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Zoe SmithSenior Producer

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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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA NewsWire Photos MARCH, 26 2021: Anne Webster. All female National MPs and senators, plus new party president Kay Hull, to talk about what can be done to get more conservative women into parliament.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

‘I was dumbfounded’: Female MP lodges harassment claim

A female Nationals MP has spoken out about being harassed in parliament last week, as a string of political sex scandals batter the PM’s popularity.

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A pharmacist prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine with a syringe in a pharmacy in Nantes, western France on March 25, 2021. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)

Europe stops vaccines putting Aussie supply under threat

AstraZeneca vaccines will not leave Europe until the company makes good on promised deliveries, putting Australia’s order of 3.8 million doses at risk.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA NewsWire Photos MARCH, 23 2021: Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a press conference in Parliament House Canberra.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

PM offers to meet Higgins anywhere

Scott Morrison says he is open to meeting alleged Parliament rape victim Brittany Higgins but claims a request has not been made.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 23: Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a press conference at Parliament House on March 23, 2021 in Canberra, Australia. The federal government was yesterday set back by new allegationsÃÂ broadcastÃÂ by the Ten Network after pixelated images of unnamed Coalition advisers allegedly engaging in performing lewd sex acts on the desks of female MPs resulting in a Morrison staff member being sacked last night. Additionally, the ABC Network aired a first hand account by an Australian Parliament security guard of what she witnessed on the night Brittany Higgins was allegedly raped in the office of then-defence industry minister Linda Reynolds in early 2019. (Photo by Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

More staffers could be sacked over lewd acts

The whistleblower who exposed male staffers allegedly performing lewd acts on female MPs’ desks has passed on more information to two senators.

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Security guard Nikola Anderson. Picutre: ABC

Security guard ‘found Brittany Higgins naked’

A Parliament House guard says she “shut the door” after finding former staffer Brittany Higgins naked on the night of her alleged rape.

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uCANBERRA, AUSTRALIA NewsWire Photos - MARCH 18 2021: Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a press conference in Parliament House Canberra.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

‘It’s not right’: PM takes aim at Europe

The EU has not responded to Scott Morrison’s request for emergency vaccines to be sent to Papua New Guinea amid fears of a crackdown on jab exports.

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DIPPOLDISWALDE, GERMANY - MARCH 15: Nurse Susann Rettberg (R) inoculates a local resident with the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 in Saxony during the coronavirus pandemic on March 15, 2021 in Dippoldiswalde, Germany. Saxony authorities are launching a pilot project today in which 39 private medical practices statewide will begin administering COVID vaccinations. Similar projects are underway across Germany in an effort to expand the pace and scope of vaccinations, though efforts are still being hampered by a shortage of vaccines. (Photo by Jens Schlueter/Getty Images)

Get the jab, connection with abortion is so remote

Another high profile Australian Bishop has joined forces with other religious leaders to urge followers to get vaccinated despite ethical concerns.

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10/3/21: L to R..Nico Porter(CS), Bianca Yates, Captain Paul Anderson and Delia Taylor at Sydney airport. Virgin Australia crew are set to benefit from a suite of assistance measures being rolled out by the federal government to help airlines and the tourism industry continue to recover. John Feder/The Australian.

Virgin’s half-price sale as NZ travel bubble resumes

Virgin Australia has launched a half-price flash sale on flights in response to the Federal Government’s cheap fares as the NZ travel bubble resumes.

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Oprah and Meghan Markle interview on CBS. Oprah, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Picture: Screengrab

Aussies’ verdict on Meghan and Harry

An overwhelming majority of Australians have slammed Meghan Markle and Prince Harry after their tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey.

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Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex arrives at the British High Commissioner residency where she will meet with Graca Machel, widow of former South African president Nelson Mandela, in Johannesburg, on October 2, 2019. - Prince Harry recalled the hounding of his late mother Diana to denounce media treatment of his wife Meghan Markle, as the couple launched legal action against a British tabloid for invasion of privacy. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP)

‘She wanted to live her life’: Hillary Clinton backs Meghan

Hillary Clinton has called Meghan Markle’s historic interview “heart-wrenching” and condemned the press for what she says were attacks on the Duchess.

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