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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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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.

Coronavirus

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.

Coronavirus

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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Syd Con. Jane Seymour discusses pressure to stay young in Hollywood. Supplied

Hollywood star’s promise to Brisbane

Acclaimed British actress Jane Seymour has been forced to delay filming a movie in Brisbane. But she still has every intention of coming to Australia.

NSW

Bondi Beach cop spitter claims to have coronavirus

Lifeguards at Bondi Beach called police this morning when a man refused to leave the closed beach. The man then spat on police and claimed to have COVID-19. LIVE COVERAGE

Coronavirus

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

PM: World must act on ‘great risk’ of China’s wet markets

Scott Morrison has said the World Health Organisation and the United Nations must do something about China’s wet markets as he revealed more about the national war cabinet’s fight against coronavirus.

Hibernation

Members of the public take part in a national

Are good neighbours ‘super spreaders’?

Think twice before checking on your elderly neighbours, as you might do more harm than good according to British authorities, as England struggles to balance kindness and common sense.

Coronavirus

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces the government's childcare package at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, April 2, 2020. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

PM announces free childcare for all workers

Scott Morrison has announced parents who need to send their children to childcare will receive the service for free, as two more infected Australians died and global infections pushed one million.

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