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Frank Chung is a senior journalist at news.com.au covering topics including local and international breaking news, politics, culture, media and technology. In his previous role as finance editor he wrote about economics, retail, industrial relations, small business, consumer affairs and real estate.

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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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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)

Australia now in ‘uncharted territory’

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says there is “no map” for where Australia finds itself, and the virus restrictions will not lift for some time.

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Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll (right) is seen during a press conference at Queensland Parliament House in Brisbane, Monday, March 30, 2020. Premier Palaszczuk announced that Queensland had 33 more cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), taking the state's overall number to 689 cases. (AAP Image/Darren England) NO ARCHIVING

People fined for ‘blatantly going for a drive’

People have been slapped with fines for “blatantly going for a drive” as police step up tough coronavirus crackdowns across the country.

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In this photo taken on Friday, March 27, 2020, healthcare workers assist a patient at one of the intensive care units (ICU) at German Trias i Pujol hospital in Badalona, in the Barcelona province, Spain. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Anna Surinyach)

Australia’s youngest virus victim

A man in his 50s has become Australia’s youngest coronavirus victim so far as the death toll rises to 39 and confirmed cases approach 6000.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - March 7th: A view of Dorothy Henderson Lodge aged care facility in Ryde on March 7th in Sydney, 2020. Photo by Gaye Gerard/ Sunday Telegraph

Australia’s death toll jumps again

Australia recorded another “heartbreaking” death from the coronavirus this evening, taking the outbreak’s death toll past 40.

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World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a daily press briefing on COVID-19 virus at the WHO headquaters on March 6, 2020, in Geneva. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP)

WHO has ‘no credibility left to lose’

The World Health Organisation is facing growing criticism for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic and its ties to the Chinese government.

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US President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on April 1, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Trump’s defiant response to expert advice

Donald Trump has issued a defiant pledge even as he resists calls for a nationwide shutdown to stop the spread of coronavirus.

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The Ruby Princess cruise ship sits off the coast of Sydney, Wednesday, April 1, 2020. A number of passenger from the Ruby Princess have died in recent days due to the Coronavirus and a number of crew have been hospitalised. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

Aussie virus deaths linked to three sources

The majority of Australia’s COVID-19 deaths can be linked back to just two sources – cruise ships and an aged care home – while another three were infected in hospital.

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Cops spat on enforcing social distancing

Police around the country have seen a disturbing rise in incidents of members of the public spitting on officers enforcing social distancing rules.

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Neighbours called police on a rooftop party at a Kings Cross backpacker hostel last night. Picture: Seven News

Police swoop on backpacker hostel party

Police were called to a noisy rooftop party at a Kings Cross backpacker hostel last night where revellers were clearly flouting social distancing rules.

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