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Stephen Drill covers organised crime, business and the politics of sport. His investigative podcasts include Mafia’s Web, Bikie’s Inc. and Faith On Trial. Drill was Europe correspondent for the Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph, Courier Mail and Adelaide Advertiser from 2019 to 2021. The Walkley Award winner has also worked at The Wall Street Journal in New York and The Sun in London.

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Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly speaks to the media during a press conference at the Australian Department of Health in Canberra, Friday, April 10, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Australia ‘on the cusp’ of virus breakthrough

It is still too early to lift restrictions despite Australia nearing a breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus, a leading medical authority has warned.

Coronavirus

Aerial view of Australian cruise ship Greg Mortimer off the port of Montevideo on April 7, 2020. - Australian and New Zealand passengers on board a cruise ship off the South American coast will be the first flown home in a series of rescue flights as coronavirus on the ship rose sharply Tuesday, according to the Greg Mortimer's operator. Confirmed COVID-19 cases on the ship - currently anchored in the Rio de la Plata near Uruguay - jumped from 81 to 128 on Tuesday with a medical flight for the Australians onboard expected to begin Thursday. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP)

Aussies on virus cruise ship to return home

The fate of Australian cruise ship the Greg Mortimer – which has 100 cases of coronavirus on board – has finally been revealed by Uruguay’s foreign ministry.

National

‘Unjust sentence’: Pope appears to back Pell

Pope Francis has asked people to pray for those who have “suffered due to an unjust sentence” after Cardinal George Pell’s release from prison.

Coronavirus

Prime Minister Scott Morrison with the Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Gary Ramage

COVID-19 Easter warning as Ruby Princess passenger dies

Scott Morrison has warned efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus could be undone if Australians leave the house over Easter, as the disease claimed the life of another Ruby Princess cruise ship passenger.

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Two People wearing protective face masks are seen walking along the Queen Street Mall in Brisbane, Monday, March 23, 2020. Queensland has recorded its highest increase of coronavirus (COVID-19 ) cases in a 24-hour period, with 60 new cases, taking Queensland's total number of cases to 319. (AAP Image/Darren England) NO ARCHIVING

COVID-19 hospitalises 500 Aussies, with 35 needing ventilators

Up to 500 Aussies have been hospitalised by COVID-19 as the nation’s death toll hits 40 and Aussies are urged not to wear medical grade face masks to “leave them for people who really need them”.

Coronavirus

(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 06, 2020 Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits to the Mologic Laboratory in the Bedford technology Park, north of London . - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared to be on the road to recovery as Downing Street said the Prime Minister had returned to the ward at St Thomas' Hospital after spending three nights in the intensive care unit. (Photo by Jack Hill / POOL / AFP)

Fiancee’s touching gesture aids Boris’s ‘Easter miracle’ recovery

UK PM Boris Johnson is back on his feet after leaving intensive care, as his pregnant fiancee’s emotional encouragement to help him beat the deadly COVID-19 virus was revealed.

Hibernation

NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 23: Four-year-old Lois Copley-Jones takes part in a live streamed broadcast of PE with fitness trainer Joe Wicks on the first day of the nationwide school closures on March 23, 2020 in Newcastle Under Lyme, United Kingdom. Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread to at least 182 countries, claiming over 10,000 lives and infecting hundreds of thousands more. (Photo by Gareth Copley/Gareth Copley)

How to keep your child active at home

The Spider-Man lunge is just one of many exercises global fitness sensation Joe Wicks is teaching millions of kids in his virtual PE classes. Here’s how your child can get involved.

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Ruby Princess faces criminal probe as what went wrong revealed

Police will probe how the Ruby Princess was allowed to disembark, as a special investigation reveals what happened on board the cruise ship before its passengers were hit by a wave of coronavirus cases that led to 11 tragic deaths.

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SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - 27/3/20Lines of unemployed people outside Surry Hills Centrelink today as the COVID-19 pandemic causes massive job losses. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

‘Six million jobs’ at stake over JobKeeper scheme

Attorney-General Christian Porter says the JobKeeper wage subsidy will be passed on Wednesday “no matter how late we have to sit” as the US is warned to brace for a horror week ahead.

Royals

WINDSOR, ENGLAND - APRIL 05: NEWS EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO COMMERCIAL USE (including any use in merchandising, advertising or any other non-editorial use). In this handout photo provided by Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth II addresses the nation in a special broadcast to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth in relation to the Coronavirus outbreak at Windsor Castle on April 5, 2020 in Windsor, England. (Photo by Buckingham Palace via Getty Images)

Queen to Australia: ‘Rise to the challenge’

The Queen had a special message for Australians amid the coronavirus pandemic at the back of a summer of devastating bushfires, and invoked a wartime spirit in her historic address to the Commonwealth.

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