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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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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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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - AUGUST 13: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks with media at a COVID-19 briefing on August 13, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. COVID-19 restrictions have been reintroduced across New Zealand after four new COVID-19 cases were diagnosed in Auckland. Auckland has been placed in Level 3 lockdown for three days from Wednesday 12 August, with all residents to work from home unless they are essential workers and all schools and childcare centres are closed. The rest of New Zealand has returned to Level 2 restrictions. The new cases are all in the same family, with health authorities working to trace back the source of the infection. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/Getty Images)

Big ‘problem’ with Jacinda’s plan

There are more new cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand, adding to stress felt by a leader on the verge of making a decision that could seal her fate.

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People enjoy the sunny weather in Tantolunden park in Stockholm on May 30, 2020, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Henrik MONTGOMERY / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT

Did Sweden get radical COVID plan right?

Sweden had no lockdown and now has fewer cases than Australia. But is its success due to strategy or a Swedish trait that could see cases skyrocket?

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Coles Bondi Junction Eastgate will boast a fancy new gourmet deli

Supermarket staple quietly ‘killed’ off

A key area of the supermarket we’ve all got used to is vanishing in some stores and while it’ll save retailers a motza it could end up costing you.

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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 08: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to media during a post cabinet press conference at Parliament on June 08, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that New Zealand will move to COVID-19 Alert Level 1 at midnight on June 8. Alert Level 1 will see people return to work, school, sports events and domestic travel without restrictions. There will also no longer be any restrictions on numbers at mass gatherings. Controls at the borders will remain in place for all people entering New Zealand, including health screening and testing for all arrivals, and mandatory 14-day managed quarantine or isolation. There are no longer any active cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Virus puts Ardern election plan in chaos

The NZ PM has kicked off a “COVID election” based on her handling of the pandemic. The Auckland outbreak was not part of the plan.

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Days of wet weather are ahead. Picture: Sky News Weather.

‘Groundhog Day’ of rain all week

Get used to a week of rinse and repeat weather as a low pressure system stalls close to the eastern states delivering days of wet conditions.

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Sam Martin and Steph Ferrier had debilitating COVID-19 symptoms.

Mum ‘completely incapacitated’ by virus

The face behind Victoria’s coronavirus campaign was fit, young and healthy but months after catching the virus she is still struggling.

A worker stands besides a road sign in Melbourne on July 21, 2020. - Australia will extend record stimulus spending into next year, the government announced on July 21, outlining multi-billion-dollar measures to shield the labour market from the ravages of the rolling coronavirus crisis. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)

One valid excuse to break curfew

There are said to be only four reasons Melburnians can break lockdown but there is a fifth and the Victorian Government wants you to know about it.

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