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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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The end of the week will see cold conditions spread across the south east and east. Picture: BSCH.

‘Deep polar low’ to bring record breaking chill

Record breaking low temperatures are set to hit the south and east this week as a deep polar low sweeps across the continent bringing rain, snow and winter worthy chills.

Health Problems

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - APRIL 20: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during the post-Cabinet media conference at Parliament on April 20, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that New Zealand will move to Alert Level 3 of lockdown from 11.59pm next Monday, April 27. New Zealand has been in lockdown since Thursday 26 March following tough restrictions imposed by the government to stop the spread of COVID-19 across the country. Under the current COVID-19 Alert Level 4 measures, all non-essential businesses are closed, including bars, restaurants, cinemas and playgrounds. All indoor and outdoor events are banned, while schools have switched to online learning. Essential services remain open, including supermarkets and pharmacies. (Photo by Mark Mitchell - Pool/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

NZ’s relaxed bans tougher than ours

One of the world’s toughest coronavirus lockdowns is coming to an end. But the Kiwi’s new “level three” measures would make Aussies wince.

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IKEA Tempe during Coronavirus

Store doing roaring trade despite lockdown

Supermarkets and Bunnings aside, most retailers can’t beg customers to walk through the doors. But there’s one chain with very long queues indeed.

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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian speaks to the media during a press conference in Sydney, Friday, April 17, 2020. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

‘Roster system’ on cards for schools

It could be a very different new term in NSW with a proposal that students only attend class part-time.

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Photos showing free prescriptions available at Chemist warehouse in New Zealand.Picture: Sue Dunlevy

Retailer demands customer fever checks

Chemist Warehouse is asking customers to submit to temperature checks before they can get into stores. But some have said the checks are just “for show”.

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Health Problems

YouGiv reseach that shows Australians like hand washing but also dislike staying indoors

Habit we can’t shake, despite virus

We’ve been urged to stay home and only go out for the essentials and exercising but new research has suggested many Australians aren’t getting that message.

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Australian Economy

A customer using Samsung Pay to tap and go at the checkout. Source: Supplied.

What we’re spending up big on now

We’re tiring of hoarding rice and pasta, even alcohol sales are less than this time last year. But while no one wants new clothes, there’s one area we’re spending big on.

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A McDonald's fast food restaurant sign is seen in Beijing on January 9, 2017. US fast-food giant McDonald’s will sell a controlling stake in its China and Hong Kong business for up to 2.08 billion USD to a consortium including state-owned Citic and the Carlyle Group, it was announced on January 9. / AFP PHOTO / NICOLAS ASFOURI

Macca’s store bans black people

McDonald’s is in damage control after a Chinese outlet put a sign up banning black people as focus in the nation turns to COVID-19 cases coming from overseas.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 07: Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a press conference in the Main Committee Room at Parliament House on April 07, 2020 in Canberra, Australia. Public gatherings are now limited to two people, while Australians are being urged to stay home unless absolutely necessary in a bid to reduce the spread of COVID-19. New South Wales and Victoria have also enacted additional lockdown measures to allow police the power to fine people who breach the two-person outdoor gathering limit or leave their homes without a reasonable excuse. Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory have all closed their borders to non-essential travellers and international arrivals into Australia are being sent to mandatory quarantine in hotels for 14 days. (Photo by Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

‘Butt out’: PM faces intense backlash

A teaching union head has taken the Prime Minister to task for “completely contradicting” the states in calling for classrooms to be filled with kids again.

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John-Paul Drake of Drakes supermarkets rails against hoarding customer who later wanted a refund.

Supermarket boss’s brutal reply to hoarder

A supermarket manager has ripped into a stockpiler who tried to get a refund on almost 5000 rolls of toilet paper he couldn’t sell online.

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