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Shoba RaoHead of Digital

Shoba Rao is Head of Digital at News Corp’s National News Network. With more than 20 years experience, she leads a team to help produce national and world stories across all metro and regional titles.

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NSW Coronavirus Hibernation

Best supermarket bargains you can’t ignore

These are the best bargains at Coles, Woolworths, Aldi and IGA which include half price laundry liquid, cheap chicken, baked beans and other household items.

Crime in Focus

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA-NCA NewsWire Photos AUGUST 06 2020Prime Minister Scott Morrison with the Home Affairs Minister peter Dutton during a press conference discussing the federal government's new cyber security plans, at Parliament House in Canberra.Picture: NCA NewsWire /Gary Ramage

PM’s tougher police powers: ‘You should be worried’

Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton have revealed new police powers to target paedophiles, terrorists and those linked to the trafficking of drugs like ice that are being pedalled to children.

NSW Coronavirus Hibernation

Supermarket bargains: 79c soup, $1 cookies, $3 oats

Today we launch the Savvy Shopper catalogue form guide. It’s your one stop shop to find the best weekly grocery bargains in Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, IGA and other retailers.

Hibernation

EXCLUSIVE NWK PREMIUM CONTENT, NO NEWS.COM, NO SKY, NO WEST AUS, NO AUS Fox Glacier, a scene from the new Play NZ tourism campaign. Picture: Supplied

New way Aussies can travel to NZ

As talk of a trans-Tasman travel bubble is touted, Deadpool 2 star Julian Dennison has sent a stern message over the ditch with a new way to travel to see New Zealand from Australia.

Coronavirus

Minister for Health Greg Hunt at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, May 28, 2020. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

‘Global acceleration’ as Vic records five deaths, 357 cases

Greg Hunt has said there is a “global acceleration” in the pandemic as five more coronavirus patients have died in Victoria, where cases jumped by 357.

Coronavirus

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 21: Flinders Street Station is almost deserted as stage-3 restrictions force people to stay at home. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

PM’s reduced JobKeeper amid more Vic deaths

JobKeeper will be extended at a reduced rate, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced. It comes as Victoria recorded 374 new cases of coronavirus and three more deaths on the eve of mandatory mask wearing in the state.

Pets

Petbarn is celebrating 50,000 successful in-store pet adoptions.Jasper Bartlett, 21, adopted a German Shepherd cross Great Dane, named Scout (Black), from Petbarn Dubbo in April 2019.Jasper is allergic to dogs but, after getting needles for 3 years, every 4 weeks, to make himself not allergic (as he loves dogs so much), he adopted Scout. He says the adoption process is extremely rewarding, and his love for Scout is unconditional.Jasper also adopted another dog, via RSPCA NSW in February 2020, called Sutton (White) Picture: Sarah O'Neill/ Petbarn

‘60 needles in 5 years’: Man’s extreme step to own two dogs

Jasper Bartlett has always been an animal lover — but he couldn’t adopt his own two dogs until he spent years getting vital injections.

Coronavirus

A policeman stands guard outside a public housing estate which is undergoing a forced lockdown in Melbourne on July 10, 2020, as the city records another 288 new cases in a fresh outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus. - Australia will slash the number of returning citizens allowed into the country by half as it struggles to contain an outbreak of coronavirus in its second-largest city, officials announced on July 10. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)

US stunned by Australia’s virus surge, as parliament canned

Not long after Donald Trump complimented Scott Morrison on Australia’s handling of COVID-19 the US has been stunned at the sudden surge of infections here.

I Catch Killers

Gary Jubelin’s new podcast is here: Get it for $1

Australia’s most famous homicide investigator Gary Jubelin is back with new episodes from his I Catch Killers podcast you can get full access to under this new offer. SIGN UP NOW for just $1 a week for 12 weeks.

Coronavirus

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 24: COVID-19 testing staff are seen at a pop-up site at Keilor Community Hub on June 24, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. A man in his 80s died overnight in Victoria from coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths in the state to 20. The death is the first COVID-19 fatality for Victoria in many weeks and also comes as 20 new coronavirus cases were confirmed today. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews on Tuesday warned of another possible lockdown should cases continue to rise, and has extended the state of emergency for at least four weeks to allow police the power to enforce social distancing rules. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)

Aussie death toll rises as ‘new Wuhan’ emerges

Australia’s death toll from coronavirus rose again as several states were hit with tough new restrictions and a US state became the new epicentre of the virus.

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