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Benedict BrookUS correspondent

Benedict is an award-winning journalist and news.com.au’s US Correspondent, based in New York. He moved to Australia in 2006 and worked in corporate communications and journalism, becoming assistant editor of LGBTI publication the Star Observer before joining news.com.au in 2015. He writes on a range of topics from weather to retail and infrastructure. Benedict has won a Kennedy Award for environmental reporting and was nominated for another, for breaking news, in 2020. He has been nominated twice for an ACON Honour Award for his writing on the LGBTI community.

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Maria from Mosman berated young people on Q&A.

Boomer blasts Aussie’s COVID ‘complaints’

Self proclaimed boomer “Maria from Mosman” stole the show on QandA berating young people as whingers who sacrificed nothing.

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Coles' Drysdale supermarket has been listed for sale. Opened in 2017, the standalone store has a new 15-year lease to the grocery giant.

‘Risky’ plan to radically change your Coles

The retail giant is changing its stores depending on, among other things, the affluence of local shoppers. But some customers aren’t impressed.

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OLD ADAMINABY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 22: A wallaby walks on a blanket of snow near Lake Eucumbene in Old Adaminaby on August 22, 2020 in Old Adaminaby, Australia. The Adaminaby Complex fire tore through the area in early January, causing massive damage to the regions flora and fauna. A front of polar air is currently impacting the area with damaging winds and widespread snowfall. (Photo by Brook Mitchell/Getty Images)

Amazing pic from ‘coldest day of the year’

Social media has been inundated with stunning photos of snow-blanketed areas as temperatures across the nation plummet this chilly weekend.

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Snow hits in the Blue Mountains. Picture: Nine News

‘Coldest day of year’ as snow hits

NSW is bracing for its “coldest day of the year”, with temperatures up to 10C below average as polar conditions continue to linger.

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Snow hits in the Blue Mountains. Picture: Nine News

‘Coldest day of year’ as snow hits

NSW is bracing for its “coldest day of the year”, with temperatures up to 10C below average as polar conditions continue to linger.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos AUGUST, 04, 2020: Jade Paskins (0431515821) poses for a photograph, whilst wearing a face mask to help prevent the spread the COVID-19, in Newtown. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi

Idiotic virus mistake we’re making

NSW has recorded just one case of COVID-19. Yet look around and people are making an “idiotic” mistake that could see cases surge.

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A shopper wearing a facemask as a precaution against the spread of the novel coronavirus walks past a store of the clothing and food retailer Marks and Spencer in central London on August 18, 2020 with social distancing advice displayed on the high street. - Marks and Spencer, the British retail chain selling clothes and food, is to cut around 7,000 jobs as the coronavirus pandemic increasingly pushes customers to shop online, it said August 18. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

World ‘nowhere near’ COVID immunity

It’s one of the hopes of the pandemic, but despite some cities having sky high infection rates, natural immunity may still be a vain hope.

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Wet and cold weather is set to hit south east Australia later in the week. Picture: Sky News Weather

‘Wild winds, snow in strange places’

The weather’s about to get weird with a polar mass set to slam the south east with storms, blizzards, fierce winds and snow at low elevations.

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(FILES) This file undated handout image obtained August 11, 2020, courtesy of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases(NIH/NIAID), shows a transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient,captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. - US scientists are developing a strain of the coronavirus that could be used to deliberately infect volunteers in so-called

COVID-19 with us ‘for all eternity’

A infectious diseases expert has likened to COVID-19 to a “super forest fire” and said it’s not going anywhere – the only question is how we live with it.

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JULY 22: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to media during a press conference at Parliament on July 22, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced the dismissal of Iain Lees-Galloway as a minister over an inappropriate relationship with a former staffer. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Election move could backfire on Ardern

Jacinda Ardern’s announcement today that the NZ election will be delayed by a month could have negative consequences for the PM.

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