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

PM’s new $250b debt limit and indoor gathering rule

Scott Morrison has announced a new indoor gathering limit for Australians after he delayed the Federal Budget. It comes after NAPLAN tests were scrapped and Australia’s death toll climbed to seven.

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TOPSHOT - Medical staff push a patient on a gurney to a waiting medical helicopter at the Emile Muller hospital in Mulhouse, eastern France, to be evacuated on another hospital on March 17, 2020, amid the outbreak of the new Coronavirus, COVID-19. - A strict lock down requiring most people in France to remain at home came into effect at midday on March 17, 2020, prohibiting all but essential outings in a bid to curb the coronavirus spread. The country has reported 148 deaths from the virus, a number that health experts warn could soar in the coming days, seriously straining the hospital system. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)

Plea to retired doctors as cinema chain shuts down

The Australian Medical Association has urged retired doctors to register to return to work to help manage COVID-19 demands as one of the nation’s biggest cinema chains closes its doors.

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Australia to consider Europe travel ban after Trump lockdown

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has asked the government’s health chiefs to look at a Europe-wide travel ban amid the coronavirus crisis after revealing his $17.6bn economic stimulus package.

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US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks about the coronavirus alongside members of the Coronavirus Task Force in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, March 9, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump ‘exposed’ to coronavirus as Italy shuts down

US President Donald Trump has still not been tested for coronavirus despite growing concerns as shocking video footage emerges from Italy.

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10/03/1999 PIRATE: Businessman Christopher Skase with his wife Pixie 18/10/87.Pic News Limited ex-Brisbane.Skas/fam

Skase begged for cash from prison toilet phone

Christopher Skase begged his family and friends for money to fund his legal case from the toilet of his prison cell on a smuggled mobile phone, as his son-in-law has revealed the desperate measures the disgraced businessman took to try to get back on his feet.

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