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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

People wearing masks outside the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. Picture: Andrew Henshaw

Three elements key to lifting Australia’s lockdown

Health authorities have outlined the three important elements that must be in place before Australia’s social restrictions are lifted.

Entertainment

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2011 file photo, Tim Brooke-Taylor holds his OBE after being presented it by Queen Elizabeth, outside Buckingham Palace in London. British comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor, a member of comedy trio The Goodies, has died after contracting the new coronavirus. He was 79. Brooke-Taylorâ€™s agent says he died Sunday, April 12, 2020 â€œfrom COVID-19.â€(John Stillwell/PA via AP)

Goodies star latest virus victim

Tim Brooke-Taylor, star of classic British TV comedy, The Goodies, has succumbed to coronavirus at the age of 79.

News

Boris Johnson and NZ nurse that trained in Melbourne.

Nurse that helped save Boris trained in Australia

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been discharged from hospital after being treated for coronavirus, heaping praise on the “magnificent” health workers who kept him alive – including a nurse with a Melbourne connection.

Coronavirus

New arrivals at Sydney International airport are ushered into waiting buses for hotel quarantine. Photo Jeremy Piper

Aussie death toll rises amid warning over passengers

The nation’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 59 as Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy says Aussies returning on an evacuation flight will be a driver for infection rates.

Hacking

Julian Assange's partner has given birth to two sons.

Assange fathered two kids in embassy hide-out

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange became a father to two sons while he was hiding in the Ecuadorean embassy in London after falling in love with his lawyer, it has been revealed.

Royals

(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 26, 2020 Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in central London, to take part in Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) at the House of Commons. - 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 DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)

‘I owe them my life’: Boris thanks hospital staff

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has thanked medical staff for saving his life, as the Queen delivers her first ever Easter message.

Coronavirus

Closest move to coronavirus vaccine

An injection against coronavirus could be ready by September, based on work done on a chimpanzee-based vaccine that is set to be trialled on humans shortly.

World

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, March 17, 2020, Britain's Chancellor Rishi Sunak, left, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrive for a press briefing about the ongoing situation with the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, inside 10 Downing Street in London. With British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hospitalized and in intensive care Wednesday April 8, 2020, after contracting the new coronavirus, Sunak is among key players in Johnson's Cabinet who will be directing Britain's response to the highly contagious COVID-19 coronavirus, while their leader is being treated. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

How Boris united Britain from his hospital bed

The illness of a man who once divided the nation over Brexit has brought it together at the darkest of times.

Illness

The University of Queensland’s potential COVID-19 vaccine is entering an important new phase of testing with the live coronavirus to determine how effectively it induces protection against coronavirus infection.The UQ team will partner with the Dutch company, Viroclinics Xplore, on the crucial pre-clinical studies.Picture: The University of Queensland

115 virus vaccines under development

There is now a race to find a vacccine for coronavirus, with 115 now under development across the world.

World

Carrie Symonds, girlfriend of Britain's new Prime Minister Boris Johnson, waits for the prime minister's arrival with members of staff in Downing Street in London on July 24, 2019 on the day he was formally appointed British prime minister. - Boris Johnson takes charge as Britain's prime minister on Wednesday, on a mission to deliver Brexit by October 31 with or without a deal. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP)

The anguish of Boris Johnson’s pregnant fiancee

The world is watching as UK leader Boris Johnson remains in hospital with coronavirus. But spare a thought for his pregnant fiancee Carrie Symonds, who is also on the mend from the virus.

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