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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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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 13: Melburnians exercise along Elwood Beach on July 13, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitchell shire are in lockdown following the rise in COVID-19 cases through community transmissions. The new restrictions came into effect on Thursday 9 July, with residents in lockdown areas under stay at home orders for the next six weeks. People are only able to leave home have for exercise or work, to buy essential items including food or to access childcare and healthcare. Gatherings of groups of more than two or more than a household group are not permitted while school holidays have been extended by a week so children remain home. Retail can remain open and markets are permitted to open for food and drink only. Cafes, restaurants, pubs, clubs and bars are back to takeaway only. Eight public housing estates that have been under hard lockdown have reopened subject to stage 3 COVID-19 restrictions in line with the rest of Melbourne, while the tower at Alfred Street remains under hard lockdown while health authorities continue COVID-19 testing. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Harsh new rule for Melbourne joggers

The Victorian Government has tightened up rules on where you can exercise which could lead to fines of more than $1600.

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Australian Economy

A man walks into a branch of the Commonwealth Bank in Melbourne on February 6, 2019. - Australia's largest financial firm Commonwealth Bank on February 6 said profits fell six percent in the last six months of 2018 amid a

Bank boss weighs in on virus strategy

The CBA boss has picked a side when it comes to the suppression versus elimination debate and said the Melbourne lockdown will impact recovery.

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Health Problems

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JULY 03: A nurse takes the temperature of an arriving rail passenger from Melbourne at Central Station on July 03, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. The NSW state government are considering road checkpoints and extra screening at Sydney Airport to keep travellers from Melbourne's COVID-19 hotspot areas out of the state. From today, Victorians from the 10 Melbourne COVID-19 hotspot postcode areas are banned from coming to New South Wales and could face fines up to $11,000 or sent to jail for six months if they attempt to enter the state. NSW residents are also banned from visiting Melbourne hotspots and will face the same penalties. The new public health order comes as Victoria responds to an increase in COVID-19 cases from community transmission. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Melbourne hospitals virus cluster grows

At least five workers who work at a single Melbourne hospital have contracted COVID-19 as another worrying healthcare cluster emerges.

Australian Economy

Consumer spending has lost momentum as the Melbourne lockdowns bite. Picture: Commonwealth Bank.

VIC lockdown to deliver $5 billion hit

It’s only been a few days and already it looks like Melbourne’s lockdowns could cost at least $5bn with consumers closing their wallets, even outside Victoria.

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Health Problems

Grey squirrel yawning

Bubonic plague found in dead squirrels

Move over coronavirus, there’s another deadly disease in town and this ones been found loitering in a US park.

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HASTINGS, NEW ZEALAND - JULY 08: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern looks on during an announcement about upgrading drinking water infrastructure on July 08, 2020 in Hastings, New Zealand. Central Government is investing $761 million to assist Local Government upgrade under-pressure water services across the country. (Photo by Kerry Marshall/Getty Images)

Tweet haunts leader hoping to beat Ardern

With just weeks before Kiwis go to the polls the Opposition has elected a new leader, nicknamed “Crusher”, but a deleted tweet is raising eyebrows.

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CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 25: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern holds a speech during a visit to Redcliffs School on June 25, 2020 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Redcliffs School returned to its home suburb this week after almost nine years after the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes made the original school site unsafe for staff and students to return to the Main Rd site. Following a number of temporary locations, the school now has a new $16 million campus at Redcliffs Park. (Photo by Kai Schwoerer/Getty Images)

‘Catastrophic’ U-turn benefiting Ardern

She was already odds-on to win, but the New Zealand opposition may have just handed Jacinda Ardern victory, nine weeks before the election.

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Trump considered selling US territory

Trump considered selling US territory

The US President once looked to buy Greenland, now reports have emerged that he tried to sell a chunk of the US as well.

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DO NOT USE BEFORE 6PM WEDNESDAY Adelaide's Callum Hann will compete in MasterChef Australia: Back to Win

MasterChef fans baffled by ingredient

Move over the hibachi grill. MasterChef viewers have noticed there is a new must have item in the show’s kitchen and it seems to be used in half the dishes.

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A fierce low pressure system is building in the Tasman Sea. Picture: BOM.

‘Dangerous’ storm front is building

A low pressure system is gathering strength off the east coast bringing with it the threat of torrential rain, gale force winds and massive waves.

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