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Alex Turner-CohenFinance reporter

Alex Turner-Cohen has been working in news since her second year of university after tweeting her way into the industry. She is a finance reporter at news.com.au, covering all things money including company collapses, property and fraud. Before that, she worked as a general news reporter at news.com.au and 7NEWS. When she was a student, she interned with media organisations including the ABC, Channel 9, Fairfax and 2SER while studying a Bachelor’s degree in journalism at the University of Technology Sydney.

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View of Holland America's cruise ship Zaandam as it entered the Panama City bay to be assisted by the Rotterdam cruise ship with supplies, personnel and COVID-19 testing devices, eight milles off the coast of Panama City, on March 27, 2020. - Four passengers have died aboard a cruise ship carrying scores of people with flu-like symptoms that has been stranded off the Pacific coast of South America for several days, the liner company said Friday. The Zaandam, with 1,800 passengers on board, is currently in Panama's territorial waters, having been prevented from docking in several countries due to coronavirus fears. (Photo by Luis Acosta / AFP)

Cruise ship with four dead can’t dock

A cruise ship with four dead and 138 sick is unable to dock. But a rescue mission is underway.

24/3/20: People queue at Centrelink at Marrickville. John Feder/The Australian.

‘Desperate’ Kiwis denied virus help

New Zealand residents in Australia have been shut out of the COVID-19 welfare package, but some desperately need financial help.

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Voters are seen lined up at the Indooroopilly pre-polling booth for the Brisbane City Council elections in Brisbane, Friday, March 27, 2020. Queensland's local government elections are due to be held on Saturday despite the threat of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). (AAP Image/Darren England) NO ARCHIVING

Queensland’s ‘idiot’ election decision

Amid social distancing policies, thousands of Queenslanders must attend local voting booths today or risk getting fined.

Rear view of large group of students raising their arms to answer the question on a class at elementary school.

‘Sacrificial lambs’: Teachers’ virus risk

Teachers have found out just how likely they are to contract coronavirus, and now they’re likening themselves to “sacrificial lambs”.

Chilean soldiers guard the Cachalluta border with Peru, some a 25 km north of Arica, Chile, on March 21, 2020. - Chile declared a

Aussies stuck, can’t afford plane ticket

Aussies in Peru are set to be stranded because they can’t afford the $10,000 plane ticket.

Police will be stopping vehicles from entering the state. Picture: ABC/Facebook

Australian states close borders

States and territories across the nation are going into full lockdown, closing borders to other Aussies to stop the spread of coronavirus.

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‘I just want to go home’: Aussie stranded

What should have been the holiday of a lifetime has turned into the stuff of nightmares for the newly graduated university student.

Nationals member for New England Barnaby Joyce asks a question during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, March 5, 2020. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Barnaby Joyce’s random virus claim

Barnaby Joyce has called for a “reality check” on coronavirus panic and says we should be more worried about dying from a snake bite.

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People are taking drastic measures as they brace for a coronavirus epidemic

Queensland mum’s ‘crazy’ virus deed

An Aussie mum has revealed the extreme lengths she has gone to to prepare her family for a deadly outbreak of coronavirus in Australia.

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Yolandi Vermaak suspects that one wombat drank most of the 27L of water in only five day. Picture: Wombat Rescue/Facebook

Ingenious way locals are saving animals

Animal lovers are solving the water crisis for local wildlife using an innovative method that costs less than $30.

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