake for residents in our electorate, the wealthiest in the country. Negative gearing, imputation dividend and capital gains tax reforms would hit thousands of families in this electorate

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Renegade ministers keep faith in torrid Question Time

MALCOLM Turnbull has asked the group of disloyal ministers who supported Peter Dutton’s leadership bid to pledge not to challenge or vote against him in any future spills.

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