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Zoe Smith is a Network News senior producer and night editor. She has over 20 years of experience in journalism and has worked at digital and print mastheads across Australia and the UK.

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Australia’s biggest fraud cases revealed

From siphoning millions to rorting Centrelink, these are the accused fraudsters behind the nation’s most shocking cases.

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Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge wears a face mask because of the pandemic as he visits a coronavirus vaccination centre at Kingâs Lynn Corn Exchange in King's Lynn, eastern England, on February 22, 2021. - Prince William spoke to NHS staff and volunteers about their experiences of being involved in the largest vaccination programme in British history. The Duke also met and spoke with a number of people receiving their vaccine that day. (Photo by Arthur Edwards / various sources / AFP)

William gives update on Prince Philip’s health

Prince William has given an update on Prince Philip’s condition, with the Duke’s hospital stay being extended.

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Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison receives a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Castle Hill Medical Centre in Sydney on February 21, 2021. (Photo by Steven SAPHORE / AFP)

PM’s awkward moment with first Aussie vaccine recipient

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has received the COVID-19 jab — after an awkward moment with the first Australian to be vaccinated against the virus.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY 12, 2021 A Qantas plane at Sydney International Airport. Picture: Christian Gilles / NCA NewsWire

WA closes border to Victorians, COVID case in ICU

WA has shut the door on Victorians – again – as a COVID case linked to the Holiday Inn cluster was admitted into intensive care.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA- NewsWire Photos February 12, 2021: The Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, and the Minister for Health, Martin Foley, hold a press conference to discuss the current Victorian Covid situation at the Treasury Theatre in Melbourne. Picture: NCA NewsWire/ David Crosling

Vic Premier ‘not shopping for advice’ amid nebuliser row

Daniel Andrews has hit back at lockdown critics as his quarantine boss apologised for the way a man has been treated after he used a nebuliser.

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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 10: Protestors demonstrating against student fees are stopped outside the Houses of Parliament by the police due to the current lockdown restrictions preventing public gatherings, on February 10, 2021 in London, England. With a surge of COVID-19 cases fueled partly by a more infectious variant of the virus, British leaders have reimposed nationwide lockdown measures across England through at least mid February. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

UK threatens jail terms in harsh new quarantine crackdown

British travellers are facing strict new quarantine laws, while an Australian scientist has challenged China’s COVID-19 narrative.

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First 10,000 Aussie vaccine doses in WA revealed

WA has a start date for its vaccine rollout, as the federal government is aiming to vaccinate four million Australians by mid-April.

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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 08: Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan speaks during a press conference on Covid-19 following the National Cabinet meeting on January 8, 2021 in Perth, Australia. Australia's national cabinet met today to discuss concerns about the UK variant of the Covid-19 strain as Brisbane enters a three-day lockdown after a cleaner working at a quarantine hotel tested positive for strain. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/Getty Images)

Quarantine-free travel to WA as Aussie vaccine ‘still on track’

Western Australia will open its border to some eastern states as Australia’s rollout of the COVID vaccine is ‘still on track’ despite the EU’s jab ban.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 27: A mobile clinic to test for Covid-19 stands in Brooklyn on January 27, 2021 in New York City. With the overall infection rate across the state on the decline and 72% of healthcare workers now having received the COVID-19 vaccine, Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that some restrictions in New York may be lifted in the near future. According to the Governor this will not include indoor dining. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

COVID shock: 110 million in US ‘have immunity’

As many as one-third of Americans could have immunity to COVID-19, according to new claims.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA-NCA NewsWire Photos: 27 OCTOBER 2020:Chris Bowen and Peta Murphy during a press conference in Parliament House, Canberra.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

PM slammed over stranded Aussies

Opposition health spokesman Chris Bowen has delivered a stinging attack on prime minister Scott Morrison, following news that there would be no lifting of international traveller caps.

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