The Editorial Team

Natalie graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism from Queensland’s University of Technology before becoming the youngest member of the news.com.au team. She spent her university days interning at Vogue and Brisbane’s Style magazine and worked as an editorial assistant and contributor at digital publication for young women, WinWin magazine. Her career so far has been spent covering everything from breaking news, US politics and a certain global pandemic to the revival of Tasty Toobs and which type of avocado truly reigns supreme.

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Royals

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have spoken out about the importance of taking care of mental health in a new interview with the BBC. Picture: BBC

‘Very mean’: Kate’s isolation lie to kids

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have admitted fibbing to their kids to get through lockdown life, with Kate saying: “It gets a bit hectic, I’m not going to lie.”

Health Problems

Seven guests infected after Bali wedding

Seven guests who attended a wedding in Bali in spite of government travel warnings were left infected with coronavirus.

Returned travellers released from mandatory self-isolation arrive on a Rottnest Express ferry at Rous Head in North Fremantle, Western Australia, Friday, April 10, 2020. Vasco Da Gama cruise ship passengers have today been released from quarantine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and travelled back to Fremantle after spending 14 days quarantined on Rottnest Island. (AAP Image/Justin Benson-Cooper/The West Australian Pool) NO ARCHIVING

More than 200 Queenslanders stranded in WA

With widespread cancellation of domestic flights, more than 200 Queenslanders are stranded in Western Australia hotels after leaving coronavirus quarantine.

Business

Construction workers builders tradies not adhering to the distancing laws of 1.5m on site Picture: Jason Edwards

200k tradies to benefit from $50m lifeline

Up to 200,000 tradies will benefit from NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s announcement that they’ll be given a lifeline on licence fees of up to $50 million.

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Senator Jacqui Lambie has called the situation in Tasmania "very desperate". Picture: Channel 9

‘This is very desperate’: Tassie debacle

As the number of virus cases surge in Tasmania, Senator Jacqui Lambie says the situation in her home state could “get a lot worse yet”.

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Branch secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation in Tasmania Emily Shepherd said the rumours had left nurses and doctors "distressed". Picture: Sunrise

Nurses cop abuse over dinner party ‘rumour’

Nurses in Tasmania at the centre of a COVID-19 outbreak have been left “distressed” by public outrage after being wrongly accused of attending an “illegal” dinner party.

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A picture taken on April 8, 2020 shows a scanner of the lungs of a patient infected by COVID-19 at the Floreal clinic in Bagnolet, near Paris, on the twenty-third day of a lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) in France. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

What COVID-19 does to your lungs

While 80 per cent of the population will only endure mild illness if infected with COVID-19, for one in six people the lung damage the virus causes can be “irreversible”.

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