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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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Pictured is Janet Lieben. Janet has died of the coronavirus IN AN oRANGE HOSPITAL. sOURCE - https://www.facebook.com/trish.farr.72/photos

Man’s last words to wife killed by COVID-19

The husband of a woman who died after they travelled on the Ruby Princess has slammed the decision to allow passengers to disembark.

series of views of an examination hall or room images with exam tables set up ready for students. empty chairs and tables. End of school exams university entrance or higher school certificate scene.

Year 13 plan floated for school kids

State and federal education ministers will meet to look at options for Year 12 students to finish school amid the coronavirus shutdown.

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Health Problems

A researcher works on virus replication in order to development a vaccine against the coronavirus Covid-19, in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, on March 26, 2020. - The Ministry of Health convened The Technological Vaccine Center of the Federal University of Minas Gerais laboratory to conduct research on the coronavirus COVID-19 in order to diagnose, test and develop a vaccine. (Photo by Douglas MAGNO / AFP)

Coronavirus vaccine ‘not a certainty’

Everyone is holding out for a vaccine for coronavirus, but we may never get one warns an infectious diseases expert.

Health Problems

Quarantine officials at the WA border are working through a 1km-long traffic jam as hundreds of motorists race to get across before new border restrictions come into force today.Closure of borders queues.Shot 24/03/2020

The only 15 reasons to cross WA border

Western Australia has introduced the country’s strictest internal border controls with a possible $50,000 fine for anyone who enters without one of 15 valid excuses.

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3 Gympie schools could experience strike action next week

Cheeky student hacks private school

The switch to online learning in schools has had some unexpected side effects, and this 16-year-old student has been hailed a “Robin Hood”.

Health Problems

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 31: An information notice stating the closure of playing fields is seen on Bailey's Reserve Skate Park on March 31, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Public gatherings are now limited to two people, as the Australian Government introduces tougher restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Sunday told Australians to stay home unless they are shopping for food, receiving medical attention, going to work or education, or for exercise, which is now limited to groups of two. People over 70 have been told to remain inside while public areas such as playgrounds, outside gyms and skateparks will be closed from midday on Monday. International arrivals into Australia are being quarantined in hotels on arrival. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

‘Too far’: What you can’t do this weekend

An expert has slammed the current stage 3 restrictions as not “making sense” but how can you make sure you don’t fall foul of them while still enjoying the weekend.

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Health Problems

Frontline COVID-19 healthcare hero workers like Karlee Robson is an infectious diseases nurse based in Royal Melbourne Hospital's Infectious Disease ward, dealing all day with COVID-19 cases. Karlee dressed in full PPE holds a mask to pump humidified oxygen to a patient. Picture: David Caird

‘I’m terrified for Australia’, expert says

An Aussie scientist based in the US has said coronavirus cases could explode in Australia and we are currently at just the “tip of the iceberg”.

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Health Problems

Table that shows government measures plotted against new infection numbers.

How long to know restrictions work

Aussies are being hit with new virus restrictions daily. But there is a significant lag time between putting the measures in place and knowing if they work.

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Health Problems

Bali based WA health coach and Instagram influence Jessica Pinili

Quarantined influencer slams critics

An Aussie Instagram influencer in luxury hotel quarantine after returning from Bali has hit back at critics who called her a “princess”.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 31, 2017 (COMBO)(FILES) This combination of file pictures created on May 31, 2017 shows former US President Barack Obama delivering a statement at the White House in Washington, DC, after an international climate accord was reached in Paris on December 12, 2015, and US President Donald Trump speaking during his meeting with the Israeli President at his residence in Jerusalem on May 22, 2017. - Former US president Barack Obama took a veiled swipe March 31, 2020 at his successor Donald Trump, chastising those who have

Obama takes swipe at Trump over virus

Barack Obama appears to have taken a dig at Donald Trump’s handling of coronavirus, saying denying the pandemic had “terrible consequences”.

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