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Prime Minister Scott Morrison will announce a second stimulus package today. Picture: AAP/Steven Saphore NO ARCHIVING

‘Can’t kid ourselves’: PM’s virus warning

Scott Morrison has warned Australia could end up like New York or Italy if we don’t do these three things.

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APPROACHES COMPARED: By having no restrictions on the population, millions would catch COVID-19, many would die and eventually there would be herd immunity in the population. Other exposure limiting approaches wouldn't allow that to occur.

Virus approach Australia refuses to take

It may be the quickest way for life to return to normal for Aussies, but the Government says the cost of one virus approach would be “unacceptable”.

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‘Go back to China’: Racist Telstra attack

A woman has been filmed racially abusing workers at a Telstra store, telling one to “go back to China” and declaring herself “queen” of Australia.

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Arts Minister Don Harwin pictured at his Holiday home Pearl Beach Wednesday8th April 2020..(AAP Image/Sue Graham)

Minister quits after breaking virus rules

The NSW government minister who was fined $1000 by police after breaking the coronavirus rules has quit – but without apologising.

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A Victorian Police officer wearing a face mask is seen outside of Crown Metropol Hotel in Melbourne, Monday, March 30, 2020. Travellers and Australian residents who arrive into the country from overseas are being sent straight to makeshift quarantine facilities across Australia, and will spend 14 days of quarantine in state-funded hotel rooms, with doors guarded by state police, defence personnel or private security guards. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING

‘Smashing the curve’: Virus numbers drop

Australia had already brought its coronavirus “curve” well under control, but in recent days the rate of growth has reached a whole new low.

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Scott Cam speaking to media alongside Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business Michaelia Cash and Prime Minister Scott Morrison after a tour of a construction site at Randwick Hospital in Sydney, Thursday, October 10, 2019. (AAP Image/James Gourley) NO ARCHIVING

Virus forces Cam to give up $350k salary

The economic toll of the coronavirus has claimed another victim, with Scott Cam giving up the remainder of his huge taxpayer-funded salary.

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Victoria is now allowing parents to take their children to another person’s premises for babysitting. Picture: Supplied

Babysitters allowed in Victorian homes

Victoria has updated its stay at home rules to allow parents to have their children babysat if they need to leave home for an essential reason.

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NSW police at coffs harbour boat ramp, arrest , gun, shots, handcuffsPhoto: Trevor Veale / The Coffs Coast Advocate

Cops fined for breaching social distancing

Two off-duty cops have been fined for partying on the weekend after one was spotted intoxicated on a nearby street and had to be taken to hospital.

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‘Smashing the curve’: Virus numbers drop

Australia had already brought its coronavirus “curve” well under control, but in recent days the rate of growth has reached a whole new low.

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Press conference - Premier Daniel Andrews, the Minister for Health, Jenny Mikakos, and the Chief Health Officer, Brett Sutton at Treasury Building.Picture : Nicki Connolly

‘No Year 13’: Exams postponed

Term two will be taught remotely when it starts next week in Victoria, with unis urged to delay the start of the 2021 academic year.

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