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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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Australian Economy

Prime Minister Scott Morrison at a media event to announce the new HomeBuilder stimulus package in the NSW town of Googong, 25km east of Canberra. Thursday, June 4, 2020. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

PM’s plan ‘another handout to the rich’

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s homebuyers grant that will provide $25,000 grants has been panned as just a “handout for the wealthy”.

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The dastardly quoll caught at the Bungalow Hotel Cairns

Pub catches unusual intruder on CCTV

A pub owner whose alarms were constantly going off overnight though he had an intruder. And he did – but not one he expected.

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Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300 belonging to Nev Power

COVID adviser’s $6000 private jet trips

The man chosen by the PM to lead the COVID-19 recovery has been crisscrossing the country in his jet with Liberal MPs on board.

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Australian Economy

Supplied pic from Burbank for a New Build story on homes for multi-generational living, in the HS Realestate/Home Living section. This is the Hannaford 386 house design by Burbank.

How to double $25k HomeBuilder handout

The government is handing out $25k to eligible homeowners – but you could more than double this depending on where you live.

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Who will get $25k handout confirmed

The full details of the PM’s new HomeBuilder grant have been revealed, including exactly who will be eligible and how much they will get.

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Police are on scene at Kmart Burwood the store has been evacuated after a suspious package was found. Picture: Nicole Garmston

Inside Kmart’s secret US test store

Kmart has been quietly testing a new store design in the US under a completely different name, and it provides a big clue to Kmart’s future.

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Pete Evans. Picture: chefpeteevans/Instagram

‘Appalling’: Evans’ post angers fans

A Trump post on the controversial chef’s Instagram has enraged fans – and he didn’t even write anything. But a single emoji spoke volumes.

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Only two states record new virus cases

Only two states record new virus cases

New South Wales and Queensland have recorded no new cases of COVID-19 with just eight infections confirmed across the country today.

U.S. President Donald Trump walks past a building defaced with graffiti by protestors in Lafayette Park across from the White House after walking to St John's Church for a photo opportunity during ongoing protests over racial inequality in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, outside the White House in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner - RC2O0H9N4WTM

Priests ‘tear gassed’ for Trump photo op

A bishop and a rector have claimed they were assaulted by police and forced away from a church so the President could pose with a bible.

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Health Problems

TOPSHOT - Protesters walk past burning debris outside the Third Police Precinct on May 28, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during a protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. - A police precinct in Minnesota went up in flames late on May 28 in a third day of demonstrations as the so-called Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul seethed over the shocking police killing of a handcuffed black man. The precinct, which police had abandoned, burned after a group of protesters pushed through barriers around the building, breaking windows and chanting slogans. A much larger crowd demonstrated as the building went up in flames. (Photo by Kerem Yucel / AFP)

Fears protests could lead to COVID surge

US politicians are increasingly worried the protests could be “super spreader” events which will see scores infected with coronavirus.

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