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Jamie SeidelContributor

After evolving a digital heart (not the pacemaker kind) out of inky veins, Jamie just wants an excuse to learn something new. But he’s fully aware his 32 years’ experience in the news industry has given him just enough knowledge to be dangerous. International affairs. History. Defence. Science. Space. Technology. He has a fascination for them all – particularly when it comes to social fallout. Translating tough concepts into common terms is his craft. His passion is to explore the big picture encompassing world events.

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Wake Island in the Pacific.

Photos reveal new island fortress

US aircraft carriers are practising war in the South China Sea. China’s navy is doing the same. What could possibly go wrong?

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Firefighter in protective suits deliver food to the Towers in North Melbourne which have been forced into lockdown by the government due to COVID-19. Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Picture: David Crosling

Virus silently spreading around Australia

A professor has warned that COVID-19 is likely already all over the country so Aussies must accept the gravity of the situation and “play their part”.

This photo taken on April 21, 2020 shows a medical staff member collecting a sample at a middle school as students receive nucleic acid testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus in Guangzhou in China's southern Guangdong province. - Companies, schools and individuals across China are lining up to be tested for the virus as the country rises back to normal life after largely taming the epidemic. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT / TO GO WITH Health-virus-China-tests,FOCUS by Qian Ye

Woman gave 71 people virus in 60 seconds

A superspreader who did everything right when she came back from overseas still managed to cause a huge cluster in her tower block.

A health official wearing a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) suit sprays disinfectant at the entrance of a temporary testing facility after authorities eased restrictions imposed as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in New Delhi on July 8, 2020. - Hospitals in densely populated cities such as Mumbai and Delhi are struggling to cope with the epidemic, and the country now has around 720,000 infections -- the world's third-highest. (Photo by XAVIER GALIANA / AFP)

Mutant virus strain ‘six times’ worse

The worst fears of epidemiologists have been realised: COVID-19 has mutated – and this super strain now dominating the world.

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‘Monstrous’: US in virus ‘freefall’

The US state of Florida let spring break beach parties go ahead. Now, it is facing a COVID-19 surge after people partied through 4th July.

A member of the Australian Defence Force takes a swab sample at a drive-through COVID-19 coronavirus testing station in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner on July 2, 2020. - Around 300,000 people in Melbourne have to return to lockdown under the threat of fines and arrest as Australiaâs second biggest city attempts to control a spike in virus cases. Health workers went door-to-door in the 36 Melbourne neighbourhoods targeted for lockdown, urging residents to be tested for the coronavirus. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)

‘Clear failure’: Truth about Vic clusters

Melbourne’s brutal virus spike has been driven by several clusters of infection – and there’s one reason why more flare-ups are “inevitable”.

FILE - In this March 26, 2020 file photo a member of the Brooklyn Hospital Center COVID-19 testing team calls in the next patient in line in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Having access to quick coronavirus test results will play an important role in resuming sporting events, keeping factories and businesses open, and returning to school in the fall. But an Associated Press survey of selected states found itÃ¢â¬â¢s still taking days in some cases for results to come back despite an increase in the availability of testing across the U.S. Public health experts say testing delays present a major hurdle to reducing infections. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Why US is facing 100,000 cases a day

The COVID-19 pandemic is out of control in the US and there’s one reason why – and the rest of the world needs to pay serious attention.

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Why Australia is rapidly rearming

China has toppled the balance of power in the South China Sea. Now Australia aims to do the same over key Indian and Pacific choke points.

Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and Premier Li Keqiang arrive for the the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 28, 2020. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP)

Scandals reveal China’s deep influence

It might seem like diplomatic hot air, but a recent war of words between China and Australia hints at a wider plan that should have us all worried.

(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 11, 2018 US President Donald Trump (R) gestures as he meets with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un at the start of their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore. - Two years after a landmark summit between North Korea's Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, any hopes for improved ties have turned to feelings of "despair", Pyongyang's foreign minister said on June 12, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

How Kim Jong-un played Donald Trump

It was the meeting where the US and North Korea “fell in love”. But hopes for a new relationship are over and it comes at a dangerous time.

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