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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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A closed shop front is seen inside an Outlet Shopping Centre in Canberra, Wednesday, April 15, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Stores that ‘may never reopen’ after COVID

Expect major changes in your local shopping centre as the coronavirus pandemic inspires a “seismic shift” in our retail habits.

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QLD Courts & Law

Nicholas John Crilley charged with A MAN who allegedly tortured a woman to within an inch of her life called paramedics afterwards in a panicked state, police will allege.Detective Senior Sergeant Rod Watts said police had struggled to find out information about the incident, but knew 31-year-old Nicholas Crilley called triple 0.Someone also tried to tend to the woman’s wounds prior to the arrival of paramedics.The 21-year-old victim is expected to recover in hospital and police hope to speak with her in the coming weeks.

‘Choose how to die’: Sick rapist’s threat

A Queensland man who raped, burned and bashed a women so severely paramedics thought she was dead has been sentenced today. GRAPHIC.

Health Problems

A Cambridge University academic has raised the prospect of people being voluntarily infected with coronavirus.

Radical ‘voluntary virus infection’ plan

Young, healthy people could be “voluntarily infected”with coronavirus to fast track their way back to normal life – albeit with a small risk of death.

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OpinionMind

Young people enjoying barbecuingGeneric barbecuePicture: iStock

Now I can visit mates, I don’t want to

Many of us will soon be able to visit one another’s homes. But rather than feeling relief, does your corona-neurosis mean the prospect fills you with dread? I may just stay home.

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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 28: Shoppers are forced to queue outside Bunnings in Myaree due to new government social distancing measures on March 28, 2020 in Perth, Australia. All international arrivals into Australia from midnight on Saturday will be placed into mandatory quarantine in hotels for 14 days as the Federal Government increases restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19. All libraries, museums, galleries, beauty salons, tattoo parlours, shopping centre food courts, auctions, open houses, amusement parks, arcades, indoor and outdoor play centres, swimming pools are closed and indoor exercise activities are now banned. This is in addition to the closure of bars, pubs and nightclubs which came into effect on Monday. Restaurants and cafes are restricted to providing takeaway only. Weddings will now be restricted to five people including the couple while funerals are limited to 10 mourners. All Australians are now expected to stay at home except for essential outings such as work, grocery shopping and medical appointments. Exercising outdoors alone is still permitted. Australia now has more than 3180 confirmed cases of COVID-19 while the death toll now stands at 13. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

Bunnings’ new role in virus battle

The car parks at Bunnings’ stores are set to become mobile coronavirus testing stations as state governments look to massively increase testing numbers.

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Health Problems

An employee holds antibody test cartridges of the ichroma COVID-19 Ab testing kit used in diagnosing the coronavirus on a production line of the Boditech Med Inc. in Chuncheon, South Korea, Friday, April 17, 2020. Boditech Med recently started exporting its antibody-based virus test kits to various countries. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

$300m ‘turning point’ in virus battle

Australia has just got a massive boost in its goal to being one of the first countries to recover after coronavirus. But it almost didn’t happen.

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Health Problems

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - APRIL 18: Specially trained volunteers work at a temporary mortuary erected in the car park of Central Jamia Mosque Ghamkol Sharif on April 18, 2020 in Birmingham, England. In a press conference on Thursday, First Secretary of State Dominic Raab announced that the lockdown will remain in place for at least 3 more weeks. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread to many countries across the world, claiming over 140,000 lives and infecting more than 2 million people. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Nine words that condemned a nation

On Friday 13th, Britain’s Boris Johnson said a few words that warned of potential death and heartbreak from coronavirus. But did a bungled response mean it was inevitable?

Australian Economy

ESCAPE: View of the Perth City Skyline from Optus Stadium. Picture: Tourism Western Australia

States set to prosper post COVID-19

Australia’s finances are taking a thumping but some states’ economies may fare better than others – particularly if China can keep coronavirus under control.

Health Problems

Social distancing signs at Ikea in Sydney. Picture: News.com.au/Benedict Brook.

Australia’s peculiar social distancing rule

In Britain and New Zealand social distancing demands people stand 2m apart, in the US it’s 1.8m, so how comes it is 1.5m in Australia?

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Business Travel

Generic of flying kangaroo emblem on tail of Qantas aircraft at Sydney Airport, with company announcing the cut of 1750 staff during downturn of International operations.

Five words reveal Qantas’ furious battle

One the surface it was a note of support from Qantas towards embattled rival Virgin, but it’s reignited a furious stoush with one of the country’s biggest airports.

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